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PROXY COUNTDOWN 2025 Proxy Season Review: Unelected directors, non profit interlocks, illogical voting, and SHP kabuki theaterThis is Proxy Countdown. Welcome to the big show for the week of July 7, 2025 alongside my tag team partner Matt Moscardi. I'm Damion Rallis. On today’s countdown, our wrapup of the 2025 proxy season:Our top theories, including:The Fortune 500’s quiet rejection of having a minimum of three women on the boardAnd companies who sidestep the alternative democracy by appointing directors less than a month after their annual shareholders meetingHighlights from the proxy cage match season, including:Shareholders suddenly paying attention when an activist come...

2025-07-101h 03

A Good Mind To The Throwing of a Lead Cover over the Whole Thing: Invisible Injury Part 6Will Mark and Assunta get any answers from the Doctors about what happened to Mark? And what's happening now, 15 years later?."The Throwing of a Lead Cover over the Whole Thing" is the sixth and final episode in our series: Invisible Injury - a dissection of one man's brain injury story.Artwork Credit: isarisariver https://www.flickr.com/photos/lescientist/8430282209, under Creative Commons licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/legalcodeDetailed Music Credits"Ambient Guitar" by SF Music, "Dam Audio 01" by Damian Mason, "Waking Up" by Adi Goldstein, "New PJH" by Philip...

2025-03-1546 min

A Good Mind To A Cork in the Ocean: Invisible Injury Part 4Mark and Assunta finally get some clarity about the nature of Mark's brain injury and treatment. But that doesn't make it much easier to handle.A Cork in the Ocean is the fourth episode in our series: Invisible Injury - a dissection of one man's brain injury story.Artwork Credit: isarisariver https://www.flickr.com/photos/lescientist/8430282209, under Creative Commons licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/legalcodeAd: To check out Our Listener podcast;https://linktr.ee/your.listener.coachingMusic Credits:"Clock and the Piano" by Orchestralis, "...

2024-09-3021 min

A Good Mind To An Extra Drop: Invisible Injury Part 3Mark gets some apologies, of sorts, but makes no real progress amidst more confusing information about what has happened to him after his surgery.An Extra Drop is the third episode in our series: Invisible Injury - a dissection of one man's brain injury story.Artwork Credit: isarisariver https://www.flickr.com/photos/lescientist/8430282209, under Creative Commons licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/legalcodeMusic Credits:"New Direction," "Pale Rider," "Isolated" nd "Piece for Disaffected Piano 2" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/"...

2024-06-0529 min

A Good Mind To The Busses are Humming: Invisible Injury Part 2Mark's condition remains unexplained and the family tries to cope."The Busses are Humming" is the second episode in our series: Invisible Injury.This episode contains some swearing. If you prefer a beeper version click here: Beeped versionArtwork Credit: isarisariver https://www.flickr.com/photos/lescientist/8430282209, under Creative Commons licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/legalcodeMusic Credits:"Pale Rider" and "Lightless Dawn" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/"Intro" and "Bleaky" by Phil Okerstrom"Ahab#01" and "Put u...

2024-04-2624 min

A Good Mind To Sunspot: Invisible Injury Part 1Mark had a sun spot, just a small discolouration on his nose. He went into hospital to have it removed. And he came out of the surgery with something much more serious.Sun Spot is the first episode in our series: Invisible Injury - a dissection of one man's brain injury story.Artwork Credit: isarisariver https://www.flickr.com/photos/lescientist/8430282209, under Creative Commons licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/legalcodeMusic Credits:White Lotus: Kevin MacLeod by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

2024-03-2618 min

Ventured Growth with Hercules Capital #14 – The Impending Revolution of the Trucking Industry | Mark OkerstromShare your thoughts with us!Trucking is one of the largest industries in the United States with roughly $800 billion spent annually on trucking services. Despite the high demand for services, 35% of all miles driven by trucking companies are driven empty due to inefficient coordination systems within the industry.Mark Okerstrom, President and Chief Operating Officer of Convoy, the nation’s leading digital freight network, believes the solution to empty freight lies at the intersection of logistics and technology. Convoy is working to save money for shippers, increase earnings for carriers and drivers, and eliminate carbon wa...

2022-06-2324 min

How I Got Here - Inside stories behind innovation and startups in travel 70. Jeremy Gall of FlipKeyThere are not many startups that manage to sign a partnership agreement with a big brand before they even launch.And there are perhaps even fewer new businesses that get details written into the same deal that include how an exit via an acquisition might look.But that's what happened to Boston, U.S.-based FlipKey, when it secured a partnership with Tripadvisor to help get the vacation rental marketplace off the ground in 2007.This wasn't because it was the wild west of private accommodation at the time (although for many other reasons...

2021-06-2539 min

Datapääoma Datan monetisointi - Kiinnostaako arvontuotto ketään?01:05 Suomesta kestävän datajalostuksen huippumaa? 01:25 Hyvästi datan määrä, tervetuloa datan arvo 01:45 Never stop the madness ja kohta vedetään taas: data on uusi öljy... 02:08 OP näyttää mallia muille, datapioneerit hommissa: tietotilinpäätös on kova juttu 02:35 Tietotilinpäätös tekee datan läpinäkyväksi 03:25 John D. Rockefeller mainittu, ollaan siellä öljyntuotannon ja -jalostuksen ytimessä. 04:16 Missä kohtaa unohdetaan ajattelussa, että ATK-järjestelmän tietokannasta löytyvä bitti, data, olisi samantien jotenkin valmis kaupan hyllylle? 05:01 Datatoimitusketjut ovat läsnä myös datan monetisoinnissa: data-as-product all over again 05:35 Kuka olisi valmis ostamaan dataasi...

2021-04-0546 min

GeekWire Amazon's ambitious health band; 4-day work week; Convoy hires ex-Expedia CEOHere’s what we’re talking about on the GeekWire Podcast this week. Amazon surprised everyone by unveiling a new health band, the Halo, this week. The device will not only track your steps but also measure your body fat and even analyze your voice to assess your degree of “energy and positivity." But will it protect your private health info from prying eyes? Seattle startup Volt has taken the pandemic-inspired work-from-home plan to a new level by going to a four-day work week. Are Volt employees as productive as they were when they worked five da...

2020-08-2924 min

Renta Emprendedores por Alex Diaz El ascenso y la caída de Mark Okerstrom como CEO de ExpediaEl viaje de Mark Okerstrom como CEO de la compañía de viajes Expedia Group ha terminado después de solo dos años en un movimiento repentino."No creemos que los inversores estén demasiado decepcionados con un cambio en la alta dirección", dijo Michael Olson, analista de investigación senior de Piper Jaffray en una nota a los inversores el miércoles. De hecho, los precios de las acciones de Expedia Group subieron aproximadamente un 6 por ciento, a $ 106 por acción, en el comercio del mediodía del miércoles.El miércoles, Barr...

2019-12-1049 min

Renta Emprendedores por Alex Diaz El Costo de Los anuncios de Google golpea a Airbnb, Booking, Expedia y TripadvisorLos movimientos de Google para ocupar el primer lugar en sus resultados de búsqueda con más y más publicidad están afectando a la industria de viajes en línea, uno de los principales clientes de la compañía.Google domina el mercado de búsqueda en línea, con al menos tres cuartos del mercado. Las personas usan el motor de búsqueda para buscar viajes, por lo que durante al menos una década, los agentes de viajes en línea han refinado sus sitios web con contenido confiable y herramientas de reserva fáci...

2019-12-0322 min

Travel Hero Podcast Deep Dive: Inside Expedia | Mark Okerstrom | Expedia Group"What’s the most dreaded question in an earnings call, Mark Okerstrom?" – this is how Philip Wolf starts the conversation at this years ITB Berlin Convention and it only gets even more honest from here. Canadian Mark Okerstrom, CEO of the Expedia Group, shares insights into one of the world's leading travel companies. The CEO reveals their efforts in putting the "A" back in "OTA", what the next 20 years of travel are all about and what he truly thinks about industry competitors like booking.com

2019-04-1843 min

AWS re:Invent 2017 Keynote: Andy JassyAndy Jassy, CEO of Amazon Web Services, delivers his AWS re:Invent 2017 keynote, featuring the latest news and announcements, including the launches of Amazon Elastic Containers for Kubernetes (EKS), AWS Fargate, Aurora Multi-Master, Aurora Serverless, DynamoDB Global Tables, Amazon Neptune, S3 Select, Amazon Sagemaker, AWS DeepLens, Amazon Rekognition Video, Amazon Kinesis Video Streams, Amazon Transcribe, Amazon Translate, Amazon Comprehend, AWS IoT 1-Click, AWS IoT Device Management, AWS IoT Device Defender, AWS IoT Analytics, Amazon FreeRTOS, and Greengrass ML Inference. Guest speakers include Dr. Matt Wood, of AWS; Roy Joseph, of Goldman Sachs; Mark Okerstrom, of Expedia; and Michelle McKenna-Doyle, of...

2017-12-0100 min

The Skift Travel Podcast What to Expect From the New ExpediaAnyone who follows travel knows that Expedia has been making a lot of news lately. Now-former CEO Dara Khosrowshahi left to take the top job at Uber, and Expedia promptly promoted its CFO Mark Okerstrom to the chief executive position. At Skift, we've been all over this story since the news broke late one recent Sunday night, so we put together a team to do a newsy conference call in early September about Dara’s legacy, his replacement, Expedia’s financial performance, and the opportunities and challenges ahead. We recorded that call, which is featured in t...

2017-09-1438 min

Music For Life Music For Life Episode 85 - Ensemble Concerts, Mark Applebaum, Chamber Players, Baladino In this week's episode of Music For Life... Band director Craig Paré and jazz director Steve Snyder come by to tell us about the programs for their ensembles' upcoming concerts... Mark Applebaum Hannah talks to percussion student Zach Jacobs about an upcoming percussion performance featuring guest composer Mark Applebaum... cellist Eric Edberg and composer Scott Perkins give us a preview of the DePauw Chamber Players' concert this week... and looking forward to our final Green Guest Artists concert, Anna Gatdula chats with Elleka Okerstrom about a 21CM collaboration between our e...

2015-04-1700 min