Future Driven Podcast Adam Lejeunekopp

Welcome to episode 51 of Future Driven, this week Adam spoke with Amy Spurling, Founder and CEO of Compt, an all-in-one employee reimbursement platform.

Amy has a background as a COO and CFO with 20+ years of leadership experience at venture-backed companies. She has successfully guided companies from the startup phase to high growth and eventual exit. Her expertise spans strategic planning, international expansion, team development, finance, accounting, human resources, corporate governance, and risk management.

In this episode, Amy tells us how her frustration with HR Technology platforms resulted in her creating a company of her own. She discusses the importance of giving employees benefits and the ways to increase benefit utilization. Learn more about her company Compt and how they provide a fully optimized employee reimbursement platform for companies of all sizes.

Future Driven is hosted by Adam Lejeunekopp, CEO of the strategic marketing agency, Madak. In each episode, Adam talks to different entrepreneurs and industry leaders, discussing their careers, leadership styles, and goals for the future.

Welcome to episode 50 of Future Driven! This week Adam spoke with Armando Viteri, President and CEO of Neubloc a generative AI strategic consulting company. 

Armando has a background in computer science and was part of the first wave of AI as a Lisp programmer. He started in the symbolic area and has seen its various heights and falls over the years. About 6-7 years ago, Armando’s CTO with a Ph.D. in AI from his boutique private equity group partnered with him to start investing in AI and it has been a part of his world ever since.

In this episode, Armando teaches us about how AI has changed over the years and where it’ll be heading in the future. He talks about its impact on society and the quality of work that AI can produce. Learn more about his company Neubloc and how they help implement AI into Fortune 500 companies all the way down to small start-ups. Armando believes that if you invest in AI in your company early on you’ll not only survive but thrive!

Future Driven is hosted by Adam Lejeunekopp, CEO of the strategic marketing agency, Madak. In each episode, Adam talks to different entrepreneurs and industry leaders, discussing their careers, leadership styles, and goals for the future.

Welcome to episode 49 of Future Driven! This week Adam spoke with Raphael Bennett, CTO/CEO of HonestDeed, which offers a safe seller financing platform, removing the need to rely on banks and putting more money in pockets.

Raphael is an engineer by choice, he always leads the technical side of any business that he has been involved in. He had an interest in entrepreneurship and after graduating college it was hard to find a job which led him to become an entrepreneur. Initially, the first product he built was a web-based VR product for indoor spaces.

Raphael tells us his crazy story of how he created his company HonestDeed. His son was sick and in the process of their difficult financial situation, he met a gentleman in the hospital that said to buy a home with seller finance. He became interested in seller finance and wanted to use his infinity for software engineering, finance and economics together to build Honest Deed. 

Future Driven is hosted by Adam Lejeunekopp, CEO of the strategic marketing agency, Madak. In each episode, Adam talks to different entrepreneurs and industry leaders, discussing their careers, leadership styles, and goals for the future.

Welcome to episode 48 of Future Driven! This week, Adam Lejeunekopp spoke with Mark Carpenter, chief storyteller and co-author of Master Storytelling.

Mark started his career in marketing communications and public relations, where worked for a bank and several different high-tech and software companies where he found his passion for storytelling. He co-wrote his book Master Storytelling which focuses on using storytelling in an intentional way to drive a point home and help people understand. In this episode, Mark talks about the fundamentals of storytelling, the many lessons you learn, and why showing the human side of yourself is important.

Future Driven is hosted by Adam Lejeunekopp, CEO of the strategic marketing agency, Madak. In each episode, Adam talks to different entrepreneurs and industry leaders, discussing their careers, leadership styles, and goals for the future.

Welcome to episode 47 of Future Driven! This week, Adam Lejeunekopp spoke with Guillaume Wiatr, founder and CEO of MetaHelm, a business consulting company.

Guillaume describes himself as a creative person who has earned two degrees in Finance and in Jazz. After college, he started working in consulting and started his first company in France in 1999. After that, he met his wife, and together they relocated to the United States in 2008.

After a few years working in retail, he went back to consulting and started MetaHelm in 2015. Later on, he wrote his first eBook called Strategic Narrative. Guillaume’s main focus for the future is to remain creative and one step ahead of his clients so that he can give them value and continue providing insightful business advice. He also plans on writing a few more books and continuing to grow MetaHelm as a company.

Welcome to episode 46 of Future Driven! This week, Adam Lejeunekopp spoke with Chris Hervochon, CPA, CVA, LLC.

After achieving an undergraduate degree in accounting, Chris briefly played professional golf in 2006, 2007, and 2008. Then, he spent over three years in forensic accounting and seven years in corporate accounting. In 2011, Chris got his CPA license and started his current business as a side hustle, where he did tax returns for family and friends and book kept. In 2018, he decided to dedicate himself to his business full-time.

Chris Hervochon, CPA, CVA, LLC specializes in virtual CFO services for marketing and creative agencies. Their current sweet spot is agencies with five to fifteen people, and they conduct forecasting, budgeting, cash flow planning, and also do accounting and tax planning.