The Vine Resources Podcast Show

Whats2doo is a pioneer of sharing economy in Germany. They develop and operate a peer-to-peer marketplace that creates a secure and trusting connection between people who need help and people who want to help. I spoke to the founder Hannes Rothwell to find out more about his business and his insights.  Enjoy!

Former British fighter pilot and army officer Jonny Nicol founded Stratajet in 2011. A pilot-turned computer scientist-turned commercial pilot-turned entrepreneur who, frustrated by the archaic and inefficient state of the modern private jet business, decided to do something about it.  Jonny has a great story to share and some sound advice to anyone in business.  Enjoy the show! 

Databricks’ mission is to accelerate innovation for its customers by unifying Data Science, Engineering and Business. Founded by the team who created Apache Spark, Databricks provides a Unified Analytics Platform for data science teams to collaborate with data engineering and lines of business to build data products. 

We spoke with David Wyatt, the VP & GM EMEA at Databricks who are building out the EMEA division of the most exciting startup and bleeding edge big data analytics and AI company on the planet.  Don't miss this one!

I managed to get some time with Dagmar Schuller, the CEO of audEERING based in Gilching in Germany to tell us her story and give us her insights.    AudEERING are developing the next-generation, intelligent audio analysis algorithms and provide consulting services to help companies integrate state-of-the-art audio analysis technology into companies products and workflow.  Hope you enjoy the show!

Cyberport is based in Dresden, Germany providing consumer electronics, telecommunications, photo and household appliances across the German-speaking regions including Germany, Austria and Switzerland.  I had the pleasure of speaking to the Managing Director Matthew Dean who shared some great insights into running his business and the lessons he has learned.

Yehuda Hofri is the CTO/CPO at Harver.  Harver is revolutionising pre-hire talent assessment and substitutes the traditional HR cycle with a new industry standard of preselection. Their predictive analytics determine with extreme accuracy exactly which candidates will perform best in the job.  Harver has offices in Amsterdam, London and New York and has clients across 13 countries, preselecting candidates in 42 languages.

Freesat is a UK free-to-air digital satellite television joint venture between the BBC and ITV plc which launched in May 2008.  They have over 200 TV & radio channels including 13 HD channels, all subscription free.  I got the chance to talk with the Managing Director Alistar Thom about Freesat, the new channel launches, the challenges in a fast changing world and what makes Freesat successful.

We got the chance to speak to Kevin Murphy, who is the Managing Director, Business and Corporate Delivery at Openreach.  Kevin shared with us his career journey and insight into his business as well as the three years he spent on the London Olympics 2012 as the Operator Director for BT.  BT was the first corporate sponsor for the London Olympics with a £80 million deal to become the official telecommunications partner kitting out the main Olympic stadium and other venues with communications equipment as well as hosting the Olympic website. Kevin shares his story and what he believes it takes to be a great leader and how it's all about the people who came together to make it the success it was.

We had the pleasure of meeting up with Darren Childs, the CEO of UKTV.  UKTV is a UK commercial broadcaster reaching over 41m viewers every month with 11 channels including UKTV Play, Dave, W, Gold, Alibi, and Yesterday.  This includes the two most popular non-PSB channels in the UK and accounts for nearly 10% of the British commercial TV market.  Darren shares some amazing insights into the challenges as well as opportunities facing the broadcast media industry as well as how the people inside his organisation has led to its huge success.