How Gender Diversity = Success and Profit ft Josh Krammes, John Lyotier & Jags Krishnamurthy 1/21/2020

Success can be female. Learn how 3 fnMale Founders are overcoming the gender gap and encouraging diversity, specifically female, in their teams, partnerships and strategic alliances. Whether creating a gender-diverse pipeline to harvesting business profitability through best known D&I practices, see how these three founders are setting a benchmark and creating a winning formula.

Presenters:

Josh Krammes

As a community builder, Josh serves as an advisor, mentor, investor, and friend for early-stage startups to the broader startup community, where his network extends pretty far.

In his current role, he serves as a liaison to business markets for StackPath, so that early & growth-stage tech startups understand who they are, and enterprise partners understand what they can do.

Previously, Josh held an executive position with MergerTech, a boutique M&A firm that represents tech companies going through the acquisition process. He was also an executive with SoftLayer (acquired by IBM in 2013; now the foundation for IBM Cloud).

Josh has had a successful career in politics, NGO’s, private corporations and as an entrepreneur. He has extensive background in strategy & business development, fund raising, advising / mentoring and community development for companies, non-profits, and startups. He has advised many startups including: HelloHome, Sparked.com, Keen.io, Cloudability, SuperFan/BranchOut, Doing.io, Good.co, Veterati & several others.

John Lyotier

A social and technology entrepreneur, John is one of the co-founders of Left Technologies Inc. (Canada) and RightMesh AG (Switzerland).

While John has a 20-year career in enterprise software, marketing, and technology startups, his proudest achievements include building a team and culture that is consistently recognized for their service and community engagement and as a “Best Workplace” for balancing Work, Life, and Play.

Left incubates projects that can make a real and lasting impact in the world. The core of the business is an automated demand generation platform, Left Travel, that uses big data and advertising technology to influence international travel and experiences.

RightMesh is a mobile mesh networking platform and protocol focused on bringing connectivity and financial inclusion to the next billion users.

Jags Krishnamurthy

Jags is a passionate tech vigilante. As CEO of Object Edge, he follows how technology changes the landscape for businesses across the world. He is also founder of products in ecommerce space in the areas of personalization and video based commerce. He’s motivated by happy, engaged people. He is also a big supporter of gender diversity and helping getting more women in tech. He works with Girls Who Code to teach and mentor girls about technology and products.

Moderator:

Amy T. Wister