40 Minute Mentor

Episode 6

July 16, 2019

To Move from Consulting into Fintech with Caroline Murphree

Today’s episode is a special bonus episode which was recorded live at our JBM drinks event last month. 

Our special guest and your 40 Minute Mentor at this latest event was the brilliant Caroline Murphree, UK Director of Growth & Operations at Wealthsimple.

Wealthsimple is an online investment manager that combines user-friendly digital tools and personal investment advice to make smart, automated investing available to everyone. They have over 100,000 clients globally, £2bn in assets under management and have raised over $250m Canadian Dollars to fund their impressive growth.

As this was a live event our interview was followed by some questions from the live audience. Some of whom where a little further from the microphones than others so please excuse the fact that some of the questions at the end of this episode are a little quiet.

I hope you will all really enjoy this extra special episode and learn lots from the great insights that Caroline shares!

Caroline Murphree
“People have traced to part of the wage gap has actually been traced to men having a much better idea of what their peers are making, and that’s because they’re more open to talk about money.”

Caroline Murphree

Tune in to discover

30 second CV [03:52]
Wealthsimple's mission [04:49]
Growing your team & evolving your culture [06:37]
Consulting vs Tech [09:02]
Assessment criteria when hiring [14:40]
Normalising talking about money [17:21]
Making FinTech more accessible [19:46]
Audience questions [23:40]

Listen on

Helpful links

➡️ If you want to find out more about Caroline you can check out her LinkedIn profile – https://www.linkedin.com/in/caroline-murphree-73247112/

➡️ If you want to find out more about Wealthsimple you can check out their website – https://www.wealthsimple.com

We’re always keen to get feedback so if you have any thoughts once you’ve listened to this interview just drop me an email at ku.oc.cmbj@semaj

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