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From Balance Sheet to Boardroom: The CFO to CEO Evolution with Olga Shevorenkova
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Welcome to Season 5, Episode 1 of Better Than We Found It, the go-to podcast for sustainable leadership and purpose-driven business practices.
Today we're joined by Olga Shevorenkova, CEO of Loop Global, a top-five EV charging network in the United States. Olga's career path is remarkable: from a degree in Applied Mathematics in Moscow, through investment banking in clean tech across Europe and New York, to joining the EV space as CFO and helping take a company public through a SPAC during COVID raising close to $600 million in the process. Now she's taken the CEO seat at Loop Global, applying her financial rigour and obsession with talent to build a lean, high-performing team in an industry where many competitors are going bust.
In this episode, we explore:
How a mathematician from Moscow found her way into clean tech investment banking
The realities of switching from advisor to operator and what nobody tells you about that jump
Taking a company public through a SPAC in four months, in the middle of a global pandemic
Moving from CFO to CEO: the skills that transfer, and the weight that doesn't
How Olga restructured Loop Global from the ground up replacing most of the team within 12 months
Why talent, not process, is always the first thing to fix
The EV industry's most overlooked problem: reliability over innovation
What it will take to become a top-three EV charging provider in the US
If you're a finance professional curious about making the leap into an operating role, a CFO considering the step up, or a leader navigating a restructure, this episode is packed with real, hard-won insight.
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