Dr. Raymond Choi thought he wanted to become a computer programmer as a teen, but after shadowing a doctor on his rounds, he decided to go to medical school. But one path was not enough. He co-founded Valley Capital while completing his medical residency. Dr. Choi shares how his experience as an emergency room doctor makes him a better fund manager. If you've not already heard episode 4, we suggest you go back into our archives meet Choi's co-founding partner Steve O'Hara.

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Episode 28: Dr. Raymond Choi, Co-Founder and General Partner, Valley Capital Partners

Raman Abrol, General Manager at Amdocs Media, shares with host Sudhir Ispahani how he learned the importance of saying "yes" when opportunities were presented, even if it meant working in a war zone. His early lessons came from watching his father build his business and his mother managing a large family. Raman and his team work with major studios, broadcasters, networks and service providers to build and deliver innovative technology and content solutions.

Episode 27: Raman Abrol, General Manager at Amdocs Media

John Komeiji, the president and general manager of Hawaiian Telcom, shares how being a C student taught him important lessons for success. Komeiji's tells Cracking the Code host Suhdir Ispahani how getting hit on the head with a hammer by another kindergarten student was a wake up call that helped shaped his personality. He learned how to get out of trouble and how to bounce back from failure, important skills for cracking the code..

Episode 26: John Komeiji, the president and general manager of Hawaiian Telcom

Chantal Rickards started life in a middle class family in rural England and running class plays in school. After college, she took a job selling magazine ads. This led to a job producing television shows with legendary British broadcast David Frost. This eventually brought Rickards to Los Angeles, where she is the chief executive of BAFTA -- the British Academy of Film and TV Arts in Los Angeles. She shares a remarkable story of hard work and professional success with Sudhir Ispahani in this episode of Cracking the Code.

Episode 25: TV producer Chantal Rickards, chief executive of the British Academy of Film and TV Arts in Los Angeles

Tom Walsh, who is now operations director for AID Ltd London, worked with CTC host Sudhir Ispahani at Liberty Global. Walsh shares how growing up in an Irish farming village prepared him to be a business leader. He has important lessons to tell about time management.

Episode 24: AIS Ltd Operations Director & Former Liberty Global Vice President Tom Walsh

 Google and Alphabet executive adviser Marwan Fawaz grew up amid Lebanon's civil war where his father was a rare example -- an honest cop. Fawaz first learned management skills from his mother, who had to make sure her 10 children were fed and safe. Fawaz started his career as an engineer with Times Mirror Cable, Continental Cablevision and MediaOne. Then as CTO for Charter Communications, and Adelphia Communications, executive vice president of Motorola Mobility and CEO of Motorola Home. The Former NEST CEO learned management shares the remarkable story of his successful career with Sudhir Ispahani.

Episode 23: Google and Alphabet executive adviser Marwan Fawaz

Ekta Dang went where she was told girls don't go. She left her native India for opportunities in other countries, which was something normal for men, but not young ladies.  CEO & Founder of U First Capital shares with host Sudhir Ispahani her analogy of flying her career kite and how she soon learned that other kites were trying to make her crash. She now uses her experience and success to help younger women launch their career kites. 

Episode 22: Ekta Dang CEO & Founder, U First Capital

Gerald Glennon is the general manager of The Kahala Hotel & Resort and holds a bachelor’s degree in hotel administration from the University of Denver and a bachelor’s degree in business administration with a marketing emphasis from the University of Northern Colorado. He is a board member of the Hawaii Tourism and Lodging Association, SKAL Hawaii and the Hawaii Culinary Education Foundation. Glennon also previously served as an executive board member of the Hawaii Visitors & Convention Bureau and was a past chairman of the Oahu Visitors Bureau.In this episode, Gerald recalls how his moral upbringing in the Southern United States fostered a curiosity of people and how this genuine interest in humankind led him into a prolific career in the hotel industry. Gerald shares with Sudhir how he has learned to move on from past mistakes and grow as a leader because of that approach.

Episode 21: Gerald Glennon - General Manager, Kahala Hotel and Resort

President, Technology, Product, Xperience, Comcast Cable Tony Werner credits growing up poor on a farm with teaching him invention skills. While Werner has been a leader in innovative thinking for decades, he is still on the frontlines of technology and can see into the future because he's helping to create it. In this discussion with Sudhir Ispahani, Werner shares a must-do list for business leaders and his predictions that the pace of innovation is getting even faster than in the past.

Episode 20: Tony Werner, President, Technology, Product, Xperience, Comcast Cable

Film producer and author Kathy Eldon tells how traveling the world with her parents gave her a global view, but it was the death of her son, Eldon's life changed when her son died while working as a journalist in war torn Somalia. Inspired by her son Dan, Eldon founded a film production company to tell important stories. 

Episode 19: Kathy Eldon, Producer, Author and Founder and Chairman of Creative Visions and Creative Visions Productions

Broadband and Internet infrastructure pioneer Lorenz Glatz shares the inspiration of how the first time he connected to a California computer from Austria he realized that was his future. Glatz worked with Cracking the Code his Sudhir Ispahani to create Liberty Global in Europe. He later became CTO of Kabel Deutschland. Now an advisor & investor, Glatz looks for innovation relating to the economy going digital. 

Episode 18: Lorenz Glatz, Technology Executive & Advisor

Nikesh Kotecha, Vice President, Informatics at Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy, studied biomedical engineering at Boston University and then earned a PhD in biomedical informatics from Stanford University. Kotecha leads interdisciplinary teams to build analytic applications to address problems in healthcare. As an adjunct faculty at Stanford's Systems and Computational Immunology Program, Kotecha is involved in training the next generation of scientists who will use these methods and analytics to address problems well into the future.

Episode 17: Nikesh Kotecha, Vice President, Informatics at Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy

Mike LaJoie, founding partner of LMT & Associates, was a pioneer and innovator who played an important role in creating the technology and infrastructure that is now at the core of so much in our daily lives. In this episode, Lajoie shares his story with Sudhir Ispsihani about how his start in the manufacturing industry building machine for making baseball bats led him to digital technology. This path led him to Time Warner Cable, where he rose to the position of chief technology officer at a time the media giant was developing new ways of delivering content to households. LaJoie is also the founder and

Episode 16: Mike LaJoie, Founding Partner LMT & Associates & former CTO of Time Warner Cable

J.T. McCormick, president and CEO of the innovative publishing company Scribe, shares the story of his remarkable rise from poverty as a child to an entreprenuer and business leader. McCormick is open about his struggles so that he can teach people lessons learned from his own mistakes. His advice is that you can't change the past, so look forward to what you can control -- the next hour, next week. You can have an impact on your future.

Episode 15: J.T. McCormick, President & CEO of Scribe

Dr. Jan Uddenfeldt is known as the "father of mobile communications" because of his decades of research and invention of wireless technology, starting with Ericcson in 1978. Dr. Uddenfeldt was inducted into the American Wireless Hall of Fame and has received many prestigious awards for his contributions to the wireless industry. He now serves as senior advisor and board members to multi-billion dollar companies and to tech startups. Uddenfeldt shares with Sudhir Ispahani his strategy of being first in an industry.

Episode 14: Dr. Jan Uddenfeldt -- 'Father of Mobile Communications'

Cracking the Code Podcast with Sudhir Ispahani, is a podcast series that will bring proven pioneering thought leaders to discuss their views on disruptive technology, leadership, economic, ethical and market future trends and their thoughtful approaches to disruption in society while exploring their heart first philosophies in leadership. In addition to this podcast series, Sudhir has been working on several books starting with:  Values Based Leadership – A compendium of essays from Global Leaders, sharing their thoughts, values and leadership moments of learning.

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