Trust, agility and collaboration: lessons from a remote working CEO
Chris Ellis took the helm at Finder just over 12 months ago – just as the country was going into lockdown. Here he shares his experiences and learnings during his first year as CEO.
It’s a strange feeling starting your first day as CEO from your home office.
As I jumped into the role at Finder in March 2020, Australia was going into our first COVID-induced lockdown, working from home was becoming the norm and the economy was extremely volatile given the then level of uncertainty.
Finder’s mission is to help people make better financial decisions every day, which means we assist consumers with comparing many things across many sectors – diversification that I quickly learned stood us in good stead. For context, we have ~500 crew (Finder’s name for our employees) globally, with a good proportion of them located in Australia, our home market.
