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This episode is the first dual release show for Top Of The Game. It was produced by and originally released on Evan Epstein's podcast, Boardroom Governance, on August 26, 2024. Our host enjoyed the tables being turned on him and being a guest, The conversation covers a broad range of topics: leadership, capitalism, boards, technology (AI), macro dynamics and the future. Original 🔗 here.

ABOUT EVAN

Evan is a corporate governance expert and has advised founders, executives, directors and investors for over 17 years in Silicon Valley and internationally. He has also been retained as an expert in corporate governance litigation both in the U.S. and abroad, and has deep experience with executive and director education. In 2023, Evan was named one of the most influential leaders in corporate governance by the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) as part of the 2023 NACD Directorship 100™, an annual list of leading corporate directors and governance advocates. He was included among the top 50 governance professionals "who exemplify the knowledge, leadership, and excellence that our organization promotes." In 2020, Evan was appointed as the inaugural Executive Director of the Center for Business Law, and Adjunct Professor of Law, at the University of California College of the Law, San Francisco (formerly UC Hastings). Also in 2020, Evan launched the Boardroom Governance Podcast, an in-depth interview podcast with leading corporate governance experts (boardroom-governance.com), and the Boardroom Governance Newsletter, a monthly newsletter including some of the latest trends and developments in corporate governance (evanepstein.substack.com). The Boardroom Governance Podcast has been rated the #1 corporate governance podcast by Feedspot "from thousands of podcasts on the web and ranked by traffic, social media followers, domain authority & freshness." Since 2017, Evan has been the Founder & Managing Partner of Pacifica Global, a corporate governance advisory firm. Before founding Pacifica Global, Evan was the Executive Director of the Arthur and Toni Rembe Rock Center for Corporate Governance, a joint initiative between Stanford Law School and the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He has also served as a Professor at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile Law School since 2011.

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This bonus episode is President John F. Kennedy's first state of the union address to Congress on January 30, 1961, 10 days after his inauguration. It is also 13 days after President Eisenhower gave his farewell address and which this podcast released two weeks ago on August 7, 2024. It will be interesting for listeners to hear the two speeches back to back.

In the speech President Kennedy discusses his concerns regarding the economic recession, the depreciation of the American dollar, the need for federal aid in education and scientific research, and Congress’ duty to respond to domestic issues, such as civil rights and clean water supplies. The President also discusses the possible spread of communism in Asia and Latin America, the need to restore peace in the Republic of Congo, and his plan for Cold War diplomacy, which focuses on the use of new military, economic, and political tools to meet potential challenges from the Soviet Union or Communist China.

Source: John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Archives

LUIS MIRANDA BIO

Luis Antonio Miranda Concepción is a political strategist, philanthropist, advocacy consultant and author, his latest book: "Relentless: My Story of the Latino Spirit That Is Transforming America” with a foreword by his son, Lin-Manuel Miranda.

Luis was born and raised in Puerto Rico and moved to NYC at 19 when he received a scholarship from NYU. In the 1980s, Miranda was a special advisor for Hispanic Affairs to the Mayor of New York City, Ed Koch, serving as Director of the Mayor's Office for Hispanic Affairs. He also served on the Board of the NYC Health and Hospitals Corporation during the Koch, Dinkins (and as Chairman) during the Giuliani administration.

He has served as a political consultant on several high-profile political campaigns, including Hillary Clinton. Miranda is a founding partner of the MirRam Group which focuses on political and advocacy consulting. Miranda was also a founder and first president of the Hispanic Federation in 1990 and served as director of field services and research at the National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering. He also held leadership positions at the Community Service Society, the NYC Department of Employment, the NYC Board of Education, and Aspira of New York. He is chairperson of The Broadway League's Latino audience development program, Viva Broadway. and the vice-chair of the Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance and a member of the advisory boards to Nielsen, board chair of the Latino Victory Fund and as a board member of The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, and NYC & Company.

Siempre, Luis, a documentary directed by John James, is centered on Miranda and his years of activism. The film was a 2020 Sundance Film Festival Official Selection and premiered on HBO on October 6, 2020.

RELATED LINKS

Wikipedia

Relentless (book)

Reflections on the Arts

Latino Majority (pod)

About Siempre, Luis (NPR)

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This bonus episode is President Dwight D. Eisenhower's farewell address to the nation on January 17, 1961 - three days before JFK's inauguration.

When the United States entered WWII, Dwight D. Eisenhower was the Chief of Staff for the Third Army. Less than four years later, he was a 5-star general who commanded millions of soldiers, sailors, and airmen from a broad Allied coalition becoming one of the most influential generals in American history. Eisenhower planned and supervised two of the most consequential military campaigns of World War II: Operation Torch in North Africa and the invasion of Normandy in 1944.

Following the German unconditional surrender, Eisenhower was appointed military governor of the American-occupied zone of Germany. Upon discovery of the Nazi concentration camps, he ordered camera crews to document evidence for use in the Nuremberg Trials.

In 1948 he became President of Columbia University in New York City. In 1951 President Truman sensed a broad-based desire for an Eisenhower candidacy for president, and pressed him to run for the office as a Democrat in 1951. But Eisenhower voiced his disagreements with Democrats and declared himself to be a Republican. In 1952, Eisenhower won the election with an electoral margin of 442 to 89, marking the first Republican return to the White House in 20 years and won re-election in 1956.

Under his watch, the Interstate Highway System was established, the Space Race kicked-off, we fought the Korean War which was a manifestation of the Cold War stance in the bi-polar world that served as a backdrop for the foreign policies of his administration.

Eisenhower was born in Denison, Texas and raised in Abilene, Kansas. He graduated from West Point in 1915. During WWI he was denied a request to serve in Europe and instead commanded a unit that trained tank crews.

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Source: Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library, Museum and Boyhood Home

STACIE OLIVARES BIO

Stacie Olivares structures and optimizes funds and innovations for scaled impact. She is a board director and chief investment officer for best-in-class funds and innovative companies with oversight of $1.4 trillion in retirement funds, $29 billion of insurance industry sustainable investment, and more than $3 trillion bond issuance. Stacie is a Senate-confirmed member of the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board which oversees the $900 billion Thrift Savings Plan, the largest defined contribution plan globally with best-in-class performance for the benefit of 6.8 million participants. She previously served as a board member of CalPERS, the largest defined benefit pension fund in the United States.

Stacie also serves on the board of credit rating agency KBRA and previously served as audit committee chair for Core Scientific and Mission Advancement Corp. She serves on the nonprofit boards of the California Endowment, Latino Community Foundation, Hispanic Heritage Foundation, and the UC Berkeley College of Letters & Science.

Previously she was chief investment officer of Lendistry, chief investment officer of COIN, finance professional at Morgan Stanley, and business development director for Palm. She holds degrees from UC Berkeley and Harvard University. She is an Aspen Institute Finance Leaders Fellow and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

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Aspen Profile

FRTIB Profile

Bloomberg Profile

CalPERS Appoinment

Latino Community Foundation Profile

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MICHAEL'S BIO

The Honorable Michael Montelongo, a former presidential appointee and Senate-confirmed official, is a board governance and audit committee financial expert serving on the boards of Civeo Corporation (NYSE: CVEO), Conduent Inc (NASDAQ: CNDT), Palmex Ltd., and the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD). He has a broad industry, sector and functional experience which includes government service in the military, the U.S. Senate, the Pentagon, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and The Aerospace Corporation. He is a national security, geopolitics, and public policy expert, and a lifetime member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Michael serves on the Harvard Business School faculty and is president and chief executive officer of GRC Advisory Services, LLC, a private firm specializing in board governance, risk management, and compliance matters. He served as chief administrative officer and senior vice president, public policy and corporate affairs and previously, as chief strategy officer for Sodexo, Inc.

Previously, President George W. Bush appointed him as the 19th assistant secretary of the Air Force for Financial Management and Comptroller and the first Latino in that role, and concluded his tenure at the Pentagon as acting Secretary of the Air Force. He was also an assistant professor teaching economics and political science at West Point.

A native of New York City’s Lower East Side and the first in his extended family to attend college, Mr. Montelongo holds a B.S. from West Point and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

RELATED LINKS

Adam Mendler Leadership Blog

Inside America’s Boardroom

Hispanic Executive Article

NACD BOD Press Release

HBS Faculty Profile

Latino Leaders Maestro Award Video

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JAKE + AMANDA = TRNDSTTRS

This episode is a remarkable master class on all things Gen Z from the Founder & CEO (Jake Bjorseth) and Chief TikTok Officer (Amanda Johansen) of the largest independent marketing agency in the world focused on Gen Z → Trndsttrs. The agency was founded in 2018 and its team has some of the best GenZ content creators, social media managers, influencer marketers and strategists in the world. 25 billion impressions and 4000+ influencer partners redefining how brands and companies reach, interact and create connective tissue with consumers.

Jake is an entrepreneur and a doer with deep insights into what makes his generation tick. He dropped out of college while a freshman enrolled in business school, “why learn about making money, maybe it’s best to go make some”. Trndsttrs is the manifestation of his desire to create and build. Amanda (1.8M followers, 33.7M Likes) had the first ever TikTok video to go massively viral when the platform was called Musical.ly and eventually became TikTok. The video on her TikTok was of her and her mom dancing in their Kansas home’s kitchen. She played softball on a scholarship in college and dropped out of school to join the agency.

They are a very dynamic team and their insights, perspectives and ideas help the world’s largest companies (worth tens of trillions) and most prominent and valuable brands thrive, grow and evolve. You will enjoy this conversation immensely and the wide range of topics we cover are head spinning.

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Trndsttrs website

Exploring Life & Business w/ Jake

Amanda’s TikTok

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|Show Notes| This episode was recorded in front of a live audience at The Alumni Society’s Leadership Summit in Brooklyn, NYC on June 13, 2024. It marks our show’s first ever live recording and the audio level is lower than studio quality. Also, today (July 9, 2024) happens to be our guest's birthday - happy birthday Gus!

GUSTAVO’S BIO

Gustavo Alberelli (Gus) is Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Sunstone Partners, a growth oriented private equity firm that focuses on investments in technology-enabled services and software businesses. Founded in 2015, Sunstone Partners is headquartered in San Mateo, CA and has +$1.7 Billion of committed capital under its first three funds. He is one of a few Latinos in the country that have raised over $1 billion in capital and allocating it to high growth companies.

Prior to co-founding Sunstone Partners, Gustavo was a Managing Director at Trident Capital. Before Trident Capital, Gus was a Director at Kennet Partners where he led or participated in growth equity investments across the technology sector. Gustavo began his investment career in 2003 at Trinity Ventures, where he primarily worked with early-stage technology companies. Prior to becoming an investor, Gus held several business development and marketing positions at Saltare, a venture-backed enterprise software company. He started his career as an analyst in the technology investment banking group of Robertson Stephens in San Francisco.

Raised in Miami, Gus earned a BA from Swarthmore College, where he was a Swarthmore Scholar, and an MBA from Columbia Business School.

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Sunstone Partners

Alumni Society Leadership Summit

Big Cybersecurity 15X Win

Fund I Closing

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