CEO Class, being inspired by the greatest leaders worldwide and talked about personal goals & growth CEO Class

CEO Class is a Global For-Impact initiative. With the mission to empower future leaders, we are all volunteers. By holding virtual fireside chat sessions with the greatest leaders around the world, we want to inspire young people about their personal goals and growth.

Website: https://www.ceoclass.world/

Podcast: https://anchor.fm/ceo-class

Contribute: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ceoclass

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About the speaker: Mr Joe Tanner (Chief Commercial Officer, Rainmaking APAC)

Joe Tanner is Chief Commercial Officer for Rainmaking APAC, one of Asia's leading venture studios and startup incubators.

Joe has been building his own businesses since his teenage years, enjoying small successes in eCommerce, before moving to Australia in 2011 to join the corporate world focusing on customer insight, growth & innovation.  Since then he has acted as growth and venture advisor to the management teams of some of the world's biggest companies including Unilever, Bayer, Mondelez and ENGIE.

In the past decade, Joe has founded London-based startups in data analytics, events & fitness has overseen the development of 50+ corporate ventures across Europe and the USA and was personally a founder of three corporate ventures in healthy snacking, eCommerce and domestic renewable energy.  He was a founding member of innovation consultancy Fahrenheit 212 in Europe, building a leading presence in London, and opening further offices in Paris, Munich and Stockholm before the company's exit to leading consultancy Capgemini in 2016.  

Prior to joining Rainmaking in 2020, Joe led Venture Capability for global insurer MetLife, covering MetLife's Asian markets from a base in Singapore where he now lives with his wife.

Joe is originally British with a degree in Politics from Durham University and is a passionate advocate for entrepreneurship and ethical business.

CEO Class is a Global For-Impact initiative. With the mission to empower future leaders, we are all volunteers. By holding virtual fireside chat sessions with the greatest leaders around the world, we want to inspire young people about their personal goals and growth.

Website: https://www.ceoclass.world/

Podcast: https://anchor.fm/ceo-class

Contribute: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ceoclass

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About the speaker: Mr Jakob Knutzen (Co-Founder & CEO, Butter)

Jakob is Co-Founder & CEO of Butter, which is a full workflow tool for facilitating online collaborative sessions. Butter has a fully remote team of 18 people spread across 10 countries. Before that, Jakob founded StreamCrux, a game streaming startup that was also built as a remote company. Previously built and scaled one of South East Asia’s largest digital agencies as Managing Director for the Indonesian office and subsequently regional Group Director. Part of an exit in late 2016. Prior to this spent several years at Bain & Co.

CEO Class is a Global For-Impact initiative. With the mission to empower future leaders, we are all volunteers. By holding virtual fireside chat sessions with the greatest leaders around the world, we want to inspire young people about their personal goals and growth.

Website: https://www.ceoclass.world/

Podcast: https://anchor.fm/ceo-class

Contribute: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ceoclass

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About the speaker: Mr Volker Heistermann (CEO of Mosaic Venture Lab)

Volker Heistermann brings to bear over 25 years of investment, business development, and innovation management experience in the USA, Germany, Greater China, and SE Asia. In 2011 Mr. Heistermann co-founded early-stage technology scouting and investment firm Yushan Ventures in Taiwan, and in 2019 he launched Mosaic Venture Lab - powered by Audi AG and Taiwan’s Ministry of Economic Affairs - to create and deliver the new realities of urban mobility and electrification.

Mr. Heistermann is currently raising a new US$ 100M Venture Capital fund focused on investments in the mobility industry and previously worked at Google, AT&T, Commerzbank, and investment bank Rutberg & Co.

He holds a B.A. in Financial Law and a Marketing diploma from the University of California. He frequently speaks at tech industry conferences, and he’s an Advisor to APEC and a member of the Dedicated Short-Range Communication (DSRC) – SAE Work Group.

CEO Class is a Global For-Impact initiative. With the mission to empower future leaders, we are all volunteers. By holding virtual fireside chat sessions with the greatest leaders around the world, we want to inspire young people about their personal goals and growth.

Website: https://www.ceoclass.world/

Podcast: https://anchor.fm/ceo-class

Contribute: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ceoclass

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About the speaker: Mr JJ Englert (Founder & Product Manager, Industry Jump) 

I live in upstate New York with my wife and daughter. I spent the majority of my professional career in the film industry, producing movies and commercials for brands like Paramount, Hallmark, and Ford.
Four years ago, I had the idea to start a tech company to solve some of the problems that I was facing in the film industry.

I went through all of the struggles of being a first-time founder: I was non-technical, I had no previous tech experience, and I had limited resources. It was a wild, and hard journey that taught me more than I could have ever hoped for. It's also the thing that led me to learn Bubble.

We had no money left to pay developers, and Industry Jump wouldn't have survived unless I could start building the product myself. So I took Gregory John's Udemy course, hit the Bubble forum, and have been addicted to Bubble ever since.

Today I work full-time as a full-stack bubble developer, while I build Industry Jump and Jumpstudios.io on the side.

CEO Class is a Global For-Impact initiative. With the mission to empower future leaders, we are all volunteers. By holding virtual fireside chat sessions with the greatest leaders around the world, we want to inspire young people about their personal goals and growth.

Website: https://www.ceoclass.world/

Podcast: https://anchor.fm/ceo-class

Contribute: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ceoclass

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About the speaker: Dr Lalit Gautam (Founder & CEO, Sensegrass)

Dr. Lalit has a degree in pharmaceutical Medicine (Pharm Doc) with an MBA in International marketing and entrepreneurship with over 12 years of startup experience. TEDx Speaker, Two times Forbes 30 Under 30 for Technology Manufacturing for India and Europe, MIT 35 Under 35. Lalit has One exit and founded 3 startups. Born and grew up in a small village of Uttar Pradesh to the most awarded Agriculture entrepreneurs in the world.

Lalit is the Founder and CEO of Sensegrass. Sensegrass is a moonshot Agri tech company solving the biggest issue of soil fertility by predicting and eliminating the excess fertilizers from the soil to help small-scale farmers grow faster and healthy.

Lalit is a public speaker as well and has spoken on varieties of topics from Future of SDGs to Civic education in the Arab world, unsustainable business model importance in startups to Human IQ vs Future of AI, etc at various platforms including UN HQ in Geneva. Lalit is the first and only entrepreneur awarded by 5 Startup residencies by giving nations.

Being a Farmer Lalit is passionate about environmental and biodiversity issues, He is a climate reality leader, Audi Environmental Fellow, Ashoka Changemaker Exchange, Bosch fellow. Nominated by PM for Climate leader as well.

About the speaker: Mr Mark Hsu (Founder, 11th Fleet)

Mark Hsu is a Taiwanese-American entrepreneur and investor in Taiwan. His professional experience spans education, information technology and venture capital. As a founder, he was a co-founder of notable companies such as Sina and KKBox. As an investor, he has been an active angel investor and is Co-Founder/General Partner of Pinehurst Advisors Fund 1 andGD1 Fund 2. Across the two funds, Mark has over 30+ early-stage tech companies under his portfolio, including MaiCoin, Taiwan’s largest crypto wallet & exchange, CaCaFly, a leading digital media group in Taiwan and e27, the leading Southeast Asian tech media group.

Outside of technology, Mark has also founded numerous education companies and is a thought leader in the realm of international education and educational technology. His current passion is running 11th Fleet, a company helping foreign companies soft-land in Taiwan and Taiwanese companies step out of Taiwan.

He received his B.S. in Biological Science from Stanford University