“Promoted him to be MD of HomeServe UK when we were only a UK business. Yeah. And then I sort of replicated that model nine more times and said, as we go into each additional country, let's hire a great MD that can run that country”
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promoted a UK business development manager to MD of HomeServe UK and then replicated that model by hiring a great MD to run each new country
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