Boardroom Uncovered

The UK boss of trading platform eToro has opened up about the firm's plans to become a public company and what the London Stock Exchange has to do to win its backing. The London-headquartered division of the Israel-headquartered trading and investment group has been weighing up floating in London or on another international exchange for a number of months. Daniel Moczulski previously told Cit...

The boss of Warburtons has said the bakery giant would not be where it is today without the help of Hollywood A-listers Samuel L Jackson, George Clooney, Robert De Niro, Sylvester Stallone – and The Muppets. Chairman Jonathan Warburton, part of the fifth generation of the family to lead the Bolton business, has seen the firm's finances transformed by the use of film stars in their adverts in...

How this Arla Foods managing director went from selling cigarettes to selling milk A globe-trotting career that began selling cigarettes at British American Tobacco and has led to heading up the UK arm of dairy giant Arla Foods is maybe not what Bas Padberg could have predicted when he started out in the early 1990s. The managing director of the group behind Lurpak, Cravendale, Skyr and B.O.B milk...

A business should be more like a family in order to attract employees with the right moral and cultural judgements, the boss of B&Q has said. Graham Bell added that the DIY giant's approach to company culture gives it "credibility" and that business and family can't be separated. The comments from the boss of Kingfisher-owned B&Q were made in the latest episode of City...

In the latest episode of Boardroom Uncovered, PensionBee UK CEO Romina Savova sat down with City AM UK Editor Jon Robinson and opened up about what sparked her to found the now London-listed platform and revealed what she describes as the big secret behind a successful pension. The entrepreneur set Pensionbee up almost a decade ago and has overseen its rapid growth after quitting a career in corpo...

The rental market is “completely broken” and is a “disaster for first-time buyers” unless they can rely on the bank of mum and dad, the chief executive of Purplebricks has said. In the latest episode of Boardroom Uncovered, Sam Mitchell, speaking with City AM's UK Editor, Jon Robinson, said that even that method of getting on the housing ladder is “becoming much harder”. The CEO also revealed...

Travelex, the world's largest foreign currency exchange, is expecting to have new owners within the next two years, its chief executive has revealed. In this episode of Boardroom Uncovered, Richard Wazacz said the Peterborough-headquartered company will change ownership having been taken over by its debt holders in 2020 when the business collapsed into administration. Boardroom Uncovered is a...

In this episode of Boardroom Uncovered, the boss of Robinhood UK Jordan Sinclair talks about his journey from South Africa to the City of London, how the trading and investing app is taking on the likes of Hargreaves Lansdown and AJ Bell as well as what kind of a leader he is. Boardroom Uncovered is also available in video format as well.  

Totally Wicked was established with a simple goal: to convert as many smokers as possible into vapers in order to 'improve their health'. This mission has led the Lancashire-headquartered company to become one of the largest names in the industry and a major employer across the country. In this episode of Boardroom Uncovered, City AM's UK editor Jon Robinson sits with the group&apos...

Leaving New Zealand wasn't always the plan for Josh Bayliss. However, this has arguably turned out alright – given he's now the long-established chief executive running Sir Richard Branson's Virgin empire. The CEO, who is the latest guest on City AM's Boardroom Uncovered, has opened up about his journey halfway across the world to now be in charge of one of the biggest names to...

Sir Tim Martin, the founder and chairman of pub giant JD Wetherspoon, has opened up about the impact being such a prominent campaigner for Brexit has had on him and whether he thinks he actually made a difference in the debate. The businessman became a household name during the 2016 referendum campaign thanks to his passionate and full-throated advocacy for the UK's exit from the EU. His stan...

The chief executive of Bloom & Wild turned to a secret WhatsApp group with fellow founders to combat the "isolation" of being the sole head of his rapidly expanding flower delivery business. In the latest episode of Boardroom Uncovered, Aron Gelbard revealed what it's like to run Bloom & Wild without his co-founder Ben Stanway who stepped back to set up MoneyBox. Boardroom U...

You'd have thought that trying to turn around the fortunes of American Golf was enough for Nigel Oddy to be getting on with. The retailer endured a difficult few years during the Covid-19 pandemic, with Oddy being parachuted in just over a year ago to revive the ailing brand's finances. Since then, American Golf's balance sheet has been revitalised and the company is looking to the...

"What kind of CEO are you?"  City A.M.'s UK Editor Jon Robinson sat down with the UK CEO of IKEA, Peter Jelkeby, trying to uncover what makes him and the group tick behind the boardroom.  In addition to being the kind of CEO who "walks the talk", he believes he is "approachable" and "part of the family".  Is that one of the reasons behind his and IKEA&a...