Scaling Without Losing Your Edge: Inside the Data Sciences Playbook
Release Date: 12/11/2025
Taking Deep Tech Public: The NanoXplore Playbook
CEO Confidential
Scaling a breakthrough technology from lab to global market takes more than vision — it takes relentless execution. In this episode, host Allison Dent speaks with Dr. Soroush Nazarpour, Founder and Chairman of the Board of NanoXplore, the world’s largest producer of graphene, and the driving force behind VoltaXplore, a next-generation EV battery company. Soroush has taken NanoXplore from a research idea to an international manufacturing powerhouse, serving clients like Ford, Paccar, and GE. Along the way, he’s raised over $150 million, taken the company public, and built a fully...
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Part 2 - Performance Under Pressure: Alain Brisebois, President, CWP Energy
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This is part two of Allison's conversation with Alain Brisebois, President of CWP Energy, a company at the intersection of AI, data, and high-stakes energy markets. After a corporate career at PSP Investments, Alain was recruited to help build something bold—and very different. Today, CWP is scaling fast, partnering with a global equity fund, and redefining how energy trading works in real time. But with growth comes complexity. Alain shares how he balances rapid expansion with maintaining the company’s culture, how AI is transforming trading strategy, and what keeps him personally...
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Performance Under Pressure: Alain Brisebois, President, CWP Energy
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What happens when you take an executive from a global firm and drop him into the volatile world of energy trading? In this episode, host Allison Dent sits down with Alain Brisebois, President of CWP Energy, a company at the intersection of AI, data, and high-stakes energy markets. After a corporate career at PSP Investments, Alain was recruited to help build something bold—and very different. Today, CWP is scaling fast, partnering with a global equity fund, and redefining how energy trading works in real time. But with growth comes complexity. Alain shares how he balances rapid...
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Part 2 - Scaling Without Losing Your Edge: Inside the Data Sciences Playbook
CEO Confidential
CEO Confidential is the new podcast hosted by M&A expert and strategic advisor Allison Dent, offering candid conversations with founders, executives, and business owners who have navigated the real-world complexities of scaling, selling, and transforming companies. This is the second part of Alison's conversation with Sean Hutchison, President & CEO of Data Sciences, a fast-growing analytics and AI consultancy working at the intersection of political strategy, enterprise data, and digital transformation. In this episode, Sean opens up about the pressures and complexities of...
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Scaling Without Losing Your Edge: Inside the Data Sciences Playbook
CEO Confidential
CEO Confidential is the new podcast hosted by M&A expert and strategic advisor Allison Dent, offering candid conversations with founders, executives, and business owners who have navigated the real-world complexities of scaling, selling, and transforming companies. In this first episode, Alison sits down with Sean Hutchison, President & CEO of Data Sciences, a fast-growing analytics and AI consultancy working at the intersection of political strategy, enterprise data, and digital transformation. Sean leads the organization alongside two very different partners — a political...
info_outlineCEO Confidential is the new podcast hosted by M&A expert and strategic advisor Allison Dent, offering candid conversations with founders, executives, and business owners who have navigated the real-world complexities of scaling, selling, and transforming companies.
In this first episode, Alison sits down with Sean Hutchison, President & CEO of Data Sciences, a fast-growing analytics and AI consultancy working at the intersection of political strategy, enterprise data, and digital transformation. Sean leads the organization alongside two very different partners — a political strategist and a geneticist — and together they’ve raised private equity, scaled globally, and executed acquisitions while maintaining the scrappy culture that defined their early success.
This is part 1 of their conversation.
Sean offers a rare, inside look at what it really takes to scale a company without losing your edge, including:
• how to balance entrepreneurial intuition with enterprise-level discipline,
• and why private equity has strengthened rather than constrained their growth,
Whether you’re a founder considering acquisition, an executive navigating rapid scale, or a leader trying to build an AI-ready organization, this episode delivers candid insights from someone operating at the heart of real-world transformation.
A must-listen for CEOs, entrepreneurs, investors, and anyone responsible for steering a business through its next chapter. Stay tuned for part 2!
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