FinTech and Banking. These two areas are representative of where Allan has built his career and where he will focus the remainder of his career. Allan is an accomplished banker and leader with a twenty year track record as a commercial banker and market executive in the commercial banking and specialty finance space. Allan is also former CEO and Co-Founder of PaidUp, a financial technology company designed to support youth sports clubs. Allan and his co-founders launched the startup in Austin, TX where they supported youth sports clubs across the domestic U.S. Applying what he has learned in FinTech and banking, Allan is now Chief Innovation Officer and Chief Technology Officer at an entrepreneurial bank called @encorebank.After earning his undergraduate marketing degree, Allan earned his MBA from Texas Tech University in 2000. In 2014, Allan also earned his Certified Private Wealth Advisor designation through the Investment Management Consultants Association ("IMCA") and the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business.Visit Encore Bank Here

On this week's episode of the Full Stack Leader, we're talking with Marek Mrazik, the Founder, and CEO of Allfred.ioMarek loves to improve things. This talent combined with an analytical mind and tech skills makes him an incredible entrepreneur who represents and owns several tech companies under the collective "Devin Band". Born, raised, and living in Devin he is the biggest local patriot in the band. He plays piano and is a hobby wood craftsman.During the conversation, Marek talks about his own background with creative agencies, the need for specialized and unique collaboration tools, and how he plans on implementing them in the future.

Yuval is a results-oriented CTO with a passion for transforming big, ambitious goals into reality through innovative technology. As the current CTO at SpaceNK, he is leading the charge in fueling technological innovation within the luxury beauty retail space.At Holland & Barrett, Yuval oversaw the complete transformation of their ecommerce technology and business operations, building a team of top-tier engineers and developing a state-of-the-art ecommerce platform that achieved double and triple-digit KPI improvements.During his time at Sainsbury's Argos, he successfully coordinated over 60 teams to deliver a fundamentally new business and program and managed the launch of digitally-ordered in-store product care. Leveraging machine-learning and data-driven analytics, and enabled microservice-enabled functionality through to customer-facing digital innovation.In addition, he managed Sainsbury's clothing platform, achieving a phenomenal increase in delivery throughput and significant year-over-year sales growth.Yuval prides himself on realizing profitable, sustainable, and rapid strategic change using tech-leveraged principles focusing on corporations becoming customer-focused vs technology restricted.

On this episode of the Full Stack Leader, we're talking with Lloyd Fuentes of the LA Mission. Lloyd has been in the information technology industry for around 10 years. His skills have been obtained through job experience and classroom settings. Lloyd has successfully led projects to bring enterprise companies to industry standards. His passion has always been the driving point for his work ethic.  Lloyd has a distinct passion for the un-housed here in Los Angeles and with his help, the LA Mission is doing incredible things for our community Check out  and donate to the LA Mission Here

On this episode of the Full Stack Leader, we're talking with Freddie Kimmel a renowned wellness & podcast specialist.Freddie is a Transformational Coach, host, and creator of the Beautifully Broken Podcast and part of the management team at AmpCoil. He has been featured in, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, “State of the Arts” on LA talk radio, and in Dance Magazine. He is also a proud survivor of metastatic cancer, Lyme, and mold.Freddie has a Bachelor’s of Fine Arts from SUNY Brockport and in conjunction with starting Freddiesetgo.com has performed all over the country in Broadway touring productions of Phantom of the Opera, Billy Elliot, and played the title role in the Broadway-bound Cagney the musical in New York CityGet Social with FreddieSetGo:Freddie's InstagramFreddie's FacebookFreddie's YoutubeThe Beautifully Broken PodcastWe hope you enjoy the episode. You can find even more Full Stack Leader episodes here: Full Stack Leader

Nour Khrais Founder and CEO of Maysalward and Chairman of Jordan Gaming Task Force with over 22 years of international experience in the top leading Online and Mobile Value Added Services companies. Before forming Maysalward, he worked in a multicultural environment between VAS companies in Jordan, UAE, Egypt, Qatar, and France. Under a Glocalized vision, in Nov 2003, KHRAIS Launched the first Mobile Game Development operation in the Middle East Region, offering unique Casual games targeting the Middle East and Emerging Markets. Developed the First Arabic Mobile Game in 2004, his startup has created high-quality mobile games with a hundred thousand daily active users enjoying the Free to Play games it's offering.KHRAIS a certified Scrum Master and holds a Master Degree in International Business, Global Marketing and Internationalization, Diploma in Mobile Telecommunication, and Bsc of Agriculture Engineering. His passion for games and mobile entertainment enforced with a strong business vision and management in mobile value-added services guarantee the success and uniqueness of product and services production.

Angelos is an expert on technology-based economic development, business accelerator programs, and Angel Investing. He specializes in strategic business planning and development, corporate site selection, incentives negotiation, economic research and analysis, public policy, litigation support, marketing and branding, public-private partnerships, and entrepreneurial accelerator programs. Angelos’ comments and insights are regularly sought by the national and international media.

As the Founder & Principal UX Researcher of First Insights, Lon is focused on helping clients understand their customers, optimize user experience research efforts, and answer critical product development or digital strategy questions. Based in South Florida with roots in NYC and Chicago, he is leading a team that excels at qualitative research, usability testing, ethnographic studies, surveys, and UX consulting projects. With expertise in the pharma, packaged goods, banking, insurance, travel, retail, publishing, eCommerce, healthcare, and technology industries, Lon has moderated one-on-one interviews and focus groups using a wide variety of approaches.An active member of the digital transformation community, he currently serves as a local leader of IxDA Chicago planning monthly events. Some of his thoughts about the industry have been published on Medium.com, MarketingProfs.com, and in Quirk’s Market Research Magazine. Lon has also taught at the General Assembly, trained internal teams, and mentored at SXSW conferences.

We're joined this week by Abhimanyu Saxena, the co-founder of Scaler! Abhimanyu led a high-velocity team that designed NYC-based retail marketplace Fab.com’s entire front end before joining Scaler as a co-founder. As a seasoned entrepreneur, Abhimanyu co-founded his first enterprise Daksh Home Automation System in his engineering days. He worked on developing a cost-effective and green AI system to reduce electricity consumption by at least 15% per household.

Gabrielle Bufrem is a fractional CPO and Product Coach. She also runs a course on Building Impactful Products. Previously, she was the Head of Product at Little Otter Health - a mental health for kids startup that raised over 22M. Gabrielle has trained hundreds of Product Managers from startups to Fortune 500 companies for over four years through Mind the Product. She is a speaker in conferences around the world where she talks about product leadership, decision-making, and building impactful products.Check out Gabrielle's website here: https://www.gabriellebufrem.com/

Alex Ramirez is the CEO at t2ó USA. He joined the company 13 years ago.He is a bilingual business leader with 25+ years of work experience in both agency and advertiser roles, with expertise as corporate executive, marketing strategy (digital media & traditional media), leadership, top-class business development, new account pitches, presentations and high-end project management both tech and media related.He is a strong and effective leader, active learner, self-motivated, highly analytical problem-solver, a strong negotiator, an efficiency-oriented business professional.Alex's skill-set is unique as he is highly competitive in the market, self-taught in various complex technology platforms and very comfortable in the strategic, quantitative and qualitative fronts, with previous roles in both marketing, advertising and ecommerce.Born in Mexico, lived for many years in Madrid, Spain. And he currently lives in Houston, Texas. He has a Bachelor’s degree in Marketing from Universidad Anáhuac México Norte. A Bachelor’s Degree in General Sales, Merchandising and Related Marketing Operations from CESMA Business School. And a Master’s degree in Communication and Media Studies with CUM LAUDE Award for best final project.

Henry Vasquez is a Director of Product Management at Cornerstone, a global leader in talent management software. He leads teams responsible for Cornerstone's Skills and AI products, and he oversaw two of Cornerstone's M&A deals and integrations.Henry brings a deep understanding of enterprise talent management, knowledge management, and productivity software. Prior to joining Cornerstone, he worked at SpaceX as the product manager for document and knowledge management. He is also a 3-time entrepreneur, including his most recent startup, Tribe, which was acquired in 2017.

A passionate product designer and business executive, Kevin Bailey helps guide CEOs, start-ups, and established companies through the maze of hardware product development. Spending over 35 years in the detailed designing of hardware products, Kevin is now an expert at assessing risk and opportunity when making the hundreds of decisions required to move from a vision to a physical product that customers find useful and businesses can manufacture.

Ward is a seasoned C-suite executive with over 6 years of leading fully remotely while building technology organizations from the ground up for companies 150 to 650 employees in size and 50M to 125M revenue across the Americas and Europe. Ward brings a unique balance of deep technical expertise, along with enlightened leadership, that delivers results that matter (value to customers and revenue to the business). He accomplishes this by empowering teams with strong growth and learning mindsets.As discussed in this podcast, here are links to many of the topics discussed.You can watch videos from Ward's most recent session on his Leading the RealSelf Way series at https://bit.ly/leading-with-heartAdditionally, Forbes featured Ward in an article on his experience implementing Celebration of Errors at RealSelf which can be found at https://www.forbes.com/sites/nelldebevoise/2021/05/29/celebrating-errors-creates-psychological-safety-in-the-workplaceOn the topic of remote-first leadership, Ward has appeared in GeekWire and authored his own articles spanning practical steps toward effective leadership to creating culture from afar.1. https://www.geekwire.com/2020/strategies-remote-work-success-set-clear-start-end-times-check-people-patience/2. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/leading-remotely-creating-culture-from-afar-ward-vuillemot/3. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/working-remotely-lessons-from-5-years-trenches-ward-vuillemot/Finally, you can learn more about Ward, and reach him directly at https://wardvuillemot.com

Josh Rogers is the Chief Executive Officer of Precisely, the global leader in data integrity, with 12,000 customers in more than 100 countries, including 99 of the Fortune 100. As CEO, Josh leads Precisely’s global team of 2,400 employees as they build and deliver software and data products that provide accuracy, consistency, and context to power confident business decisions.

Haley is the founder and CEO or Iris Design Collaborative, a UI/UX consultant agency, where they help businesses design their apps, websites and software platforms. She's worked with all types of businesses from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies to find the best user experience solutions for their customers problems.

Ryan Lee is the Founder & CEO of Nautical Commerce, the multi-vendor marketplace platform. Ryan has an extensive background in payments, logistics, and commerce. He launched Apple Pay internationally, was an exec at Visa, and lead product at a fintech before founding Nautical. Ryan is skilled at developing and driving a full-stack cloud technology vision and strategy to increase revenues, grow the client base, and achieve efficiencies in a collaborative results-oriented way. His company, Nautical, enables companies to do just that using its multi-vendor marketplace technology.

Nelly is on a mission to help entrepreneurs minimize technology mistakes. She teaches the roadmap to successfully manage technology teams and projects like a CTO...WITHOUT being technical or learning how to code. She's a speaker and presenter for many organizations and major industries events including: Women’s Enterprise Center, NY Entrepreneurs Business Network, Small Business Summit, BlogHer, Social Media Jungle, Women 2.0, BlogWorld, and has been featured in INC Magazine, NBC Today Show, Fast Company Magazine, NewsDay.com, O’Reilly, SmartMoney, SmallBiz, TechRepublic, Women’s Radio.

Kevin Horek is a Chief Design Officer, UX/UI prototyper, TV/Radio Host, and a published author by Packt Publishing on Zurb's responsive framework, Foundation 5. He studied web development and design at universities across North America, including UCLA and the University of Alberta. His Radio/TV/Podcast, Building The Future, was started to get over a fear of public speaking. Kevin continues to push himself out of my comfort zone by blogging for AlphaGamma, TechZulu, and SOCAP. He also recently emceed SUP-X - The Start-Up Expo and had a live fireside chat on stage with the keynote speaker.For over 26 years, Kevin has been working on web and mobile apps for some of the world’s most notable and well-respected organizations. Among them are BMW, Best Buy, Apple, Adobe, Sprint, Eastlink, TD Canada Trust, Qantas Airlines, Emirates Airlines, CB Richard Ellis, Microsoft, The Home Depot, and CalTech

Cam Kashani is a four-time Award-Nominated Intuitive Coach and Inspirational Speaker focused on Divine Feminine Embodiment, leading women to their true, authentic, core power. She hosts a popular podcast called “The Cam Kashani Show”, focused on ‘Redefining Beauty, Body, and Self’, has worked with 5000+ people, and was named one of the most "Inspirational Women" by Inc. Magazine, and has been featured in Forbes, Entrepreneur, LA Magazine, The Los Angeles Times, Delta SKY Magazine and more. She is also a single mom of twin boys. She is a serial entrepreneur, has built four companies, and has been an expert speaker with the US State Department in a program proven to ward off extremism by empowering the women and youth overseas. Previously, she cofounded the first coworking space in Los Angeles for technology startups and entrepreneurs in 2010, Coloft. During her four years there, Coloft had over 1800 alumni, including Uber LA, Instacart, Fullscreen and others. Earning her the title the “Godmother of Silicon Beach”.Cam has her MBA In Entrepreneurship and Marketing, in addition to a degree in Advanced Spiritual Psychology and her Doctorate in Spiritual Studies. Cam has a deeply rooted passion for working specifically with women as she believes that when women embrace their deeply rooted power, we can collectively shift the energy, and ultimately create a more harmonious environment for us all.