Wayne Hooper is the CEO of Laserbond Ltd (ASX: LBL), a $90 million business listed on the ASX that performs surface engineering.
Wayne Hooper sat down with Owen Rask on The Australian Investors Podcast at Laserbond’s Sydney-based factory in Smeaton Grange.
Talking points with Wayne Hooper
- Introduction to Laserbond: what they sell, how they sell it, who are Laserbond’s customers and who Laserbond competes with.
- Wayne’s story leading up to Laserbond (growing up, focus on engineering, etc.)
- The early days & opportunity set the Hooper family saw.
- Growing the business and how it has scaled (i.e the important stories of people, moments or systems that changed the course of the Laserbond business, lessons learned, etc.)
- Laserbond’s position in the market today and expansion plans.
- Laserbond’s focus on R&D, why it’s important, and how you think about allocating resources against competing priorities.
- How Laserbond thinks about the economics of buying versus building new factories in key markets?
- The technology division – Wayne explaisn how this division came into existence, why it’s different to Products (new parts) & Services (repairs/reclamation)
- What investors should be looking for when studying Laserbond
