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Welcome to Daring To, a podcast that finds out how CEOs and entrepreneurs navigate today's business world - the conventions they're breaking, the challenges they've faced and the decisions that they've made, and lastly, just what makes them different.

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    • Wirtschaft

Welcome to Daring To, a podcast that finds out how CEOs and entrepreneurs navigate today's business world - the conventions they're breaking, the challenges they've faced and the decisions that they've made, and lastly, just what makes them different.

    Season 5, #8: Alan Vey with Aventus

    Season 5, #8: Alan Vey with Aventus

    Alan Vey is Founder & CEO at Aventus. Following receiving his Master’s in Artificial Intelligence at Imperial College London, he completed a stint as a quantitative developer at macro hedge fund Brevan Howard, giving him exposure to the world of traditional finance.
    Marrying these skillsets and his hunger to innovate, Alan founded Aventus in 2016 – an enterprise-grade blockchain with the aim of making the benefits of blockchain available to businesses. After raising over $20m in an ICO in 2017 and surviving the pandemic, we have since continued to grow and expand into new sectors (including NFTs, loyalty, ticketing, gaming and supply chain to name a few).
    Alan was named a Forbes 30 Under 30 winner in 2021 for his work at Aventus, and he continues to look for ways to remain at the bleeding edge of the space.
    In addition to his work at Aventus, building further blockchain businesses and supporting others with their tokenomics models, Alan focuses on extending discipline to all areas of his personal life.

    • 45 Min.
    Season 5, Episode #7: Joe O’Connor of 4 Day Week Global

    Season 5, Episode #7: Joe O’Connor of 4 Day Week Global

    Joe O’Connor is a driven and dynamic campaigner and communicator, with extensive leadership experience, and a passion for social justice and progressive change.
    Joe is currently based in New York City, where in addition to all his work for 4 Day Week Global, he is conducting a one-year research fellowship with Cornell University, leading a research project on working time reduction.
    He was appointed as CEO in March 2022, taking over from Charlotte Lockhart. Previously he was 4 Day Week Global’s pilot program manager, where he is coordinating pilots of the four-day working week in Ireland, the United States and Canada, with almost 50 companies signed up to participate in six-month coordinated trials early in 2022. Pilots are being planned later in 2022 for the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand and Israel.
    Joe is also the chairperson of the Four Day Week Ireland campaign, having founded the coalition in 2019, and coordinated the successful launch of a pilot program and government-funded research project in 2021. He has been active on the issue of working time reduction since 2018, when he organised a major international conference on ‘The Future of Working Time’.
    Previously, Joe worked as Director of Campaigning with Fórsa Trade Union, Ireland’s largest public service union, where he led the design, development and rollout of several ground-breaking, successful and award-winning campaigns, as well as playing a leading role in driving a significant organisational change management project.
    He is a former political party chairperson and political campaign director and adviser, having managed several successful national political and electoral campaigns. He is also a former President of the Union of Students in Ireland, and held a number of high-level governance and policy directorships in the field of third-level education.
    In 2020, Joe co-founded The Doorstep Market, a voluntary initiative set up to support small, independent Irish businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic. This virtual multi-vendor marketplace acted an online ‘one-stop shop’, enabling Irish consumers to ‘stay home and shop local’, from a selection of over 300 small Irish businesses and more than 1,000 products.
    He holds an MBS in Strategy and Innovation Management and a BBS (Honours) in Accounting from the Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology, as well as an Advanced Diploma in Employment Law from The Honorable Society of King’s Inns.
    Connect with Joe on LinkedIn.

    • 42 Min.
    Season 5, Episode #6: Damian McKinney of Stoli Group

    Season 5, Episode #6: Damian McKinney of Stoli Group

    Damian McKinney brings an eclectic mix of skills and experiences to his role as the CEO of the Stoli Group. An officer in the Royal Marine Commandos, he operated in a variety of the world’s hot spots, including the Persian Gulf during the Gulf War, and received numerous awards for courage and distinguished service.
    In 1999, he founded and built a global consultancy, McKinney Rogers, which was acquired by GP Strategies. McKinney has a formidable reputation as a business leader, transforming companies and brands to become the best in the world. He has worked across many industries and continents, achieving significant recognition, with a particular focus on the beverage alcohol industry.
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    Stolichnaya is a historic vodka brand. It has deep roots in the vodka industry, dating back to 1948, and was a standard bearer of Soviet/Russian vodka.
    The rights to the Stolichnaya brand were acquired in 1999 by SPI Group, a private company chartered in Luxembourg, founded and owned by Russian businessman Yuri Shefler. The Russian government has disputed the legality of the sale of the Stolichnaya brand and vested those rights in a Russian state-owned company – FKP Sojuzplodoimport.
    The upshot is that two different companies claim ownership of the Stolichnaya brand. Each operates in those countries where the local courts have upheld their ownership of the brand.
    In the United States, the Stolichnaya brand is managed by the Stoli Group, a division of SPI Group.

    • 43 Min.
    Season 5, Episode #5: Amy Williams of Good-Loop

    Season 5, Episode #5: Amy Williams of Good-Loop

    Amy Williams is on a mission to convert people’s attention into funds for good causes. She co-founded Good-Loop in 2016 after stints at advertising giant Ogilvy London, and a soup-kitchen in Argentina, to make ethical behaviour easier for consumers and more profitable for companies.
    Today working with the likes of Nestlé, Unilever, the Co-Op, Coca-Cola and H&M, Amy’s ‘ethical ad platform’ rewards consumers who choose to watch an ad by donating to their chosen charity, whilst delivering better ROI for advertisers. It’s Yin Yang, win-win. Amy is one of Forbes Europe’s 30 under 30, eConsultancy’s Rising Star of 2019 and a face of the United Nations #SheInnovates global campaign.
    Connect with Amy on LinkedIn.

    • 48 Min.
    Season 5, Episode #4: Gabriela Hersham of Huckletree

    Season 5, Episode #4: Gabriela Hersham of Huckletree

    Gaby has built Huckletree's vision and culture since they first opened doors in 2014, leading its corporate strategy, product, and innovation. An advocate for diversity in entrepreneurship, Gaby is an advisor and coach for early-stage founders and a speaker and panellist on the Future of Work and diverse leadership.
    Outside of work, Gaby is usually dancing around her kitchen with her two little ones, Jack and Andrea, and her hubby Antoine.
    Connect with Gaby on LinkedIn.

    • 42 Min.
    Season 5, Episode #3: Steve Taylor

    Season 5, Episode #3: Steve Taylor

    Steve Taylor is the CEO of Robin Hood Multi Academy Trust in Birmingham and has been in post since January 2016. Steve has a strong leadership background in education and, as well as being a National Leader of Education, has worked at a national level on a number of initiatives as well as at an international level.
    During the recent Coronavirus shutdown of schools, Robin Hood MAT created #TheLearningProjects – a national editable set of resources for any school in the country to build upon and improve. The team currently runs #PodcastCPD, an innovative and free approach to CPD for anyone interested in education with aim of generating national and global networks.
    Steve and the Robin Hood MAT team are interested in open, transparent leadership and collaboration within the education sector and have committed to sharing EVERYTHING the MAT does for others to use as a base to build from. 

    • 44 Min.

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