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Adam Utley

Adam Utley

CFO at Wayland Additive, a UK-based electron beam 3D printing manufacturer. Chartered Management Accountant with MBA from Warwick Business School, specializing in scaling VC-backed companies.

Jul 20, 2026

1:18
But kicking off about you, I suppose, in your career, when you look back, are there some key moments that you think that was the moment that propelled me to where I am here now?
1:30
Yeah, I've taken quite a circuitous route, I think, in finance compared to many.
1:37
I kind of started at a university, I've worked in PLCs, I've worked in private equity, I've run my own business, and I've worked in startups as well.
1:51
I think the theme that has run through most of that is kind of following good people.
1:58
So I kind of had a couple of mentors when I worked for a university and they took me under their wing and I did two or three different roles with them and really learned from them, which was great.
2:12
And then after BT, I moved to a private healthcare provider.
2:18
And the CFO there, again, kind of took me under his wing, gave me a couple of different roles there, and then... sort of pinched me and went over and gave me my first finance director role at breaks, did a couple of roles there, and then also gave me effectively my first CFO role.

17 MINS LATER

19:58
What advice would you give to them? What do they need exposure to earlier on in their career that's going to help them get your job one day?

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