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7: Leading a FinTech Startup Pre-Launch with Griffin COO/Former-VP of People, Maria Campbell

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To seek a fulfilling job role is one thing, but to enable dozens of others to achieve the same is the noble next step for those who lead people.

Formerly VP of People at Griffin, before taking up the COO role after recording this episode of Leaders Unscripted, Maria Campbell’s journey is brimming with positive culture and work fulfilment.

Tune in this week to hear how Maria makes her mark on teams and the wider industry!

This Episode Covers:

  • Maria’s progression into the people-focused role that she loves
  • Finding fulfillment in helping others to have an enjoyable job
  • Positive culture and values being key in the financial services sector
  • The huge potential impact of a financial infrastructure product

Episode Highlights:

“I joined a FinTech startup as their office manager, and things just naturally progressed from there as the business grew from 20 people up to 80. My team grew, the operation side of the business grew, and I found that the people stuff was the stuff that I really loved. ” - 2:10 - Maria Campbell
“The founders have been working together for a while, it's really only two and a half years ago that the first employees came on board. Since then, we've been working on getting our banking licence and also building the technology that we need to be able to launch. ” - 5:50 - Maria Campbell
“Culture is such an important thing to the founders. It's also important in the financial services space. You need to have a positive culture so that you can play your role in society. But it's really, really nice to work with founders who genuinely care about culture. ” - 12:00 - Maria Campbell
“Ordinarily, a couple of people come up with an idea, they persuade other people to build it with them, and then you get some kind of validation from the market, right? But here it’s effectively pure faith.” - 19:35 - Maria Campbell
“Everyone uses money, so the potential for impact is huge. Then if you look at the infrastructure side of things, that has an ability to have a multiplicative effect.” - 23:00 - Maria Campbell
“Working with people who I care about or want to spend time with really motivates me to help other people to have a job that they also enjoy. I think that's the thing that drives me the most. I'm really privileged to be in a position where I can help other people have an enjoyable job.” - 34:10 - Maria Campbell

Links & References:

Constellary: https://www.constellaryhq.com/

Suzan Bond: https://www.linkedin.com/in/suzanbond/

Maria Campbell: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mm-campbell/

Griffin: https://griffin.com/