The Diary Of A CTO

Hosted by Guy Bevington

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May 2026

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Where successful CTO's share their secrets.

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May 12, 202638 min

E62. Eugi Bartolo

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!

April 20, 202649 min

E61. Peter Rossi

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.

February 26, 202638 min

E60. Swen Helge-Huber

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.

February 5, 202659 min

E59. Andrew Winnicki

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.

January 21, 202638 min

E58. Andrey Kozlov

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.

January 19, 202652 min

E57. Michael Kennedy

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.

January 15, 202651 min

E56. Anvar Karimson

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.

January 12, 202659 min

E55. Alexander Scott

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.

January 8, 202642 min

E54. Federico Cicchi

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.

January 5, 20261 hr 2 min

E53. Peadar Coyle

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.

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