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Shape the SystemMaude Manoukian - Forager ProjectAbout the Guest
Maude Manoukian is the Chief Community Officer at Forager Project, a US-based company redefining dairy through plant-based innovation. With a background spanning Odwalla and Whole Foods Market, Maude brings deep experience in natural foods, supply chains, and conscious consumerism. Her long-standing collaboration with Forager Project founder Stephen Williamson has shaped a shared philosophy grounded in sustainability, community engagement, and continuous improvement. At Forager Project, she leads both community programs and the human-centric culture that drives the company’s mission.
Episode Summary
In this episode of Shape the System, host Vincent Turner sits down with Maude Manoukian to ex...
2025-12-221h 00
Shape the SystemTom Williams - Number8About the Guest
Tom Williams is the Founder and CEO of Number8 Bio, an Australian deep-tech company developing a novel way to cut methane emissions from cattle and sheep while improving livestock productivity. With a background as a senior lecturer and academic microbiologist at Macquarie University, Tom previously led a 17-person research team specialising in synthetic biology, genome engineering and industrial yeast systems. Growing up in New Zealand’s Waikato dairy region shaped his early understanding of methane’s environmental challenge, and his scientific expertise positioned him uniquely to tackle it. Today, he’s applying biotechnology, high-throughput screening and animal-scale trials...
2025-11-2446 min
Shape the SystemChris Hull - OtusAbout the GuestChris Hull is the Co-founder of Otus, an education platform built to help schools and teachers understand students more holistically. A former seventh-grade social studies teacher, Chris brings classroom credibility and a deep empathy for the realities of teaching at scale. His career shift was driven by a simple but stubborn problem: with 150 students a year, how can a teacher truly know each child and act on that knowledge? Otus is his answer—uniting data, context and tools to make teaching more effective and sustainable.Episode SummaryIn this episode of...
2025-09-0835 min
Shape the SystemDejan Nenov - PanatonAbout the Guest(s):Dejan Nenov is a seasoned technology entrepreneur and software engineer with roots in Sofia, Bulgaria. Having moved to the United States in 1984 and with a background in electrical engineering and computer science, Dejan dove into the startup culture of San Francisco in the early '90s. His entrepreneurial spirit has seen him involved in multiple startups, with notable work experience in Australia with Solution 6 and a continuous engagement with healthcare technology projects. Dejan is currently a co-founder and investor in a healthcare startup, emphasizing the importance of integration in the healthcare industry.
2024-06-1053 min
Shape the SystemMarc Champagne - Invested PodcastIn Episode 45 we speak with Marc Champagne of the INvested Podcast, Behind the Human and author of Personal Socrates.A new format of mini-interview we are testing where we find interesting people who are adjacent to our core founder / venture interview formatMarc is also working with KPMG High Growth Ventures on a mini-series at the intersection of founder performance (and stress) and the investors that back them so we took the. opportunity to talk about the challenges and stress of running early stage companies, the impact of these stressors on the humans and the...
2022-10-1719 min
Shape the SystemCamille Socquet-Clerc; CEO of Bloom InvestingAt the intersection of finance and sustainability, you will find Bloom Investing.The Bloom Impact Fund helps to drive the adoption of investment in the clean energy sector.Today we chat with Blooms co-founder Camille Socquet-Clerc about empowering people to understand the impact of investing sustainably.If you want to learn more about our energy systems, the shift we need to meet climate change forecasts head on, and the scale we need to adopt new, clean technologies to see real impact, this is the episode for you. Follow Bloom I...
2022-10-0348 min