PDX Executive Podcast
PDX Executive Podcast
Dan Bruton
The PDX Executive Podcast features inspiring leaders from Portland and beyond.
Oregon Treasurer Tobias Read on his Candidacy for Secretary of State
Oregon Treasurer Tobias Ready rejoins the podcast and discusses his candidacy to become Oregon's next Secretary of State. Learn more at https://www.tobiasread.com/
Dec 8, 2023
27 min
Mike Rogoway, Business Reporter for The Oregonian
Mike Rogoway, Business Reporter for the Oregonian rejoins the show for his fifth guest appearance. Mike discusses the Oregon economy, startups, Intel/Chips industry, and more. Read Mike's columns at: https://www.oregonlive.com/user/MikeRogoway/posts.html Follow him on Twitter/X: @rogoway
Oct 16, 2023
30 min
Ben McKinley, Founder of Cascade Web Development, on Running Your Business for the Long Term
Ben McKinley is the Founder of Cascade Web Development. Cascade Web Development creates intuitive, custom software that grows with your business. Our industry-leading platforms allow you to easily manage your online presence and internal processes with high flexibility and modular functionality. Learn more at https://www.cascadewebdev.com/
Apr 17, 2023
22 min
Matt Scott, Author of The High Growth Nonprofit
Matt Scott is the author The High Growth Nonprofit- proven steps to quickly double your revenue and drive impact. Matt is also the Founder of CauseMic, a consulting firm specializing in helping mission-driven organizations. Learn more at https://www.causemic.com/book
Mar 23, 2023
28 min
Tim Morgan, Co-Founder of DeepSurface Security
In 2017, frustrated with security, policy and regulatory/compliance tools that did little to actually help reduce risk, co-founders James Dirksen and Tim Morgan set out to create a product that would provide a comprehensive picture of an organization’s threat landscape. It had to be quick, efficient and accurate, and make it easy to communicate risk to regulators, auditors and non-technical executives.
Mar 15, 2023
23 min
An Update on Portland's Commercial Real Estate Market with Blake St. Onge
Blake St. Onge is the Portland Managing Principal for Cresa, a global corporate real estate firm. Blake rejoins the show to give an update on the Portland area commercial real estate market, including vacancies, sub leases and hybrid work.
Feb 21, 2023
27 min
Rick Returns! PIE & Built Oregon Co-Founder on 15 years of Silicon Florist and PDX Startups Update
Rick Turoczy is the Co-Founder of the Portland Incubator Experiment (PIE), Built Oregon, and writer/curator of Silicon Florist (https://siliconflorist.com/)
Feb 7, 2023
31 min
Amy Rosenberg on the Modern Landscape of Public Relations
Amy Rosenberg is the author of A Modern Guide to Public Relations, Founder of Veracity, an integrated PR firm, and host of the PR Talk Podcast.
Jan 24, 2023
32 min
Byron Binkley on Creating a Network to Help Sell Your Stuff
Byron Binkley is the Founder of Sella (https://hellosella.com/). Sella’s mission is to make buying and selling used stuff completely, 100% frictionless. That means tap to buy and tap to sell with confidence, trust and efficiency at every step. When you hire Sella to sell your stuff, they pick it up, prepare it for sale, research prices, craft your listing, respond to buyers and more. Sella handles everything so it’s the easiest sale you’ll ever make. And for shoppers, they make buying on Craigslist feel like Amazon Prime — you get complete, detailed product information, easy online checkout and next day delivery. And you can even return items if there’s an issue.
Jan 16, 2023
29 min
Lakayana Drury On How Word Is Bond Empowers Young Black Men in Portland
Lakayana Drury (He/Him/His) is the founder and Executive Director of Word is Bond (https://www.mywordisbond.org/). Lakayana Drury is an educator, storyteller, and community organizer. Lakayana was recently named one of Portland Business Journal’s Class of 2021 Forty Under 40. Lakayana Drury was raised in Madison, Wisconsin by his hardworking mother and is the eldest of three children. He experienced adversity at an early age, most notably a learning disability diagnosis in sixth grade and the absence of his father for most of his adolescent years. He overcame those challenges and graduated from the University of Wisconsin Stout and went on to pursue a career as an elementary and high school teacher which lead him to Portland, OR. Lakayana is of Sudanese and Irish ancestry and has done considerable work exploring his biracial identity, particularly his African roots. His lived experience drives his passion for culturally-grounded education, mentorship, healthy masculinity, community investment in Black communities, and reimagining community safety. Lakayana serves on the Black Male Achievement Steering Committee, Local Public Safety CoordinatingCommittee (LPSCC) Executive Committee, and the Center for Black Student Excellence (CBSE) Guiding Coalition with Portland Public Schools.
Jan 2, 2023
32 min
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