Fitinsur. Featuring Denise Oliveira, Founder and CEO, and AlixPartners’ Thomas Morineaux and Jonathan Hughes.

Narcissism and hubris in leadership. Featuring Professor Eugene Sadler Smith, AlixPartners’ Ted Bililies, Ph.D, and host Thomas Morineaux.

What drives founders and leaders to begin their start-up journey? How can they effectively handle the different stages of growth and “let go of their baby”? And how do the leadership traits at the top contribute to – or constrict – an organisation’s development? To close out our first season, we focus on the area of business leadership in the start-up environment with host Thomas Morineaux, Ted Bililies, Ph.D., head of AlixPartners’ Transformative Leadership practice, and Eugene Sadler-Smith, Author and Professor of Organisational Behaviour at Surrey Business School, at the University of Surrey.

Crowdo. Featuring Nicola Castelnuovo, Co-Founder and Group CCO, and AlixPartners’ Thomas Morineaux and Paul Fanning.

Crowdo is a market-leading business banking platform for SMEs in emerging Asia. Nicola Castelnuovo, Co-Founder and Group CCO, joins AlixPartners’ Thomas Morineaux and Paul Fanning to discuss the challenges in scaling a start-up, the key success factors for his business to date, and his thoughts on what may be on the horizon to disrupt the world of fintech.

Fitinsur. Featuring Denise Oliveira, Founder and CEO, and AlixPartners’ Thomas Morineaux and Jonathan Hughes.

Fitinsur is Latin America’s first “Insurtech as a Service” start-up. Denise Oliveira, Founder and CEO, joins AlixPartners’ Thomas Morineaux and Jonathan Hughes to discuss her disrupted journey into the world of start-ups, beset by the onset of the pandemic, yet emerging to secure Series A funding and set the business on the path to scale for the future.

IDnow. Featuring Bertrand Bouteloup, Chief Commercial Officer, and AlixPartners’ Thomas Morineaux and Gerrit Buschhorn.

IDnow is a market-leading European player in identity proofing services, combining automated, human-assisted and video-assisted identity verification services. Bertrand Bouteloup, Chief Commercial Officer, joins AlixPartners’ Thomas Morineaux and Gerrit Buschhorn to discuss how the company is differentiating itself from the competition in the rapidly-changing environment of digital identities, from regulatory, customer, and cyber security perspectives.

Global-e w/ Rony Raphaely, VP of Revenue Operations, and AlixPartners’ Thomas Morineaux and Phil Lewis.

International e-commerce platform Global-e has come a long way in just 10 years. Now valued at $5bn after a successful IPO in 2021, the business continues to scale as it harnesses the opportunities presented by the growing world of cross-border online payments and consumers’ growing appetite for online retail. Rony Raphaely, VP of Revenue Operations, joins AlixPartners’ Thomas Morineaux and Phil Lewis to discuss her personal experiences and the key characteristics required to thrive in a fast-moving start-up environment such as this, alongside the keys to the business’s success so far.