I was recently joined by Andrey Kozlov, Chief Technology Officer at 1FS Wealth.

Andrey has spent close to two decades building complex, high-scale mobile applications. He has performed senior engineering and architecture roles at the likes of Betfair, Trainline and BCG, and now heading up technology at 1FS, where he’s building an innovative wealth management product.

In this episode, we talk through Andrey’s career journey and the key chapters along the way that have led to him becoming CTO of 1FS Wealth.

I was joined this week by Michael Kennedy, Chief Technology Officer at K2 Corporate Mobility.

Michael has circa 20 years experience leading large-scale technology transformation and building global teams across industries — highlights include launching Goldman Sachs’ Warsaw office from the ground up through to co-founding a tech start-up.

In this episode, we discuss Michael’s super interesting career journey, lessons learnt along the way and how he has become such a valuable technology leader.

My guest is Anvar Karimson, author and Group CTO and Executive Committee member at Kepler Cheuvreux, one of Europe’s leading independent financial services groups.

Anvar has crafted an impressive career, driving technology innovation across global financial markets — assuming roles such as leading front office development at ICAP and heading up client facing technology at BGC Partners, to now overseeing group technology for Kepler Cheuvreux.

He was also named European Trading Technology Industry Professional of the Year.

Having recently launched his book ‘Work smarter’, we talk through Anvar’s career journey, lessons learned and approach to leadership and the tenets his lives his life by that make him such an influential asset.

My guest is Alexander Scott, Chief Technology Officer at Sustainable Advantage.

Alex is a highly experienced CTO and CIO who has spent over 25 years leading digital and technology transformation within various industries — from education, logistics, gaming, financial services, and ESG consulting, and on a global level across UK, Europe, US, EMEA and APAC regions.

Now Chief Technology Officer at Sustainable Advantage, where he is leading the comprehensive transformation of systems across the organisation to further driving innovation in their ESG Consultancy Services. In this episode we talk about Alex’s fascinating career journey working in a number of different countries and his approach to effective leadership.

Federico Cicchi is VP of Engineering at Roli, a super cool digital piano / musical education company. Federico’s impressive career has spanned gaming, AR construction tech, hardware and Web3.

In this episode, we discuss his journey from hands-on coding into leadership and all the lessons learned along the way.

Peadar Coyle is founder and CTO of AudioStack, an innovative company pushing the boundaries of AI in media and entertainment.

In this episode, Peadar and I have a frank and open conversation about the challenges of starting a business and the emotional rollercoaster that results.

I was delighted to be joined recently on the podcast by Carlos Andrioli, a senior technology leader with over 20 years of experience building high-performance, scalable and secure systems across fintech, SaaS, AI and cloud-native platforms. Carlos has led engineering teams at organisations including Liberis, Trade Republic, Plum and ultimate.ai, and is also the CTO & Co-Founder of GetLost, where he’s helped shape both the technical architecture and the product vision from day one. With deep expertise in microservices, event-driven systems, cloud infrastructure and regulated environments, Carlos brings a pragmatic “build smart, do more with less” mindset to leadership. In this episode, we talk about scaling engineering teams, building resilient architectures, hiring great engineers, and what strong technical leadership really looks like in fast-moving businesses.

This week I am joined by Matt Westrup, CTO for Hearst Networks EMEA, a highly respected media and entertainment group. In this episode, we talk about Matt’s very interesting and impressive career, working in some of the biggest names in media and broadcasting. We discuss his early days as a camera operator, through to taking senior operational leadership roles, and now leading technology strategy for Hearst Networks.

A must listen episode!

Niteen Crawford-Prajapati is a technologist, privacy advocate, and CPTO at Verifymy.

Niteen's career spans from an early ad-tech and large corporates like Microsoft to leading startups and now building privacy-focused verification systems. He's gone from helping design some of the tracking technologies that power the internet to creating tools that help people disappear from it entirely.

In this episode we talk about the ethics of data, online identity, and the fine line between regulation and personal freedom - and he shares his views on what the future of privacy might really look like.

A must listen episode!

Michael Moore is CTO of Nmible, and a seasoned tech leader who has grown his career from a hands-on Software Engineer, through to Technical Lead, Engineering Manager and then to CTO.

In this episode, we discussed Michael's approach to hiring talent and building culture as well as him sharing personal recent experiences in the job market as a candidate.

A must listen episode!