EVOLVE with Carlos Monteiro: Recent Episodes
Carlos Monteiro
This podcast is created and maintained by Carlos Monteiro, founder of EVOLVE, and his team.
On the EVOLVE podcast, you will have a unique opportunity to listen to insights to the conversations Carlos has with business professionals and thought leaders from all over the Globe in topics such as Digital transformation, the future of work, managing digital teams and other themes extremely relevant for the modern leader.
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Welcome to the future.
Luzia Sarno talks about her career, her journey to becoming a leader ahead of Fleury, Brazil's most renowned medical diagnosis labs, with over 185 units. We. Spoke about their digital transformation, its main investments, Luzias views on leadership, diversity and a bunch of the very relevant topics that leaders from all over the Globe are scratching their heads and trying to figure how to best cope with the transformations that are happening in our society. Thought leadership, technology, healthcare are some of the key words that best describe this episode.
In this Episode i spoke with Eduardo Fregonesi, Co-founder and CEO @SYNAPCOM a leading full commerce house that was born in Brazil and today has solid presence across Latam. They work with leading industries and brands from all over tge world and support them with logistics the full operational digital commerce operations Eduardo shared his views on why the industry is Going Direct to the Consumer, some of the main trends in commerce, challenges in retaining talent in his organization amid much more. The interview is in Portuguese but subtitles will be added later on to the video.
In this Episode I've met with Patryk Pawlikowski founder of Shoplo, an E-commerce platform from Poland who ended up being acquired by SumUp, a fast growing mobile payment company based in London. We spoke about their challenges in becoming a truly global commerce platforms, why having a great product and great customer service is imperative and why SumUp acquired an E-commerce platform.
In 2018 I had the honour to sit down with Horia Velicu, head of the Innovation LAB at BRD in Bucharest.
Horia has a diverse background, always mixing computer science and finance and later in his career this job appeared and he decided to take the challenge further.
BRD is part of the Société General Group which is a French bank that is present in over 65 countries with over 32 million customers.
In Romania, the Bank has over 2 million customers
Horia shared some of the main initiatives that he is responsible for such as collaboration with universities, fintech, startups, prototyping new potential projects to be deployed at a larger scale;
Hope you enjoy this interview as much as I did.
and Let's EVOLVE.
Cheers
In 2018 I joined E-commerce Immersion. There I had the unique opportunity to interview Bogdan Colceriu, a serial entrepreneur who founded FRISBO.
Frisbo helps Fulfillers to become more efficient by enabling orders to be fulfilled from multiple fulfilment centres spread across the country.
That is quite a disruptive model since several merchants would send their orders to a fixed location.
Enjoy and let's EVOLVE
Social Media has become ubiquitous in our day and age. Catalin Matei Romanian influencers explains quite bluntly why any personal brand or brand must be there and how to grab attention at a much lower cost than traditional media.
Earlier this year I sat down with Alexandre Janssen. TED speaker and futurist, Alexandre has achieved some impressive results for Deloitte Innovation in EMEA enabling several multinational organizations to transform their business models. Alexandre is the Co-founder of Minkowski. Minkowski is an agency for applied futures. This means that Minkowski helps organizations to visualize which opportunities, challenges, and future lie ahead of them.
Have you ever wondered working side by side with a Robot?
Well, this is a reality, and this industry is just going to grow at an incredibly fast pace.
The Future is here
Time to EVOLVE folks
Enjoy
Cărturești is the most iconic and one of the most loved books and gift shops in Romania.
We have spoken about Cărturești digital transformation plans, challenges, why Customers don't care about " The E-commerce" but about the whole experience, and why any company needs to become digital in order to survive.
We also speak about new organizational models and why companies and leaders must change how they " manage" people and what is the role of the CTO in the 4th industrial revolution.
As usual, this is an awesome interview full of insights.
Welcome to the future.
Let's EVOLVE.
David is the leader behind Retail and digital commerce Sonae's MC
Sonae is the largest private employer in Portugal. Sonae employs over 50.000 professionals across very different companies such as Telco, supermarket, Real Estate, etc.
David and I had a fantastic conversation on the future of grocery shopping;
Challenges in implementing new technologies at large grocers and at scale due to legacy systems
How grocers can use mobile devices to leverage content and satisfy consumers
What is the future of grocery shopping like
Why grocery shopping in Western countries is very different and it is unlike to be like in China
Artificial intelligence and robotics
The future of work
Purpose in the workplace
This was an amazing opportunity to speak with some of Portugal's most respected thought leaders and retail experts.
Hope you enjoy it!
Traditional banks have only one option to survive. This option is, to adopt technology, to partner with emerging fintech ecosystems and to drop the dinosaur mentality.
I sat down with Daniel Nicolescu, a seasoned executive in the finance and technology industry, former CEO of PAYU in the CEE region and Co-founder of Symphopay, a company from Romania funded by GECAD Ventures.
Symphopay created a technology that seeks to help banks and retailers to better understand their customers at the POS by providing real-time data to banks and retailers and enable them to create unparalleled loyalty programs.
Welcome to the future.