We hear from Stuart Noyes, Founder and Managing Partner of Winter Harbor – a Boston-based firm which provides restructuring and turnaround expertise to middle-market companies facing operational and financial decline in an effort to improve their operational performance, liquidity, and capital structure, and efficiently implement change. Since its founding in 2012, Winter Harbor has worked on nearly 250 cases, successfully stabilising distressed and underperforming companies
What were Appnomic’s beginnings? What is the company’s ethos? Paddy Padmanabhan: I created the company because of my prior experience architecting a core banking solution and encountering the constant performance issues plaguing clients’ websites. To elaborate, any binary compiled code will not change its behaviour runtime, only variations in workload or an impairment in the […]
Tell us about the very beginnings of The Blonde Salad? Whose idea was it and how did you turn Chiara’s blog into a media company & a talent management agency? It all began in October 2009 when I was doing an internship in USA and Chiara was in Milano studying and feeding her passion for […]
Whilst no individual has amassed a trillion-dollar fortune yet, Jeff Bezos, on the other hand, is expected to be the first individual to hit the trillion-dollar mark, as he was the first person to reach $100 billion. For CEO Today’s November edition, the team at Comparisun have analysed past and present valuations of some of […]
Here’s what we know so far about Gen Z: According to a 2018 Pew Research Study, Gen Z is the most tech-fluid generation we’ve ever seen, with 45% of teens saying they’re alone “almost constantly.” Natural chameleons, they are growing up in a rapidly-changing cultural zeitgeist that has conditioned their generation to both expect, and […]
In our digitally-led world, great people as we know, are the only true competitive differentiator in business today. They are the heart of the business and the key to unlocking stability and success, even during times of economic uncertainty. Yet productivity and staff loyalty are at an all-time low; in fact, Deloitte[1] has reported that […]
John Aves looks at the financial benefits that flow from creating a loyal customer base and outlines how to measure the return from loyal customers, as well as the cost of disloyal ones. According to a recent Times article, the decision by Persimmon, “Britain’s most profitable housebuilder,” to put customers first, has hit revenues and […]
Instead of having traditional appraisals and annual reviews, Netflix has introduced a permanent evaluation process. Managers and team leaders are encouraged to ask themselves a simple question of colleagues: “If an employee told me he or she had found another job, would I do my best to keep him or her at Netflix?”. If the […]
Contrary to popular image though, Rome is no sleepy backwater, and it boasts a thriving startup scene that capitalises on the city's famously flexible attitudes - both in terms of navigating a somewhat chaotic infrastructure, and in finding novel solutions to Italy's notorious red tape. Multinationals seated in Rome include Microsoft, IBM, Google, Deloitte, and […]
Tell us about MelCap Partners and the services it offers? MelCap Partners is a boutique investment banking advisory firm that has been providing M&A advisory services, the private placement of debt and equity capital, and general advisory services for nearly 20 years. MelCap is located in the greater Cleveland, Ohio area with a team of […]
What led to the foundation of FJVA? In 1998, my father, Francis J. Vassallo, had concluded his term as Governor of the Central Bank of Malta in which he was instrumental in liberalising Malta’s economy and directing it towards EU membership. At that time, I was working with Coopers & Lybrand (now PwC) and my […]
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