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Lessons from the Field: Lee Hackett's entrepreneurial journey
Lee Hackett is the Group CEO at Bluprintx. Bluprintx using technology such as Adobe and Salesforce to design and deliver growth in global organisations, connecting the dots between people, workflow, technology, and data. Under Lee's leadership, Bluprintx has experienced tremendous growth and now spans US, Europe and Asia. Built through both organically and by acquisition. Before Lee turned to business, he was a professional footballer with Wigan Athletic. Lee is a seasoned operator and investor in start-up businesses, over his career he has helped scale 7 startups driving over £50 million in net new revenue without any outside investment.
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A leading edge
In the first episode of SI Partners’ podcast, Inflection Points, Joe Hine sits down with Euan Jarvie. Euan has led, grown, and transformed progressive media, data and technology companies across the world. Most recently he was the EMEA president of IRI Worldwide. Prior to this he was CEO of Dentsu UK&I through the pandemic and COO of MediaCom US. He brings his extensive experience in both public and PE-backed companies to this insightful conversation.
We discuss:
1. Growing MediaCom’s North American business
2. How Euan builds teams to compensate for his blind spots
3. Delivering radical transformation in an organisation of 8,000 people
4. How he shapes the culture of the companies he runs
5. The power of reverse mentoring
Sharpening your entrepreneurial toolkit
Timothy Armoo is a co-founder of Fanbytes, one of the UK's leading Gen Z social media and influencer marketing agencies. At Fanbytes, Timo created impactful work for the likes of Burger King, H&M, the UK Government, and Samsung before selling the business to Brainlabs in 2022. Named in the Forbes 30 Under 30 list for his achievements in Media and Marketing, Timo started his entrepreneurial journey at just 17 when he started his first business and has gone on to start two more since.
We discuss:
1. His strong sense of self and how that pulled him out of a difficult upbringing
2. Understanding the games he can win and mentally levelling up
3. Selling his business and why he chose Brainlabs
4. “How to speak to white people”
Scaling the entrepreneurial mindset
Bruno Guicardi is the President & co-founder at CI&T. For over 25 years, CI&T has been trusted partner to the world’s biggest companies to deliver digital solutions that transform businesses. He has worked with the likes of Coca-Cola, AB InBev, Johnson & Johnson and Motorola. An entrepreneur of the digital age, Bruno started with two co-founders in Brazil and has grown the business to be 7,000 strong and listed on the New York Stock Exchange.
We discuss:
1. How Jim Collins stopped them selling the business for half a million dollars
2. Embedding and empowering LEAN methodology into a business of 500 people
3. How you structure an organisation of 7,000 people for growth
4. What the party is like when you list your business
From 40 to 4000: Scaling with Private Equity
Dimi Albers is Global CEO at Dept. A pioneering technology and marketing services company that creates end-to-end digital experiences for brands such as Google, KFC, Philips, Audi, Twitch, Patagonia, eBay. He has overseen the company’s rapid expansion to a truly global organisation of 4,000 employees. Dimi was part of Tam Tam, the agency that became Dept. Running that business for 11 years, holding many roles in the agency, including opening their Amsterdam office in 2011.
We discuss:
1.His journey into the agency space and becoming CEO.
2. How to tell Private Equity they are wrong
3. Bringing 33 companies together
4. The Dept culture and how they maintain it during growth
5. The stage of growth at which it's important to focus on culture
6. The key ingredients for success in technology businesses
Lessons from the Field: Lee Hackett's entrepreneurial journey
Lee Hackett is the Group CEO at Bluprintx. Bluprintx using technology such as Adobe and Salesforce to design and deliver growth in global organisations, connecting the dots between people, workflow, technology, and data. Under Lee's leadership, Bluprintx has experienced tremendous growth and now spans US, Europe and Asia. Built through both organically and by acquisition. Before Lee turned to business, he was a professional footballer with Wigan Athletic. Lee is a seasoned operator and investor in start-up businesses, over his career he has helped scale 7 startups driving over £50 million in net new revenue without any outside investment.
We discuss:
1. His transformation from a professional athlete to a business career
2. Adapting to ‘corporate’ life and how he became the youngest branch manager
3. How to approach business acquisitions and the underlying impact
4. The framework for effectively scaling businesses
5 How to make good decisions
