Feb 25, 2022
11:00am - 12:00pm
PST

DisrupTV is a weekly Web series with hosts R "Ray" Wang and Vala Afshar. The show airs live at 11:00 a.m. PT/ 2:00 p.m. ET every Friday. The audience can expect A-list guests, the latest enterprise news, hot startups, insight from influencers, and much more. Tweet questions to #DisrupTV or @DisrupTVShow. We broadcast live on Zoom. 

Show Link: https://www.youtube.com/user/ConstellationR

Featured Guests:

 

Bill Nussey
CEO & Founder
Freeing Energy

Bill is a 25-year tech CEO with several exits, including an IPO. His companies have created billions in shareholder value. Along the way, he also worked at Greylock as a venture capitalist and later helped lead IBM’s global strategy for their CEO and SVPs after he sold his company to them.

In 2017, he jumped into clean energy. It started with a TED talk which grew into 100+ articles, then became a top 10 energy podcast and in late 2021, a book called Freeing Energy which has hit Amazon’s #1 New Release three categories. Bill has a degree in electrical engineering from North Carolina State University and an MBA from the Harvard Business School.

Follow him on Twitter: @bnussey

 

Andy Laudato
Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer
The Vitamin Shoppe

Andrew Laudato is the author of Fostering Innovation: How to build an Amazing IT Team.

He started his career as a computer programmer and quickly realized he was as passionate about business as he is about technology. The intersection of business and technology is where innovation happens and where people and companies succeed.

After spending more than 20 years as a CIO/CTO, Laudato currently serves as the Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of The Vitamin Shoppe. In this role, he leads operations across digital commerce, information technology, enterprise portfolio management, supply chain, strategic sourcing, and commercialization.

Laudato is a member of the CNBC technology executive council, the New York City CIO executive council, and a founding member of the George Mason University's Center for Retail Transformation. In addition, he serves on the board of Lideranca, a private company focused on diversity, equity, and inclusion. He was recently named a Top 100 Retail Influencer by Rethink Retail.

Learn more at andrewlaudato.com

Follow his company on Twitter: @VitaminShoppe

 

Candice Faktor
CEO/co-founder
Disco

Candice is a serial tech entrepreneur who has a passion for learning and community. Before launching Disco, Candice scaled Wattpad to 80 MM users, making it the world’s largest platform for creators to share their stories (sold in Jan 21, for US $660MM). She is a frequent speaker on the future of learning, an early pioneer in cohort based courses, and creator of Gamechanger.co, a live learning community of 3000+ innovators. Candice is a venture partner for Lobby Capital, and a Board Member of Coveo, an enterprise AI SAAS platform valued at over $1Bn. She is from South Africa, lives in Toronto with her husband, two boys and puppy.

Follow her on Twitter: @candicedisco