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65
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Sep 2026
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Where successful CTO's share their secrets.
Andrew is the CTO of Alfa and has close to 30 years experience in the tech industry, working at companies such as Ford and IBM prior. In this episode, we discuss Andrew's leadership style, his approach to engaging with the rest of the business and his perspective on investment due diligence.
In this episode Shaun and I discuss the human side of technology leadership. Drawing on his experience scaling engineering organisations, leading teams through acquisition and preparing businesses for change, Shaun explores why empathy is such an important — and often underestimated — leadership skill. We discuss how leaders can win hearts and minds, align teams behind a common North Star, navigate organisational uncertainty and build cultures capable of performing under pressure. A fascinating conversation about why great technology leadership is ultimately as much about people as it is about platforms.
Inés is the recently appointed CEO of Wizeline, a global AI-native technology company. In this episode, we discuss how Inés has built her impressive career, with more than two decades of experience in technology services and consulting. She has helped scale international organisations such as Globant and Cognizant before joining Wizeline, where she previously led the company's global services organisation and AI strategy before stepping into the CEO role earlier this year.
Eugi Bartolo is an award-winning technology and product leader who operates right at the intersection of private equity, digital transformation, and value creation. Eugi has built an impressive career working with global brands like Just Eat, Sky, and The Economist, and more recently partnering with private equity and venture capital firms to turn technology from a cost centre into a true driver of EBITDA growth, through implementation of AI, data, and operating models. In addition to this, he even has time to squeeze in being the drummer for Europes most prominent Queen tribute band. A must listen episode!
Peter is a highly seasoned CTO with more than two decades experience in technology. His career has spanned high-performance engineering environments such as Formula One, through venture-backed startups, founding his own SaaS business, as well as acting in and advising on private equity backed growth companies. In this episode, we discuss Peter’s approach to leadership and how to use technology as an enabler for business outcomes.
My guest this week is Swen-Helge Huber, Senior Director at Solace. Swen has held senior technical and leadership roles across a range of areas including systems architecture, consultative presales, software development as well as people and technology leadership, and worked with some of the biggest names in enterprise technology — including Sun Microsystems, TIBCO, Software AG, Talend to name a few.
I was recently joined by the excellent Andrew Winnicki, Director of Technology and Data for Hakluyt & Company. Andrew is a technology leader with over 25 years of experience building, scaling, and transforming digital products across media, fintech, SaaS, and enterprise environments. He’s led engineering and technology functions at organisations including NVIDIA, Discovery+, carwow, and most recently as CTO at Omnevue, where he built and scaled a high-performing remote engineering team and delivered AI-enabled SaaS platforms. Alongside his technology leadership work, Andrew is also a mentor and facilitator, focused on mindful leadership, personal growth, and building meaningful connections in tech. We explored his journey, his approach to leadership and transformation, and what it really takes to build sustainable, people-first technology organisations.
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.
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