We sat down with Eddy Arriola at Büro over gin and tonics for a conversation about building, scaling, and trust. Eddy founded Apollo Bank during the financial crisis and grew it into one of the Southeast's most respected banks before a successful sale in 2022. He's served on boards across banking, fintech, and healthcare, and was appointed by the president and confirmed by the US Senate as chairman of the Inter-American Foundation, serving under three administrations. Today he coaches CEOs through his firm, Arriola & Co.
We dig into his new book, It's All About Relationships, which lays out the six arenas every CEO must master and a practical method for turning relationships into a strategic advantage. His core point: trust, not authority, is what holds leadership together. A great talk about navigating a bank through a crisis, the isolation of the CEO seat, and the relationships that make leadership work.
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