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TMB E37: Mary Foote PipelineAZ, COVID-19 impact

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Mary Foote, Director/
Partnership for Economic Innovation and Pipeline AZ
1475 N Scottsdale Road,
Scottsdale, AZ
480.205.1568
mfoote@pipelineaz.com
www.c19az.com
SOCIAL MEDIA: Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn | Twitter |

Mary Foote serves as Director for the Partnership for Economic Innovation, the parent organization of Pipeline AZ. She has been in economic development for more than ten years, focusing on tax incentives, business attraction and retention, innovation ecosystems, and workforce development. Mary is actively involved in her community through board participation and volunteering. She also oversees Valley Leadership’s Jobs and Economy initiatives. She lives in Phoenix and is currently quarantining with her pitbull-mix, Hayden.

About Pipeline AZ

The mission of Pipeline AZ is to connect job seekers with rewarding careers, helping them connect the dots through career exploration, training programs, internships, and apprenticeships made possible through collaboration between Arizona industries and educators.

Right now, Pipeline AZ is working to help alleviate the impact of COVID-19 by aggregating realtime immediate job openings and offering pathways to future careers for all out-of-work Arizona’s, connecting those affected by the crisis with industries in need.

Partnership for Economic Innovation (PEI)

We believe innovation’s next challenge isn’t exponential growth, it’s exponential impact. That’s PEI is investing in community-building technology and R&D designed to make Greater Phoenix more resilient and empower individuals to take agency over change.

Our mission is to transform Greater Phoenix into a top global market for innovation, fueled by world-class research centers, advanced industries, and creative entrepreneurs.

Read more about Our Mission During Crisis | #C19AZ.

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TMBS E84: Ritika Gunnar, IBM’s Top Women Leaders in AI

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IBM Recognizes Top Women Leaders in Artificial Intelligence.

http://ibm.com/watson/women-leaders-in-ai

Ritika Gunnar is the vice president of data and AI expert services and learning at IBM. She and her team work with clients on their transformation journey through a data-and AI-first methodology and help implement data and AI solutions using deep knowledge-based skills to accelerate the adoption of data and AI enterprise capabilities.

Previously, Ritika was the vice president of offerings for IBMWatson, where she was responsible for all of Watson’s Data and AI portfolio, defining the portfolio strategy, execution of product offerings, and driving business results; she was vice president of IBM’s worldwide cloud and cognitive GTM organization, drove IBM’s mission to apply deep cloud, data, and AI expertise to its clients’ most pressing needs.

She was the vice president of IBM’s data and analytics business, where she was responsible for setting the strategy and execution of IBM’s data platform, data science, and analytics practices. She led and managed IBM’s master data management and information integration and governance business and IBM’sdata warehousing and analytics business; she joined IBM as a software engineer in 1999.

Ritika holds a bachelor’s of science in computer science and an executive master’s in business from the University of Texas at Austin. She currently resides in New York.

SBBV E17: Pam Crim,Southern Arizona Better Business Bureau

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Pam Crim, Executive Director
Southern Arizona Better Business Bureau m,klp[-=
120 N Stone Ave Ste 200,
Tucson, AZ 85701
(520) 888-6161
pcrim@tucson.bbb.org
www.bbb.org/
SOCIAL MEDIA: Facebook | LinkedIn |

Since 1952, the BBB of Southern Arizona has helped consumers find and recommend businesses, brands, and charities they can trust. Fast forward 68 years and the BBB is headquartered in Tucson with employees who now handle 24 phone lines, digital inquiries, and mail, and over 2,000 calls a week. The BBB of Southern Arizona serves consumers and businesses in the Arizona counties of Pima, Cochise, Santa Cruz, Graham, and Greenlee. Sonora, Mexico is also a part of the BBB’s service area. There are thousands of free and subscription websites that offer a range of information, but the BBB is the one place where you can find it all. More than 3,200 SouthernArizona businesses have earned the coveted Accredited Business Seal,a trusted symbol of a company’s commitment to integrity, ethical business practices, and customer service.

About Your Host, Stephanie Rising

Stephanie Rising

A business coach and author, Stephanie Rising has helped over 100 small business owners achieve greater proficiency, profitability, and sanity. She specializes in navigating the complexities of family-owned companies and partnerships with 5 to 25 employees. An expert small business advocate, she provides objective problem solving and accountability that has led many of her clients to award-winning achievement. Her clients have represented a total of over $60M in annual revenues and 1,000 employees.

Stephanie specializes in DISC behavioral analysis and her book, DISC: Leverage Your Nature, Increase Your Sales, is available on Amazon. She outlines step-by-step tactics for building a marketing plan that is sustainable for each reader’s personality and speaks to their specific target market. Stephanie has led numerous well-received workshops on DISC-based marketing and applying behavioral analysis in business.

As an extension of her belief in promoting an educated and healthy community, Stephanie is a monthly sponsor of Youth On Their Own, which provides stipends, supplies, and mentorship to Tucson teens who are homeless through no fault of their own.  She also supports Temwani Children’s Foundation, which provides education, food, and hope to orphaned children impoverished by the effects of HIV/AIDS in Lusaka, Zambia in Africa.

Stephanie’s podcast, Small Biz, Big Voices, is broadcast monthly on Tucson Business Radio X. Show notes, interview questions and additional coaching tips can be found on her small Biz, Big Voices Facebook page.

Stephanie is available for executive team coaching, strategic planning retreats, and public speaking.

 

 

TMBS E83: Sean Kevelighan, CEO, Insurance Information Institute (Triple-I), Insurance During COVID-19

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INSURANCE EXPERTS SHARE INSIGHTS ON HOW CONSUMERS CAN REMAIN SAVVY WITH THEIR COVERAGE DURING THE COVID-19

GUEST:

  • Sean Kevelighan, CEO, Insurance Information Institute (Triple-I)

SEAN KEVELIGHAN:  Sean Kevelighan joined the Triple-I as its CEO in 2016.  Previously, he was Group Head of Public Affairs for  Zurich Insurance Group where he oversaw Government and Industry Affairs as well as Corporate Responsibility.  During President George W. Bush’s administration, he served first in the U.S. Department of the Treasury as a spokesperson for economic issues, and eventually became Senior Advisor for the Office of Tax Policy.  He was also the Press Secretary for the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB).

TMBS E82: Dr. Alan H.Gluskin, Dental Care During COVID-19

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CURIOUS ABOUT TOOTH PAIN, DENTALCARE DURING COVID-19, 

Alan H.Gluskin, D.D.S, President, American Association of Endodontists. Dr.Gluskin is a  professor and co-chair of the Department of Endodontics, Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry, the University of the Pacific in San Francisco. Dr. Gluskin serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Endodontics, the International Journal of Endodontics, and the Journal of the California Dental Association. He is a Fellow of the International College of Dentists and the American College of Dentists.

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TMBS E81: Safwan Shah, Earned Wages on Demand

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PayActiv Getting Earned Wages into the Hands of Workers Immediately PayActiv Offering Free Access to Earned Wages on Demand

The coronavirus crisis has upended daily life for millions of Americans, and over 82% of workers say that they are more worried about financial issues than their health. More than half of American workers have seen their hours reduced and, even before the crisis, 78% of workers were living paycheck to paycheck. To help provide relief during this time, PayActiv, the leading provider of employee earned wage and tip access, has waived its fees until further notice to help workers access their earned wages instantly.

More than 1,000 employers across healthcare, retail, food services, and business processing services have signed up for the PayActivplatform to manage their cash flow challenges, cut costs, and support their employees by enabling them to access their earned wages when they need them most. PayActiv has seen workers enroll in its services at a 200% increase week-over-week since the onset of the COVID-19 crisis, with much of that increase stemming from workers on the front lines of the crisis in America’s hospital systems, senior living centers, and recovery clinics.

www.payactiv.com

MORE ABOUT SAFWAN SHAH:

As PayActiv’s founding CEO, Safwan is inspired every day by the transformative impact that PayActivcan brings to the lives of millions of people living paycheck to paycheck.

An engineer by training, payments expert by experience, and entrepreneur by accident, Safwan’s last job was at TSYS after the acquisition of Infonox, a payments company he founded and bootstrapped.

His previous stints include being a rocket scientist at a NASACenter where a number of his experiments were part of the space program.

Besides science and entrepreneurship, Safwan has also taught Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley, and Baskin School ofEngineering at UC Santa Cruz.

Safwan is a graduate of the distinguished Stanford ExecutiveProgram (SEP’09) and has an MS/Ph.D. from UC Boulder.

TMBS E80: Stephanie Carruthers, COVID-19 Scams

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IBM Security Research Reveals Unprecedented Increase in COVID-19 Themed Scamsespecially emails. Insights on How to Protect Yourself.

Stephanie Carruthers (known by her hacker alias, Snow) specializes in social engineering–thinking like a criminal in order to “hack” the human psyche, creating ruses to lure them into divulging sensitive information or taking an action. Cybercriminals use this tactic for their advantage, helping them tailor a more targeted cyberattack or even gain physical access to a secure facility. Fortunately, Stephanie hacks humans in order to help businesses find and fix their security holes, as part of IBM’s X-Force Red. Companies hire X-Force Red to break into their networks in order to find the security flaws that exist in their technology, processes, and staff awareness. For Snow, this means gathering information that has been overshared on the web, using her social engineering skills to go “vishing” (voice phishing) for additional intel on the phone, and even creating and using fake badges, costumes, and other tricks of the trade to get inside a company’s physical location. Snow also finds information that can help the team hack a company’s computer network; such as passwords on sticky notes in the background of a YouTube video, photos of security badges with employee info displayed or laptop screens showing the types of software a company uses.

TMBS E79: Michelle Armer, CPO at Career Builder

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ADVICE FOR COLLEGE SENIORS ENTERING THE WORKFORCE DURING AN UNPREDICTABLE JOB MARKET

Michelle Armer, Chief People Officer,forCareerBuilderfor this Podcast and she is a career Expert on Networking Opportunities & How to Position Yourself for Employment in an Ever-changing Market

Michelle Armer is Chief People Officer at CareerBuilder.  A 20-year veteran in the HR space, she leads the Talent Team with a focus on building a high-performance culture that supports business goals, employees’ professional development, and diversity. Her passion for engaging employees and developing positive work environments drives her commitment to CareerBuilder’s employees, candidates, and clients. Michelle holds an MBA from Notre Dame Universityandabachelor’sdegree from St. Norbert College. Outside of work, Michelle enjoys reading, boating and spending time with her husband and daughter.

www.CareerBuilder.com 

TMBS E78: Katherine Roe, PETA Monkey Testing RMT

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PETA Urges National Institutes of Health to Halt Inhumane Experiments Katherine Roe Research Associate, PETA Laboratory Investigations Department

Katherine Roe, Ph.D., is a research associate with the LaboratoryInvestigations Department of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals(PETA), where she liaises with government funding agencies, universities, and corporations to end harmful and ineffective neuroscience and psychological experiments on animals. She helped dissuade the National Institutes of Health from increasing its use of monkeys in biomedical tests and is currently working to end experiments on dogs at Texas A&M University, on barn owls at JohnsHopkins University, and on wild-caught birds at Colorado State University. She graduated magna cum laude from Syracuse University and earned a doctorate in experimental psychology from the University of California–SanDiego. She has been published in numerous peer-reviewed journals and has conducted research at Johns Hopkins University and the National Institute of Mental Health.

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