Second in Command: The Chief Behind the Chief with Cameron Herold

Our guest today is ZoomInfo’s President & COO, Chris Hays.  Chris Hays leads sales, marketing, and customer success. From 2019 until early 2021, Chris helmed sales and customer success teams as Chief Revenue Officer. Prior to that, from 2016 to 2019, he served as Senior Director of Sales and Marketing Operations, Vice President of Sales […] Resources: Subscribe, Rate & Review I'd love...

Our guest today is Mindbody, Inc’s President & CTO, Sunil Rajasekar.  Sunil has served as Mindbody’s chief technology officer since November 2018 and as its president since August 2020. With more than 20 years of consumer and enterprise experience, his work is focused on the company’s product and technology strategy, consumer marketplace expansion, and platform […] Resources: Subscribe, R...

Our guest today is TerraCycle’s Chief Administrative Officer, Richard Perl. Richard joined TerraCycle in 2008 and has overseen strategic partnerships, investor relations, capital raising, and the company’s international growth from 1 to 20+ countries. He has worked within the green business world for 35+ years in a range of industries.  Richard is a founder of […] Resources: Subscribe, Rate &...

Melisa Tokmak is the Head of Scale AI’s Document AI business, which focuses on building fine-tuned machine learning models to process documents at high quality. As the founder and leader of this unit, Melisa supports a team of engineers and machine learning scientists, as well as product, operations, sales, and marketing. She is now spearheading […] Resources: Subscribe, Rate & Review I'd love...

Our guest today is Michael Koenig, the Chief Operating Officer of Time Doctor, a remote company made up of 150 people spread across 40 countries. He was brought on in May 2020 to operationalize the company during a phase of explosive growth and to scale the organization. Michael is a passionate promoter of remote work. […] Resources: Subscribe, Rate & Review I'd love you to subscribe to the po...

Today’s special episode features clips from various podcasts Cameron Herold appeared on as a guest speaker. Cameron has spoken on several different podcast shows, but the ones we’re sharing today are from the following: The Drop-In CEO Your First Thousand Clients Media Maven Coaching for Leadership Mixergy Leadership and Loyalty In This Conversation, We Discuss: […] Resources: Subscribe, Rate &amp...

Our guest today is the Co-Founder & CTO of Armis Security, Nadir Izrael. Nadir guides the technology vision behind Armis to protect unmanaged and IoT devices. He co-founded the company in 2015 with its CEO, Yevgeny Dibrov. Prior to Armis, Nadir worked at Google as a senior software manager. Before Google, Nadir spent six years […] Resources: Subscribe, Rate & Review I'd love you to subscri...

Today’s guest is Gray Matters Capital Vice President and COO Trice Kabundi. Often described as a game-changer and secret organizational weapon, Trice has built and managed business initiatives and teams in Africa, Asia, Europe, and the US. She is skilled at bridging strategy and operations. She’s no stranger to capturing the big picture and driving […] Resources: Subscribe, Rate & Review I'd l...

Our guest today is the COO of Smart City Locating, Nathan Lenahan. Nathan Lenahan joined Smart City in January 2020. In his role as COO, Nathan drives vision and strategy at Smart City, cross-functionally leading departments such as Sales, Marketing, and Strategic Partnerships for the company. Nathan garnered success in previous roles where he managed […] Resources: Subscribe, Rate & Review I'...

Our guest today is Diligent Corporation’s President & COO, Lisa Edwards. Diligent Corporation is the largest governance, risk and compliance (“GRCâ€) SaaS provider serving over 23,000 organizations around the globe. Lisa is responsible for commercial growth and performance. Prior to joining Diligent, she served as EVP of Strategic Business Operations at Salesforce. Lisa also held […] Resou...

  Our guest today is COO of Thorben, Chris Koomey. Those who know him, call him Koomey. Koomey has dedicated his life to helping entrepreneurs get more out of their businesses and their lives by building multiple streams of value for income, wealth creation and fun. Currently, he is focused on building value in Thorben […] Resources: Subscribe, Rate & Review I'd love you to subscribe to t...

Our guest today is the Marketing Director of The Hustle, Scott Nixon.  The Hustle was acquired by HubSpot in 2021. Before the acquisition, Scott served as Head of Product and Growth, where he grew the daily email newsletter 50% Y/Y to 1.5m+ readers — and premium subscription 500% Y/Y to 10k+ paid subscribers. Prior, he […] Resources: Subscribe, Rate & Review I'd love you to subscribe to t...

Our guest today is the COO of Boomi, Chris Port. Chris is responsible for the support, services, success, and strategy functions within the company. Chris led the Dell acquisition of Boomi in 2011 and was responsible for the company's integration and growth post-acquisition. Previously, Chris was a General Manager within Dell Software's Systems Management Business […] The post Ep. 183 – Boomi COO,...

Our guest today is the Chief Business Officer at the crypto giant known as Blockchain.com, Lane Kasselman. Lane Kasselman has more than two decades of experience in public policy, crisis strategy, and communications at Blockchain.com. Previously, he headed communications and public affairs for Uber and AT&T, where he played a crucial role in creating national […] Resources: Subscribe, Rate &am...

Our guest today is the Chief Operating Officer of Anaqua, Justin Crotty. Â As Chief Operating Officer, Justin handles the execution of Anaqua's growth strategy and day-to-day operations. He joined Anaqua in 2016 as Chief Financial Officer, where he assumed overall leadership for the Global Finance and Accounting team.  In 2018 he was appointed to COO […] Resources: Subscribe, Rate & Revie...

Our guest today is the COO of HomeToGo, Valentin Gruber. HomeToGo is a marketplace with the world's largest selection of holiday rentals, listing millions of offers across thousands of trusted partners. Valentin spent 2 years as CRO refining the Customer Support program by fuelling it with Salesforce to create a new B2B2C CRM tool across […] Resources: Subscribe, Rate & Review I'd love you to...

Our guest today is COO Alliance Member Brian Gaouette, Vice President of Operations at V Shred.  Brian began his career as a financial analyst with a Fortune 100 financial firm doing accounting and reporting for investment portfolios. Brian eventually partnered with a group of people to form a digital marketing agency, where he got to […] Resources: Subscribe, Rate & Review I'd love you t...

Our guest today is the Head of Global Marketing at Clubhouse, Maya Watson. Clubhouse is leading the creator, partnerships, community, editorial, and communication teams for all marketing initiatives.  Prior to Clubhouse, Maya was an executive at Netflix leading Editorial & Publishing, and a longtime executive at OWN Networks and Harpo Productions. Originally from Minneapolis, Maya […] Res...

Our guest today is Pela Earth's COO, Jeff Keen.  Jeff’s background in the technology industry ranges from startup founder to senior executive in several high growth companies. He is an active member and supporter of British Columbia’s startup ecosystem as co-founder of Atrium Ventures, the Kelowna Innovation Society and Accelerate Okanagan.  Jeff is currently the […] Resources: Subscribe...

Our guest today is Christie Kim, COO of Persona, the identity infrastructure company backed by Index Ventures and Coatue that offers businesses the building blocks to create personalized identity verification experiences for any use case.  In her role, Christie oversees Persona's business and operations functions, including sales, marketing, customer success, and operations. She is leading […...

Our guest today is COO Alliance Member, Derek Knorr, who is the COO for Sprious. Sprious is a tech startup located in Lincoln, Nebraska as part of the "Silicon Prairie" and primarily plays in the web scraping space, providing SaaS sales of its web scraping services as well as product-based sales for the underlying infrastructure […] Resources: Subscribe, Rate & Review I'd love you to subscribe...

  Today is a special "Ask Cameron Anything" episode! We’ve polled our audience, sought out social media, and given you the chance to ask YOUR questions that you’ve been burning to ask from the CEO Whisperer himself, Cameron Herold! With over 20 years of building businesses and coaching some of the top leaders of business […] Resources: Subscribe, Rate & Review I'd love you to subscribe to...

  Our guest today is COO Alliance Member, Michael Sedio, the COO and Vice President of the Better Business Bureau. Michael Sedio doesn’t just work at the Better Business Bureau Serving the Pacific Southwest; he loves it. He joined the team in 2008 armed with a BA in Global Studies, planning to have his first “professional” […] Resources: Subscribe, Rate & Review I'd love you to subsc...

Our guest today is the COO of LIFEAID Beverage Co, Andy Halliday. Andy is the son of an Air Force B-52 Aircraft Commander and spent his high school years in Tachikawa, Japan, when his father retired from the Air Force to become a 747 Captain for Japan Airlines. He left Japan to go to Dartmouth, […] Resources: Subscribe, Rate & Review I'd love you to subscribe to the podcast and leave an honest...

ATTN: CEOs doing > 5-50mil/year: Are you looking for the Yin to your Yang (or the Yang to your Yin)?   Your ideal COO is an extension of you - it's the ONE relationship that most determines the fate of your business.   So if you know exactly what the different types of COOs are. […] Resources: Subscribe, Rate & Review I'd love you to subscribe to the podcast and leave an honest ra...