socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

What we are trying to do, is to host industry events, hosting mentoring sessions, and offer programs and internships that can help people get the knowledge and skills they need to be part of this, whether in software, entrepreneurship, data science, or cybersecurity.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

My CIO had been ex-CIO at Herbalife, and was an EVP of Software for Disney. He eventually founded and sold consumer health firm ViSalus to a public company and is now back making investments, in technology companies, as a venture capitalist here at Los Angeles-based HashtagOne (www.hashtagone.com).

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socalTECH

AUGUST 4, 2016

My counterpart, Mark Attaway, our CIO, was at Fidelity national and LSI, both title companies, building automated platforms for the title process. He's my mentor, and I've known him since I was nineteen years old, when he was an Adjunct Professor at Pepperdine. So I've spent a lot of time in the mortgage industry.

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OCTOBER 22, 2009

And you can always bring on a senior person as a mentor / coach to help guide you personally to become a better sales leader until you’re ready for somebody more senior on your team. One such meeting that he set up was with the CIO of the largest consumer products company in Europe. Now was time to bring in some process.

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