- DisrupTV
DisrupTV is a weekly podcast 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 StreamYard.
Show Link: https://www.youtube.com/user/ConstellationR
Featured Guests:
David Roberts
CEO of SugarCRM
David Roberts has spent a career empowering customer-facing organizations to excel at knowing their customers and driving exceptional marketing, sales, and service engagement. He is currently President and CEO of SugarCRM and is responsible for leading the company's vision, culture, strategy, and operations. David has led exceptional companies and teams for 30 years with publicly listed and private equity-backed companies, with a focus on profitable growth and successful M&A. He joined SugarCRM from Alchemer, a global SaaS company focused on helping 12,000 global customers improve their customers’ experiences (CX) and their customer and employee feedback programs. He served as CEO and Director during a period of incredible growth and scale; rebranding and repositioning the company and selling the business to KKR. In prior leadership roles, David was a Senior Partner in Accenture’s CRM practice, the CEO of ReedGroup (now part of Alight), and a cabinet member in Denver Mayor,John Hickenlooper’s administration.
Jonathan Stutz
Co-author of Daily Practices of Inclusive Leaders: A Guide to Building a Culture of Belonging
Jonathan Stutz, MA (he/him/his), is the founder and president for Global Diversity Partners Inc. He has over 25 years’ experience working in leading-edge companies such as Amazon, Microsoft, and Zulily. Jonathan led Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity (ID&E) for four international businesses within Amazon’s Worldwide Operations group; and at Microsoft, he initially led ID&E for the Worldwide Sales and Support group, and then for the Worldwide Operations group. Later, Jonathan led the Global Readiness team ensuring Microsoft products were politically, culturally, and geographically appropriate in markets across the world.
As a community leader, Jonathan serves on the board of trustees for Youth Eastside Services, a nonprofit for youth and families supporting behavioral health and substance issues in Bellevue, WA. He has served as a human services commissioner for the cities of Bellevue and Kirkland, Washington.
Previously, he co-founded the Seattle area’s Eastside Diversity Task Force and, separately, the Eastside Latino Leadership Forum. While at Microsoft, he co-founded the Professional Technical Diversity Network in Puget Sound and the Bay Area.
Jonathan has served on the National Diversity Committee for the Society of Human Resources Management (SHRM) and is a past president of SHRM’s local Lake Washington chapter.
Jonathan earned his master of arts from City University of Seattle in Organizational Leadership and his bachelor of arts in Political Science from the University of Washington. He has earned certifications in Change Management from City University of Seattle and formerly Senior Professional in Human Resources from the Human Resource Certification Institute in association with SHRM.
He enjoys running, hiking, and pickleball. Born in Toronto, he spent formative years in Atlanta, GA and Mercer Island, WA. Jonathan now splits time between Kirkland and Palm Desert, CA. Jonathan and his wife, Stacie, have been married for 42 years, they have two adult children, Dr. Katie Stutz and Jaclyn Stutz-Burrick, and a cherished English Crème Golden Retriever, Simon.
Wes Adams,
Co-author of Meaningful Work: How to Ignite Passion and Performance in Every Employee
Wes Adams is the CEO of SV Consulting Group. He partners with Fortune 500s and scaling companies to develop high-impact leaders and design operating structures that support high performing teams. He is also a positive psychology researcher at the University of Pennsylvania where he studies the leadership practices and organizational structures that help employees thrive. He lives in Atlanta, GA.
Tamara Myles,
Co-author of Meaningful Work: How to Ignite Passion and Performance in Every Employee
Tamara Myles is a speaker, author, professor, and entrepreneur specializing in the science of human flourishing at work. She helps leaders and organizations like Microsoft, KPMG, and MassMutual unlock the power of meaningful work to drive peak performance, innovation, and resilience. A faculty member at Boston College and a researcher and instructor at the University of Pennsylvania, Tamara’s work challenges assumptions about work, showing that when leaders make work meaningful, they create thriving teams and lasting impact. She lives in Concord, Massachusetts.
