- DisrupTV
DisrupTV is a weekly podcast with hosts R "Ray" Wang and Vala Afshar. The show airs live at 11 AM PT/ 2 PM ET every Friday. Each episode features A-list guests, the latest enterprise tech news, hot startups, and insights from top influencers. Join the conversation by tweeting your questions to #DisrupTV or @DisrupTVShow. Streamed live on StreamYard.
Show Link: https://www.youtube.com/user/ConstellationR
Featured Guests:
Robert Glazer
founder and Chairman of the Board of Acceleration Partners
and #1 Wall Street Journal bestselling author of several books, including Elevate, Friday Forward and How To Thrive In The Virtual Workplace
Robert Glazer is the founder and chairman of the board of Acceleration Partners, a global leader in partnership marketing. He also cofounded and chaired BrandCycle, which was acquired by Stack Commerce/TPG in 2021. A serial entrepreneur and award-winning executive, Robert is passionate about helping individuals and organizations elevate their performance.
Under his leadership, Acceleration Partners garnered numerous accolades, including Glassdoor’s Employees’ Choice Awards, Entrepreneur’s Top Company Culture, Inc.’s Best Place to Work, and Fortune’s Best Small & Medium Workplaces. Robert himself was twice named to Glassdoor’s list of Top CEOs for Small and Medium Companies in the U.S., ranking #2.
Robert shares his insights through Friday Forward, a weekly inspirational newsletter reaching over two hundred thousand readers in more than one hundred countries. He is also the #1 Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and international bestselling author of seven books, including Elevate, Friday Forward, Elevate Your Team, and How to Thrive In The Virtual Workplace. Additionally, Robert hosts the Elevate Podcast, a top 1 percent show on business, performance, and leadership with over three million downloads globally.
His work has been featured in outlets such as Harvard Business Review, The Today Show, Business Insider, Fast Company, Inc., Forbes, and Entrepreneur. Robert speaks to audiences around the world on topics of leadership, culture, and personal and professional development and has also spoken on the TEDx stage.
Outside work, Robert enjoys skiing, cycling, reading, traveling, spending quality time with his family, and overseeing home renovation projects.
To learn more about his writing, speaking, or partnerships opportunities, please visit robertglazer.com.
Jim Sullivan
CEO of NWN
Jim Sullivan is President and CEO of NWN, a leading AI-Powered Technology Solutions Provider in North America for thousands of Public and Private Sector organizations. Over the past 6 years, Jim has transformed NWN into a national technology powerhouse with over 1000 employees delivering over $1B in sales. The company has consistently been recognized as a 'Best Place to Work' and a 'Fastest Growing Company’ on the INC5000. Jim has also been recognized twice by Ernst & Young as an Entrepreneur of the Year Finalist, and as one of Boston Magazine’s 150 Most Influential Bostonians.
With more than 30 years of enterprise technology industry experience, Jim has a proven track record of scaling both emerging and established companies for rapid global growth.
Prior to NWN, Jim served as President of Actifio from February 2011 until May 2019, driving the cloud software company to a unicorn valuation of $1.3 billion, with more than 3,500 global customers and a 50% CAGR ultimately leading to a successful acquisition by Google in December 2020. He led sales, presales, channels, OEM distribution and co-developed Actifio’s company strategy from pre-revenue through high-growth, cash-flow positive with global operations and holds two US patents #10613938 and #10691659 for data virtualization. Prior to Actifio, Jim served as President of enterprise storage provider XIV, responsible for business direction and go-to-market model, including sales, marketing, and global services. After XIV was acquired by IBM in 2008, Jim ran the business for three years as VP of IBM Storage, generating over $1 billion in total sales. Previously Jim was CEO of CentrePath Network, and prior to that, he spent 12 years helping to grow EMC Corporation from $80 million to more than $10 billion in annual global sales, serving in several senior management positions culminating in SVP of Sales, among the top executives in the company.
Jim served as a Board Director of AppIQ until its acquisition by HP in 2005, and of Diligent, a deduplication software pioneer acquired by IBM. Jim also served as a Board Director of Titus – a Blackstone Company – from 2018 until its acquisition by HelpSystems in 2020. Currently serves on the board of CDS, a New State Capital Partners portfolio company.
Jacqueline Carter
co-author of More Human: How the Power of AI Can Transform the Way You Lead
Jacqueline Carter is an international partner and leads Potential Project in North America. She has worked across industries with top companies including Cisco, Disney, Accenture, Kimberly-Clark, and Royal Bank of Canada to navigate the challenges of leadership and successfully implement complex changes for large organizations. Rasmus and Jacqueline are coauthors of Compassionate Leadership (2022) and The Mind of the Leader (2018).
