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#67: CMO Strategies in a Health startup (Dexcare) by Former Microsoft & GE Healtcare (Jamie Gier)
For more than 25 years, Jamie Gier has been successfully scaling and growing tech companies, designing revenue-generating GTM strategies, and leading high-performing teams inside corporates like Microsoft and GE Healthcare to startups like Dexcare.
Across product marketing, corporate communications, digital marketing, demand generation, and creative services. Her philosophy: winners find a way.
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8 Oct 2023
#66: Thomson Reuters Ventures - Managing Director (Tamara Steffens)
Tamara leads investing and market development for M12 in North America and India, and is the executive sponsor of the fund’s Female Founders Competition.
She is an experienced operator and entrepreneur with over 20 years of experience in Silicon Valley at both startups and large tech companies.
Her last startup was Acompli, a mobile productivity app, where she led sales and business development.
Microsoft acquired Acompli (now Outlook mobile) in 2014, after which Tamara went on to lead business development for the broader Office 365 organization.
Prior to Acompli, Tamara successfully helped lead several startups to either IPO or acquisition, including Software.com, Boingo, Fusion One and Path.
She began her tech career at Sun Microsystems and Silicon Graphics, and has deep industry expertise across financial services, telecom, education and mobile.
As a serial entrepreneur, Tamara understands fundraising from the perspective of the entrepreneur and is a valuable go-to-market advisor.
She has a Bachelor of Science in finance from Michigan State University, where she currently sits on the Marketing Leadership Advisory Board.
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10 May 2022
#65: From President Prada & LVMH to Startup CEO of Feelmore Labs (Francois Kress)
With over 25 years of experience as a C-Suite Executive in the global luxury industry, François Kress is passionate about establishing wellness as the new luxury of the 21st century, bringing luxury, healthcare, and technology together, as seen through his leadership roles at LVMH, Prada, Kythera Biopharmaceuticals (KYTH), Myndblue and more.
As the Co-Founder & CEO of the Apex Neuro Holdings Group since 2017, Kress and his team at Feelmore Labs are continuing his mission by developing innovative consumer and clinical neuromodulation technologies that actively and effortlessly improve your wellbeing with scientifically proven results.
Feelmore Labs is a health and wellness technology company headquartered in New York City, pioneering a new category of wearable devices that improve lives by training and tuning the nervous system to help people feel and perform better every day.
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00:00 Introduction Francois
1:14 From studying science to working in the fashion industry
14:39 How a call from Bernard Arnault shaped his career
19:35 Joining LVMH in 1996
33:18 Why you should focus on your strengths
37:15 Main learnings from his career at LVMH
47:26 Luxury brands - differences between now and then
53:35 Insights from working with creatives
1:02:32 How it came together that Francois founded his own company “Feelmore Labs”
1:08:08 What's behind the company's product designed to tune the nervous system to reduce stress and improve sleep
1:22:56 Difficulties in making neurostimulation attractive to the consumer market
1:37:15 Where to find his product and some final words about his career
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