I have been doing video interviews with a number of CIOs, software executives and practitioners about acrobatics they have been seeing in various vertical sectors during the COVID-19 crisis and the "New normal" they can expect as the economy wakes up.
This time it is Mike Laven, CEO of The Currency Cloud. They describe themselves as "APIs for moving money anywhere around the world". Based in London, Mike is a man of the world, comfortable in Silicon Valley and many other places. He is very familiar with the financial services sector - fintech, big/small banks, consumer/commercial, US/EU/ROW so presents a nuanced perspective on the likely "New Normal". We even discuss Brexit, which dominated Mike's attention most of last year before the COVID-19 crisis hit.
He also talks about leadership in a crisis this unprecedented - we can all learn from his experiences as CEO through earlier downturns and the UN stint earlier in his career which exposed him to tsunamis and plenty of other emergencies.
