In this single episode, David Beard from the Sage CRM team speaks with Danny Lewis, Founder & Owner of the UK's number 1 Sage CRM partner, QMulus Solutions. In this episode we talk to Danny about his product range – specifically the Qnect 200 tool for the UK's Sage 200 product, what else they are working on in 2022 & Danny talks about a couple of his favorite customer stories.

Joan van den Brink is an experienced consultant and executive coach specialising in leadership and talent development, with 21 years of experience working with senior business leaders and executives. After graduating from the University of Cambridge, Joan began her career in marketing and operations before moving into management consultancy which led to the founding of her own firm, Araba Consultancy, in 2014. Joan provides bespoke leadership services for teams and individuals to create inclusive environments in which people can thrive. Click here for an extract from her book. 

Josh Linkner is a creative troublemaker. He has been the founder and CEO of five tech companies, which sold for a combined value of over $200 million, and is the author of four books including the New York Times bestsellers, Disciplined Dreaming, and The Road to Reinvention. He has helped launch over a hundred startups and was the Founding Partner of Detroit Venture Partners. Josh is also a passionate Detroiter, the father of four is a professional-level jazz guitarist, and has a slightly odd obsession for greasy pizza. For more, visit JoshLinkner.com. Big Little Breakthroughs book on Amazon.

Dave Fink thinks the best-kept secret in marketing is hiding where you least expect it — your mailbox. Over a 20-year career, he’s generated hundreds of millions of dollars in ad revenue, powered viral sensations like Dollar Shave Club, and helped launch celebrity startups for Jessica Simpson, Mary-Kate, and Ashley Olsen. Now as founder and CEO of Postie, he’s out to reinvent direct mail marketing for a digital world. Find him on LinkedIn.

Conor McGarrity’s background includes KPMG and the public sector. Passionate about leveraging data for better audit outcomes and redefining the limits of what’s possible, he is the co-founder of Risk Insights - a specialist advisory firm that focuses on using data for internal and performance audit. He also enjoys displaying a unique blend of “skill” and “finesse” on the soccer field. The Data Confident Auditor

Across TWO episodes, Jeff Richards and David Beard from the Sage CRM team talk with Bertus Fick, COO of Opus Xenta who are a global technology company serving the death care profession.  Their solutions enable companies in this industry - cemeteries, funeral homes, and crematoria - with the tools they need to build out their digital presence - so they can manage their operations better, adapt to a changing market environment, and build out their digital presence.  In this episode, we continue from Bertus' reflections on how the Opus Xenta proposition enables cemeteries large & small to operate differently from decades of individual, flat systems, to a multi-dimensional system offering pre & post-care.

Andrew Lassise is the self-proclaimed "cheif dorkestrator" at Tech4Accountants, an IT company specializing in small accounting firms. He has become a thought leader in the data security space and is an expert on IRS publications in regards to cyber security. He and his team have helped thousands of accounting firms improve their security and adhere to technical standards from the IRS and AICPA. Download a free security plan template

George Azih is a  financial authority specializing in technical accounting and accounting research, who has served as an auditor for banks, insurance companies, and brokerage firms. Prior to LeaseQuery, he performed Accounting Research and Technical Accounting for a Fortune 500 company, where he specialized in lease accounting, sale-leaseback transactions, build-to-suit arrangements, debt restructurings, asset retirement obligations and purchase accounting. His previous experience also includes working as a Senior Auditor at a CPA firm, where he specialized in audits for financial institutions.

John Shaver is the Chief Value Officer at Axiology. After working for a few years in both the public and private sectors of accounting and finance he decided to jump into the entrepreneurial world. His belief is there are the types of issues that have always driven a wedge between customer and software partners over the years. It creates unnecessary stress on both sides. His passion and mission is to help customers use their systems to the greatest effect, it bothered him that customers perceived the software and the software partner to be necessary evils and as unknown costs to be avoided.

Randy Johnston, MCS, has been a top-rated speaker in the technology industry for over 40 years. Inducted into the Accounting Hall of Fame in 2011, Randy is listed as a Top 25 Thought Leader in Accounting from 2011-2022. His influence throughout the accounting profession is highlighted once again this year by being a recipient of the 2021 Accounting Today Top 100 Most Influential People in Accounting award for the eighteenth consecutive year. At our CPEToday.com site, listeners can get a CPE course for free using the code 1FREEPODCAS