Ed DeliaEd Delia interviews Chris Bingaman on family business leadership, succession, and innovation. Chris shares lessons on integrity, appointing a non-family CEO, cancer survival, ESOP implementation, and AI-driven lumber grading.
Ed DeliaEd Delia interviews Patrick McGovern on family business growth, leadership, and innovation success
Ed DeliaIn this episode of Growing Up B2B, host Ed Delia interviews Humberto Rodriguez, Founder and CEO of Supplysoft, a company helping small and mid-sized businesses implement warehouse management systems. Humberto shares his journey from an early fascination with computers to founding Supplysoft as a family business alongside his wife and extended family. The conversation explores the challenges of blending family and business, the importance of technology adoption for small businesses, and how Supplysoft helps warehouses scale by replacing tribal knowledge with systematic processes. Humberto also discusses his vision of humans supported by technology and Supplysoft's evolution toward an advisory, AI-driven model.
Ed DeliaIn this episode of Growing Up B2B, host Ed Delia speaks with Casey Bickhardt, fourth-generation President and CEO of GEMCO and Advanced Powder Solutions (APS). Casey shares how she unexpectedly stepped into leadership just one year after college following the passing of a key operator at APS. She discusses growing up immersed in the family business, establishing credibility with veteran teams, and how operating APS gave her invaluable customer insight that transformed GEMCO's engineering approach.