The podcast where process pioneers reveal the science, stories and secrets to make processes work - so you can, too.
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We interview some of the best entrepreneurs, experts and executives in the tech and eCommerce space. We want to share their perspective on the current trends, their stories about success and failure and how they attract and recruit talent. Our aim is to keep it real and simple - share the relevant lessons and have an open conversation. Follow-ups on our website for more details: https://www.alcottglobal.com/
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Join Timo Boldt, Founder and CEO of leading unicorn recipe box company Gousto, as he talks to top company founders, CEOs and business leaders about their journey so far, what makes them tick, and how they achieve their ambitions. Guests include the 'nation’s PE teacher’ Joe Wicks, Peanut founder Michelle Kennedy and Bobby Healy, founder and CEO of Manna Drones.
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#91: The Power of Process Intelligence in Supply Chain with Manuel Haug of Celonis
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30:01*Hosted by Andrei Palamariu* In this episode, I interviewed Manuel Haug, Field CTO at Celonis, where we explored the cutting-edge developments in AI and process mining. Manuel shared his decade-long journey at Celonis, revealing how the company builds dynamic, intelligent systems that enhance operational efficiency. The conversation delved into the…
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What Process Intelligence does that Process Mining can’t
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18:51Is Process Intelligence truly the next evolution of Process Mining? In our debut episode, we explore the origins and transformation of process mining through the lens of a grocery store navigating decades of change - from empty milk shelves in the 1970s to the rise of AI-powered supply chains in 2025. Featuring Wil van der Aalst (RWTH Aachen), Lars…
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#90: AI and Supply Chain Risk Management with Brandon Daniels of Exiger
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39:57*Hosted by Andrei Palamariu* In this episode, I interviewed Brandon Daniels, CEO of Exiger, about risk management in supply chains. Brandon shares his extensive experience in tech and risk management, highlighting his role in transforming Exiger's innovation process and managing compliance post-financial crisis. Exiger's technology focuses on suppl…
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#89: Future-Proofing Service Supply Chains with Chad Hawkinson of Baxter Planning
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30:36*Hosted by Andrei Palamariu* Together with Chad Hawkinson, Chief Innovation Officer at Baxter Planning, we discussed the current trends and innovations in the service supply chain space. Chad shared how Baxter Planning helps companies optimize spare parts management, reducing inventory by 25% and saving customers over $500 million in 2024. We also …
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#88: How Location Intelligence Transforms Supply Chains with Jason Jameson of HERE Technologies
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34:28*Hosted by Andrei Palamariu* In this episode, I was joined by Jason Jameson, Chief Customer Officer at HERE Technologies, where we discussed the company’s role in enhancing supply chain efficiency through mapping technology. Jason shared HERE’s solutions, which include AI-powered predictive analytics and dynamic routing, to help optimize traffic fl…
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#87: Transforming Logistics with AI Agents with Nitin Jayakrishnan of Pando
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50:41*Hosted by Andrei Palamariu* In this episode, I am joined by Nitin Jayakrishnan, Co-founder & CEO of Pando. We discussed the evolution of his Pando, which focuses on AI-driven logistics and supply chain automation. He highlighted the shift in supply chain technology, focusing on the importance of talent, innovation, and agility. Pando's AI agents a…
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#86: Building a One-Stop-Shop for ESG Regulations with Alberto Zamora of osapiens
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32:30*Hosted by Andrei Palamariu* In this episode, I interviewed Alberto Zamora, Co-Founder and CEO of osapiens where we discussed the company’s mission to automate ESG compliance and supply chain risk management. Alberto shared what osapiens means and how the name came about, sharing as well the mission and vision of the company. Alberto highlighted tr…
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S5 | Episode 1 | Alex Weber: Founder in Stealth
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47:23In this episode, Timo sits down with Alex Weber, former Chief Growth Officer at N26. Alex shares insights from his tenure at N26 and discusses the significance of company culture and effective leadership, drawing parallels between lessons learned from sports and entrepreneurial success. Now embarking on his own startup journey, Alex delves into the…
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#85: Future-Proofing Supply Chain Planning with Inna Kuznetsova of ToolsGroup
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30:21*Hosted by Andrei Palamariu* Joining me in this episode is Inna Kuznetsova, CEO of ToolsGroup, where we discussed her career evolution from IBM to leading supply chain technology innovations, ToolsGroup. Sharing how they leverage AI and machine learning to optimize inventory and supply chain efficiency. Inna highlighted some of their success storie…
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#84: Driving Value with Transportation Process Automation with Pierre Khoury of Shippeo
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32:01*Hosted by Andrei Palamariu* I interviewed Pierre Khoury, Co-Founder and CEO of Shippeo. We discussed the company’s journey and impact in the transport and supply chain space. Shippeo, now a global leader with 220 employees and 200 customers, focuses on visibility and risk management. Pierre highlighted the importance of real-time data, control tow…
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#83: Deliver More with Less – the Current Procurement Paradigm with Sammeli Sammalkorpi of Sievo
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32:31*Hosted by Andrei Palamariu* In this episode, I interviewed Sammeli Sammalkorpi, CEO and Co-Founder of Sievo, a procurement analytics company. Sammeli discussed Sievo's 21-year history, its focus on large enterprises, and its growth to 400 employees across Helsinki, Finland, Chicago, and Bucharest. He also highlighted Sievo's unique approach, empha…
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#82: From Unstructured Data to Automated Processes
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31:10*Hosted by Andrei Palamariu* In this episode, I interviewed Alex Yaseen, Founder and CEO of Parabola. We discussed the company’s mission to empower supply chain operations through technology. Alex shared how Parabola helps companies automate complex, manual processes by combining subject matter expertise with AI tools. He also highlighted the impor…
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#81: Supply Chain Orchestration and Customer Engagement
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29:39*Hosted by Andrei Palamariu* In this episode, I had a great conversation with two amazing leaders, Jörg Junghanns and Matthias Hodel from Capgemini and Kuehne + Nagel, respectively, discussing the partnership between the two organizations focusing on supply chain orchestration. We talked about the partnership's inception, emphasizing its global sca…
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#80: The Supply Chain Mindset: Cost Center vs Value-Adding
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36:37*Hosted by Andrei Palamariu* In this episode, I interviewed Kent Ledgerwood, the Senior Vice President of Value Engineering at One Network. We discussed his extensive experience in the supply chain industry and his insights on the evolving role of technology in addressing the challenges facing businesses today. We also discussed the trends and disr…
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#79: Boosting E-commerce Growth through Technology and Culture
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33:33*Hosted by Andrei Palamariu* I had a great conversation with Tobias Sjölin, CTO of Fulfilment & Logistics at Boozt. In this episode, we discussed Tobias's career journey- helping to build Boozt's in-house technology capabilities from seven developers to over 200 today. He shares insights into Boozt's entrepreneurial culture and how it empowers team…
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#78: In Supply Chain Design, Fun is Not Optional, Fun is Required
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51:39*Hosted by Andrei Palamariu* I had a great conversation with Donald Hicks, CEO and Founder of Optilogic. He had such a wonderful career journey as a leader in his field. He shared in our conversation how a talk from a college student back when he was young inspired him to pursue a career as an Operations Research Systems Engineer. We also dived int…
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#77: Embracing Resiliency and Eliminating Supply Chain Risks
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38:36*Hosted by Andrei Palamariu* In this episode, I interviewed Jennifer Bisceglie, Founder and CEO of Interos. We started the discussion with some of the highlights of Jennifer’s career—starting a company 19 years ago. Jennifer emphasizes the importance of transparency in the supply chain, mentioning how technology helps. Discover more details here. Q…
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#76: Exploring the Impact of Transformative Tech in India's Logistics
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44:00In this episode, I interviewed Pali Tripathi, the CEO of Taabi Mobility, an Indian conglomerate. She has 16 years of experience across diverse leadership roles across Unilever, EY, Booz, and CEAT Tyres. We discussed how logistics, infrastructure, and technology contribute to the business momentum in India, what value Taabi Mobility brings to its cu…
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#75: Anticipate and Act - the new norm in Supply Chain
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41:47David Warrick is a thought leader and industry expert in the field of Global Supply Chain and is currently the Executive Vice President, Enterprise at Overhaul. In his current role, he is responsible for the strategy and growth of the Enterprise business, as well as being a key member of the Executive Team. Overhaul, is a software-based, supply-cha…
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#74: Johanna Småros, Co-founder at RELEX Solutions
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35:07Johanna Småros (PhD) is one of RELEX Solutions’ three co-founders. Before founding RELEX, Johanna conducted ground-breaking research on retail supply chains. Johanna received the Young Scientist Entrepreneur Award in 2014 and the Veuve Clicquot Business Woman Award in 2017. In 2021, Johanna was recognized as one of the Top 100 Women in Supply Chain…
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S4 | Bonus Episode | Bruce Macfarlane: MMC Founder and Managing Partner
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44:34In this special bonus episode, Timo talks to Bruce Macfarlane, Founder and Managing Partner of venture capital fund, MMC. MMC invested into Gousto in 2013, a year after launching. A lawyer by training, Bruce then moved into banking before setting up MMC in 2000 to invest in early stage, high growth businesses. Find out what Bruce believes foreshado…
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#73: Ami Daniel, CEO and Co-Founder at Winward
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45:46Ami Daniel is the CEO & co-founder of Windward. He developed his passion for the sea during his seven-year veteran in the Israeli Navy and founded Windward with the mission of bringing Predictive Intelligence and big data analytics to the maritime ecosystem. In the last two decades, Ami has harnessed innovation and a relentless focus on driving tra…
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#72: Martin Thaysen, Chief Commercial Officer and Board Member at Controlant
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22:11Martin Thaysen is the Chief Commercial Officer of Controlant. Prior to Controlant, he held a number of C-level positions as a CEO, CCO and Board Member within Supply Chain, Logistics, Shipping, Manufacturing, Professional Services in publicly listed and privately held companies. Martin is passionate about making a difference to businesses through C…
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#71: Matt Petot, Founder and CEO at CargoAI
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31:14Matt Petot is Founder and CEO at CargoAI. He has a creative and out-of-the-box thinker, pragmatic and proactive, has strong leadership, and team management, has good communication abilities, result driven mindset, fast learner, is multicultural and a team player, and is well-organized. He also has experience in analytics, operations performance imp…
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#70: Simon Borg, Group CEO & Co-Founder of Navia
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36:24As co-founder and CEO of Navia, Simon Borg is committed to making people’s lives easier through innovative freight solutions. He works with a world-class team, that continues to find ways to exceed our customers’ expectations and future-proof our offer through constant innovation. From one side of the world to the other, they take the complications…
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#69: Terry Chan, Founder & CEO of JUSTT GROUP
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24:55Terry Chan is an eCommerce Supply Chain Leader with 25 years of experience in driving business growth. Awarded the "Most promising business leader of Asia 2019" by Economic Times in Singapore, featured by Forbes in 2018 in Vietnam, and invited by World Bank as a speaker in 2018 in Vietnam. An entrepreneur and executive: JUSTT GROUP (eCommerce Enabl…
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#68: Stephan Sieber, Chief Executive Officer of Transporeon
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33:49Since 12 November 2019, Stephan has been CEO of Transporeon. His professional focus has always been to use his wealth of experience to help organisations grow – and that is also his goal at Transporeon. Stephan spent 13 years working for SAP, including his role as managing director of SAP Switzerland and as chief operating officer for the DACH regi…
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#67: Nick Bartlett & Chris Crutchley, Director of CBIP Logistics
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43:49About Nick Bartlett : Nick Bartlett is a Co-Founder & Director of Sales & Marketing for CBIP Logistics. Nick brings 12+ years of experience across logistics, e-commerce, marketing, supply chain, and traditional retail across multiple from Asia pacific to US and UK. Nick who founded CBIP in 2015 and saw a unique opportunity in the market for approac…
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#66: James Chin Moody, Founder and CEO of Sendle
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37:20James Chin Moody is co-founder and CEO of Sendle. Sendle builds shipping that is good for the world that helps small businesses thrive by making package delivery simple, reliable and affordable and is the only 100% Carbon Neutral Delivery Service in Australia and the United States. James is an experienced senior executive and board member. He was a…
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S4 | Episode 11 | Shane Happach: Mollie CEO
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40:47In the final episode of the series, Timo talks to Mollie CEO, Shane Happach. Mollie is a $6.5bn valued payment service provider, whose mission is to make payments as effortless as possible. Shane is a Harvard graduate, with a global FinTech career spanning almost two decades. Hear his thoughts on business leadership, and what innovations he envisag…
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S4 | Episode 10 | Neeha Khurana: Celonis VP Culture & Leadership
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51:28Join Timo as he chats to Celonis’ Global Head of Culture and Leadership, Neeha Khurana. Before joining $11bn unicorn company Celonis, Neeha worked within the talent space across Consulting, Banking and FinTech. Hear her thoughts on scaleups’ culture opportunities, whether social progress has been made, and which coaching questions she loves to ask.…
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In this week’s episode of Bold[t] Flavours, Timo chats to Gousto’s very own Chief Financial Officer, Jim Buckle. Jim has over 20 years’ experience within big tech firms, such as Amazon and Dell, as well as extensive startup know-how from the likes of Wiggle and Feel Unique. Hear about how Jim started in the world of finance, what motivates him each…
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S4 | Episode 8 | Katherine Garrett-Cox CBE: GIB Asset Management CEO
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47:26Timo’s guest, this week, is Katherine Garrett-Cox, CBE. Katherine is the CEO of GIB Asset Management, a London-based global asset manager with over $11 billion assets under management, and whose purpose is to mobilise and scale capital in support of a more sustainable world. Hear about Katherine’s journey into Finance, her leadership values, and ho…
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S4 | Episode 7 | Guillaume Pousaz: Checkout.com Founder & CEO
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53:22In this week’s episode of Bold[t] Flavours, Timo talks to Checkout.com Founder & CEO, Guillaume Pousaz. Checkout.com is a global payments solution provider and is one of the most successful startups in the world, valued at $40bn today. Hear Guillaume talk about his transition from product management to CEO, how he retains humility, despite his inor…
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S4 | Episode 6 | Paul Taylor: Thought Machine Founder & CEO
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34:07Timo’s guest, this week, is Thought Machine Founder and CEO, Paul Taylor. Paul is a serial entrepreneur who specialises in speech, language and artificial intelligence. He founded fintech unicorn, Thought Machine, in 2014, which offers banks an opportunity to migrate customer accounts to a cloud-native platform. Hear his thoughts on how the world o…
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#65: Johnny Slattery, Chief Executive Officer of SCNX
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32:46Johnny Slattery is the Chief Executive Officer at SCNX. He is a seasoned technologist and has been building software for 20+ years. Verticals of focus include derivatives trading, management consulting and logistics. Johnny has rich experience building and running companies and maintains a passion for developing novel technical solutions that solve…
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S4 | Episode 5 | Iggy Bassi: Cervest Founder & CEO
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54:58Join Timo as he chats to Iggy Bassi, the hugely inspiring Founder and CEO of Cervest. Cervest offers cloud-based Climate Intelligence, enabling organisations to understand and adapt to climate risk at an asset level, and advising on what actions to take. Iggy is a serial entrepreneur, with extensive experience in both emerged and emerging markets. …
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S4 | Episode 4 | Guy Podjarny: Snyk Founder
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57:26In this week’s episode, Timo chats to Snyk Founder, Guy Podjarny. Snyk, valued at $10bn today, focuses on building developer-first security tools, helping businesses to scale quickly whilst staying secure. Hear Guy discuss his journey to founding two companies, Snyk’s culture and values, as well as his views on the company’s vision, product and str…
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This week’s guest is Depop CEO, Maria Raga. Depop is a fashion marketplace in which users, from around the globe, connect to buy and sell pre-loved clothes online. In this episode, Maria talks to Timo about how she conquered rejection when scaling the business, and how she retains equilibrium in a challenging landscape.…
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