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Second in Command: The Chief Behind the Chief with Cameron Herold

Ep. 05 – Operating From The Bottom Up with Joe Esparraguera

Second in Command: The Chief Behind the Chief with Cameron Herold

Second in Command with Cameron Herold

Management, Careers, Entrepreneurship, Business

4.9224 Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2018

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Our guest today is COO Alliance Member Joe Esparraguera, COO at Lifematters. Some companies shift their hierarchy from top-down to bottom-up as a way to be more operative. The COO that supports this approach is Joe Esparraguera of Lifematters, an industry-leading provider of customized home care and health care management services in the Washington, DC […]

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0:00.0

Welcome to Second and Command, brought to you by C.O. Alliance, where top-level COO-O-O-O-Sher insights,

0:08.0

where top-level COO-S share the insights, tactics, and strategies that made them the chief behind the chief.

0:15.7

And now here's your host, Cameron Herald.

0:20.4

So welcome everybody, this is Cameron Herald.

0:22.2

I'm the founder of the

0:23.7

C. O. Alliance and this is our podcast the Chief behind the Chief. Today I

0:28.0

actually have one of our CEO Alliance members Joe Asparaga from Life Matters on the show.

0:35.0

And Joe is going to be giving us some of his tips and systems and insights as to what it's

0:40.4

like to be the second in command for a very high energy, pretty awesome entrepreneur

0:48.0

named Scott Thompson. So Joe is the current C.O. For Life Matters, he brings 25 years experience as a corporate

0:56.0

finance professional and a CPA into his role. He didn't start off in finance, but he

1:00.6

first served in the US Army after graduating from the University of Maryland at College Park.

1:05.0

After his service, Joe began his career as a CPA at a local firm and following years in public accounting,

1:11.6

Joe worked as a controller, CFO for a succession of venture

1:15.2

capital-backed startups.

1:17.0

He then went on to work at Linens of the Week, which is a national Linen service where he

1:22.2

was the VP of finance and HR.

1:24.8

He also functioned as the CFO for Resolve at Inc.

1:28.0

a national IT staffing and consulting firm after which he successfully started and

1:32.3

ran his own finance

1:33.3

consulting business, J.E. Consulting. He's currently the CFO and functions is the

1:39.0

second in command that life matters whose mission is to serve their clients with fully customized home care plans,

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