Podcasts

Aruna Kalyanam is a principal in the sustainability tax practice at Ernst & Young. As Americas sustainability and ESG tax leader, she leads teams and works with colleagues around the globe to help clients identify and evaluate sustainability funding opportunities and ESG reporting requirements. 

Kristen A. Gray is EY Americas sustainability tax leader. She has nearly 20 years of experience helping multinational companies address complex tax issues, including transactions and strategic planning, controversy and global compliance and reporting matters. She provides strategic counsel to clients around the intersection of tax and environmental, social and governance matters. Prior to her current role, she served as a partner in the national tax accounting and risk advisory services practice, focusing on life sciences, technology and media clients.

The latest BLS figures suggest some cracks are beginning to form in a jobs market that has been gradually normalizing.

Jim Davis is vice president of insurance at Geotab, where he leads insurance, risk management, insurtech programs and business development. His 30-year career includes commercial P&C insurance company, brokerage and captive program management. At the forefront of video telematics, his experience and wide range of knowledge also includes driver safety, scoring and learning management systems.

Student loans and inflation are hitting younger adults especially hard.

An AI expert dissects the Biden-Harris administration's new regulation, and what it could mean for the workplace.

According to Bamboo HR's Employee Happiness Index, employee happiness dropped 16% since June 2020.

By capturing employee attention with popular benefits, employers can piggyback communication about the most valuable enhancements for their workforce.

Ben Malka joined Cota in 2019 as a Partner on the investment team, where he is focused on sourcing, evaluating, executing, and governance of venture investments. Prior to Cota, Ben was a General Partner at F-Prime Capital, a San Francisco-based financial technology and enterprise IT-focused venture capital fund. At F-Prime, he served as lead partner for a number of investments.

Since 1999, Ben has also served as a General Partner at North Hill Ventures, a financial technology focused venture capital fund. Previously, Ben was with The Boston Consulting Group, where he was the Project Lead for a number of clients across strategy development, acquisition strategy, new product evaluation, and operations improvement. He began his career at Bank of America as a Statistical Analyst.

Ben received a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Political Science from Stanford University and a MBA from the University of Chicago.

Murat Kilicoglu joined Cota Capital as a Principal in 2022 focusing on the evaluation and monitoring of private investments as well as designing and implementing value creation strategies across the broad Cota portfolio. Prior to Cota, Murat was a Vice President in the Investment Banking Division of Evercore focusing on mergers and acquisitions within the technology sector. Prior to Evercore, Murat was a Vice President at Credit Suisse in the Investment Banking Division focusing his time on strategic advisory and financing assignments for software and FinTech companies. Previously, Murat was an Investment Associate at TRPE Capital focusing on private equity and venture capital investments across the technology sector. Murat began his career at Roland Berger, where he worked as a strategy consultant to technology firms and private equity portfolio companies in the areas of corporate strategy, growth strategy, go-to-market strategy, commercial due diligence, and corporate restructuring. Murat received a B.S. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Bogazici University in Istanbul and an M.B.A. from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.