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Online businesses come with their own unique requirements and challenges, especially when it comes to managing a remote team.
Today we're delving into one of Ireland's international success stories, with an online business based in Dublin, leading a digital team working around the globe. We find out how they operate in the fast moving tech business, about building relationships with customers you never meet and geographically diverse staff, and some great advice from a business planner with a wealth of experience.
Our guest is a finance and business operations professional working remotely for the tech sector for almost 20 years. He is Chief Financial Officer with MailerLite, Martin Ruano.
THINGS WE SPOKE ABOUT
- MailerLite’s growth into a global online company
- Creating a productive and intentional remote working environment
- How to build and maintain relationships in a geographically diverse team
- Advice for navigating mergers and acquisitions
- Lessons learned in planning and communication
GUEST DETAILS
MailerLite was born in 2010 to give businesses a simple yet powerful email solution to help them grow. Their global team has a passion for building a world-class product within a company culture that is built on trust, dedication and shared values.
Martin Ruano Chief Financial Officer and MailerLite and is a Finance and Business Operations professional with sound knowledge in Financial Planning and P&L Management. He has 20 years in Technology industry leading global teams undergoing fast change with a proven ability to improve financial results growing the top line through creative business development strategies as well as improving the bottom line through cost management and operational optimization.
MORE INFORMATION
Take control of your business with accounting & business services you can trust.
We take away the worry and headache of running your own finance and related business services functions.
QUOTES
We can work remotely and having a colleague base in another time zone is going to enable our capabilities of providing support to our customers. - Martin Ruano
It’s important for me to keep learning, it is very important to understand that I won’t be able to solve all the challenges in front of me. That's why we need a strong team to face those challenges together. - Martin Ruano
Think that you're going to go through that process and plan to do it right from the beginning. - Martin Ruano
Keep learning every day, especially if you want to scale up yourself or grow a business. Stay curious, stay learning and don't be afraid to ask for advice or ask for help. - Martin Ruano
KEYWORDS
#remotework #globalteam #customers #financialgrowth #business #growth