Wonder Women in Business Ally, Malur Narayan

Malur Narayan

Co-Founder of Board Seat Meet

Malur Narayan is a proven technology business leader having distinguished himself through his broad business experience in software, telecom, networking and IT products and services.

Malur is also actively involved with several startups as an advisor, investor, and a mentor – specifically as co-founder of BoardSeatMeet, an online platform for diversity in Boards, and with Webware.io, a toolkit to help businesses go online.

He has over 28 years of industry experience having worked in all five continents. He has held a broad range of senior management roles at Nortel and Tata ranging from sales, business development, product management & marketing, and product development/engineering. 

Malur was in a senior leadership role, reporting to the CEO of TCS, to bring TCS's technology solutions to benefit the Tata group companies — specifically digital transformation — including a Big Data Customer insight program. 

Malur pioneered self-managed teams in software development in the early 90s. His research in Reverse Engineering, Inverse resolution and Induction led to the introduction of Adaptive learning algorithms in Machine Learning in 1991.

Malur holds an undergraduate degree in Computer Engineering, a Master’s degree in Computer Science from University of Western Ontario, Canada and a MBA from the University of Ottawa, Canada. He began his career as a software engineer at Nortel.

He has been a speaker at several International business forums including EMBA programs at Cornell University, Imperial College of London, IIM-Ahmedabad and Queens University in Canada. He is known for his positive attitude, people skills, great sense of humor, and is immensely passionate about trail hiking/running, creating music, gardening and writing. He is actively involved in charitable activities for mental health care and awareness.

His story on building relationships and personal brand has recently been featured in a book titled “Get your Next Promotion”, by Manbir Kaur

Malur is based in Austin, Texas.

Enjoy the podcast.

Malur Narayan

Contact Malur

Email:

malur@boardseatmeet.com

Malur Narayan on LinkedIn:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/malur

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Wonder Women in Business Ally, Domenic Cervoni

Domenic Cervoni, JD

Vice President | Senior Legal Counsel

Domenic Cervoni is Vice President | Senior Legal Counsel at HSBC North America Holdings, Inc. He primarily focuses on litigation for HSBC’s global banking and markets business and high risk US regulatory and investigatory matters. Prior to joining HSBC in the summer of 2013, Domenic was an associate in Mayer Brown’s NY office working on complex commercial and securities litigation as well as regulatory enforcement matters. Domenic is a public speaker on the topics of mental health, well-being, and leadership, and serves as an Advisor to a mental health tech company called AwareHealth.

He has presented a CLE webinar called Strive to Thrive: Why Healthy Lawyers are Good for Business, which is available through the Practicing Law Institute (PLI). Domenic also self-published a book called From Tragedy to Triumph: How My Wife's Courageous Battle With Rare Cancer Has Motivated Me to Live a Better Life Filled With Passion, Empathy, and Gratitude. It’s available on Amazon and all of the profits are donated to Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.

A student of Stoicism, Domenic is guided by this principle:

“Just that you do the right thing…nothing else matters.”

- Marcus Aurelius)

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From Tragedy to Triumph

When Domenic's wife, Barbie, was diagnosed with a rare cancer called thymoma for the second time in eight years at age 33, he was confused, overwhelmed, and scared. Their sons were ages 3 and 10 months, and he had just started a new position as an in-house lawyer for a large international bank. While he read tons of inspirational stories about how individuals triumphed over illness, Domenic had trouble finding resources that could help him cope with the sickness of a loved one and show him how to use that turmoil as motivation for making impactful life changes. In From Tragedy to Triumph, Domenic recounts Barbie's courageous battle with rare cancer as a young mother and how it has motivated him to live a better life, filled with passion, empathy, and gratitude. Hundreds of thousands of people are being diagnosed with cancer every year, and Domenic hopes that they and their loved ones can use this story as a source of inspiration and healing.

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Domenic’s Thought Leadership

CLE Presentation: Strive to Thrive: Why Healthy Lawyers are Good for Business

Webinar on Leadership called: Leadership During Crisis: The Power of Empathy and Self-awareness

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Enjoy the podcast.

Dominic Cervoni

Domenic C Cervoni
Vice President | Senior Legal Counsel
U.S. Litigation and Regulatory Enforcement | HSBC North America Holdings Inc.
452 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10018

Telephone: +1 212 525 1532

E-mail: domenic.c.cervoni@us.hsbc.com

Website: www.hsbc.com

Twitter: @DomCervoni

Wonder Women in Business Ally, Dr. Mario Paz

Dr. Mario Paz

Originally from El Salvador, Dr. Paz moved to southern California, with his wife Linda, shortly after graduation from the Eastman Dental Center at the University of Rochester, New York. He joined the orthodontic community and established a private practice in Beverly Hills followed by one in Marina del Rey. Believing that people prefer to minimize the orthodontic process, Dr. Paz specialized in Lingual braces, placed behind the teeth, where they don’t show. When Invisalign was introduced to SoCal he was one of the first orthodontists to jump on board. Dr. Paz is internationally known for practicing Lingual braces and is a Platinum Invisalign orthodontist.

Today Dr. Paz practices in a single office location, Marina del Rey, the community where he lives. On weekends one may find Dr. Paz fishing (his passion!), barbecuing Brazilian style meats or walking on the strand with his dog Rudy. Dr. Paz and Linda have two adult daughters. Each year Dr. Paz donates several Phase I orthopedic-orthodontic treatment cases to local schools to aid in their fund raising.

Education:

Dr. Paz graduated from the University of Rochester, Rochester, New York with a Masters in Dental Science. He received a Certificate of Proficiency in Orthodontics with special training in Lingual Orthodontics, and completed a fellowship in Temporomandibular/jaw Disorder. Dr. Paz completed his General Dentistry Residency at Eastman Dental Center, Rochester, New York and has had special training in the treatment of children with cleft palate and other craniofacial anomalies.

Dr. Paz holds memberships in:

• American Dental Association (ADA)

• American Association of Orthodontists (AAO)

• American Lingual Orthodontic Association, past President (ALOA)

• European Society of Lingual Orthodontics (ESLO)

• World Society of Lingual Orthodontics, Founding Member (WSLO)

• Western Los Angeles Dental Association

• Sociedad Ibero-Americana de Ortodoncia Lingual (SIAOL)

Dr. Paz specializes in early treatment for children, fixed self-ligating labial braces, Lingal braces and the Invisalign system. His goal is to provide the best orthodontic care for an exceptional orthodontic result.

Enjoy the podcast.

Dr. Mario Paz

Contact Mario

Mario E. Paz, DDS, MS, INC.

4553 Glencoe Avenue, Suite 330

Marina Del Rey, CA    90292              

Phone: 310.822.4224  

Fax: 310.822.0569

Email: drmario@invisiblebraces.com                               

Website: www.invisiblebraces.com

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Wonder Women in Business Ally, Ari Kaplan

Ari Kaplan

Ari Kaplan, an attorney and legal industry analyst, is an inaugural Fastcase 50 honoree, a fellow of the College of Law Practice Management, and a finalist for the International Legal Technology Association’s Thought Leader of the Year award. He is the author of Reinventing Professional Services: Building Your Business in the Digital Marketplace (Wiley, 2011) and The Opportunity Maker: Strategies for Inspiring Your Legal Career Through Creative Networking and Business Development (West Academic, 2nd Ed. 2016). Kaplan serves as the principal researcher for a variety of widely distributed benchmarking reports, has been the keynote speaker for events worldwide, and is the founder of the Lawcountability® business development software platform and iPhone app. He is an avid swimmer, a self-taught, beginner-level python coder, and a two-time Ironman triathlon finisher.

Contact Ari

Ari Kaplan Advisors LLC
576 Fifth Avenue, Suite 903
New York, NY 10036

(646) 641-0600

Ari@AriKaplanAdvisors.com

Enjoy the podcast.

Ari Kaplan

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Wonder Women in Business Ally, Steve Camac

Steve Camac

CEO, CenterForce

Steve Camac is the founder of Centerforce, a conference and events company focused on Diversity & IP topics.  For over 10 years, he has set the strategic direction for the company as well as each summit's editorial content. His focus is to develop quality conferences that cover hot button topics and provide high-level networking opportunities for business communities. Steve's conference and trade show experience includes leadership positions at IQPC (International Quality and Productivity Center) and IIR (Institute for International Research). Centerforce is run with the core belief that conferences, when done well, are a powerful platform for education, networking, and creating change.

Steve moved from his native England to the U.S. in 1991 and not only graduated with a B.A. and M.A. in History from Montana State University (MSU), but was also an all-conference collegiate tennis player. Go Bobcats!

Most weekends, Steve can be found either cooking and hosting friends for dinner or on a tennis court somewhere contemplating a comeback.

Enjoy the podcast.

Steve Camac

Contact Steve

Steve Camac, CEO

CenterForce USA 

42 West Street, 2nd floor Brooklyn, NY 11222

P: 516.241.9158 

E: steve.camac@cfconferences.com

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Wonder Women in Business Ally, Ross Fishman

Ross Fishman

Of Counsel magazine wrote “Many people consider Ross Fishman to be the nation’s foremost expert on legal marketing.”

Ross specializes in strategy, branding, websites, and marketing training for law and professional-services firms.  A former litigator, marketing director, and marketing partner, he has helped over 200 law firms dominate their markets and trained over 20,000 lawyers in leading-edge marketing techniques. 

A Fellow of the College of Law Practice Management and 2020 Lawdragon 100 Leading Consultant, Ross was the first marketer inducted into the Legal Marketing Association’s “Hall of Fame.” He has written 300 bylined articles and many popular marketing books, including “The Ultimate Law Firm Associate’s Marketing Checklist,” “The Ultimate Women Associate’s Law Firm Marketing Checklist,” and “We’re Smart. We’re Old. And We’re the Best at Everything,” all available on Amazon.

Enjoy the podcast.

Ross Fishman

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