Ep. 259 – Germfree Laboratories Inc COO, Jeff Serle

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

Second in Command with Cameron Herold

Entrepreneurship, Careers, Management, Business

4.9 • 225 Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Our guest today is COO Alliance member and COO of Germfree Laboratories, Jeff Serle. During his 30+ year career at Germfree he has led the design of Biological Safety Cabinets, Laminar Flow Equipment, Pharmacy Isolators, Class III Gloveboxes, as well as Modular and Mobile BSL 3 Laboratories and Cleanrooms. Jeff holds a Bachelor of Science […]

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0:00.0	As a C.O. O. It's really important that I've got a world-class team, which we have built in our building out.
0:07.0	We divide the work as a company into get work, do work, and measure it. And so do work falls under the COO, so engineering, production, project
0:17.6	management, quality, and procurement.
0:26.0	Welcome to the Second in Command Podcast, produced by the COO Alliance and brought to you by its founder Cameron Herald in the second in command
0:35.4	podcast we talked a top co-o-o-os who share the insights, strategies and tactics that
0:41.2	made them the chief behind the chief.
0:43.6	And now here's your host, Cameron Harold.
0:47.0	Everybody on today's podcast, we've got a great guest Jeff Searle. Jeff is actually the
0:55.2	CEO for Germ-Free Labs. He's also a CEO Alliance member. He's also been working
1:00.6	with the company for 33 years which is really unusual.
1:04.0	Started right at like a 20 year old has been with the company till this day.
1:08.0	The father, founding CEO was originally the father of the company.
1:12.9	His son then became CEO and about five years ago
1:15.7	the son passed away.
1:17.2	So some really interesting discussions
1:18.6	around the transition from being a family-run business
1:20.9	to having the CEO die while he was there and then also the
1:25.3	transition from that selling to a PE firm some really interesting insights about
1:29.3	selling up to a PE firm bringing in senior leadership and just lots of really great lessons from Jeff Searle.
1:34.0	So you'll enjoy the podcast and we'll see you on the inside.
1:38.1	Also take a look at our second episodes that we're now releasing two episodes every week you'll start enjoying those as well.
1:44.1	So hey Jeff welcome to the Second Command Podcast.
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