How I took a $25M brand through an impossible IPO with Mark Buckley
Chat CFO16 Des 2025

How I took a $25M brand through an impossible IPO with Mark Buckley

In this episode of Chat CFO, we sit down with Mark Buckley, former CEO of Perfect Moment, to talk through what it takes to get a business listed on the New York Stock Exchange. Mark shares the full story behind taking a loss-making, private equity backed consumer brand through a US IPO, after exhausting every other funding route. We talk openly about the pressure, the fundraising reality, the time away from family, and the things no one really prepares you for. Beyond the initial public off...

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Episoder(28)

How This CFO Sold LoveFilm to Amazon

How This CFO Sold LoveFilm to Amazon

Jim Buckle has spent 25 years building a CFO career that defies the obvious path. He started at KPMG, moved to the BBC, then Dell, ran a startup that collapsed in six months, turned around Property Fi...

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3 Things No One Tells You About a PE Exit as CFO

3 Things No One Tells You About a PE Exit as CFO

Exit readiness is not a six-week project. Dominic Wilkinson, CFO of Team Sport, the UK's largest indoor go-karting brand, shares what it actually takes to be PE-backed and exit-ready at the same time,...

4 Jun 38min

What Makes a Great PE-Backed CFO? 2 Veterans Answer

What Makes a Great PE-Backed CFO? 2 Veterans Answer

Everybody wants to be a CFO. Almost nobody is prepared for what the job actually demands. Alex Gersh has led a Nasdaq IPO at Sportradar, the merger of Betfair and Paddy Power, and the £2.7 billion sa...

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What Private Equity Actually Expects From Its CFO

What Private Equity Actually Expects From Its CFO

Victoria Bell has led finance functions through growth, turnaround, and exit across some of Europe's most demanding private equity environments. She is direct about the role in a way that most people ...

21 Apr 55min

How to Exit Without A Playbook | Stephen Loftus, CEO of Wattbike

How to Exit Without A Playbook | Stephen Loftus, CEO of Wattbike

If there is no playbook, how confident are you in running the business while preparing to sell it at the same time? Trade sales are often described as a process. In reality, they are a test of judgem...

12 Mar 1h 2min

AI born beats AI retrofitted

AI born beats AI retrofitted

What does it take to build a business where AI enhances human expertise? In this episode, Pippa Dussuyer and Dean Farthing of Unity Advisory discuss how they helped build a firm designed to grow with ...

3 Mar 29min

Is ERP Dead? | with Gareth Bennett & John Ashworth

Is ERP Dead? | with Gareth Bennett & John Ashworth

Why do ERP programmes feel so painful, even when they are meant to make things better? In this episode of Chat CFO, we sit down with Gareth Bennett, Finance Transformation Lead at News UK, and John As...

12 Feb 53min

CFO of a national sport. What's it really like? | Nimesh Kataria, CFO at the ECB

CFO of a national sport. What's it really like? | Nimesh Kataria, CFO at the ECB

What does it really mean to be the CFO of a national sport, where decisions are public and trade offs are unavoidable? In this episode of Chat CFO, we sit down with Nimesh Kataria, CFO at the England...

4 Feb 46min

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