Meeting Title: Brainforge Team Introduction with Kaela Date: 2026-04-15 Meeting participants: Kaela Gallagher, Raymund Verzosa
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1 00:00:34.460 ⇒ 00:00:36.470 Kaela Gallagher: Hey, Raymond, how’s it going?
2 00:00:38.390 ⇒ 00:00:39.480 Raymund Verzosa: Hello.
3 00:00:39.790 ⇒ 00:00:45.520 Kaela Gallagher: Hi! Hi. Thanks for taking some time to meet with me, appreciate it.
4 00:00:46.370 ⇒ 00:00:52.240 Raymund Verzosa: Yeah, hello. Sorry, I’ve been, like… I don’t really have, like, a fixed schedule, so…
5 00:00:52.860 ⇒ 00:00:56.260 Raymund Verzosa: Yeah, I haven’t been able to respond.
6 00:00:56.260 ⇒ 00:01:09.160 Kaela Gallagher: No, no worries at all. Yeah, the reason why I wanted to just chat and get to know a little bit more about you is I joined Brainforge almost 2 months ago now.
7 00:01:09.160 ⇒ 00:01:19.279 Kaela Gallagher: To lead, like, people and recruiting efforts, and so, just want to get to know everybody at the organization. So,
8 00:01:19.490 ⇒ 00:01:28.480 Kaela Gallagher: you… I guess just to learn, like, a little bit more about your role in your day-to-day, you’re working within marketing, right? Like, a lot on the video side?
9 00:01:28.750 ⇒ 00:01:34.899 Raymund Verzosa: Yeah, I’m… I’m working under a marketing team, and I just do…
10 00:01:35.090 ⇒ 00:01:39.709 Raymund Verzosa: Video edits, or, you know, if they need help with video and stuff.
11 00:01:40.010 ⇒ 00:01:47.200 Raymund Verzosa: But, yeah, I think I’ve been here… I joined Brainforge, like, Almost a year now?
12 00:01:47.580 ⇒ 00:01:51.520 Raymund Verzosa: I think that was May last year, so, yeah. But, yeah.
13 00:01:52.170 ⇒ 00:01:55.200 Raymund Verzosa: I don’t really do much here, though.
14 00:01:56.020 ⇒ 00:02:01.849 Kaela Gallagher: Okay. What… I guess, like, how many hours a week do you typically spend with Brainforge?
15 00:02:02.300 ⇒ 00:02:11.640 Raymund Verzosa: I guess it depends if there’s work needed, so I guess you can just… Call it, like, on-call?
16 00:02:12.330 ⇒ 00:02:18.359 Raymund Verzosa: So, when there’s work done, when there’s work needed to be done, I… I just work.
17 00:02:19.220 ⇒ 00:02:22.789 Kaela Gallagher: Okay, how many hours a week do you think that ends up being?
18 00:02:24.270 ⇒ 00:02:29.779 Raymund Verzosa: This week, I think I’m not doing anything, so yeah, pretty much nothing.
19 00:02:30.770 ⇒ 00:02:31.370 Raymund Verzosa: But…
20 00:02:31.370 ⇒ 00:02:31.920 Kaela Gallagher: Okay.
21 00:02:31.920 ⇒ 00:02:35.920 Raymund Verzosa: But what if there’s work, I usually just, you know…
22 00:02:36.720 ⇒ 00:02:41.659 Raymund Verzosa: I guess, like, a part-time thingy? Like, 20 hours per week? Yeah.
23 00:02:42.390 ⇒ 00:02:45.840 Kaela Gallagher: Okay. Okay, so sometimes up to 20. Okay.
24 00:02:45.840 ⇒ 00:02:46.380 Raymund Verzosa: Yeah.
25 00:02:46.680 ⇒ 00:02:51.560 Kaela Gallagher: Okay. I guess, like, what else do you do for work outside of Braidforge?
26 00:02:51.990 ⇒ 00:03:00.859 Raymund Verzosa: Oh, I… I actually just started working with… Mickey? He also…
27 00:03:01.150 ⇒ 00:03:06.440 Raymund Verzosa: kind of works here. He’s Michelle… Michelle Altomer?
28 00:03:06.680 ⇒ 00:03:12.040 Raymund Verzosa: He also does the video… Video stuff, but, like, in real life, so…
29 00:03:12.370 ⇒ 00:03:22.159 Raymund Verzosa: he… he films. He goes and films Autom when there’s events, stuff like that, so yeah. I… I also work with him.
30 00:03:23.130 ⇒ 00:03:29.320 Kaela Gallagher: Okay, so you do, like, his business, like, maybe doing edits for stuff that he films, or things like that?
31 00:03:29.570 ⇒ 00:03:30.200 Raymund Verzosa: Yeah.
32 00:03:30.400 ⇒ 00:03:36.619 Kaela Gallagher: Okay, okay, cool, that’s awesome. Did you know him before Brainforge, or you just.
33 00:03:36.620 ⇒ 00:03:41.470 Raymund Verzosa: Oh, that, he just… We connected through BrainPunch.
34 00:03:41.470 ⇒ 00:03:44.349 Kaela Gallagher: Oh, yay! Okay, that’s great. Okay.
35 00:03:44.350 ⇒ 00:03:53.849 Raymund Verzosa: I also work with, What is it? Robert’s wife? Rachel?
36 00:03:53.850 ⇒ 00:03:54.550 Kaela Gallagher: She, she…
37 00:03:54.550 ⇒ 00:03:58.659 Raymund Verzosa: She also needs, like, some… I mean, sometimes she needs video editing done.
38 00:03:59.310 ⇒ 00:04:00.930 Raymund Verzosa: I also do that for her.
39 00:04:01.200 ⇒ 00:04:04.380 Kaela Gallagher: Okay, word of mouth is going around, like.
40 00:04:04.380 ⇒ 00:04:04.990 Raymund Verzosa: Yeah.
41 00:04:04.990 ⇒ 00:04:09.120 Kaela Gallagher: great editor. Everybody needs you on the team. I love that.
42 00:04:09.890 ⇒ 00:04:15.070 Kaela Gallagher: Okay, cool, awesome. And you’re based in the Philippines?
43 00:04:15.440 ⇒ 00:04:16.450 Raymund Verzosa: Yup.
44 00:04:16.459 ⇒ 00:04:18.929 Kaela Gallagher: Okay, what part of the Philippines are you in?
45 00:04:19.750 ⇒ 00:04:25.360 Raymund Verzosa: Kind of far from everyone else. I’m, like, the north side, so… Yeah.
46 00:04:25.590 ⇒ 00:04:33.589 Raymund Verzosa: From Rico, that’s kind of like… I guess… 8-hour drive away from…
47 00:04:33.590 ⇒ 00:04:40.280 Kaela Gallagher: Oh, wow. Are you closer to… to Bryel? He… he’s a little bit further outside of the city, right?
48 00:04:40.690 ⇒ 00:04:48.849 Raymund Verzosa: Oh, I’m not sure where he’s from… yeah, but I think Rico, yeah, he’s kinda…
49 00:04:49.760 ⇒ 00:04:57.750 Raymund Verzosa: I mean, Ryan’s not here anymore, but yeah. Basically, we… we three were, like, the…
50 00:04:58.030 ⇒ 00:05:00.029 Raymund Verzosa: We just hang out before.
51 00:05:01.440 ⇒ 00:05:02.580 Raymund Verzosa: refer, yeah.
52 00:05:02.830 ⇒ 00:05:07.529 Kaela Gallagher: Oh, cool, okay, okay, awesome.
53 00:05:07.750 ⇒ 00:05:11.470 Kaela Gallagher: What do you enjoy doing outside of work?
54 00:05:12.340 ⇒ 00:05:15.660 Raymund Verzosa: I just started going to the gym, so…
55 00:05:16.000 ⇒ 00:05:16.829 Kaela Gallagher: That’s that…
56 00:05:16.830 ⇒ 00:05:18.449 Raymund Verzosa: And yeah, I also…
57 00:05:19.180 ⇒ 00:05:27.450 Raymund Verzosa: I guess I do, like, a PC building, like a side hustle type stuff, and yeah.
58 00:05:27.590 ⇒ 00:05:28.120 Kaela Gallagher: We would…
59 00:05:28.120 ⇒ 00:05:28.780 Raymund Verzosa: Noodles.
60 00:05:28.780 ⇒ 00:05:30.049 Kaela Gallagher: It’s building.
61 00:05:30.440 ⇒ 00:05:34.139 Raymund Verzosa: PC building, like, computers, and then buy it.
62 00:05:34.250 ⇒ 00:05:36.130 Raymund Verzosa: Then selling them.
63 00:05:37.080 ⇒ 00:05:40.860 Kaela Gallagher: Wow. Okay, that’s really cool. Okay, awesome.
64 00:05:40.860 ⇒ 00:05:41.980 Raymund Verzosa: Thanks.
65 00:05:41.980 ⇒ 00:05:51.180 Kaela Gallagher: I guess in terms of, like, your experience at Brainforge, like, is there anything that you are…
66 00:05:51.180 ⇒ 00:06:03.599 Kaela Gallagher: wanting in the role that you feel like you’re not getting right now? Any changes that you’d like to see? Like, how do you feel about the team overall? Like, just curious to know your thoughts about where things are at now.
67 00:06:04.960 ⇒ 00:06:11.130 Raymund Verzosa: I think right now, so, I understand that…
68 00:06:11.480 ⇒ 00:06:14.639 Raymund Verzosa: Not every time there’s, like, videos, so…
69 00:06:14.760 ⇒ 00:06:17.370 Raymund Verzosa: And I can’t really force them to, like, film stuff.
70 00:06:17.370 ⇒ 00:06:18.340 Kaela Gallagher: Right? Like…
71 00:06:18.340 ⇒ 00:06:22.499 Raymund Verzosa: That’s so… I guess… if there’s, like…
72 00:06:23.000 ⇒ 00:06:26.659 Raymund Verzosa: if I could just say… if I could just suggest something…
73 00:06:27.060 ⇒ 00:06:36.760 Raymund Verzosa: it would just be, like, at least taking a day to, like, film stuff like that, but… yeah, and I don’t think that’s possible with their busy schedules.
74 00:06:37.270 ⇒ 00:06:42.160 Kaela Gallagher: Okay. You mean, like, this would be, like, Utam and Robert filming…
75 00:06:42.160 ⇒ 00:06:42.680 Raymund Verzosa: Yeah.
76 00:06:42.680 ⇒ 00:06:43.860 Kaela Gallagher: It’s about brain force.
77 00:06:43.990 ⇒ 00:06:46.020 Raymund Verzosa: Okay. Yeah, stuff like that.
78 00:06:46.020 ⇒ 00:06:50.450 Kaela Gallagher: Well, hopefully, we will be getting a lot of content for you from.
79 00:06:50.450 ⇒ 00:06:51.060 Raymund Verzosa: Yeah.
80 00:06:51.060 ⇒ 00:06:52.560 Kaela Gallagher: Which is next week.
81 00:06:52.560 ⇒ 00:06:53.570 Raymund Verzosa: Alright.
82 00:06:53.740 ⇒ 00:07:03.919 Kaela Gallagher: like, you know, Mickey will be in person, like, shooting a lot of video, and hopefully we can generate, like, a lot of content from, you know, Robert and Utom’s speeches and stuff like that, so…
83 00:07:04.240 ⇒ 00:07:04.780 Raymund Verzosa: Yeah.
84 00:07:04.780 ⇒ 00:07:05.190 Kaela Gallagher: I will.
85 00:07:05.190 ⇒ 00:07:05.840 Raymund Verzosa: Hey!
86 00:07:06.260 ⇒ 00:07:10.090 Raymund Verzosa: Actually, they… I saw you doing, like…
87 00:07:10.430 ⇒ 00:07:13.380 Raymund Verzosa: post for Brainforce? Are you, like, handling the content?
88 00:07:13.380 ⇒ 00:07:21.470 Kaela Gallagher: No, I… so I’m gonna be partnering with Hannah and just working on,
89 00:07:22.120 ⇒ 00:07:26.549 Kaela Gallagher: Kind of our messaging around, like, culture and people.
90 00:07:26.550 ⇒ 00:07:27.000 Raymund Verzosa: and hot.
91 00:07:27.000 ⇒ 00:07:38.150 Kaela Gallagher: hiring, so any kind of posts that we make about that, I’ll probably just have eyes on those, or be supporting in some way. And,
92 00:07:38.320 ⇒ 00:07:41.310 Kaela Gallagher: We were making a post about interviewing.
93 00:07:41.470 ⇒ 00:07:48.310 Kaela Gallagher: And then Hannah’s out of office, so she was having me kind of help with that one post while she’s out.
94 00:07:49.110 ⇒ 00:07:53.059 Raymund Verzosa: Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. So, like, before Ryan left…
95 00:07:53.310 ⇒ 00:07:56.149 Raymund Verzosa: I guess he, yeah, he told me to, like.
96 00:07:56.460 ⇒ 00:08:02.880 Raymund Verzosa: create a… another video, like, showcasing, like, the work culture here, so maybe…
97 00:08:03.620 ⇒ 00:08:05.760 Raymund Verzosa: Maybe I’ll get to that end.
98 00:08:05.910 ⇒ 00:08:09.799 Raymund Verzosa: Something you… maybe you could post, or something, yeah.
99 00:08:10.160 ⇒ 00:08:19.299 Kaela Gallagher: Yeah, yeah, if you are, yeah, wanting to create any content like that, let me know, I’d be happy to, like, partner with you on it, and…
100 00:08:19.760 ⇒ 00:08:22.549 Kaela Gallagher: yeah, provide any advice.
101 00:08:22.880 ⇒ 00:08:24.230 Raymund Verzosa: Okay, yeah.
102 00:08:24.710 ⇒ 00:08:38.019 Kaela Gallagher: Cool. Any advice that you have for me as I’m leading people, culture, recruiting, I guess, because you’ve been at Brainforge longer than I have, so curious if you have any advice.
103 00:08:38.669 ⇒ 00:08:46.979 Raymund Verzosa: I guess just… be yourself, to be honest, because… Like me, I… they just…
104 00:08:47.549 ⇒ 00:08:52.939 Raymund Verzosa: see what I do, and they just recommended me to everywhere, so, like, yeah, just be yourself.
105 00:08:53.429 ⇒ 00:08:56.629 Raymund Verzosa: So, yeah, just build connections here, I guess.
106 00:08:56.790 ⇒ 00:09:02.010 Kaela Gallagher: Yeah, yeah, the team is amazing, like, everybody that I’ve… Yeah.
107 00:09:02.010 ⇒ 00:09:07.610 Raymund Verzosa: Really, I’m not also, like, in the tech world. I actually used to, like, edit for…
108 00:09:07.720 ⇒ 00:09:14.180 Raymund Verzosa: the real estate people, but now I’m… I’m in, like, tech, and I… Yeah.
109 00:09:14.390 ⇒ 00:09:15.480 Kaela Gallagher: Oh!
110 00:09:15.480 ⇒ 00:09:16.950 Raymund Verzosa: Building connections here.
111 00:09:17.190 ⇒ 00:09:21.139 Kaela Gallagher: Very cool. Okay, awesome.
112 00:09:21.480 ⇒ 00:09:36.189 Kaela Gallagher: Cool! Well, thanks so much for your time. Like, if you ever need anything at all, I’d love to be a resource to you. Like, feel free to put time on my calendar anytime you need anything, or call, or Slack me, happy to chat anytime.
113 00:09:36.570 ⇒ 00:09:38.820 Raymund Verzosa: Yeah, okay, thank you. Nice to meet you.
114 00:09:38.820 ⇒ 00:09:40.479 Kaela Gallagher: Yeah, nice to meet you too. Thanks, Harry.
115 00:09:40.480 ⇒ 00:09:41.409 Raymund Verzosa: Okay, thank you.
116 00:09:41.480 ⇒ 00:09:42.300 Kaela Gallagher: Bye.