INSEAD 2003J Podcast

We talk about building brands for skincare, fragrances, herbal tea and militant chocolate.

Note from Laura - Looking forward to telling you what drove me from L’oreal & Hermes via Insead to building 2 fine french food businesses (one in herbal teas and one in organic chocolate) to my  ultimate goal which is under way: taking over the 40 hectar family farm based in Brittany, France to at last start marketing REALLY useful products:   carrots, sunflowers, wheat, buckwheat, cider apples, etc🌻🐝💃

We talk about starting in the dot com boom/bust, to taking a job at McKinsey to ending up at a salmon food company in Norway. 

We talk about going from an Accenture consultant to being the CEO of the biggest bank in Northern Ireland. 

We talk about going from selling websites to selling derivatives to doing whatever it is that a hedge fund does. We also have a mini therapy session.

We talk about bootstrapping a chocolate and coffee company in the Yucatán. Orale. 

We talk about going from being a cold hearted investment banker in Mexico to being a socially conscious private equity person in Mexico (via New York and Paris).

We talk about going from managing a small factory in rural France to becoming a ‘big deal’ in the European green energy space.

We talk about going from spending a decade in the US army to starting and running a winery in Texas.

We talk about starting off as a rearview mirror engineer to founding and running a nuclear medicine company. 

We talk about how a Spanish boy worked all the way through Europe to eventually become a Scandinavian.