Genius At Scale

Dave Mattson is a best-selling author, sales and management thought leader, keynote speaker and leader for sales training seminars around the world. As CEO and President of Sandler Training, Mr. Mattson oversees the corporate direction and strategy for the company’s global operations including sales, marketing, consulting, alliances and support. His key areas of focus are sales leadership, strateg...

Today's guest, Marie-Agnès Daumas, is on a mission to help the next generation of leaders create sustainable change for the planet by driving profitable sales. She's the Senior Vice President of Retail of TerraCycle. https://www.linkedin.com/in/marie-agn%C3%A8s-daumas-85a01ba0/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/terracycle/ To find out if you are on the brink of scaling, take the Scalability Index S...

Today's guest is Christian Kletzl, CEO and co-founder of UserGems, a software that helps B2B marketing and sales teams reach buyers that matter most for their businesses. Christian is a software engineer turned sales. Prior to UserGems, he was at Google, Microsoft, and McKinsey. Connect with Christian and UserGems here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christiankletzl https://www.linkedin.com/company/u...

Today's guest is Rob Cherun. Rob recently stepped down from the role of Chief Executive Officer of Stealth Monitoring after running the company for 12 years. With his team, he built an incredible enterprise of 2,000 employees, $100M+ annual recurring revenue, 40+ offices, 4 countries, and thousands of clients. The business has consistently grown 20-30% year-over-year. Rob has a deep passion in gro...

Paul Sulisz’s career within the telecommunications industry spans 18 years. He has spent 7+ years in the fiber/fixed access networks area and 11 years in wireless networks including cellular and microwave deployments across access and private networks. He has been actively involved in deployments across Asia-Pacific and North America. Sulisz started his career as a design engineer and found his pa...

James Chitty is the CEO of Talon Air and a Partner at Apollo Jets. Under James’ leadership, Talon Air has become more customer-focused than ever, with 40+ aircraft ranging from the Hawker 800XP to the Gulfstream 550. He has also seen company culture thrive, all while increasing pilot staff by more than 400% and quickly gaining market share. https://www.linkedin.com/company/talon-air-inc./ https://...

Today's guest is Matt Carpenter, the CEO of Dealerware. Dealerware is a SaaS company based in Austin, TX, that manages courtesy and rental vehicles offered to you by franchise dealerships. Matt scaled his company by utilizing one sentence. "Start with 'Yes!'" https://www.linkedin.com/in/mattcarpenterceo/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/dealerware/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/audiondemand/ ht...

Today's guest is Joe Caruso, CEO and Co-Founder of Alliance Advisors. Alliance Advisors is a global corporate advisory firm that strategically guides its partner companies to reach their business goals. https://www.linkedin.com/in/joseph-caruso-b299aba5/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/alliance-advisors/ https://www.allianceadvisors.com/ To find out if you are on the brink of scaling, take the Sc...

Today's guest is Todd Abbott. He is the EVP of Corporate Development at Mediafly. https://www.linkedin.com/in/todd-abbott-659b891/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/mediafly/ To find out if you are on the brink of scaling, take the Scalability Index Scorecard and know for sure. evokinggenius.com/scale Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Naveen Krishnamurthy is an accomplished two-time business owner and CEO. Since starting RIVA twelve years ago, Naveen has worked to define a culture that inspires employees to consider their relationships with each other and their clients, while achieving unimaginable personal and professional development.  While focused on the basics of results innovation values and accountability (what RIVA...

Meet today's guest, Trevor Sumner. Trevor is a NYC-based entrepreneur, product and marketing executive and recognized startup advisor and angel. He builds innovative companies, technology and experiences. If you want to find out more about Trevor and what he's currently up to, you can find him on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/trevorsumner/ To find out if you are on the brink of scaling, ta...

Meet Ben Levenbaum, CEO of Xceleration. Ben is a native New Yorker, and oversees the growth of Xceleration with an eye on the industry and a focus on “what‘s next” as they deliver reward programs across North America and around the world. https://www.linkedin.com/in/ben-levenbaum/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/xceleration-inc-/ https://www.xceleration.com/ To find out if you are on the brink of...

Edris is passionate about the intersection of retail, entrepreneurship, technology, and consumer science. In February 2020, Edris became the Chief Executive Officer of Engage3, a leading competitive intelligence and consumer engagement company committed to helping retailers and brands compete more profitably. He joined Engage in 2013 as Director, Business Development and then served as its COO and...

Today’s guest is David Grossman, CEO of Renue Systems. Structured as a franchise system, Renue Systems is the leading provider of comprehensive deep cleaning and restoration services to the hospitality industry. They help their customers solve the problems of maintaining at a high level their important assets such as carpets, drapes, upholstery, tile and grout, air conditioning units, mattresses a...

Today’s guest is Aaron Schumm. Aaron is the founder and CEO of Vestwell, the modern engine powering savings and investment programs for small businesses and individual savers. Vestwell currently powers nearly 25,000 small businesses, more than a million savers, and $25 billion in assets in all 50 states. For more info: Vestwell Website: www.vestwell.com Vestwell LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/...

Meet Dan Cremons, our guest for today's episode. He landed in the private equity space in 2007, and according to him, it was thanks to a few strokes of luck and a little elbow grease. Since the early days, Dan has led investments, served on numerous boards, built out portfolio operations and human-capital capabilities, and led within several private equity-backed companies as a CEO and CXO. Dan he...

Meet Tom Holgate, CEO of iLending and a Fintech leader with successful history of scaling businesses for acquisition and long term growth. iLending is a national leader in automotive refinancing with offices in Denver CO, Austin TX & Columbia SC. Through dozens of strategic partnerships with credit unions, banks, and other financial institutions, the company offers competitive interest rates o...

After fifteen years of working his way up though the competitive ranks of New York City’s financial sector, today's guest Andy Pudalov made a conscientious decision to leave his position as Global Head of Fixed Income Derivative Trading at National Australia Bank to pursue an interest he felt was a virtue of higher importance. While he worked his entire adult life for a number of prestigious finan...

Doug Thede moved into executive leadership roles for companies like Sitehawk and Microstrategy after getting his BA in Accounting at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, and working in tax for Big Four accounting firms. He may have started his career in Finance, but he thinks "beyond the spreadsheet," and views his primary job as building and leading great teams. He always has a good book to recommen...

Meet Steven Moy, CEO of Barbarian. I've interviewed Steven for my book, The Little Book Of Big Scale , and knew I just had to have him on the show! We had a great discussion, even reminisced about an ancient (by the internet's standards) viral ad campaign.  Since joining Barbarian as CEO in 2019, Steven has fundamentally reshaped the agency from top to bottom. He has launched Barbarian’s first glo...

In the first episode of Genius At Scale podcast, you meet John Hittler of Evoking Genius. He interviewed more than 275 CEOs on the topic of scale for his upcoming book, The Little Book Of Big Scale - 5 Counterintuitive Practices for Exponential Growth.  With this podcast, he intends to continue his search for counterintuitive scaling practices by interviewing the CEOs and other decision-makers of...