Ep. 107 - "Starting, Scaling, Exiting - the Story of the Serial CEO" with Tom Reilly

The Conference Room with Simon Lader

In this episode we welcome serial investor, CEO and board member Tom Reilly who shares his insight into business growth, leadership and the role of a CEO.

KEY TAKEAWAYS FROM THIS EPISODE

• What is the role of a CEO?
• The Three Essential Ingredients to Scaling a Business
• How to lead leaders
• The Story of a Ten Figure Exit

THIS WEEK'S GUEST

Tom Reilly has a thirty year career forming, leading, scaling and advising high-growth enterprise software and cybersecurity vendors. After an early career with IBM and running sales in the 90s for Lotus and BroadQuest, he became CEO of Trigeo, which was sold to IBM in 2004, and then became President and CEO of ArcSight, which he scaled globally, took through an IPO and exited to HP for over $1.5Bn and then CEO of Cloudera which he IPO'd with a $3Bn valuation and a $5.2Bn merger with HortonWorks. He has served on the boards of companies such as ELoqua, Jive Software, Trusona, Incorta, Datastax and Anomali, and served as the Chair of the Economic Development and Advisory Committee for the City of Sausalito.

Tom is proud to support the work of Cybermindz.org, for more information about their incredible work in mental health within the cybersecurity community, please visit https://cybermindz.org/

YOUR HOST

Simon Lader is the host of The Conference Room, Co-Founder of global executive search firm Salisi Human Capital, and podcast growth consultancy Viva Podcasts. Since 1997, Simon has helped cybersecurity vendors to build highly effective teams, and since 2022 he has helped people make money from podcasting.

Get to know more about Simon at:

Website: https://simonlader.com/

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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/headhuntersimonlader

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