Special Episode: Cloud Wars Live
Both Tony & Sean are monthly contributors to the CloudWars Live podcast. At the CSL Forum, they’ll be doing a join episode live with host Bob Evans.
Tony Uphoff, President & CEO, Thomas
Tony Uphoff is President and CEO of Thomas, the parent company of Thomasnet.com: the leading platform for product sourcing and supplier selection for the Industrial and Manufacturing markets. His career in business information has given him a ring side seat for every major technology transformation of the last 25 years. Tony regularly speaks on the digital transformation of business and the overarching impact technology is having on business management and leadership. In addition to his role at Thomas, Tony also serves as an advisor and board member of several tech and media companies as well as a mentor at Mucker Labs and a Trustee of Linfield College.
Sean Ammirati, Distinguished Service Professor of Entrepreneurship, Tepper School of Business & Co-Founder & Director, CMU Corporate Startup Lab
Sean is a Venture Capitalist, teaches graduate entrepreneurship courses at Carnegie Mellon, and leads a lab at CMU dedicated to helping large companies better adapt and integrate entrepreneurial best practices into their own innovation processes.
Earlier in his career, Sean spent a dozen years founding, building and selling businesses in the software and media industries. He started and sold 3 businesses including being the co-founder and CEO of mSpoke, which was LinkedIn's first acquisition.
He recently completed his first book The Science of Growth, which was released by St Martin's Press in April 2016 and was subsequently translated and published in Korean and Mandarin.
Hosted by: Bob Evans, Founder & Principal, Evans Strategic Communications
Bob Evans is one of the world’s leading analysts of the technology industry and the global phenomenon of digital transformation. In 2012, he was recruited by Oracle founder Larry Ellison to be the company’s first chief communications officer, and he left there after 5 years to launch the two businesses he runs today: Evans Strategic Communications LLC and Cloud Wars Media LLC. He’s given keynote talks about business innovation, digital transformation and customer-centric business on every continent on Earth (well, not Antarctica)