About

Business & Tech Startup Podcasts

Les Ottolenghi and Mark Bavisotto have come together to create a new kind of podcast for technology professionals: Net Effects Podcast. Our information technology podcasts for business startups focus on the CIO as the Digital Executive leader for 21st Century enterprises. Topics they talk about include the CIOs’ unique perspective on COVID and Post COVID priorities affecting today’s business landscape. Listen to their upbeat discussion with startup founders and various leaders as they help others navigate this new decade of change.  Net Effects is all about network effects join us as we talk about digital transformation, social transformation, and personal transformation.

Les Ottolenghi

As a senior executive, Les Ottolenghi provides expertise in business innovation through the use of technology to entities ranging from Fortune 500 companies to industry-disrupting startups. Having successfully deployed industry changing technology platforms including the largest cybersecurity platform in the gaming industry and the first search engine for the travel industry, he looks for big challenges that leverage modern, scalable IT network and software infrastructure and application architectures. In his free time, he enjoys snowboarding, skateboarding, exercising, working on his real estate pandemic passion project and taking long drives with his cat named MIttens.

Mark Bavisotto

Mark Bavisotto is the Founder and Managing Partner of Successive Technologies. Mark is also the Co-founder of Startup Summit. He spends his time helping founders and executives digitally transform their businesses preparing them for scalability and future success. Through his many years in the technology industry, Mark understands what it takes to quickly transform an idea into a scalable and profitable product or service.  Mark spends his free time with his wife and kids and enjoys coaching youth hockey.