Sustainable Leadership and Disruptive Growth

This week David is joined by Scott Svenson, the co-founder, and CEO of MOD PIZZA. After founding and selling a couple of businesses in the UK, Scott and his wife returned to the Pacific Northwest where they built a family-friendly pizza restaurant that was fast, healthy, and affordable. In part one, Scott shares why he fell in love with entrepreneurship, what he's learned from failure, the inspiration for building and then selling the Seattle Coffee Company, and why he decided to get into the pizza industry.

David wraps up his talk with Joe Meyer, the CEO & founder of ExecThread, a venture capital-backed start-up that has built a platform that enables executives throughout the world to discover unpublished senior-level job opportunities.

This week David welcomes Joe Meyer, the CEO and founder of ExecThread, a venture capital-backed start-up that has built a platform that enables executives throughout the world to discover unpublished senior-level job opportunities via a unique crowdsourcing model. After selling one of his companies to Apple, he founded ExecThread six years ago, and now it’s the largest global aggregator of unpublished executive-level job opportunities.

David concludes his conversation with Ben Carson Jr, the Co-Founder and Partner of FVLCRUM Funds and the co-founder and partner of Interprise Partners. In part two, Ben talks about the drive behind his coordinated efforts of time, talents, and money, as well as the family’s future focus on civic pursuits. Ben also shares the importance of having a strong partner in business and in life and his thoughts on his father's political future.

Joining David this week is Ben Carson Jr. Ben is the Co-Founder and Partner of FVLCRUM Funds one of the few minority-owned private investment firms in the country and the Co-Founder and Partner of Interprise Partners, a leading lower-middle market private equity firm with expertise in Minority Business investment. In part one, Ben shares the inspiration behind launching a fund with a goal of creating generational wealth for minorities.

David wraps up his conversation with John Bello, the Chairman of beverage company Reed's Inc. and Managing Director of JONA investments. In the first part of the podcast, John discussed his amazing career which included stops with General Foods, Pepsi and the NFL and founding the beverage company SoBe. In part two, John shares how he got involved with a second beverage company, his philanthropic pursuits, and why his alma mater, Tufts University, means so much to him.

This week David welcomes John Bello, the Chairman of beverage company Reed's Inc. and Managing Director of JONA investments. John has had a remarkable career that began with a tour of duty in Vietnam, corporate stops with General Foods, Pepsi and the NFL and founding the beverage company SoBe. In part one, John discusses how the Vietnam War prepared him for a life in business, his groundbreaking run with the National Football League, and how he got involved in the beverage industry.

David wraps up the first episode of Sustainable Leadership and Disruptive Growth with guest Bob Goehrke, the CEO and Co-founder of one of the nation’s fastest-growing private companies, International Products Group. In part two, David and Bob discuss the alignment between sustainability and disruption, how Bob's near death experiences changed his life, and the importance of mentoring the next generation of entrepreneurs.

On the premiere of Sustainable Leadership and Disruptive Growth, David speaks with Bob Goehrke, the CEO and Co-founder of one of the nation’s fastest-growing private companies, International Products Group. In part one, Bob talks about building IPG into a manufacturer of world class natural and organic beauty products, the importance of having a strong business partner (and wife), and why he's a get-it-done guy.