Tech Brains Talk

In this episode, Flavilla is joined by Dominic Atkinson. They discuss how technology can help people find a more fulfilling career

Dominic is the co-founder of Stay Nimble are a social enterprise building a unique digital platform to provide career and work performance coaching services to help people find, re-skill for and thrive in better work. He has spent the last two decades leading organisations, coaching individuals and building software applications to make business better. Following training as an occupational psychologist, he worked at a senior level in Media & Entertainment and subsequently has led three start-ups. He is a Fellow of the RSA and a member of the British Psychological Society.

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In this episode, Flavilla is joined by Callum Adamson. They discuss the power of composable talent model in order to stay agile and reduce fragility.

Callum Adamson is a serial entrepreneur and CEO of Distributed; a tech-enabled software delivery solution with globally distributed teams, that delivers better software, at faster speeds and with more visibility than any comparable solution. Callum believes that distributed teams and the products that enable their adoption at scale will be to this era what the factory was to the industrial revolution.

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In this episode, Flavilla is joined by Roly Walter. They discuss how technology can make managers better coaches.

Roly Walter is a people tech entrepreneur and founder of Appraisd, the online performance management system. He started his business from his garden shed. Now with £1m annual recurring revenue and hundreds of international customers, he tries to maintain a strong presence in his young children's lives.

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In this episode, Flavilla is joined by Lanre Osibona. They discuss how can Africa achieve inclusive prosperity through digital transformation.

Passionate about Africa and a long-time proponent of its digital transformation. Former SSA to the Nigerian President on Technology (for 5 years), with international, private sector experience spanning over 17 years.

Founder & CEO of The Foresight Group, a collaboration of three uniquely distinct private limited companies that have come together to form an alliance to support Africa’s digital transformation. A group of independent companies with interwoven expertise namely –Foresight Innovation Consulting, Foresight Knowledge Hub, and Foresight Seeds Fund– our venture capital.

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In this episode, Flavilla is joined by Mathew Megens. They discuss how technology can change people's money behaviour for good.

Mat Megens is a former electrical engineer and investment banker turned technology entrepreneur.  Born and raised in Canada, his professional career has brought him from Canada to the United States, Australia, the United Kingdom as well as to numerous developing countries (including Kenya, Tanzania, Bangladesh and Pakistan) through his work with World Bank Group Company IFC.  He was an early innovator in global supply chain finance and the limitations of this space-inspired HyperJar.  HyperJar is building the world’s happiest, smartest way to spend your money - without debt and without regret in a way that fits with your life.

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In this episode, Flavilla is joined by Riaz Kanani. They discuss the power of choosing your dream clients. 

Riaz is the founder and CEO of Radiate B2B, a pioneering sales and marketing platform that builds trust within target stakeholders at enterprise companies through advertising and identifies who is in the market today. It is one of the primary building blocks for account-based marketing strategies today. 

Riaz has been an early adopter of scaled account-based marketing, writing and speaking extensively on the topic and executing new approaches that have led to multiple award nominations for account-based marketing technology and campaigns.

Prior to building Radiate B2B, Riaz built one of the world’s largest video advertising networks and after exiting to Silverpop scaled its presence internationally and helped to define best practices for B2B marketing in marketing automation and content marketing before it exited to IBM to create its marketing cloud platform.

He has sat on the DMA email marketing council helping to set best practices for the email marketing industry, judge its awards and help shape data privacy and the use of data in the UK. He regularly speaks and writes on the intersection between marketing, business and technology, its best practice, and future trends.

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In this episode, Flavilla is joined by Reece Couchman. They will discuss how tech companies can provide a better customer experience while improving customer lifetime value. 

Reece Couchman is the founder & director of The SaaSy People, a 100% UK based support service provider offering outsourced customer support to businesses. Reece founded The SaaSy People in 2019 having seen a gap in the market for UK based, customer-focused, outsourced support.

Previous to The SaaSy People Reece ran a global support organisation for a telecommunications company, spending time living in the UK and the USA.

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In this episode, Flavilla is joined by Peter Wood. They discuss the myths of cryptocurrency.

Peter Wood is the CEO and Co-Founder of CoinBurp. He leads the company’s vision and product strategy. He was still a student when learned about Bitcoin mining. He teamed up with a friend and invested £1000 to form BitBroker - a trading business built on top of LocalBitcoins, which later turned over £100m in 4 years. He then took a portion of these profits to create CoinBurp, to fill an important gap in the cryptocurrency market.

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In this episode, Flavilla is joined by Taylor Udell and Ryan Goldman. They discuss the untapped opportunities of Opensource.

Taylor Udell is a Product Manager at FOSSA. She leads the product initiatives around FOSSA's Licensing Compliance product. Prior to FOSSA, Taylor was an early member of the Heap Analytics team. When she's not building products, you can find her curled up with a good book.  

Ryan Goldman is VP of Marketing at FOSSA, based in the San Francisco Bay Area. He previously built and led marketing teams at Pendo ($1B valuation), Sentry (Series C by NEA and Accel), SignalFx (acquired by Splunk for $1.05B), Cloudera (IPO in 2017), and Cisco. Prior to tech, Ryan worked in international development for NGOs in Washington, D.C., focusing on education policy, social entrepreneurship, and microfinance. He moonlights as a music journalist and founded a social network for music lovers with members in 30 countries. 

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In this episode, Flavilla is joined by Richard Alberg. They discuss how EdTech is changing the work environment.

Richard is the founder and CEO of MWS Technology Ltd, a company he launched in 2009 after a successful career in psychometric testing and HR technology. MWS provides an innovative SaaS platform, called Aptem, that vocational training and employment services providers use to deliver their contracts.

Since launching MWS has received the following recognition:

·       Winner of the LinkedIn European Business StartUp Award

·       Winner of the Microsoft BizSpark Award

·       Finalist in the National Online Recruitment Awards

·       Gold award winner at the National e-Learning Awards

·       Silver award winner at the IT Training Awards

·       Selected for inclusion in Telegraph European Startup 100 List

·       One of the final nine in the Cabinet Office Innovation LaunchPad

·       Selected for inclusion in Real Business Future 50 List

·       Highly Commended at ERSA Awards – Innovation category

·       Winner of the ICT – platforms and applications category of the 2019 EducationInvestor Awards.

Prior to MWS, Richard founded Psychometric Services Ltd (PSL). PSL developed and published psychometric tests and was a pioneer in the field of online recruitment, integrating assessment with recruitment workflow software. The company was purchased in November 2006 by Kenexa, a NASDAQ HR solutions provider that was in turn acquired by IBM. Whilst completing his earn-out, Richard became a Senior Vice President at Kenexa and was responsible for their European and then their Asia-Pacific businesses.

Richard Alberg is also a founder and director at Corndel Ltd, a fast-growth apprenticeship training provider with a blue-chip client base. Since founding the company in October 2016, Corndel has grown to over 200 staff and 3,500 apprentices.

Richard is a shareholder and advisor to several businesses, including as a non-executive director of Protocol Holdings Ltd. In 2019 Richard completed a three-year term as chair of Launchpad Recruits and in 2017 he completed a two-year term as Chair of North Hertfordshire College, a £35m turnover education provider.

Richard lives in North West London and is married with two adult children.

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