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CTO Wisdom with Alexis Smirnov | Beyond the Program
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CTO Wisdom with Alexis Smirnov | Beyond the Program
Welcome to CTO Wisdom. In this series, we interview technical leaders who have stepped into executive positions.
Today’s guest host, Eric Brooke, speaks with Alexis Smirnov. Alexis is the CTO of Dialogue, Canada's premier virtual healthcare and wellness platform, providing affordable, on-demand access to quality care.
In today’s episode, they discuss:
- A career starting on a programmable calculator, to Russian Space Research Institute to Microsoft to Co-founding two tech companies
- Working in HealthTech and the Purpose it can give you
- Importance of promoting yourself into new roles
- Importance of building relationships through your career
- How you grow in your career and the importance of selling Vision and working with others to create the actions to achieve it
- As a co-founder how important to recognize when you hit a wall, or when your work as IC is less important than the co-ordination of others
- How much of your focus at C-suite is on the growing of a healthy and sustainable business
About today’s guest: Over his three decades in the software industry, Alexis has used transformational technologies to build products and services at startups and Fortune 100 companies. In 2016, he co-founded and is serving as the CTO of Dialogue, Canada's premier virtual healthcare and wellness platform, providing affordable, on-demand access to quality care. Before Dialogue, he led the design and development of the social analytics system, built an award-winning semantic search engine, and incubated a platform for conversational apps. Alexis has co-founded Pi Corp, a pioneering cloud startup and successfully sold it to EMC. An active member of Montreal's technology startup community, Alexis holds several software patents.
About today’s host: Eric Brooke has a rich and varied leadership career - leading up to 21,000 people and Billions in revenue, throughout 14 countries. In their career, they have been an Executive six times (e.g. President, CEO, CMO, and CTO) and a Board member of multiple organisations. Eric has been a CTO of scaling startups from 0 to 120 engineers. As an adviser and mentor, they have helped multiple other startups scale both in Canada and the US. As well as supporting multiple startup incubators such as 1871 in Chicago and TechStars.
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