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 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 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.