In the 13th in our series of interviews that we're recording in partnership with the European PR Agency Tyto, and their own Without Borders podcast, Russell Goldsmith and Brendon Craigie were joined online from New York by Felix Van de Maele, Co-Founder and CEO of Collibra, a big data management start-up that raised $112.5 million in April 2020 and achieved a $2.3 billion valuation.

In the 12th in our series of interviews that we're recording in partnership with the European PR Agency Tyto, and their own Without Borders podcast, Russell Goldsmith and Brendon Craigie were joined online from Israel by Chen Amit, Co-Founder and CEO of Tipalti, a fintech start-up that reached unicorn status in October 2020 after raising $150 million in a Series E round that took the company's valuation to over $2 billion.

Produced in partnership with the Women in Marketing Awards, celebrating its 10th anniversary, Russell Goldsmith was joined online by two of the winners, plus one of the highly commended finalists to talk about their work and what it means to be a female leader in marketing today.

Our guests were Elizabeth Del Valle, Global Head of Marketing for Gaming, YouTube, Agnisha Ghosh, Integrated Marketing Lead for Asia, 3M and Shona Smith, Head of Marketing, Planning and Performance for Tesco Bank.

Women in Marketing is a global community created to educate, inspire, connect and recognise women in the marketing and associated professions, through the cycle of their lives.

We focus on what 2021’s retail marketing priorities should be this episode that was produced in partnership with the customer engagement platform Emarsys, part of SAP, to coincide with the National Retail Federation’s 2021 ‘Retail’s Big Show’, that took place virtually due to covid restrictions.

Sucharita Kodali, VP, Principal Analyst Serving eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals at Forrester, was our guest moderator and she was joined online by:

- Kristin Smith, Senior Vice President, Digital, Hanna Andersson

- Gavin Wheeldon, CEO, Purple

- Payal Hindocha, Vertical Product Marketing Manager, Emarsys

- John Starke, Vice-President, Business Development, Zulily

We also hear from Ratul Shah, Head of Product Marketing, SAP Customer Data Solutions, SAP

To download a copy of the Emarsys Unpredictions ebook, visit https://emarsys.com/learn/

In this latest episode that we recorded in partnership with SAP UK & Ireland, our focus turned to future talent, looking at the importance of graduate programs and apprenticeships and how we can address the digital skills gap.

We also look at what impact the Covid-19 pandemic has had on recruitment, onboarding of new employees and training.

Our guests were:

1/ Lindsey Rowe, Chief of Staff, COO and the Head of People and Programs Office at SAP

2/ Steve Isherwood, Chief Exec of the Institute of Student Employers

3/ Amy Brereton, COO of Enactus UK

4/ Nick White, Head of Junior Talent HR Europe at Fujitsu

5/ Kim Hardman, UK Apprentice Program Manager at AstraZeneca

In our 11th unicorn interview, Russell Goldsmith and Brendon Craigie were joined online from Utah in the US by Clay Wilkes, CEO of Galileo.

Galileo is a global payments processing platform that powers world-leading fintechs, challenger banks, neobanks, financial services and investment firms by removing the complexity from payments. As a fintech itself, Galileo is in rare company: a bootstrapped organization that achieved profitability years before accepting outside institutional investment. Under Clay’s leadership, Galileo announced its first institutional investment round in October 2019. In May 2020, Galileo was acquired by SoFi and now operates as an independent business unit with Clay as CEO.

The show was produced in partnership with the European PR agency Tyto and their own ‘Without Borders’ podcast.

Produced in partnership with SAP, we discussed the future of e-commerce and brand communications in the utility sector. Russell Goldsmith was joined online from Germany by Florian Fromberg, Global Director SAP Customer Experience Utilities and João Fonseca, Product Manager Ecosystem B2C sales, EnBW, and from Reykjavik, Iceland, by Dr. Fridrik Larson, CEO of LarsEn Energy Branding. Fridrik is also the founder of the Charge Conference and is Associate Professor at the University of Iceland.

For the tenth interview in our special series that we’re recording in partnership with the European PR agency Tyto and their own ‘Without Borders’ podcast, Russell Goldsmith and Brendon Craigie switch focus from Europe to North America, as they were joined online from Boston in the US by Mike Massaro, CEO of Flywire, a high growth vertical payments company that gained unicorn status in February 2020.

Recorded in partnership with FutureBrand in August 2020, we looked at brands within key industries that have a heavy focus on a physical presence such as sports, hospitality, travel and entertainment.

We talked about how they are adapting to the concerns over the coronavirus pandemic and the impact of social distancing rules, as well as looking at how they are future proofing their business in a post covid world.

Russell Goldsmith was joined online by Aliya Khan, Vice President of Global Design Strategies at Marriott International, George Gottl, Chief Creative Officer of UXUS, and Sanjay Patel, Managing Director of The Hundred at the English and Wales Cricket Board.

We also hear from James Ralley, Head of Marketing and Commercial at The All England Lawn Tennis Club, Charlotte Williams, VP for content at Cannes Lions festivals and John Timms of MLS Contract, whose company owns the franchise to the Sheffield Sharks basketball team in the UK.

In the ninth of our special series of interviews that we’re recording in partnership with the European PR agency Tyto and their own ‘Without Borders’ podcast, Russell Goldsmith and Brendon Craigie were joined online by Adrien Nussenbaum, Co-Founder & US CEO of Mirakl, the only marketplace SaaS platform that empowers both B2B and B2C organizations to launch and grow an enterprise marketplace at scale.

Mirakl's recent $300M Series D funding round places the company's valuation at over $1.5B.