Apollo League: Recent Episodes
Apollo League
Apollo League's podcast series, where we chat with the founders of exciting, growing businesses seeking leadership and human capital.
In this episode of the Apollo League Podcast, we talk to Simon Rollenbeck, newly appointed Chief Marketing Officer of MozaikPlay.
Simon secured the role via the Apollo League platform.
We discuss Simon’s incredible career trajectory which saw him set up Expedia’s APAC marketing function single-handedly and build it into one of the world’s marketing teams, his personal values and approach to business, the need to be humble and what it was about MozaikPlay’s mission and business model that attracted him.
In this episode of the Apollo League Podcast, we talk to JP Monck about his appointment to the Board of award-winning fintech scale-up Life Sherpa via the Apollo League platform.
JP is a leading expert on risk and compliance, having worked at the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority and the Commonwealth Bank of Australia.
We discuss the impact of the recent Royal Commission into Banking in Australia and how it has changed the risk and compliance landscape, the common risk traps affecting scale-up companies, the role of an ethics charter, and how the right policies and procedures can avoid them.
In Episode 9 of the Apollo League Podcast, Simon talks to Rob Brown from Kerb Holdings.
Kerb is a fast growing Aussie scale-up that connects unutilised car park spaces to customers and is already operating in 30 countries worldwide. Drivers use the Kerb app on their phones to book car park spaces, and asset managers and landlords use the app to monetise their spare assets.
In today’s podcast, Rob discusses how he used Apollo League to set up a global advisory board of professionals to help grow Kerb by setting up new vertical and geographic markets.
This was Apollo League’s first international search assignment.
The process was spectacularly successful, with NINE appointments being made from the UK, North America, Singapore and Europe.
Candidates appointed through the process included:
- A former member of parliament in Singapore
- The current Chief Technology Officer of CBRE, one of the world’s largest asset managers
- A former global director of Shell
- One of the world’s leading climate change investors and entrepreneurs
- The global head of partnerships at North America’s largest mortgage disruptor
- An ex fund manager from Soft Bank
Other key highlights:
- Over 1800 candidates were attracted to the process within 3 weeks
- 340 candidates were longlisted
- Eight roles were advertised
- Nine people were appointed
In Episode 10 of the Apollo League Podcast, Simon talks to Vince Scully from Life Sherpa. Life Sherpa is a multi-million dollar revenue, fast-growing fintech that provides online personal financial advice to people, regardless of their financial position.
Many people don’t start planning for their financial future until late in their lives, and that is not a good thing. Life Sherpa solves that problem by providing access to licenced qualified financial advisers, online courses and a range of handy resources and tools.
Vince’s business is flying, with revenue doubling every year since formation, and he’s about to hit a million dollars a month in revenue.
In today’s podcast, Vince discusses how he used Apollo League to locate and appoint some experienced company directors as part of the company’s long term plans to list or exit. He talks about the speed of the process, size and quality of the funnel and attractiveness of our back-ended fee structure.
The process was successful, with two board appointments being made.
Candidates appointed through the process included:
- The ex-Head of Wholesale Payments and Commercial Banking for JP Morgan Luxemburg
- One of Australasia’s best risk and compliance executives and academics
Other key highlights:
- Over 80 candidates were attracted to the process within 2 weeks
- 70 candidates were longlisted
- Two roles were advertised
- Two people were appointed – a 100% success rate
In this instalment of the Apollo League Podcast, the ex-Head of Wholesale Payments and Commercial Banking for JP Morgan Luxembourg, Fernando Pacheco, talks all things fintech and discusses his recent appointment to the advisory board of fast-growing fintech scale-up Life Sherpa via the Apollo League platform.
Fernando is one of the world’s pre-eminent banking, payments and fintech minds having worked for some of the world’s largest financial institutions, including BNP Paribas, Macquarie Bank, Standard Chartered and CBA.
In episode 7 of the Apollo League podcast, Humense COO Rhod Williams talks with Apollo League Founder Simon Ward about his successful appointment to Mozaik Play's advisory board via Apollo League, the customisation of non-executive incentives in scale-up companies and the role of ethics in leadership and innovation.
Adam Good knows a thing or two about digital marketing, transformation and technology. He's currently Executive Director - Marketing Technology at WPP AUNZ - the world's largest communications business.
In this podcast Adam discusses balancing a full-time executive role with non-executive opportunities, how he handled the discussion around taking on some non-executive gigs in scale-up companies with his employer, and their thoughts on the subject.
He also shares his thoughts on the rise of advisory boards, the importance of being a shareholder as a contributing leader in a scale-up, and how he successfully found the right opportunity on Apollo League.
The Hon. Andrew Stoner AM is not your average candidate.
In this interview, Andrew, the former Deputy Premier of New South Wales, chats with Apollo League founder Simon Ward about the innovation agenda and how the federal and state government is handling it.
He also discusses how he has excelled in his political and business career, what he looks for in a business he chooses to back, and how he found the right one via the Apollo League platform.
In episode four of Apollo League's Meet the Founder podcast, Simon Ward chats with Gabriel Providel, the Founder and CEO of multi-million dollar tech scale-up MozaikPlay.
Simon and Gabriel talk about how his Apollo League process is going - and how he received over 300 leads in 48 hours, leading to the recruitment of the ex-Deputy Premier of New South Wales as a Director through Apollo League.
In episode three of Apollo League's podcast, Simon Ward chats with Andrew McLoughney, the newly appointed Managing Director of IotStream, about his extensive career, how he has added value to IoTStream and the importance of leaders having skin in the game in growing businesses.
Head to https://apolloleague.com/ to find out more about Apollo League and get involved.
Welcome to the first instalment of the Apollo League founder interviews. This series is designed to give our listeners some background info on some of the exciting opportunities we have listed on Apollo League – and what better way to hear it than from the founders themselves.
Our first episode features Ush Dhanak, founder of EQ Academy - a business that combines Emotional Intelligence and Neuroleadership to give leaders 'the edge' they need to lead and thrive.
Head to https://apolloleague.com/ to find out more.