Drew and Brad talk about their journey with The Edge Podcast and the themes of innovation and technology that come up over and over. From Scott McNealy with Curriki, Mark Nashua with gaming and education, all the way to Adam Leslie with security and intelligence operations, our hosts talk about what each guest is innovating in their field and what makes them excited about the future, despite the pandemic.

In this episode of The Edge Brad and Drew sit down with Adam Leslie, CEO at Levenhall, a technology connection company that provides pathways for innovation between the commercial sector and government agencies. The boys cover everything from pandemic implications on security operations to total situational awareness and technology innovation. This is a really fun episode that if you have any tin foil hats in the closet you might want to get them out.

In this episode of The Edge, Brad and Drew sit down with Hugh Carspecken of DartPoints and William Hadala of TMGcore, Chief Strategy Officers and co-founders of their respective organizations. They cover everything from defining the edge of connectivity and compute to how we go about leveraging the technological assets to improve the way we deliver critical infrastructure to second and third markets where it is so vitally necessary. This episode gets your thinking and will leave you with more questions than answers, in a good way.

In this episode of The Edge, Brad and Drew sit down with Jeff DeCoux of the Autonomy Institute and ATRIUS to discuss all things autonomous and automated. The guys cover everything from the introduction of the most proliferated autonomous technology in the robot vacuum to how Texas is leading the charge in automated and autonomous commercially viable civil infrastructure. You won’t want to miss any of this one.   https://autonomy.institute/ https://www.atrius.world/company/

In this episode of The Edge Brad and Drew sit down with Mark Nausha from Abacus3. Mark is a noted game developer, online community builder, entrepreneur, former Deputy Director of the GameLab at SMU Guildhall.  He has shipped more than 70 titles commercially in the video game industry generating billions of dollars in revenue.  Mark is currently President of Abacus3 which specializes in esports experiences through sponsorship, events, arena builds, and curriculum with the goals of sustainability and growth for their clients. In this episode The Edge covers everything from the game development process and philisophy to Virtual Reality and Education and many things in between.     www.abacus3.gg  https://www.smu.edu/guildhall

The Edge Episode #5 – Chet Hullum, Supermicro  In this episode of THE EDGE, Brad and Drew sit down with Chet Hullum, Senior Direct of IoT Business Development. Their discussion ranges from factory AI integration, to digital twins and even the next evolution of industrial technology. You won’t want to miss out on this very informative and education episode.     www.supermicro.com  https://www.linkedin.com/in/chethullum/

In this episode THE EDGE sits down with Bill Picard or Integra Mission Critical. Bill Picard is the Global Vice President of Business Development for Integra Mission Critical, a leading data center design/build firm.  He started his 20 year Internet career with one of the original backbone providers, DIGEX, back when a T1 connection was considered high speed!  Later he joined Equinix at it’s inception, spending 11 years with them in multiple sales roles.  He later worked with RagingWire, Bytegrid and eventually CyrusOne as they all expanded into the Northern Virginia area.  Most Recently with the Siemon company, Bill led the charge of working directly with the hyperscalers on their data center infrastructure requirements.

In this episode THE EDGE sits down with Scott McNealy. Scott co-founded Sun Microsystems and was their CEO from 1984 to 2006 achieving one of the longest executive corporate tenures to date. Scott went on to chair the board of directors that brokered the sale of Sun to Oracle in 2010. Since his departure from Sun Microsystems Scott and his team at Curriki,  have been working tirelessly to create a free and open architecture for virtual learning that assembles the best of what the OSS has to offer and creates an open authoring tool for these components. www.curriki.org www.birdiesforeducation.com

Haynes Strader (https://www.linkedin.com/in/haynesstrader/) is a Vice President on CBRE's Data Center Solutions team in North Texas. He serves in a business development and account management role, working on deals across the country with Fortune 100 companies, large data center occupiers, and data center providers. Haynes joined CBRE in 2014 as part of CBRE’s nationally recognized Wheel Program, a one-year rotational program in which participants are given the opportunity to work in several business lines in the company. After completing rotations with Research, Retail Brokerage, and Global Corporate Services, among others, Mr. Strader joined the Data Center Solutions team. The Edge “sat down” virtually with Haynes Strader to discuss how data center development, leasing, buying and building trends are shaping up from 2019 to 2020 as well as how current operators are utilizing solutions for addressing their needs in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic.

In this intro episode The Edge co-hosts sit down for a round table discussion with JD Enright, CEO of TMGcore, and SVP of Global Channel and Sales, Ashley Panfil to discuss the vision and passion for The Edge podcast. JD Enright: Experienced and dedicated professional with 27+ years working with DOD, Multinational Private and Public sector organizations. Primary focus on developing and executing Strategic Step-Up Growth initiatives in Emerging Markets and Technologies. Specialized leadership in developing next generation HPC Platforms, Global Blockchain Development Strategies, Biotechnology, Viral Cell and Gene Therapies and Market Intelligence Assimilation. Ashley Panfil: Ashley is the Senior Vice President of Channel and Sales at TMGcore. Prior to joining the team at TMGcore Ashely spent almost 7 years in the data center sales industry leading one of the top producing books of business at CyrusOne. Ashley is responsible for all sales efforts and developing and maintaining a partner ecosystem at TMGcore. Drew Null: Drew is the Vice President of Global Sales Operations and Development at TMGcore. Drew began his career as a therapist specializing in Teens and Marriage and Family Counseling serving the greater North Texas area and still holds his LPC license. Drew then spent more than 7 years in Sales and Management roles in the data center and healthcare technology sector. In his current role, Drew is responsible for the development of direct sales initiatives, branded content creation and driving sales support structures. Brad Furnish: Brad is the Vice President of Global Sales and Marketing at TMGcore. After his professional baseball career, he transitioned into the data center world, holding multiple strategic sales positions before moving to Gartner. While at Gartner, Brad worked with clients to help identify the organizations mission critical priorities then develop/implement appropriate sales and marketing strategies to exceed their corporate objectives. In his current role, Brad is responsible for driving sales, developing a partner eco-system, and leading corporate marketing initiatives. www.theedgetmgcore.com