Before Symptoms, Before Labs: How AI Is Moving Healthcare Upstream with Patañjali Chary

The Future of Family Offices: AI, Direct Investing & Legacy with Jason Ma

Join Jason Ma, Founder & CEO of ThreeEQ, for a candid conversation on what's reshaping the world of single family offices and ultra-high-net-worth investing. As a senior advisor and rainmaker to select SFOs, UHNW families, and enterprises, longstanding B20 member across 12 G20 presidencies, and chair of the recent Silicon Valley Economic Forum (SVEF) and moderator of its "Single Family Office Trends in the Age of AI" panel, Jason sits at the intersection of global capital, AI disruption, and generational wealth strategy. In this episode, we unpack how SFOs are repositioning into AI and tech direct investing, the risks they're navigating, and why the families who thrive long-term are those investing not just in assets — but in people. 🎯 Insights You'll Learn: The SFO Inflection Point: Why single family offices are moving beyond traditional allocations into AI and technology direct investing — and what's driving that shift now. Gary's Op-Ed Moment: Exploring the 8Veda Research op-ed on "Single Family Office Trends in the Age of AI" and what it signals for UHNWI capital strategy in 2025–2026. Direct Deal Access: How SFOs are competing with institutional venture for co-investment and direct deal flow in the AI era. Governance vs. Agility: Why family offices have a structural advantage over institutional funds — and where they still fall short. Next Gen at the Table: How rising heirs are reshaping investment philosophy, risk appetite, and the definition of family legacy. The B20 Lens: What 12 G20 presidencies of policy recommendations work reveals about the global forces shaping human capital, trade, AI regulation, and capital flows for family wealth. Senior Advisor and Rainmaker: Jason's model for serving SFOs at high-stakes inflection points — from vision and strategy to major dealmaking. 🌍 Why This Matters: Single family offices now control trillions in global capital, yet most operate without the institutional infrastructure to evaluate emerging technology investments rigorously. As AI reshapes every sector, SFOs face a generational decision: evolve into sophisticated direct investors or risk being left behind. Jason Ma has spent decades at the nexus of global business, policy, and capital — and he's sharing the playbook. 👤 Expert Background: Founder & CEO of ThreeEQ and CBO & Investor at AdXero — global business & education leader and AI/tech entrepreneur & investor. Award-winning Chief Mentor of Next Gen Leaders and senior advisor & rainmaker to select prominent UHNW families and enterprises. Member of the B20, the G20's private sector engagement forum. Across 12 G20 Presidencies since 2014, contributed policy recommendations on the future of work, employment, human capital, and education, while engaging on AI/tech, trade, and investment. Forbes Global CEO Conference delegate for 7 years; 2M+ miles of global business travel. Chair, Silicon Valley Economic Forum 2026, moderating its flagship "Single Family Office Trends in the Age of AI" panel. 🎙️ Hosted by Gary Fowler, CEO of GSD Venture Studios — global AI entrepreneur, investor, and innovation leader spotlighting founders navigating the realities of building in the AI era. Subscribe for more global founder conversations from GSD Venture Studios: https://gsdvs.com #SingleFamilyOffice #UHNWI #AIInvesting #FamilyWealth #ThreeEQ #JasonMa #GaryFowler #GSDVentureStudios

The Behavioral Shift: Moving Enterprise AI from Prediction to Proof with Steven Walchek

Join Steven Walchek, Co-Founder and CEO of Liminal, for a deep dive into the "adoption paradox" facing the modern enterprise. Despite billions in AI investment, most organizations remain trapped in perpetual pilots. A serial entrepreneur with over $1.1B in exit value and a former CINO at FIS, Steven argues that the failure isn't technical—it’s strategic. In this episode, we explore why forcing standardization kills impact and how the industry is shifting toward "Secure AI Enablement" that learns from actual user behavior to autonomously deploy capabilities where they matter most. 🎯 Insights You’ll Learn: The Pilot Trap: Why predicting use cases upfront fails and how it quietly blocks real-world AI adoption. Behavioral Governance: Shifting from restrictive policies to a "learning" system that surfaces patterns and proves demand. Secure AI Enablement: How Liminal allows enterprises to say "yes" to AI by providing a secure, governed layer for LLM interaction. The "Zero-Force" Model: Why autonomous deployment of capabilities based on actual user behavior outperforms top-down standardization. Lessons from the Fortune 500: Insights from Steven’s tenure at FIS and AWS on scaling emerging tech in high-compliance environments. Measurable Proof: Real outcomes from global customers who have moved from "AI experimentation" to "AI implementation." The AWS Playbook: How scaling a $280M+ ecosystem informed the way Liminal handles secure technology partnerships. 🌍 Why This Matters: In 2026, the novelty of "chatting with data" has worn off. Enterprises are now demanding a return on investment that current, rigid strategies simply can't deliver. Steven Walchek is redefining the category of AI Governance by moving it away from "blocking" and toward "enabling." By treating user behavior as the primary signal for automation, Liminal ensures that AI is deployed where it is actually needed, not just where it was predicted to be. For Steven, the goal is simple: create a secure architecture where AI can move at the speed of the user, backed by the safety of the enterprise. 👤 Expert Background: Co-Founder & CEO of Liminal, the leading secure AI governance and enablement platform. Former EVP & Chief Innovation Officer at FIS, where he oversaw subsidiary launches and corporate spin-offs. Former Head of Tech Partnerships at AWS, responsible for $280M+ in new revenue and early ML service implementation. Three-Time Successful Founder with total acquisition values exceeding $1.1 billion (including DebtMarket/ICE). Growth Strategist with 15+ years of leadership in high-stakes financial and cloud technology. 🎙️ Hosted by Gary Fowler, CEO of GSD Venture Studios — global AI entrepreneur, investor, and innovation leader spotlighting founders navigating the realities of building in the AI era. 💡 Perfect For: CISOs, Chief Data Officers, Enterprise Architects, Fintech leaders, and AI product managers looking to break out of the pilot phase and scale secure intelligence. 🚀 Timely Topic: In 2026, the winners aren't those with the most pilots, but those with the most proven behavior. Steven Walchek is providing the platform that turns AI curiosity into enterprise-grade productivity. Subscribe for more global founder conversations from GSD Venture Studios: https://gsdvs.com #AIGovernance #Liminal #EnterpriseAI #SecureAI #DigitalTransformation #StevenWalchek #GaryFowler #GSDVentureStudios

One Tap to Safety: AURA's Mission to Make Help Borderless with Warren Myers

Join Warren Myers, CEO and Co-Founder of AURA, for a conversation on one of the most urgent and underleveraged opportunities in global tech — democratizing access to emergency response. Warren's journey began with a video monitoring business in South Africa, built to detect crimes in real time and alert police to respond. But even with video evidence, police response was often too slow or didn't happen at all — and that gap is where AURA was born. Today, AURA is the continent's largest network of private emergency responders, with expansion now reaching the UK, Kenya, and the United States. In this episode, we explore how Warren is blending deep tech, global infrastructure, and a relentless impact mission to build what he calls a borderless emergency response economy — one tap at a time. 🎯 Insights You'll Learn: The Gap That Sparked AURA: Why overstretched public safety infrastructure — not just in Africa, but globally — created a massive, underserved market for smart, private emergency response. How the Platform Works: AURA enables the dispatch of the nearest vetted emergency responder via seamless API integration — platform-agnostic, closing the loop between detection and human response. The API-First Strategy: AURA's mission is to make access to life-saving services seamless, borderless, and available through a single API — empowering individuals and the platforms that serve them. Impact at Scale: AURA estimates it is currently saving five lives per day in South Africa alone, with documented cases including the prevention of gender-based violence, near-drownings, and support during premature childbirths. Cracking the U.S. Market: AURA is now launching its on-demand private security response model in the U.S., addressing the growing demand for alternatives to under-resourced public safety services. Embedding Into Everything: AURA is scaling rapidly and embedding its smart response technology into mobile apps, wearables, insurance products, and IoT platforms. The Global Scaling Playbook: How Warren has navigated building a profitable, multi-market, impact-driven platform — and what other founders can learn from doing it across vastly different regulatory and infrastructure environments. 🌍 Why This Matters: Emergency response is one of the most critical and least disrupted systems in the world. AURA's algorithm automatically routes the closest vetted responder to the user's live location, cutting average response times from 30 minutes to under 8 minutes in core markets. The implications go far beyond security — this is a new layer of human safety infrastructure, built on technology, that can reach anyone with a connected device regardless of geography or income. 👤 Expert Background: CEO & Co-Founder of AURA — a platform connecting people, properties, and responders through smart technology, delivering faster, more reliable protection when it matters most. Founder of Africa's largest private emergency responder network, now live across South Africa, Kenya, the UK, and the United States. Backed by a €13.5M Series B round, AURA has created South Africa's largest response network of over 3,000 security and medical responders. Extensive experience scaling security and response systems across multiple markets and regulatory environments. 🎙️ Hosted by Gary Fowler, CEO of GSD Venture Studios — global AI entrepreneur, investor, and innovation leader spotlighting founders navigating the realities of building in the AI era. 💡 Perfect For: Impact investors, insurtech and IoT founders, public safety innovators, enterprise security executives, emerging market operators, and anyone building platforms where lives are on the line. 🚀 Timely Topic: As public safety systems strain under population growth, resource constraints, and rising demand, the private sector has a rare opportunity — and responsibility — to step in. Warren Myers is proving it can be done profitably, at global scale, without losing sight of the mission.

The Real-Time Close: Moving Accounting from Retrospective Grunt Work to Agentic Automation with Yogi Goel

Join Yogi Goel, Co-founder, CEO, and CFO of Maxima, for an unvarnished conversation on breaking the legacy architecture of corporate finance. After a 20-year career spanning auditing at EY, tech IPOs at Citi and Barclays, and scaling Rubrik from $5M to $900M in ARR, Yogi was firmly on the venture-backed CFO track. Instead, he realized that despite decades of enterprise software, accounting teams were still trapped in a monthly cycle of manual data wrangling and spreadsheet anguish. In this episode, we explore how Maxima secured $41M in funding from Kleiner Perkins and Redpoint, why the "semi-annual close" debate misses the mark, and why the future of finance relies on AI acting as a horizontal system of work layered directly over existing ERPs. 🎯 Insights You’ll Learn: The Rubrik Inflection Point: How helping scale a tech giant to its 2024 IPO forced Yogi off the traditional CFO path to solve a deeper structural problem. The Real-Time Imperative: Why proposals like the SEC’s semi-annual close are a step backward, and why modern enterprises actually require a continuous, real-time close. System of Record vs. System of Work: Why overhauling core systems like NetSuite for AI is a critical mistake, and how to layer agentic AI on top of existing data silos instead. The AI64 Standard: What it means to build an enterprise application alongside category-defining tools like Cursor (for engineers) and Harvey (for lawyers). Automating Invisible Overhead: Reconciling ledger items, preparing journal entries, and building audit trails with 100% accuracy without breaking SOX compliance. The Design Partner Playbook: How Maxima onboarded massive tech operators like Scale AI, Rippling, and Glean as early design partners before a pitch deck even existed. The Dual-Title Advantage: Insights from operating simultaneously as a venture-backed CEO and CFO in a highly volatile macroeconomic environment. 🌍 Why This Matters: Every quarter, public and private companies experience mass burnout and regulatory risk trying to squeeze hundreds of thousands of disparate transactions into a retrospective financial report. In 2026, the complexity of enterprise operations has completely outgrown manual human capacity. Yogi Goel is shifting corporate finance away from "digital shelves" where data simply sits, to automated execution layers where data is instantly processed, validated, and documented. Maxima isn't designed to replace human judgment; it’s designed to eliminate the operational grunt work so accountants can spend their time on strategic analysis and analytical reviews. 👤 Expert Background: Co-founder, CEO, and CFO of Maxima, the leading agentic AI platform for enterprise accounting. Strategic Finance Architect at Rubrik, helping drive hyper-growth scaling from $5M to $900M ARR and its NYSE listing. Wall Street IPO Veteran who executed landmark M&A and public offering transactions at Citi and Barclays. Former Enterprise Auditor at EY, establishing a deep foundation in global compliance, internal controls, and GAAP reporting. Category Pioneer backed by a combined $41M Seed and Series A from Kleiner Perkins, Redpoint Ventures, and Audacious Ventures. 🎙️ Hosted by Gary Fowler, CEO of GSD Venture Studios — global AI entrepreneur, investor, and innovation leader spotlighting founders navigating the realities of building in the AI era. 💡 Perfect For: Chief Financial Officers, Corporate Controllers, VP of Finance leads, enterprise technology investors, and operations executives looking to automate complex back-office systems without replacing core legacy databases. 🚀 Timely Topic: The battle for generative AI adoption has moved past basic chatbots into high-precision, mission-critical enterprise environments. Yogi Goel is delivering the blueprint for how the modern office of the CFO will operate in 2026 and beyond. Subscribe for more global founder conversations from GSD Venture Studios: https://gsdvs.com

Before Symptoms, Before Labs: How AI Is Moving Healthcare Upstream with Patañjali Chary

Join Patañjali Chary, Founder and CEO of Fourth Vital, for a profound exploration into the true frontier of proactive medicine. Boasting a 30-year pedigree across AI and enterprise architecture at giants like Oracle and Microsoft, Patañjali is shifting healthcare from reactive treatment to upstream intelligence. In this episode, we move past basic medical chatbots and workflow automation to discuss how Fourth Vital uses non-invasive biosensing and AI to decode hidden physiological signals—allowing clinicians to detect life-threatening kidney risks long before symptoms manifest or conventional blood labs flag a crisis. 🎯 Insights You’ll Learn: Moving Upstream: Why the real promise of medical AI lies in discovering hidden physiological changes when there is still time to intervene. The Silent Killer: Understanding the massive clinical and economic burden of chronic kidney disease, and why it is the ultimate testing ground for predictive AI. Decoding Inaccessible Signals: How Fourth Vital combines non-invasive biosensing hardware with advanced software to create a brand-new diagnostic data layer. The Personal Mission: How losing his mother to preventable acute kidney failure catalyzed Patañjali's transition from Big Tech executive to medtech pioneer. Building AI-Native Medtech: The unique challenge of launching an early-stage health-tech startup where deep science, data governance, institutional trust, and patient outcomes must align. Replacing the "Lagging Indicator": Why relying on conventional, slow-moving laboratory blood markers means we are always treating sickness too late. Enterprise-Scale Design: Applying product principles from Microsoft and Oracle to build a seamless, software-first platform for modern health systems. 🌍 Why This Matters: By the time a patient presents physical symptoms or routine lab work shows elevated toxicity levels, substantial organ damage has often already occurred. In 2026, the global healthcare crisis requires a complete architecture flip. Patañjali Chary is applying his University of Toronto AI roots and executive business discipline to catch these failures at step zero. Fourth Vital acts as an early warning system for kidney health, giving clinicians, care platforms, and insurers the gift of time. Patañjali's journey is a blueprint for how technical founders can use deeply personal adversities to completely reengineer the human health span. 👤 Expert Background: Founder & CEO of Fourth Vital, an AI-native medtech platform pioneering upstream kidney-risk intelligence. 30-Year Tech Executive with product and design leadership tenures at Oracle and Microsoft. AI & Computer Science Alumnus from the University of Toronto, studying the discipline long before the modern hype cycle. Dual-MBA Graduate from Columbia Business School and UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business. Patient Advocate dedicated to ending preventable organ failure through software-first diagnostics. 🎙️ Hosted by Gary Fowler, CEO of GSD Venture Studios — global AI entrepreneur, investor, and innovation leader spotlighting founders navigating the realities of building in the AI era. 💡 Perfect For: Health-tech investors, nephrologists, hospital executives, biosensor engineers, and founders eager to learn how to bridge advanced software engineering with strict medical regulation. 🚀 Timely Topic: In 2026, the focus of healthcare innovation has shifted from optimizing administrative workflows to extending human longevity. Patañjali Chary is leading this charge by ensuring our medical infrastructure is intelligent enough to act before the damage is done. Subscribe for more global founder conversations from GSD Venture Studios: https://gsdvs.com #HealthTech #PredictiveAI #Biosensors #MedTech #KidneyHealth #ProactiveMedicine #PatanjaliChary #GaryFowler #GSDVentureStudios