Scouting for Growth

On this episode of the Scouting For Growth podcast, Sabine VdL talks to Gary Garth, an experienced entrepreneur and the author of ‘The Zero to 100 Million Sales Blueprint’, a book for entrepreneurs who want to scale their businesses with a replicable, reusable, and scalable sales methodology. On this episode, the pair discuss how Gary found himself living in Medellín, Colombia, developing the Zero...

On this episode of the Scouting For Growth podcast, Sabine VdL talks to Amy Buchan Siegfried , an experienced founder, CEO, entrepreneur, investor, and speaker. Amy is the Co-Founder of Last Night’s Game, a platform that breaks down sports in an easy-to-understand way, through email and weekly podcasts. She also serves as the company's “on-air talent” and face. From conception to execution, Amy ha...

On this episode of the Scouting For Growth podcast, Sabine VdL talks to Chris Hutchinson, formerly the CEO of Canopy, a company on a mission to revolutionise renting and help people grow, both financially – by creating a better life for themselves – and in terms of financial resilience. Chris is an optimistic, results-oriented senior leader with a clear interest in building highly effective teams....

On this episode of the Scouting For Growth podcast, Sabine VdL talks to Sean Boyce, an expert product builder who helps companies, large and small, realise their vision when developing and owning world-class SaaS products without making the mistakes most product companies make. Sean has successfully scaled his own product companies, including StaffGeek and Podcastchef. Today, though, NxtStep Sean...

On this episode of the Scouting For Growth podcast, Sabine VdL talks to Jay Weintraub . If there is a term that describes Jay over the past 15 years are the words "event entrepreneur. Jay transformed his early digital marketing domain expertise into an industry-leading event shaper.  Today, Jay’s portfolio consists of: Blueprint (real estate tech), Manifest (logistics tech), Medicarians (age tech)...

On this episode of the Scouting For Growth podcast, Sabine VdL talks to Nathan Stuck , an award-winning leader in the B Corp community and the Founder & CEO of Profitable Purpose Consulting, a culture and impact consultancy that helps companies certify as B Corporations. He also founded and chairs B Local Georgia, a non-profit dedicated to growing the number of purpose-driven businesses in the...

On this episode of the Scouting For Growth podcast, Sabine VdL talks to Tunde Salako, an active entrepreneur within the Africa FinTech, HealthTech, and InsurTech scene. Tunde wants to connect the dots between inclusion, insurance and technology In Africa. Tunde co-founded HealthTech startup, Hadiel, to drive more health inclusion in Africa and is also the managing partner of the Africa InsurTech L...

On this episode of the Scouting For Growth podcast, Sabine VdL talks to Pablo Duarte and Hilario Itriago, founders of The LATAM InsurTech, a fast-growing insurance technology accelerator for startups wanting to enter the Latam market via Miami. Both Pablo and Hilario have been leading insurance innovation in LATAM for years. They both come from industry, and you will discover during our discussion...

It’s not easy for small and medium-sized businesses to find the right protection, even though many more small business opportunities have emerged since the pandemic.  Today, Sabine taps into the knowledge of two industry veterans:  Jeff Shi  of InsurTech Groups and  Tim Lovett,  formerly at The Hartford, now at Three Insurance, and asks them to understand the current situation with small commercia...

On this episode of the Scouting For Growth podcast, Sabine VdL talks to Aaron Jones, an award-winning entrepreneur working in Artificial Intelligence. Aaron co-founded Yepic AI, a company in the generative AI space, whose flagship product, “vidvoice.ai,” is a state-of-the-art video translation technology that lip-syncs your video in real time. Think about your Star Trek moments when Kirk says, "Sc...

On this episode of the Scouting For Growth podcast, Sabine VdL talks to Tristan Pelloux , an expert who is passionate about FinTech and Innovation. After several years in Corporate Strategy and Finance at Virgin Money, Tristan decided to launch Strategwhy, an independent management consultancy. He is also the Chief Pencil Officer at Fintech Review, an online media on the Fintech industry. KEY TAKE...

On this episode of the Scouting For Growth podcast, Sabine VdL talks to Michael Doyle , a brand and capital-raising guru who founded Brand Iron 20 years ago. Michael combines his branding and market-making experience with his investment reporting analyst strengths to shape a company dedicated to creating congruent brands supported by strong financial and investment stories. With this approach, Mic...

On this episode of the Scouting For Growth podcast, Sabine talks to Axel Thibon, founder of Wizest, the next generation of investment trading platforms. With his team, Axel aims to make personal investing more accessible, engaging, and aligned with today's digital platforms and changing consumer behavior. Today, people think that investing is complicated and intimidating. What if there were a plat...

On this episode of the Scouting For Growth podcast, Sabine VdL talks to Dennis Kelly, CEO and co-founder of Postalytics, a fast-growing software company that automates direct mail marketing, measures the results from direct mailing activity, and connects such campaigns to CRM and marketing automation systems to accelerate the way online marketing connects with offline marketing.  With expertise in...

On this episode of the Scouting For Growth podcast, Sabine VdL talks to James Marshall, managing director of Spinning Fox, a product-led design agency focused on helping large and small businesses solve problems more creatively. James has 11 years of delivery experience and a proven ability to manage super large global accounts, having worked for companies including HSBC, Nike, Unilever, PepsiCo,...

On this episode of the Scouting For Growth podcast, Sabine VdL talks to Guillaume Bonnissent , CEO and co-founder of Quotech, a data provider and technology platform that aims to give access to the very best data to insurance practitioners - from executive decision-makers, brokers, underwriters, actuaries, and even data scientists. Guillaume has 20 years of insurance experience as both an underwri...

On this episode of the Scouting For Growth podcast, Sabine VdL talks to Sara Simeone, CEO and Co-Founder of Niftyz (formerly Digital Oracles), as well as of her recent initiative, the NoCodeLab, and Co-Chair of Start-up Working Group, Crypto Valley. Sara is a strategist with a commercial mind. She was one of the first to publish a paper in 2018 on how machine learning and blockchain will impact th...

On this episode of the Scouting For Growth podcast, Sabine VdL talks to Dr. Avi Baruch, co-founder and COO of Previsico, and Jonathan Jackson, co-founder and CEO of Previsico. Previsico is a specialist in surface water flood forecasting, enabling people and organisations to minimise the impact of flooding.  Flooding cost the global economy more than $82 billion in 2021, accounting for nearly a thi...

On this episode of the Scouting For Growth podcast, Sabine VdL talks to Jeff Williams, former Managing Director for Kayrros USA, a technology-focused earth observation analytics company using unconventional geospatial data to bring new insights to the world’s biggest industries, including energy, commodity, and insurance. Jeff has an incredible background in top-5 consultancy and M&A, acquired...

On this episode of the Scouting For Growth podcast, Sabine VdL talks to Federico Spagnoli, at the time President and Head of Emerging Markets Ecosystems for Prudential Financial LATAM, now Vice President of International Total Wellness Solutions. Federico is well known for his work launching Vitality in South America and providing health services to over 1.5 million South Americans, who can today...

On this episode of the Scouting For Growth podcast, Sabine VdL talks to Alexis Cierra Vaughn , the Senior Director of Agency Marketing at Cowbell and the producer and host of the Cowbell Factor, a podcast ranked at the top of its category across several key international markets. Alexis is an outstanding professional and mum, with a passion for business and for enabling the success of others.  Ale...

On this episode of the Scouting For Growth podcast, Sabine VdL talks to Xavier Gomez, a Fintech Thought Leader and specialist in Investment Banking and Wealth Management with solid expertise in Fintech, Digital Assets, and Private Equity. Xavier writes and speaks about emerging trends in our digital economy, with a sharp lens on what is disrupting finance: financial inclusion and regtech.  Xavier...

On this episode of the Scouting For Growth podcast, Sabine VdL talks to Meeri Savolainen, CEO and co-founder of Inzmo, a fast-growing European financial services provider that makes renting a home affordable for everyone.  Inzmo is considered the fourth runner-up in creating a new standard for how people rent their homes. With more than 70,000 customers and over 400% growth in 2022, Inzmo has acqu...

On this episode of the Scouting For Growth podcast, Sabine VdL shares some timely insights from the team at IBM. One of these findings relates to one of IBM’s 2023 strategic themes and to IBM’s new partner program.  KEY TAKEAWAYS Autonomous vehicles are expected to account for about 12% of car registrations, and global car sales of autonomous vehicles are expected to reach some 101 million units b...

On this episode of the Scouting For Growth podcast, Sabine VdL talks to Elizabeth Lumley, an all-around FinTech expert who is currently the deputy Editor at The Banker, a company from the FT. Elizabeth received the State Street UK Press Award for Journalist of the Year in Technology and Digital Finance in 2022. For 20+ years, Elizabeth has been a global specialist commentator on regulations, risk,...