Let's Grab Coffee Podcast ☕

Let's Grab Coffee Podcast ☕

Uncovering the entrepreneurial journey's of up and coming startup founders, over coffee
#166 – Harry Kraemer | Leading with Values: Lessons from a Former Global CEO & Kellogg Professor
July 13, 202500:56:3852.41 MB

#166 – Harry Kraemer | Leading with Values: Lessons from a Former Global CEO & Kellogg Professor

Harry Kraemer, Jr. is the former Chairman and CEO of Baxter International, a $12 billion global healthcare company. He is currently a Clinical Professor of Leadership at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management, where he teaches values-based leadership and has been named Professor of ...

#165 – Michael Fassnacht | Building Brands, Driving Growth, and Elevating Chicago
June 23, 202500:35:0332.44 MB

#165 – Michael Fassnacht | Building Brands, Driving Growth, and Elevating Chicago

Michael Fassnacht is President of the Chicagoland Region and Chief Growth Officer at Clayco, where he drives business development, marketing, and sales while mentoring the team. Before Clayco, he was the first-ever Chief Marketing Officer for the City of Chicago and CEO of World Business Chicago, w...

#164 – Landon Campbell | Venture Capital, Community Building, and Chicago Tech
May 28, 202500:49:3045.82 MB

#164 – Landon Campbell | Venture Capital, Community Building, and Chicago Tech

Landon W. Campbell is the General Manager for Drive Capital in Chicago, a $2.3B venture capital firm committed to investing in exceptional founders who are shaping the future of market-defining companies between the Hudson River and the Rocky Mountains. Landon oversees the firm’s $80M pre-seed fund...

#163 - Edward Woodford | Crypto, Stablecoins, and the Future of Finance
May 05, 202500:41:1738.21 MB

#163 - Edward Woodford | Crypto, Stablecoins, and the Future of Finance

Edward Woodford is the Co-Founder and CEO of Zero Hash, a leading crypto and stablecoin infrastructure platform based in Chicago. Since founding the company in 2017, Edward has been at the forefront of transforming the global financial landscape, enabling seamless access to digital assets for compa...

#162 - Thomas Thayyil Thomas | Transforming Deal Strategy Using AI
February 27, 202500:51:2447.57 MB

#162 - Thomas Thayyil Thomas | Transforming Deal Strategy Using AI

TTT is the CEO of Teragonia, specializing in AI-driven analytics and value creation for PE-backed and founder-led middle-market companies. A seasoned M&A strategist with deep expertise in data science, he previously built and led Houlihan Lokey’s financial due diligence and data analytics pract...