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Ashley Vallett is a recruiting professional with almost a decade of experience in the staffing industry and the owner of her own firm, Technacity Group, which she started in 2019. After working for a variety of different staffing firms over the years, Ashley felt the companies she was working for were not serving the needs of her candidates and client communities, so she went out on her own and has never looked back. Now, almost 3 years later, she has built and scaled her company to a successful firm that is disrupting the industry. One of Ashley’s goals has always been to help women and underrepresented groups advance their careers in IT and Engineering. She serves on the board of Women In Technology International (WITI) as the Corporate Partnerships and Alliances chair and is an Ambassador for Women in Games. It is her tenacious spirit that makes Ashley a powerful advocate for her candidates and clients alike and she looks forward to continuing to grow Technacity as a leader in the tech recruiting space.

Cathy Trinh is an inspirational speaker, global humanitarian, bestselling author, and the CEO of Recruiter Hustle, Inc. a unique executive search and networking firm. She is also a bestselling author, executive leadership coach and mental health advocate. Born in Vietnam, and raised in California, Cathy developed a love for sales and marketing, talent acquisition through working in the corporate world for over 25 years. Cathy honed her emotional intelligence by engaging in thousands of high-level and transformational conversations with job seekers and leaders in start-up to Fortune 500 companies. Cathy is passionate about transforming new business owners and high-achieving entrepreneurial professionals to live fulfilled, happy, and liberated lives. In addition to being a successful business owner, Cathy’s ability to communicate with any type of audience has made her an in-demand speaker and author. She has huge heart for those in the recovery community and gives back by sharing her knowledge from self-aware

John Beaver is President & CEO of BIOLASE. At BIOLASE, John’s vision is to raise a generation of kids not afraid of going to the dentist. He brings over 40 years of substantial leadership and technical experience in finance and business management for both public and private companies. His experience leading debt and equity fundraising efforts to elevate companies from start-up to commercial success has positioned BIOLASE for growth. At BIOLASE, John has a pulse on investor relations, using dentist education to establish lasers as the gold standard of care, and building cross-functional teams internally. When not charting the path for BIOLASE, you can find John rooting for the Houston Astros or heading to Texas to visit his grandkids. John Beaver was most recently the Company’s Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer, and Chief Financial Officer. He joined the Company in 2017 as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. He assumed roles of varying responsibilities over the past few ye

Kayla Sibley currently serves as Chief Financial Officer at SERVPRO of Irvine, a franchise that has earned the reputation as being #1 in the cleanup and restoration industry. They specialize in services such as fire and water damage restoration, biohazard cleaning, mold remediation, and so much more. Her journey started with her parents, Rod and Lillian Sibley, who have owned and operated this company since 1991 - a period of more than 30 years. What started as helping around the office at the tender age of eight blossomed into over fifteen years of experience and expertise in the restoration business. Kayla graduated with honors from California State University, Fullerton with a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration with an emphasis in Accounting. She is presently seeking her Certified Managerial Accountant License as well as her California State Contractors License while simultaneously overseeing the Irvine franchise. Kayla has shown astounding passion to grow within Servpro Irvine, striving to mak

Hector Muñoz is the Owner & Head of Community Relations at Senior Helpers of South Orange County. Born in So. Cal. Hector is a Cal Poly Pomona Grad with an MBA from the University of Miami, and has spent over 25 years leading some of the largest restaurant brands in the industry as a Chief Marketing officer. While living in Miami, he experienced a very challenging situation with his Father Jorge, who was dealing with diabetes, heart disease, and kidney disease. He and Sandy found themselves in a situation where they needed someone to care for their dad, given Mom was dealing with dementia. At the time, over 10 years ago, professional high-quality caregiving was not as widely available as it is today, so they had to look for whomever they could find to help Dad and ended up settling for someone who was inexperienced in the field but could at least tend to Dad’s immediate needs, like medication reminders, bathing, and medical appointments. But the needs were greater, and we knew there had to be a better wa

James Muraca serves as the chief technology officer at Enersponse and loves building sustainable technology for scale. Muraca has held senior roles with various innovative organizations like InvertedPower, Zen Ecosystems and Planet Innovation. Since starting his engineering career with Bosch, he has been involved in several projects ranging from digital health to now connecting massive pumping loads and fortune 100 building portfolios to grid service programs. In this edition of Critical Mass Business Talk Show, James Muraca joins host Ric Franzi to share his career journey and insights as Chief Technology Officer of Enersponse. -- Critical Mass Business Talk Show is Orange County, CA's longest-running business talk show, focused on offering value and insight to middle-market business leaders in the OC and beyond. Hosted by Ric Franzi, business partner at Renaissance Executive Forums Orange County. Learn more about Ric at www.ricfranzi.com. Catch up on past Critical Mass Business Talk Show interviews...

Sherri Snelling is a corporate gerontologist, author and CEO of the Caregiving Club, a consulting and content creation company she founded in Orange County, California in 2010. Sherri brings her expertise in biopsychosocial lifestyle across the life course to corporate wellness programs and well home design. Her clients include employers, start-up age-tech companies, home builders, designers and real estate developers and senior living communities. Sherri has been a TV producer and is currently the “Aging in America” commentator for Newsmax Media, Inc. TV, podcast host of “Caregiving Club On Air” and also writes articles for PBS, Forbes, USA TODAY and Thrive Global. She is currently on the Health & Aging Advisory Group for Georgetown University and has participated on caregiving task forces for The White House, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the National Institute on Aging (NIA) and the Alzheimer's Association®. Sherri earned her B.A. in jo

Richard Medcalf is the founder of Xquadrant, and host of The Impact Multiplier CEO podcast, and describes himself as "what you get if you were to put a McKinsey consultant, a slightly unorthodox pastor and Freddie Mercury into a blender." Richard is an executive coach & leadership consultant to exceptional founders & CEOs and their leadership teams. His clients are elite performers who've already achieved incredible things, and still have the ambition to 10x their impact and influence and achieve something that seems impossible right now. That can involve 1:1 coaching, taking the leadership team to its next level, or scaling high-performance culture throughout the business. After a Masters's Degree at Oxford University, where he came top in his year, Richard started his career in a premier strategy consultancy where he rose to become the youngest-ever Partner. He then spent 11 years at tech giant Cisco, firstly elevating Cisco’s relevance in the C-suite of its Fortune 100 customers before being sele

Matt Armand is the Founder of Align Executive Search, an executive staffing and recruiting firm based in Orange County, CA. Align Executive Search helps clients find and employ top talent by sourcing currently-employed executives. The firm focuses on both perm and temp staffing for the medical, accounting, finance, engineering, technology and manufacturing industries. Matt has a twenty-year history in the search and placement arena. Matt has multiple business ventures that he is a part of including sporting equipment, food, health, wellness and training services, and he is celebrating eight years in business with current team of twenty account executives at Align Executive Search. An avid reader of self-help, spiritual, business, relationship-oriented material, Matt enjoys time with his family including his wife who is also an entrepreneur in multiple business verticals and his two lovely daughters. They are active in outdoors events including camping, hiking, dirt biking, gardening, skateboarding and bike

Meymuna Hussein-Cattan is a global executive leader, a culturally conscious motivational speaker, and an award-winning grassroots community organizer. For the last decade, Meymuna has been the Founder & Director of The Tiyya Foundation, supporting families of immigrants, refugees, and displaced indigenous people to overcome obstacles and actively participate in society. Her work led record-breaking initiatives, including creating innovative programs and services that impact nearly 1,000 people a year. She has been helping to transform sentiments and narratives around refugees and immigrants in Southern California. Meymuna was awarded locally by the Office of Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, was a PBS/ KTLA Local Hero nominee, selected Woman of the Year by Congressman Adam Schiff, Outstanding Founder 2021 Award from National Philanthropy Day: by AFP Orange County, and at her social enterprise venture Flavors, Meymuna employs former-refugee chefs in Orange County and Los Angeles, where 40% percent of profi

Jeffrey Hayzlett is a primetime television host of C-Suite with Jeffrey Hayzlett and Executive Perspectives on C-Suite TV, and business podcast host of All Business with Jeffrey Hayzlett on C-Suite Radio. He is a global business celebrity, speaker, best-selling author, and Chairman and Founder of C-Suite Network, home of the world’s most trusted network of c-suite leaders, the company he founded in 2014. Hayzlett is most widely known for being a business trendsetter and successfully leading through the transition of one of the largest corporate turnarounds of a Fortune 100 company as the Chief Marketing Officer of Eastman Kodak. In that role, Hayzlett helped the company reinvent the brand, embrace the emergence of new media, was one of the first corporate officers on Twitter and an early ambassador of digital marketing. Following his departure from Kodak, Hayzlett made it his mission to help all types of businesses from Main Street to Wall Street transform themselves using the “adapt, change, or die” adag

Dr. Armia Abdo is a Doctor of Physical Therapy, entrepreneur, author, researcher, keynote speaker, teacher, and inventor. He is the CEO of DocPhyzio, a startup focused on combining tech and healthcare, providing the world’s first AI-powered posture assessment. In this edition of Critical Mass Business Talk Show, Dr. Abdo shares what sets DocPhyzio apart in the market, and his insights as CEO. -- Critical Mass Business Talk Show is Orange County, CA's longest-running business talk show, focused on offering value and insight to middle-market business leaders in the OC and beyond. Hosted by Ric Franzi, business partner at Renaissance Executive Forums Orange County. Learn more about Ric at www.ricfranzi.com. Catch up on past Critical Mass Business Talk Show interviews... YouTube: https://lnkd.in/gHKT2gmF LinkedIn: https://lnkd.in/g2PzRhjQ Podbean: https://lnkd.in/eWpNVRi Apple Podcasts: https://lnkd.in/gRd_863w Spotify: https://lnkd.in/gruexU6m #orangecountyca #mastermind #ceopeergroups #peergroups

Raad Ghantous is the Principal of Raad Ghantous & Associates / RG&A, a firm specializing in luxury hospitality, wellness centers, and medical & day spa developments. Ghantous is also V.P. of Design for industry go to Identity Hospitality that specializes in spa and wellness consulting helping clients create successful environments that are conducive to healing and wellbeing, sanctuaries to heal the body, mind, and spirit. Raad has over 25 years of experience in developing and integrating elegant and seamless designs/modifications to new and existing structures. With degrees in both business and design, an international upbringing, and instrumental experience by working with industry giants Hirsch Bedner & Associates (HB&A), and architectural icons Wimberly, Allison, Tong & Go (WAT&G) Ghantous is able to marry his creativity in design to his acumen to marketing and business in general into a unique holistic vertically integrated approach to defensible and sustainable branding an

Jon Stark is CEO and Director of Peratech Holdco Limited, a tactile-sensing technology solutions company, providing next-generation human-machine interfaces with its proprietary Quantum Tunnelling Composite® materials and embedded force-touch software.   Prior to Peratech, Stark was VP of Printed Electronics at MFLEX (NASDAQ: MFLX), where he successfully led multiple new-technology commercialization efforts in miniaturizing power conditioning for high-speed communications, shrinking LIDAR systems to 20% of size and 5% of cost, and commercializing a touch-display module in commercial computing that won numerous awards at the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES). During his tenure at MFLEX, Stark also held executive-level positions in and Corporate Strategy and Marketing, when MFLEX was awarded Deloitte’s Fast 50 Technology companies three out of four years.   Before MFLEX, Stark held interim executive and consultative roles in strategy, change management, innovation, and communications in a vari

Bruce Watanabe is the Founder & CEO of PowerBuy. PowerBuy is a one-stop Shopify app design to connect shoppers with all the best deals on necessary products and to provide merchants with free advertising. Using the power of social commerce and group buying, PowerBuy allows merchants to cut down on marketing spend by turning customers into micro-influencers. A serial entrepreneur, Bruce has co-founded and exited a number of technology and Internet ventures including PowerBuy, MassGenie, SIRE Mobile (SMS Solutions), and SETA International (Global Systems Integrator & Solution Provider). With over 20+ years of leadership experience ranging from start-ups to Fortune 10 companies, Bruce is proficient in start-ups, M&A, Corporate Strategy, Business Development, Sales, and Channel Development. In this edition of Critical Mass Business Talk Show, Bruce Watanabe joins host Ric Franzi to discuss his entrepreneurial ventures and leadership insights as the CEO of PowerBuy. -- Critical Mass Business Ta

Nithin Jilla is a passionate educator, social entrepreneur and philanthropist who champions building models and systems of social change that are sustainable and empower the next generation. Nithin began with his first efforts in philanthropy with his high school class – establishing a project to help raise funds to renovate educational facilities and provide students with scholarships in Kenya, to enhance the quality of education, one student and one school at a time. Nithin currently serves as the Executive Director of Dreams for Schools (DFS), an EdTech organization whose mission is to make STEAM approachable and empower students to become the critical thinkers, creative leaders and technologists of tomorrow. Nithin has also advised and helped run a few family foundations and their grant-making strategies over the years. He’s always thinking about how we can reinvent and take new approaches in philanthropy to be more equitable. Nithin is also the Co-Founder of Excelsior Creative – a creative web developm

Thuy Pham-Satrappe is the President and Founder of Lux Lucet Ventures Corporation, a real estate investing firm.  In June 2019, Thuy started investing out of state in Indiana the pockets of her time, and has since grown her rental real estate portfolio to over $2M with 26 properties.   In February 2020, Thuy decided to quit her corporate job to spend more time with her 2 young children and pursue her passion and vision for real estate investing. Her vision is to create passive income for her family and her money partners, because she believes a rising tide raises all ships!  In this edition of Critical Mass Business Talk Show, Thuy Pham-Satrappe joins host Ric Franzi to share her entrepreneurial journey, and leadership insights as the Founder of Lux Lucet Ventures Corporation. -- Critical Mass Business Talk Show is Orange County, CA's longest-running business talk show, focused on offering value and insight to middle-market business leaders in the OC and beyond. Hosted by Ric Franzi, business partner at R

Lisa Nguyen is the Founder & CEO of Smart Bean Inc., a team of people with diverse entrepreneurial backgrounds that share one common goal: to revolutionize the relationship between small business entrepreneurs and their numbers through innovative and affordable products and services. Over the last 20 years, Lisa Nguyen has worked for small businesses, invested in small businesses, and owned her own small business, and has tremendous respect and empathy for small business entrepreneurs as a result, as it takes intelligence, resilience, tremendous self-awareness and guts to start and build a viable business. Lisa is realizing her dream with Smart Bean Inc., as her team develops products and services that will make intrepid entrepreneurs smile more, love more, and achieve more from life. SmartBean® uses technology to streamline the bookkeeping process, making it more efficient and therefore more affordable. In this edition of Critical Mass Business Talk Show, Lisa Nguyen joins host Ric Franzi to discus

Pembe Candaner is the Co-Founder & President of JobzMall. JobzMall is the new way of finding jobs and exploring organizations, founded with the belief that humans are so much more than a resume, and companies are so much more than a job post. JobzMall Inc. strives to make the job finding process enjoyable, engaging and accessible to everyone. Prior to her work at JobzMall Inc., Pembe Candaner served as the CEO of Adecco SA Turkey, General Manager of Lee Hecht Harrison, and CEO of Kariyer.net, the largest employment portal of Turkey. She is a member of TUSIAD (Turkish Industry and Business Association), the top business association of Turkey and Society for Human Resource Management.  As a vocal activist of women rights, Candaner hosted her TV show at national ‘Artı Bir TV’ channel about Woman Leaders and Entrepreneurs. She has also lectured in Bogazici University (Bosphorus University) and UCI (University of California. Irvine) on Development of Woman Leaders, Talent Management, Protocol and Etiquette a

Rodney Brenneman is a seasoned veteran in the medical device space. He has been CEO, board member, advisor and consultant to many early-stage medical technology companies. He is a mechanical engineer by training, with over 30 years of experience in medical device development, mostly in early-stage start-up companies. His experience spans many specialties including vascular, general surgery, interventional cardiology, pulmonology, emergency medicine, ENT, GI, urology and orthopedics. Rodney is currently the CEO of PhageTech and prior to that, founded and lead ROX Medical for 14 years, raising $90M in venture funding. Rodney counts innovative problem solving as one of his core talents and is a named inventor on over 130 patents. Rodney has worked closely with all aspects of medical device development including fundraising, board management, R&D, quality, manufacturing, finance, regulatory, clinical, and physician training. Rodney most enjoys the leadership of small efficient teams solving important medical