Future Ventures: Scaling with Clarity

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  Peter Boolkah— Building a Business That Can Scale Without You | FV Podcast Ep. 63 28.07.2026 54นาที

  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 57นาที

  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 57นาที

  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 39นาที

  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 51นาที

  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 57นาที

  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 59นาที

  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 57นาที

  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 50นาที

  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 44นาที

  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 48นาที

  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 56นาที

  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 53นาที

  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 53นาที

  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...
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  Dennis Bruce — Building AI-Ready Enterprises in an Era of Uncertainty | FV Podcast Ep. 49 19.06.2026 52นาที

  Send us Fan Mail In a moment where everyone is racing to build with AI, Dennis Bruce is the voice telling founders to slow down enough to know where they're going. With more than three decades navigating large-scale technology transformations — from integrating minicomputers and mainframes at the UN in the 1980s, to rebuilding the privatized Entel (now Telecom Argentina) during Latin America's privatization wave, to turnarounds across airports, retail, and property management — Dennis has see...
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  Damian Roller — Why Many European Startups Think Too Small | Future Ventures Podcast Ep. 48 18.06.2026 52นาที

  Send us Fan Mail Damian Roller is a Partner at Inovexus, a community-backed founders club that invests in and supports early-stage European startups across the DACH region — Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. Before backing founders, he was one: born in Poland, raised in Germany, he built and sold an e-commerce company at university, spent a couple of years day trading and in real estate, then joined the founding team of a Munich B2B SaaS company in 2016. Eight years, one pandemic, and one ex...
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  Robert Stanley — Why Home Is the Next Healthcare Infrastructure Layer | FV Podcast Ep. 47 17.06.2026 53นาที

  Send us Fan Mail Robert Stanley isn't a healthcare lifer. He spent most of his career in technology — running IT projects for big banks, telcos, and airlines — before moving into home care about a decade ago and building one of Ontario's established providers. That outsider's vantage point is exactly what makes this conversation worth your time. Where insiders see a system to optimize, Robert sees one that's structurally broken: wired to reward visits, procedures, and ambulance rides, with al...
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  Greg Miles — Why Women's Health Has Been Ignored for Too Long | Future Ventures Podcast Ep. 46 16.06.2026 59นาที

  Send us Fan Mail Greg Miles is the founder and CEO of Milestone Gyno-Mics, a biotech company developing the first AI-powered, non-invasive blood test for endometriosis. He is one of the first bioinformatics PhDs in the U.S., with over 15 years of experience in genomics, diagnostics, and AI. He left a 10-year job at Agilent to focus on this project. His motivation is personal: he lost both grandparents to leukemia that was diagnosed too late, and he watched a loved one struggle for 12 years se...
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  Jan Poetsch — Turning Power Into Profitability | Future Ventures Podcast Ep. 45 12.06.2026 53นาที

  Send us Fan Mail Jan Poetsch spent almost twenty years working on some of the world's most complicated energy projects. He then realized that the biggest hidden opportunity in industrial energy was right on the income statement: the power bill. His career took him from a small town in Germany to offshore platforms with Shell, the Sakhalin II project in Russia, and the LNG Canada supply chain. These big projects taught him where the money often leaks out unnoticed. In late 2023, he started Ard...
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  Jeremy Funk — The New Rules of Growth in the AI Era | Future Ventures Podcast Ep. 44 11.06.2026 50นาที

  Send us Fan Mail Jeremy Funk has spent more than two decades doing the one thing most people in tech were told to stop prioritizing: building real relationships. As founder and CEO of Funk Futures — a fractional sales, recruiting, and marketing firm rooted in the energy sector — he's earned a reputation as one of the industry's premier "super connectors." His value, as he puts it plainly, is the people in his phone who actually pick up when he calls. Based in Boulder County, Colorado, and a v...