Future Ventures: Scaling with Clarity

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  Mark Francis — Scaling Beyond the Founder: How to Build a Team You Can Trust | FV Podcast Ep. 69 15.09.2026 55min

  Send us Fan Mail Mark Francis has spent nearly two decades working at the intersection of executive search, entrepreneurship, fintech, and HR technology across Asia-Pacific. As CEO of Preferrd, he is now applying that experience to a fundamental problem for scaling companies: how to find the right people, assess them well, and build teams that can grow without losing the trust, judgment, and culture that made the company work in the first place. This conversation goes well beyond recrui...
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  Dave Irvine — Why Founders Must Scale Themselves Before They Scale Their Companies | FV Podcast Ep. 68 18.08.2026 58min

  Send us Fan Mail Dave Irvine, known as The Leader’s Navigator, has spent decades helping leaders understand a deceptively simple idea: leadership is not primarily about title, authority, or technique. It starts with who you are. His work focuses on authenticity, self-awareness, trust, accountability, and the inner work required to lead others with clarity and conviction. For founders, that conversation becomes especially important as a company scales. Growth changes the business, but it...
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  Jae Hwang — Why Experience May Be the Founder’s Greatest Edge | FV Podcast Ep. 67 13.08.2026 1t 2min

  Send us Fan Mail Jae Hwang is the co-founder of Former, where he is challenging a deeply embedded assumption in venture capital: that the best founders are young, technical, and built for hypergrowth at all costs. His own career followed a different path. Jae began in brand consulting and strategy in New York, worked across North America, Asia, and the Middle East, and eventually became a Chief Strategy Officer within a Dubai government asset management organization, gaining firsthand exposur...
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  Linda Carlisle— Scaling Culture, Trust and Communication | FV Podcast Ep. 65 12.08.2026 51min

  Send us Fan Mail Linda Carlisle founded Comm-ext and is a certified change management professional. Her work focuses on communication, culture, and organizational change. With years of experience, she has helped organizations through growth, transformation, mergers and acquisitions, workforce changes, and other important moments when leadership communication can build trust or slowly wear it down. Her view is simple: communication is not just what leaders say. It is how people experience stra...
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  Manuj Aggarwal— Turning AI Into a Business That Runs Without You | FV Podcast Ep. 66 12.08.2026 50min

  Send us Fan Mail Manuj Aggarwal is the founder of TetraNoodle Technologies, a technologist and entrepreneur with nearly three decades of experience across technology and artificial intelligence. His path has been anything but conventional: from learning to program on early computers after dropping out of college, to working with companies including Microsoft, IBM, and T-Mobile, earning four AI patents, and eventually combining technology with neuroscience, psychology, meditation, and human pe...
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  James Chalmers— Crossing the Climate-Tech Commercialization Gap | FV Podcast Ep. 64 30.07.2026 56min

  Send us Fan Mail James Chalmers is the CEO of NovoPower, a Canadian deep-tech company developing systems that convert low-temperature waste heat into usable electricity. A five-time CEO with experience supporting more than 1,500 startups and 2,800 products, James has spent his career working alongside engineering teams to move complex technologies from research and development into commercial markets. This conversation matters because energy demand is rising faster than grids and new ge...
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  Peter Boolkah— Building a Business That Can Scale Without You | FV Podcast Ep. 63 28.07.2026 54min

  Send us Fan Mail Peter Boolkah, known as “The Transition Guy,” is a business coach who helps founders build companies that can grow without remaining permanently dependent on them. After starting at McDonald’s at 16 and spending 15 years inside one of the world’s most disciplined operating systems, Peter moved into entrepreneurship and discovered how rare that level of structure was in founder-led businesses. For more than two decades, he has helped owners strengthen leadership, install opera...
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  Shane Wilson— How founders must rethink value, pricing and defensibility | FV Podcast Ep. 62 27.07.2026 57min

  Send us Fan Mail Shane Wilson is Managing Partner at Citta Capital, where he focuses on early-stage investing and helping build companies, especially in B2B AI, deep technology, and robotics. He started his career in go-to-market roles at New York startups, where he learned how sales, marketing, and product need to work together for a company to grow. Today, he brings that operator’s perspective to venture investing, helping portfolio companies shape their strategies, systems, and business mo...
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  Peter Dorfner— Turning Climate Innovation into Commercial Reality | FV Podcast Ep. 61 22.07.2026 57min

  Send us Fan Mail Peter Dorfner is a Partner at Green Generation Fund (GGF), a Berlin-based venture capital firm investing in early-stage companies across agri-food and energy technology. He helped launch the fund in 2021 after years of investing in food and consumer innovation, bringing experience from both corporate venture capital and specialist investing. Since then, GGF’s thesis has evolved from consumer-led climate trends toward the technologies, infrastructure, and business models that ...
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  Boris Besner— Turning Field Execution into a Repeatable Operating System | FV Podcast Ep. 60 21.07.2026 39min

  Send us Fan Mail Boris Besner is the Founder and CEO of Okos AI, a technology-enabled field services company built to deliver security and low-voltage installations across distributed physical locations. What began as a smart-home and energy-efficiency business evolved into an enterprise deployment platform that now coordinates hundreds of certified technicians and has supported the installation of more than 60,000 devices across North America and parts of Europe. This conversation show...
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  Etinosa Agbonlahor— Why Customers Hesitate, Buy and Stay | Future Ventures Podcast Ep. 59 20.07.2026 51min

  Send us Fan Mail Etinosa Agbonlahor is a behavioral economist and the CEO of Decision Alpha, where she helps companies make sharper decisions about pricing, customer value, and growth. Her work sits at the intersection of economics, psychology, and commercial strategy—an important combination for founders trying to understand not only what customers say they want, but how they actually choose, compare, hesitate, and buy. Pricing is about more than just numbers. It affects profit, how cu...
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  Dr. Nisha Kohli— When ESG Stops Being a Report and Starts Running the Business | FV Podcast Ep. 58 17.07.2026 57min

  Send us Fan Mail Dr. Nisha Kohli is the Founder and CEO of Corpstage, a chartered accountant, and a corporate governance specialist with a PhD focused on the relationship between governance and company valuation. For more than two decades, she has worked across finance, governance, sustainability, risk, and technology, helping organizations move beyond policies and disclosures towards systems that influence how the business is actually managed. This conversation matters because ESG ofte...
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  Craig Teggart— Beyond the Qubit: Building and Backing the Next Era of Computing | FV Podcast Ep. 56 15.07.2026 59min

  Send us Fan Mail Craig Taggart is a Venture Partner at Qubits Ventures, where he works at the intersection of venture capital, family office capital, and emerging technologies moving from scientific research into commercial markets. His background spans UBS, investment banking, wealth management, capital advisory, and venture-backed technology and healthcare companies — experience that gives him a practical lens on a sector often dominated by technical theory. This conversation matters ...
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  Dr. Lyle Oberg — Liquid Biopsies and the Future of Early Detection | Future Ventures Podcast Ep. 57 13.07.2026 57min

  Send us Fan Mail Dr. Lyle Oberg is a physician, former Alberta Cabinet Minister, former board chair of Alberta Health Services, and now CEO and Chief Medical Officer of Exocellular Diagnostics Inc. He has worked across medicine, public policy, healthcare leadership, and biotechnology, giving him a unique perspective on what it really takes to turn a promising health innovation into patient care. This conversation is about more than cancer detection as a medical issue. It is also about s...
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  Steve Walsh — The 10X Leap: How Founders Move From Income to Enterprise Value | FV Podcast Ep. 55 06.07.2026 50min

  Send us Fan Mail Steve Walsh is the founder of Bison International Group and the author of Make the 10X Leap. He has spent decades around entrepreneurship, capital, private equity, and business building, helping founders answer one of the hardest questions in scaling: is the company actually built to grow, attract capital, and survive beyond the founder? This conversation matters because many founders want growth, but not every business is ready for it. Steve and Maxim unpack what separ...
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  Emanuele Pizzatti — The Future of Capital Is Structured, Strategic and Global | FV Podcast Ep. 54 03.07.2026 44min

  Send us Fan Mail Emanuele Pizzatti is the Founding Partner of Futurewave AG, a Switzerland-based investment and advisory platform focused on private markets, asset management, and cross-border capital opportunities. Futurewave operates across a highly connected network that includes Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Malta, and Saudi Arabia, with a model built around flexibility, trust, and access rather than a traditional fund-only structure. This conversation matters because private markets ...
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  Yarin Gaon — Why $1–20M Companies Stall and How Strategy Unlocks the Next Multiple | FV Podcast Ep. 53 29.06.2026 48min

  Send us Fan Mail Yarin Gaon is the Managing Partner of Fractional Partners, a growth advisory firm built for post-product-market-fit companies that are not yet ready to scale cleanly. He is an entrepreneur-turned-investor who started building companies as a teenager, created and sold Israel’s largest e-commerce platform for military goods, and later worked with hundreds of founders through a venture capital firm. This conversation is important because most companies making between $1 mi...
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  Joerg Erlemeier — Reinventing Leadership in the AI Era | Future Ventures Podcast Ep. 52 25.06.2026 56min

  Send us Fan Mail Joerg Erlemeier is the cofounder and COO of QUCOXX, a platform powered by AI that helps small and medium businesses improve their operations, sales, and finances. With over 30 years of experience working in big organizations, during times of change, and in consulting, Joerg decided to start his own business. He believes that small and medium-sized enterprises form the backbone of the economy, but they often don’t have the same strategic guidance, tools, or support to execute ...
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  Esra Kaygin — Building the AI Infrastructure Behind Better Hiring | Future Ventures Podcast Ep. 51 23.06.2026 53min

  Send us Fan Mail Esra Kaygin is the founder and CEO of Hirize, an AI company building infrastructure for how organizations process, understand, and structure document-based data. Before Hirize, Esra worked as a headhunter, built and exited an early AI scheduling tool, and spent seven years on the venture capital side investing across marketplaces, fintech, deep tech, semiconductors, lab-grown diamonds, and defense. She brings the rare founder-investor perspective: she has seen the startup gam...
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  Alan McLaren — How CEOs Build Trust in High-Stakes Moments | Future Ventures Podcast Ep. 50 22.06.2026 53min

  Send us Fan Mail Alan McLaren is the co-founder of Strata Originals, where he helps CEOs, founders, and executive teams understand one of the most overlooked forces in leadership: how they are actually experienced by other people. His work sits at the intersection of leadership, storytelling, trust, brand, and high-stakes communication. In these rooms, investors, boards, teams, and buyers often make decisions before anyone says the quiet part out loud. This conversation is important bec...