A Done Deal

Hello and welcome back to another episode of “A Done Deal”, a podcast where we get unique relatable perspectives on entrepreneurship and leadership as seen from the eyes of seasoned entrepreneurs and investors. It is a great pleasure to introduce my guest today, Alfredo Ramos Plasencia. Alfredo is the Managing Director of CPI Enterprises, CPI is a UK-based technology innovation centre and part of the Government's High Value Manufacturing Catapult. With more than 20 years’ experience in the process industries, he has worked in diverse range of senior leadership and management roles spanning research and development, engineering, operations across a wide range of sectors including chemicals, pharma and energy. Alfredo holds a graduate chemical engineering degree and an MBA, from London Business School

Hello and welcome back to another episode of “A Done Deal”, a podcast where we get unique relatable perspectives on entrepreneurship and leadership as seen from the eyes of seasoned entrepreneurs and investors.  It is a great pleasure to introduce my guest today, Rikard Strid. Rikard is an accomplished Swedish entrepreneur based in Stockholm, and is currently the Chairman and CVO of KTC, where together with far-sighted Swedish property owners, he makes buildings more energy efficient through intelligent property automation. He is also the founder CEO of Clayster - which build products for the Next Generation Internet and helps telecom operators entering the third-dimensional business model. Rikard is also one of the top global experts on IoT or Internet of Things and is the Internet of Things Ambassador at Network Society Research; is a member of one of the working groups at IEEE setting and managing standards for methods to transport messages over a network is on the committee of the Swedish Standards Institute that specifies IoT standards amongst many others. Rikard, welcome to A Done Deal. 

Hello and welcome back to another episode of “A Done Deal”, a podcast where we get unique relatable perspectives on entrepreneurship and leadership as seen from the eyes of seasoned entrepreneurs and investors.  It is a great pleasure to introduce my guest today, Pieter Hack. Pieter is an accomplished Dutch entrepreneur in sustainable technologies and is a process engineer by training. His entire career has been focused on scaling up and implementing environmental and energy technology. Having been involved with work in the field of Electro Dialysis, he was early to recognise and adapt the potential of this technology to produce Blue Energy by reversing the process.Pieter is an MBA alumnus from INSEAD and is a member of the board at DMEC - Dutch Marine Energy Centre; Wetsus Supervisory Board and the European centre of excellence for sustainable water technology.

In this episode of A Done Deal, Tony and Keshav discuss the changing face of sustainable businesses over the last 5 decades,  expeditions to outer space and Mars, time travel, the 5th P of marketing (Passion), how students and travellers can channelise their energy and time during the lockdown and some fun facts about Tony's life (especially his love for stamps and postcards, and how they played an important role in his journey)... and yes, the impact of COVID-19 on travel.The story of the world's most iconic travel guides begins with Tony and Maureen Wheeler's overland odyssey from London to Australia, an adventure that prompted them to publish their first guidebook – Across Asia on The Cheap – and found Lonely Planet.New York Times famously described Tony Wheeler as “the trailblazing patron saint of the world’s backpackers and adventure travellers”. Currently, he remains a prominent entrepreneur, author and philanthropist in Australia. He is a man of many interests, and spends time on the Planet Wheeler Foundation, which focuses on areas such as health, education, human rights and climate change. 

Heidi Roizen is one of the most accomplished and seasoned veterans of the Technology game in Silicon Valley. She started out as a successful entrepreneur back in the 80’s and 90’s, and went on to become a senior executive at Apple; and in recent years, a Venture Capitalist, currently a partner at Threshold Ventures. She is the protagonist of an Organizational Behaviour case-study focused on networking and growth, taught at business schools across the globe. She is also a board member of various public and private companies, is one of the Top 50 Women in Tech among other many accolades. 

The prevalent methodology for starting and building a business is grounded in strategy and planning, primarily based on mathematics. This is an entirely logical and reasoned approach, but it is not enough on its own, particularly when it comes to the execution.  “Over the last few decades, businesses have invested heavily in formulating strategy, but less in their ability to implement it. And yet strategy execution is consistently cited as the major bugbear for senior executives”.Today we will be discussing change management in turnarounds and Mike shares some simple techniques to drive change and turnaround businesses using the push vs pull strategies

Join Chennakeshav Adya, Managing Partner, and Nav Kaplish, Partner Risk Management as they discuss vulnerabilities in enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems. When it comes to ERP security controls, experience talks.  Because they are usually out of the box solutions, these systems don't come with the controls enabled that regulators, management and internal auditors demand.  It takes years of experience to identify and design optimal ERP controls, develop efficient ways to test them and remediate ERP control failures. Staying on the "cutting edge" of ERP security controls is difficult. Rather than continually training your staff and using their time to perform ERP risk assessments, it makes sense to partner with experienced professionals who do this work every day.   Check www.adancorporate.com/en-uk/risk-management/index-risk-management.html for more on Adan Corporate's Risk Management practice.

Join Chennakeshav Adya, Managing Partner, and Nav Kaplish, Partner Risk Management, as they discuss risk management.Check www.adancorporate.com/en-uk/risk-management/index-risk-management.html for more on Adan Corporate's Risk Management practice.

Join Chennakeshav Adya, Managing Partner, and Dipak Khot, Partner Risk Management, as they discuss liquidity and market risk.Liquidity risk is associated with an investor's ability to transact their investment for cash. Typically, investors will require some premium for illiquid assets which compensates them for holding securities over time that cannot be easily liquidated.Before the global financial crisis (GFC), liquidity risk was not on everybody's radar. Financial models routinely omitted liquidity risk. But the GFC prompted a renewal to understand liquidity risk.1? One reason was a consensus that the crisis included a run on the non-depository, shadow banking system - providers of short-term financing, notably in the repo market - systematically withdrew liquidity. They did this indirectly but undeniably by increasing collateral haircuts. After the GFC, all major financial institutions and governments are acutely aware of the risk that liquidity withdrawal can be a nasty accomplice in transmitting shocks through the system - or even exacerbating contagion.A risk management strategy provides a structured and coherent approach to identifying, assessing and managing risk or uncertainties followed up by minimizing, monitoring and controlling the impact of risk realities or enhancing the opportunity potential by applying coordinated and economical resources.Check www.adancorporate.com/en-uk/risk-management/index-risk-management.html for more on Adan Corporate's Risk Management practice.

Join Chennakeshav Adya, Managing Partner, and Dr. Nicholas Beecroft, Partner Executive Coaching and Commercial Mediation, as they discuss a methodical process to effectively integrate your logic, reason and intellect with inner mastery of emotional intelligence, intuition, gut instinct, mindfulness and judgement - a competitive advantage worth having. Dr. Beecroft also shares his experience of saving a Family Office $27 million in one afternoon using these powerful techniques.Human beings make mistakes, especially in a complex world, under pressure with limited time and information. We make false assumptions, fail to foresee threats, strategic shocks and opportunities and get outmanoeuvred by competitors. We have many emotional, social and cognitive biases which distort our judgements and decision-making, such as groupthink and wishful thinking.Whether you are an investor deciding about whether to put your money into a particular business or an entrepreneur pitching for funds to launch your new venture, it's in your interest to thoroughly test the pitch, the proposition, the business plan, strategy, the leadership team, the financial projections and every aspect of a deal before it is done.And so it is in business. To improve your chances of making wise decisions and implementing successful new ventures and investments, it makes sense to thoroughly test and optimise your decision, pitch, strategy, deal, plan or acquisition before launch.Check https://adancorporate.com/en-uk/coaching/index-coaching.html for more on Adan Corporate's Executive Coaching and Leadership practice.

Join Chennakeshav Adya, Managing Partner, and Mike Kemball, Partner Turnaround and Growth, as they discuss how businesses can be turned around in COVID-19 times.

Join Chennakeshav Adya, Managing Partner, and Raju Venkataraman, Partner Executive Coaching, as they discuss the art and science of Negotiations.

Join Chennakeshav Adya, Managing Partner, and Raju Venkataraman, Partner Executive Coaching, as they discuss the art and science of Negotiations.