I just thought I would explain… Why Scouting for Growth? I have been fortunate for the past six years to work with Tech ventures wanting to change the world of insurance, finance, health, and wealth to name but a few. To accelerate great companies, one needs to understand a little bit about business. I have been fascinated with building growth ecosystems for the past six years. Getting my ventures to collaborate better and faster. At the same time, I have been driven by the potential of enabling my corporate partners to collaborate better with tech ventures while enabling those growth ventures with the greatest potential to engage with the many investors who gave me their trust. Scouting For Growth is the underlying premise for both … Venture Capitalists and Corporate Venturists. One side is looking for financial returns mostly from investing in start-up ventures. The other side tries to balance both financial and strategic returns. And often create unnecessary tech bubbles through the process. Anyway, I want to demystify through this podcast series two important processes that yield strong financial outcomes though 1) partnership, 2) investment, but then leading to 3) growth and 4) scale. First, Scouting For Growth is about scouting for ventures: or identifying and nurturing startups that are aligned to major market problems. The outcome sought may mostly be partnerships and collaborations but also longer-term investment opportunities for the many. Second, Scouting For Growth is about building ventures: or creating and designing new customer value propositions supported by disruptive business models able to solve some of the most complex challenges we need to contend with today.  Hopefully, the lessons learnt will ensure that we gather the right tools and techniques to build the growth business of tomorrow. You will also find that… I am French. I have been in the UK for 30 years. I am fortunate to have worked with some renowned companies around the world. But despite my great English I still and often drop my “ses” and count in French. I hope you won’t mind. You can take the French gal out of France. But rarely will you change her truly!