Catching Up With CUB

Daniel catches up with CUB member Peter Scrine of Crescent Capital Partners, one of Australia's leading private equity firms managing over $3 Billion in funds. Crescent specialises in providing high level strategic and operational support to their portfolio of businesses.

Daniel and Peter discuss the origins of private equity as an asset class, how to analyse a business and formulate a great strategy and management tips any business owner can use to operate their growing business.

Daniel catches up with Alita Harvey-Rodriguez, Managing Director at MI Academy. With a focus on retailers, 'Marketing Innovations' Academy provides award-winning training and consultancy around strategic alignment, helping businesses drive organisational change and customer experience.

Daniel and Alita speak about how to enhance strategic creativity within your team, maximise capabilities and discuss how to make the most out of customer feedback.

Daniel catches up with Chris Cox, Managing Director of Lead Lists. Founded by Chris and his Business Partner James in 2018, Lead Lists provides end-to-end digital marketing services including marketable data base solutions.

Daniel and Chris dive into the sentiment of the current business environment and discuss why traditional marketing solutions such as cold calling are still relevant.

Daniel catches up with David Aherne, Managing Director at Across The Ocean Shipping. David founded the Freight Forwarding company shortly after migrating to Australia in 2007, now operating offices Nationwide, in Europe and the US.

Daniel and David speak about his keys to a successful business, the challenges of running an internationally operating company and the importance of building a strong professional network.

Daniel catches up with Julia Strangio-McRae, Co-Founder of Mirrored Horizons. Specialising in aligning people and teams within a business, Mirrored Horizons is an HR consultancy using psychology, operations and strategy development to increase staff performance.

Daniel and Julia talk about the ever evolving culture within a company, the impact business owners have on it and how to empower your staff, increasing their productivity and satisfaction.

Daniel catches up with Graham Shannon, Managing Director of National Sign Build. Starting his first signage business out of a passion at only 23, Graham now runs one of Australia's industry leading signage manufacturers, working on nation-wide projects for clients such as Westpac, Footlocker and ANZ.

Daniel and Graham speak about turning passion into a business, Graham's experience of loosing his company to a bad partnership and how to come back stronger using the lessons learned through adversity.

Daniel catches up with Shane Duffy, CEO at Employment Innovations. Providing HR and payroll services to SMEs all across Australia, EI is the mother company behind industry leading innovations such as Employment Hero, Simployable, HR Connect and EI Legal.

Daniel and Shane speak about current & future employment trends, the keys to high employee satisfaction and review how to scale a traditional business through technology.

Daniel catches up with Greg Weiss, Founder of Soulidify. As one of Australia's most prolific employment & career advisors, Greg & his team assist business owners finding their operational half to help take their business to the next level.

Daniel and Greg discuss the importance for entrepreneurs to find an 'operational soulmate' that complements their skillset and review crucial steps of onboarding new staff to increase employee retention.

Daniel catches up with Michael Dowsett from Team CUB. Playing professional Rugby all around the World for almost 10 years, Michael was looking for a new career path when he reconnected with CUB CEO & old friend Daniel and became part of a new team - Team CUB.

Daniel & Michael speak about the winning mindset that got Michael to the top in professional sports, despite many odds, facing life altering adversity and discuss the principles that make a top athlete, which translate seamlessly into business.

Daniel catches up with Candice Meisels, Founder of Candice PR. After heading the PR at Disney, managing multiple European countries from their Headquarters in London, Candice moved to Australia and started her own PR business, catering specifically to small businesses and SMEs.

Daniel and Candice speak about what PR actually entails, ways to get your brand out there without spending money on ads and share some invaluable PR tricks and tools every entrepreneur should add to their arsenal.