Dr. Mike Daley - Founder of OrthogenRX
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Dr Mike Daley has a big personality to go along with his big company exit. But his seeming overnight success was years in the making. He spent decades assembling advanced degrees and making money for Big Pharma before deciding at the ripe age of 62 to become an entrepreneur and launch his company Orthogenrx. Dr Daley literally liquidated his retirement plans, raised a few million from investors and bet the farm on importing an injection for knee pain already used widely overseas. Seizing the opportunity to exploit a rarely used FDA process loophole he was able to fast track the approvals and...
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Dan Dimitri - Founder/CEO of PharmaForce
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After spending 20+ years as a project manager for giants Kaiser Permanente and McKesson he paused to find a problem that he could solve with a new business. He took a deep dive into interviewing clients to find aches and pains that he could capitalize on. After much research and a chance encounter with an investor-backer he launched PharmaForce with the mission to deliver flexible technology solutions for pharmacies, providers and patients demanding greater transparency and lower costs. After a mere 7 years he recently had a very successful exit to a PE firm. Tune in to hear Dan’s story on...
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Sylvester Mobley — Founder and CEO of Coded by Kids
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Sylvester Mobley is the Founder and CEO of the youth tech education non-profit, Coded by Kids. Through his organization he works to increase access to tech education opportunities for those who are underrepresented in tech, especially children of color. Under his leadership, Coded by Kids has grown from serving fewer than 15 children in a rec center to serving more than 500 students per week. Tech has a lot of great benefits but there are still groups of people being locked out of it.
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Felicite Moorman — CEO of STRATIS IoT
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Felicite Moorman is the CEO and co-Founder of STRATIS IoT, the only Sidewalk to Sofa® Intelligent Building Solution built for Multifamily and Student Housing. STRATIS helps create smart apartments and intelligent buildings built for the complexities of split multi-family and student housing. Serving over 325,000 apartments in the US, and over 18,000 internationally, STRATIS is poised for more growth in the future.
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Mahe Bayireddi — Co-Founder and CEO of Phenom People
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Mahe Bayireddi is the Co-Founder and CEO of Phenom People, a global HR technology company with a mission to help 1 billion people find the right job. With over 200 million people using the product in 140 countries, including 50 of the Fortune 500 companies, Mahe is well on his way to achieving his goal of revolutionizing the talent life cycle through technologies, specifically AI.
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Nader Elm — Co-Founder and CEO of Exyn Technologies
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Nader Elm is the Co-Founder and CEO of Exyn Technologies, a commercialization of the technology spun out of GRASP Labs (General Robotics, Automation, Sensing and Perception Laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania). Since its founding in 2014, Exyn has become the world leader in autonomous data acquisition using drone technology.
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Bill Yoh — Co-Owner of Day and Zimmermann, Author, Chairman of Yoh Group
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Bill Yoh is the youngest of five children born to Spike Yoh. Bill's grandfather, Harold, helped build the Philadelphia-based business that is now in its 5th generation, Day & Zimmermann. Founded in 1901 as a fledgling staffing company for engineers, it has grown into a massive organization of 45,000 employees globally and nearly $3 billion in revenue, making it one of the biggest privately held companies in the US and the world.
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Mike Hagan — Founder, Operator, Investor and CEO of Hawk Capital
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Mike Hagan is a founder, operator and wildly successful investor in a variety of companies. He has repeatedly proven his ability to create or invest in a company, scale it and successfully exit. His venture was the B2B procurement WebHost VerticalNet, which hit a market capital peak of $11 billion. Unfortunately, Vertical Net ended in flames like many other dot.com companies at the turn of the millennium.
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Bob Moore — Serial Entrepreneur and CEO of Crossbeam
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Bob Moore is a serial entrepreneur with over 15 years of experience, who started his first business venture when he was at Princeton. In the early 2000s, as online poker was becoming popular, Bob jumped on an observation he made to create the Mooraculator to computerize what his peers were calculating in their heads to level the playing field for others who wanted to make money playing poker.
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Dean Miller — President and CEO of PACT
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Dean Miller has been a venture capitalist for over 20 years, with particular interest in the healthcare technology and innovations space. Brought up in upstate New York, his early experiences shaped him for independence and entrepreneurship. Dean served as Managing Director at Novitas Capital, where he focused on venture capital investments across healthcare and technology.
info_outlineMarcelo Rouco was born in Argentina and lived there through his teens ‘till his family fled the country and moved to Sydney, Australia. There, Marcelo worked for a corporate training company after graduating from college, where he learned skills essential to running a business. 17 years ago, after deciding that he wanted to make a bigger impact on the world, Marcelo started Ecosave Services, with a mission is to save the planet from pollutants caused by fossil fuels and inefficiencies in energy operations. The company expanded relatively quickly, and eventually Marcelo decided to move operations to Philadelphia to have a larger impact with his work. Today, Ecosave has 75 employees and serves clients in 5 different states by recommending solutions to reduce energy costs, consumption and carbon footprint. Tune in to find out more about this incredible company and the man behind it.
Key Takeaways:
[1:17] Kevin introduces his guest for this episode — Marcelo Rouco.
[3:59] Kevin does a speed round with Marcelo.
[7:00] Marcelo was born in Argentina but eventually moved to Australia with his family. He shares some details about his life growing up.
[8:41] What did Marcelo learn from his time at IIR?
[9:43] What made Marcelo leave IIR?
[13:06] Marcelo explains why he believes we can't rely on the government to create positive impacts on the environment.
[14:53] When did Ecosave start and what is its business model?
[18:01] The three main divisions in Ecosave are automation, efficiency and invest. Kevin and Marcelo discuss a case study that reflect these branches in the company.
[21:45] How did Marcelo decide to go to the US, and specifically to Philadelphia?
[26:13] How important are state and federal tax credits or subsidies to Marcelo's business?
[27:19] How does Ecosave fare against its competitors? What makes Ecosave unique?
[30:44] What does Ecosave look like from a business standpoint in terms of the services they offer?
[33:46] How has the leadership and structure of the company changed over the years through the move from Australia to the US, and from public to private company?
[39:28] Marcelo recently brought on a board of directors to Ecosave. He explains what the board members bring to the table.
[43:06] What are the key characteristics of the culture of Ecosave?
[46:24] Ecosave is hiring! Marcelo shares more about the positions he's looking to fill at his company.
[47:01] What are some of the obstacles Ecosave faces and how is Marcelo approaching them?
[49:49] How can we continue to make a positive impact on the environment?
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