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

Ep. 350 – COO, Mercury, Artug Acar

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

Second in Command with Cameron Herold

Business, Management, Careers, Entrepreneurship

4.9224 Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

In today’s episode of the Second in Command podcast, Cameron is joined by Artug Acar, COO Alliance member as well as COO of Mercury Business Services, a Boston-based tech-enabled healthcare and logistics company. Artug shares Mercury’s focus on healthcare...

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0:00.0

So for the risks, it's basically what's the probability of that risk to happen?

0:06.4

And if it happens, what would it mean for us? The level of risk and the probability.

0:16.8

If the probability is high, if the risk is also high for the company, we're going to act on it pretty fast. How we evaluate the probability is really a bit subjective from time to time. It's really us

0:26.4

deciding what might come next.

0:40.3

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 podcast we talked to top

0:45.4

coos who share the insights, strategies and tactics that made them the chief

0:50.3

behind the chief. And now here's your host, Cameron Harold.

0:59.1

All right, our guest today is COOO Alliance member

1:01.3

and Mercury's COOR2SR.O.O.O.S.R.S.R. 2.R. 2 is responsible for executing the business plan and achieving

1:07.3

P&L results by leading the sales, operations, product development, and IT functions.

1:13.0

He leads and manages the team for agreed upon commitments,

1:15.6

as well as developing longer range operating plans,

1:18.8

overseeing, coordinating, harmonizing all major business functions. Our two joined Mercury as the VP of Product in 2022

1:26.6

and was responsible for defining the product strategy,

1:29.3

leveraging his years of experience and logistics,

1:31.6

and also coordinating global teams. He's got a team. years of

1:33.0

experience and logistics and also coordinating global teams. He's got a team of 40 people that are also based in Turkey.

1:37.0

R2 is actually originally from Turkey and he started his career as a mechanical design engineer

1:42.0

two decades ago transitioning to software engineering after

1:45.4

competing his academic studies at Northwestern University. Prior to Mercury, our two worked at

1:50.4

several high-tech companies in the Boston area and he enjoys

1:53.8

sailing professional sailing captain also enjoys biking cooking and

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