Priorities For Growth | Middle Market Thought Leader

Leslie Stretch, CEO, CallidusCloud Since being named CEO of  CallidusCloud, a publicly held high tech company, Leslie Stretch has transformed the software firm’s business by establishing a recurring revenue model that he believes is now primed to propel the sales automation firm beyond $1 billion in annual sales.  Join us when Leslie explains why companies no longer must forfeit their middle-market agility to climb into the ranks of billion-dollar firms. 

Renatto Beninatto, CMO, Moravia It’s without a doubt the biggest hurdle every middle-market business faces when expanding overseas.  Join us when Renato Beninatto, CMO of Moravia, a global translation company, shares his global mindset and explains how the world became a level-playing field for his middle-market firm.

Dan Macklin, Co-Founder, SOFI

Steve White, President, PuroClean

Mike MacDonald, CEO, Medifast, Inc. 

Jasen Urena, Hidden Villa Ranch  As consumers demand more sustainable, responsible, and humanely created food products, the brands of Hidden Villa Ranch continue to muster extra clout inside the food industries. Join us as Hidden Villa’s Jasen Urena shares his middle-market mindset, and explains how M&A activity is now helping Hidden Villa blaze a growth path inside the quickly evolving Organic and Non-GMO (non-genetically modified organisms) food industries. 

Chris Reed, CEO, Reed Inc. When Chris Reed decided it was time to enlist some investors to fuel the expansion of his fast-growing soft drink company, he wasn’t willing to part with all of the management control that perspective venture partners required.  Instead, Reed Inc. would become listed on the New York Stock Exchange and sell shares to the public – a decision the firm’s founder and CEO has never once regretted.  Join us as Chris retraces the steps that empowered Reed Inc. to grow into a $50 million firm inside the always competitive soft drink market.

M&A Outlook, Mike Nall, Founder, AM&AA

Todd Krizelman, CEO MediaRadar Listen Now.

 Don Ochsenreiter, CEO, Dollamur Sports Surfaces. Listen Now.

 Michael Mothner, CEO, WPromote 

Joe Judson, CEO, Fusion Logistics Listen Now.

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(Part I)  Bill Angrick, Chairman & CEO. Liquidity Services Listen Now.

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Rob Reid, CEO, Intacct When Rob Reid joined cloud accounting software developer Intacct in 2009, the seasoned high-tech CEO buckled up for a wild ride. Join us, when Rob reveals how the cloud is empowering his firm to shake up the finance function as it extends the lines of the sight midmarket firms have into their financials. Listen Now.

Laurie Sudbrink, Author, Leading With GRIT Ever wonder how workplace unhappiness is curtailing your firm's performance? Laurie Sudbrink, Author of Leading with GRIT: Inspiring Action and Accountability with Generosity, Respect, Integrity and Truth, explains how inspired leaders take a more personal approach that melds life values, discipline and self discovery. Listen Now.

John Sculley arrived at Apple in 1983 when the firm was generating a mere $564 million in annual sales and exited ten years later when the firm's sales were $8.3 billion annually. Forever tagged as the man who fired Steve Jobs -  it would seem Sculley is arguably worthy of yet another label: Apple's middle-market champion. Join us as the former CEO of Pepsi and Apple recalls the roller coaster ride that became Apple's middle-market years and shares insights from his new book Moonshot - a text designed to help middle-market business leaders turn their firms into billion-dollar businesses. Listen Now.

Mimi Thigpen, CEO, North Plains Systems When  Mimi Thigpen was named CEO of North Plains Systems nearly a year ago, she took the helm of a firm largely built by acquisition.  To open a new chapter of growth, Thigpen says she realized the teams of employees from the recently acquired firms would need to find a single path to together serve the firm's customers.  Listen Now.

David Walsh, CEO, Amalgamated Life  Being only the fourth person in 70 years to lead Amalgamated Life of White Plains, New York, David Walsh likes to characterize the company’s latest chapter as the end of the beginning. What lies ahead, according to Walsh, is an age of geographic growth — one that should pose few hurdles so long as Amalgamated stays true to its mission as it expands its base.