Jul 11, 2025
11:00am - 12:00pm
PDT

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:

Christopher Lochhead
thirteen-time #1 bestselling Co-author, #1 charting business dialogue podcaster,
co-creator of Category Pirates and is best known as a "godfather" of Category Design

Christopher Lochhead is a thirteen-time #1 bestselling CoAuthor, #1 charting business dialogue podcaster, co-creator of Category Pirates and is best known as a "godfather" of Category Design.

He’s been an advisor to over 50 venture-backed startups, is a venture capital limited partner, who is a former three-time Silicon Valley public company CMO (Mercury Interactive, Scient, Vantive).

He and his partners at Category Pirates are on a mission to entrepreneurs, marketers, and creators design a different future.

Born in Montreal Canada, Lochhead is a dyslexic paperboy who got thrown out of school at 18. With few options, he became an entrepreneur.

The Marketing Journal calls him, “one of the best minds in marketing”, NBA Legend Bill Walton calls him a “quasar” and The Economist calls him, “off putting to some”.

Podcaster Neil Pearlberg calls Follow Your Different, "the worst business podcast" and Podcast Magazine calls Follow Your Different, "the best business podcast".

 

Sunil Karkera
Founder, Engineering & Design
Soul Of The Machine

Sunil is a designer, engineer, and successful entrepreneur with over two decades of experience in customer experience design, and digital transformation. He started his career as an engineer at Lockheed Martin as an embedded systems engineer working on avionics and fluid dynamics. Early in his career, in 1998 he founded ‘E-Business Anywhere’, a mobile wireless start-up. 

Mr. Karkera went on to join Tata Consultancy Services as the founder and global head of TCS Interactive. He helped TCS make its first and only design acquisition by acquiring ‘W12 Studios’ in London and integrating it successfully into the business.

He later led Wipro’s Denmark-based strategic design agency Designit as its Global CEO & MD. At Designit, he successfully integrated Rational Interaction, a marketing services firm with Designit. Recently at Plus Company, he held dual roles as President of renowned San Francisco-based industrial design agency — fuseproject, as well as Global President of Plus Digital for Plus Company.
“From experience design, research and testing, service design, brand strategy, creative design, content production, commerce to digital marketing, BORN XDS now cuts deep and wide. I am happy to see its explosive growth and award-winning work over the last ten years. I am confident Sunil will take what I have built over the last decade to heights that we have never seen before in our genre of services.”