Founders365

#194 - 🎬 Rory J Knighton - Founder & Filmmaker at Runaway Collective Rory is a purebred digital native, starting his first company at 16. Currently, he is the Creative Director and founder of Runaway Collective, a subscription-based creative agency with a focus on rapid e-Commerce builds blended with video. With his unique blend of film, branding and data science, Rory has been building brands for over a decade - from startups to global conglomerates. Since becoming heavily involved in the Food & Drink industry over the last 7 years by founding multiple food bev brands, Rory is determined to make a difference in the food space through education and the demystification of food ingredients. His upcoming documentary “The protein Lie and other dirty secrets” delves deep into the marketing secrets that the food industry doesn't want you to know about. Founders365 is hosted by business coach Steven Haggerty and shares 365 insights from 365 founders during 2020.

🥜 Stu Macdonald is the founder of ManíLife , a business he started out of a rugby club kitchen with 45 friends 5 years ago and now the fastest-growing peanut butter brand in the UK. A, somewhat cliched, unfulfilled accountant, Macdonald left a job at PwC after just 11 months to pursue a profession in peanut butter. He has never looked back since. His journey to date has been characterised by a chaotic swing of extreme highs and devastating lows, which should make for some riveting chat! Founders365 is hosted by business coach Steven Haggerty and shares 365 insights from 365 founders during 2020. Use code "365taster" at www.mani-life.com for 20% off your order 

#192 - Anthony Chapman - Co-Founder at Fellow Studio Utilising his skills in branding and creative strategy, Anthony has worked in both specialist design studios and global agencies, delivering award-winning campaigns for a range of clients. Some of these include Nokia, Vodafone, Syncsort and Skype. Anthony is a passionate and creative individual who understands the importance of classic graphic design especially interested in layout, form and typography. His work aims to focus on inventive problem solving and stimulating communication. His experience is invaluable when approaching branding, art direction and idea generation. Founders365 is hosted by business coach Steven Haggerty and shares 365 insights from 365 founders during 2020.

#191 - Jason Roberts - CEO & Founder at Kaleida International Jason Roberts is an esteemed business professional with 22 years’ experience in Financial Services. After spending 11 years working for a number of investment banks including J.P. Morgan, Jason made the move to Financial Service technology sales where he spent 11 years selling SAAS solutions to financial institutions for a number of US tech start-ups. Leaving the city in 2018 after spotting a gap in the market and with a wealth of industry experience and contacts, Jason set about building a solution to improve the commercial prospects and for SMEs and start-ups by launching his very own social platform focused on helping B2B Buyers and Suppliers connect. Son to a single parent from South London, Brixton, and now Husband and father to two daughters, Jason highlights empathy, kindness and integrity as attributes he values the most in people. Founders365 is hosted by business coach Steven Haggerty and shares 365 insights from 365 founders during 2020.

#190 - Vince Patten - Founder at Tippzi Vince Patten is the Founder/CEO of Tippzi a revolutionary digital ads app that helps SMEs achieve affordable ads. He also is a senior consultant for Save Our Planet, Refillery, Canada. Which he helped attain the rare distinction of achieving all 17 sustainable development goals of the UN. Founders365 is hosted by business coach Steven Haggerty and shares 365 insights from 365 founders during 2020.

Simon Hardie is co-founder and CEO of findexable – the new digital platform for benchmarking fintech innovation globally, and home to the Global Fintech Index. As Ai and analytics re-shape business, Findexable’s mission is to make it easier to gather, interpret and benchmark fintech activity, enable unmoderated, real-time insight on global fintech activity – to determine the ingredients of fintech success. Simon has two decades of experience producing financial intelligence content, research and events for global financial publishers including The Economist, Euromoney Institutional Investor and IFR (part of the Thomson Reuters Group), as well as boutique research publishers and media companies across Europe and the Middle East. He was previously a director of banking events and publishing house VRL (now Global Data). Founders365 is hosted by business coach Steven Haggerty and shares 365 insights from 365 founders during 2020.

#188 - Michelle Myers - Founder and CEO at Pink Callers Michelle is the founder and CEO of Pink Callers, an administrative support solution that assigns customer service rockstars to support home service businesses remotely. Pink Callers manages all incoming calls, emails and chats to your business, inputs all information into your business CRM and schedules both sales appointments and accepted crew work. Pink Callers mission is to provide work at home opportunities in the admin support / remote office management space. Founders365 is hosted by business coach Steven Haggerty and shares 365 insights from 365 founders during 2020.

#187 - Kas Andz - Founder at KAMG Kas Andz is the Founder of his own agency in London that simply pours jet fuel on e-commerce business growth. Kas bootstrapped the business from his mum’s house leading to rapid growth since having worked with Revolut, VistaJet and even approached by Gartner. He’s since gone on to invest in algorithmic trading, deep dive into biohacking & entrepreneur performance and more all while 22 still. 4x college dropout, years of depression & contemplations of suicide have lead Kas to play life with an “all or nothing” approach. When he's not running his agency, you'll find him running marathons, gulping herbal tea’s, trying to automate his daily life or playing with his Chihuahua Sushi. Founders365 is hosted by business coach Steven Haggerty and shares 365 insights from 365 founders during 2020.

#186 - Roger Nairn - Co-Founder & CEO of JAR Audio Roger has worked with some of the world's biggest brands including Netflix, Lamborghini and Four Seasons. Now he's taking his brand storytelling skills to the world of podcasting with JAR Audio - which is a podcast studio working exclusively with brands. JAR help it's clients grow their revenue and impact through ROI-driven podcasts that make meaningful connections with listeners. They've been lucky enough to work with brands like Expedia, Lululemon, RBC, Cineplex, and more. Founders365 is hosted by business coach Steven Haggerty and shares 365 insights from 365 founders during 2020.

#185 - Alexei Mirkin - Founder & CEO at alphaseeker.app Spending his teenage years in Chicago and NYC, he often passed by the CME and the NYSE. Back then he had no idea what quantitative finance is, but being good with numbers always came natural. Alexei is a serial entrepreneur. Attended Hunter College in NYC studying economics for two years. Went on to start a couple of startups in the early 2000s. Continued on to 10 years of algorithmic trading on various markets. Quantitative finance quickly became his obsession. In his early days of algorithmic trading, he was chasing the holy grail, just like all beginners. But over the years he has learned what a good strategy is when it comes to investing. It was ten long years of trial and error and continuous education, learning from the greats like Wyckoff and Markowitz. Creating models, simulations, testing algorithms - then wiping the board clean and starting over from a clean slate. After receiving an Artificial Intelligence with Python nano degree from Udacity, he decided to augment his purely mathematical approach and let ML do some of the heavy lifting. Alexei decided to combine the classical theory with ML. The results came out better than he could have dreamed then he decided to go ahead with another startup. Founders365 is hosted by business coach Steven Haggerty and shares 365 insights from 365 founders during 2020.