In this episode we have the pleasure of interviewing John Gillie on the show, and John is the Founder and CEO of TruckTrailerTractor.com, welcome to the show John.
John founded TruckTractorTrailer.com to introduce a new approach in the online marketplace for transportation assets, products and services.
With a 25-year track record of building businesses, John is a preeminent expert in high growth strategies, turn-around and start-up situations, especially adept at executing and monetizing innovative solutions to maximize enterprise value. As a private equity investor with deep board management experience, John has driven mission critical assignments with private and publicly held companies ranging from pre-revenue to $20B.
Prior to TTT, John was CEO of MissionOne, a boutique C-Suite and Board advisory practice he founded in 2013. John also held a Chief Commercial role at First Group America and various C-Suite roles at ARAMARK. John has his BA & MBA in Finance from University of Phoenix.
In this episode, John shares with us how he has implemented a performance based compensation model where employees have the ability to get revenue share and even equity ownership. John discusses how important this has been in transforming his team’s mindset and culture from that of one of an employee to an owner.
John then shares with us some great insights in how he is able to recruit and retain A players. And it is not what most recruiting departments and CEO’s do..which is to put an ad in Indeed. John shares how the best people are already employed and to get the best, you have to out-network the rest. Learn how to use the power of Linkedin and networking to find and retain the best in your industry. He uses the same concept for finding investors that are a great fit for their companies growth strategy.
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