- DisrupTV
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:
Christopher Lochhead
Entrepreneur, Category Designer, former three-time Silicon Valley public company CMO (Mercury, Scient, Vantive), and startup advisor
Chris is an entrepreneur, category designer, former three-time Silicon Valley public company CMO (Mercury, Scient, Vantive), startup advisor, now author, newsletter creator and podcaster.
Chris is a dyslexic paper boy from Montreal, who got thrown out of school at 18. So, with no other options, he became an entrepreneur, then a three-time, Silicon Valley public company CMO. After Mercury sold to HP for $4.5B (back when that was a lot!) in 2006, he hung up his glove as an “operating guy”.
Over 35 years in the entrepreneurial/category design/marketing foxhole, Chis has experienced the bliss of winning, and the pain of losing. He has made a lot of friends and some enemies. He created some massive value, lost a ton of money, been screwed over, experienced pure evil, extraordinary kindness, public humiliation, public adulation, and learned how to laugh (and cry) about the whole thing.
Chris co-Created a new management discipline called Category Design, has been an advisor to over 50 venture backed startups, is a limited partner investor in a few top-tier VC funds, he's helped a handful of companies go public, been part of countless M&A transactions, served on many boards, been on the cover of magazines (it’s not all that, really!), hit the top of the author, podcast, and newsletter charts (that is very fun) and been fired a whole bunch. (Comes with being a pirate!... and it isn’t that scary?)
Follow him on Twitter: @lochhead
Elizabeth Spears
Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer
Plainsight AI
Elizabeth has led productization for a number of multi-layer, compute-intensive software platforms. She has deep expertise in bringing nascent technologies to market with exceptional functionality and usability. Her breakthrough products have strongly positioned companies with new, consistent revenue streams and funding.
Prior to Plainsight, Elizabeth launched and scaled the startup and enterprise products development division at Distillery, led collaborative innovation teams at Google and at Bottlenose, and built a product for enterprise real-time big data processing.
As Plainsight's Chief Product Officer, she's responsible for Plainsight's product and marketing strategies and works with industry-leading clients to realize the hidden potential of their visual data with streamlined vision AI.
Follow her Company on Twitter: @PlainsightAI
Jonathan Becher
President
Sharks Sports & Entertainment
Jonathan Becher is president of Sharks Sports & Entertainment, the parent organization for the NHL’s San Jose Sharks, the AHL’s San Jose Barracuda, three Sharks Ice facilities, and the non-profit Sharks Foundation. A long-time Sharks fan and season ticket holder, Becher is responsible for the organization’s overall strategy with a particular focus on the end-toend customer experience.
Prior to joining Sharks Sports & Entertainment, Becher spent a decade at SAP in a variety of senior roles, including Chief Marketing Officer and Chief Digital Officer. While at SAP, he oversaw many large-scale sports and entertainment partnerships, including the naming rights agreement for the SAP Center at San Jose. Becher also crafted corporate partnerships with the San Francisco 49ers, the National Hockey League (NHL), and the National Basketball Association (NBA), among others.
A three-time technology company CEO, Becher is on the Board of Directors of multiple organizations, including the Churchill Club, Trintech, Khoros, and Pixlee. He is a frequent speaker at events and a published author on a variety of topics – including his own popular blog Manage By Walking Around (http://jonathanbecher.com).
Becher holds a master’s degree in computer science from Duke University in North Carolina, and a bachelor’s degree in computer engineering from the University of Virginia.
Follow him on Twitter: @jbecher
