On The Line

About On The Line

The Line is a community for operational professionals working in alternatives. Our podcasts bring hot topics to life with leading experts in the space.

Publisher

Alice Murray

Category

business

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

18 Sept 2024

Latest episode

28 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

42 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   28 Sept 2026

   Tom Coton on why the "traditional finance career" doesn't really exist anymore

   Tom Coton's career hasn't followed a straight line. From PPE at Durham to audit, into fund administration at Langham Hall, and then a swerve into a chief of staff role at Terra Firma Capital Partners, before joining Climate Asset Management as its first fund operator on day one and building its finance function from scratch over the following five years. (Tom left CAM earlier this year.) In this conversation, Alice and Tom talk through the realities of being part of a nascent finance te...

2. 

   24 Aug 2026

   Landing your message, with executive coach Cressida Hamilton

   Executive coach Cressida Hamilton returns to On The Line to unpick the most common communication failures operational leaders face, despite being subject matter experts. An executive coach who spent 26 years in financial services operations before moving into coaching, Cressida has spent the years since working with senior professionals on confidence and personal branding. In this episode, Cressida discusses why complexity, multiple stakeholders and a lack of structure get in the way o...

3. 

   10 Aug 2026

   The CFO who scaled. And is doing it again

   With Raj Shah, CFO & Operating Partner, Claret Capital Partners What does it actually take to scale a private markets firm, and what does that experience teach you about building the next one? Raj Shah joined 17Capital when it was a ten-person team managing an £88m debut fund. By the time he left, the firm was managing more than £20bn and had established NAV finance as a mainstream asset class. Earlier this year, Raj joined Claret Capital Partners as CFO and Operating Partner,...

Who has been a guest on On The Line

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Ed Stubbings
• Zoe Yeo
• Jan Gruter
• Ben Cocoracchio
• Sarah Clarke

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

YouTube views

1,295,635

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Spotify

5.0 / 5

2 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 45 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

41

Social presence

0

YouTube

93

Engagement

32

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