From start-up to global solution provider: Wiz-Team grows to over 100 employees

September 23, 2024

From start-up to global solution provider: Wiz-Team grows to over 100 employees!

Wiz-Team has reached a new milestone in its entrepreneurial and growth journey. Following the announcement of On Location’s significant investment in Wiz-Team earlier this year, the company has continued to grow and scale up both its operations and organisation. To support with this rapid and global growth, Wiz-Team has added two new nembers to its senior leadership team and welcomes its first ever Chief Financial Officer, Nicolas Scire, and a new Head of Human Resources, Salomé Doge, bringing its headcount to over 100 employees.

Professionalising the organisation

In the past year, Wiz-Team has grown considerably from less than 50 to 100 employees, acquired new partners including an exciting multi-year partnership with World Rugby, renewed partnerships with long-standing partners such as the Association of National Olympic Committees or the World Council of Churches, and played a key role in the successful delivery of countless events, including several projects related to the Paris 2024 Olympics and Paralympics Games.

As the horizon promises more growth and innovation to meet ever-changing market needs and a busy calendar of major sport and industry events, Wiz-Team knows it needs to work smarter, not harder, and have clear internal structure, processes, and tools to keep its ever-growing team supported, efficient, and accountable. To this end, Wiz-Team’s two new hires could not be more timely.

Investing into resource planning

If the company already had an accounting function, it’s a first in terms of a financial function and Nicolas Scire is excited to take on the challenge as Wiz-Team’s new and first ever Chief Financial Officer. Passionate about technology and software development in particular, Nicolas previously worked for a Swiss-based tech scale-up company and supported them with their growth for several years. He is now ready and motivated to put both his experience and passion to good use to help Wiz-Team plan and implement the necessary processes, systems and safeguards to facilitate and support sustainable growth.

“Wiz-Team is a small company comparatively but as complex as a multinational organisation because it works in and with different countries, with different currencies,” shares the new CFO. “My main role is to put in place the financial processes in order to monitor the organisation and make sure that we reach our targets and comply with the various laws and requirements.”

He adds: “Finance can be a blocker, so capacity and resource planning are critical. My role is also making sure we have enough resources to always be ready to answer any internal or external requests.”

Supporting growth by evolving HR processes

While Nicolas focuses on the numbers, Salomé Doge is focused on the people that make Wiz-Team. As Head of Human Resources (HR), she will support with the implementation of HR processes and ensure staff have the means and guidance they need to be successful in each of their roles as Wiz-Team continues to grow. Though new to the events management industry, Wiz-Team’s 100^th employee is well-versed in working in scale-up environments and navigating the internal processes and change management that come with going from a start-up status to a bigger company, having previously worked for different fast-growing companies.

Her priority here, she explains, is: “Making sure that we implement the right processes and structure from the beginning to support the growth and stay flexible and agile to be able to answer quickly to internal and external demands.”

And she’s already getting a taste of that Wiz-Team spirit. “The people at Wiz-Team are super engaged in the company and even if there are things to improve, they are keen to make sure they are part of this improvement. It’s very motivating!”