Venturi's Voice: Technology | Leadership | Staffing | Career | Innovation
689 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsVenturi’s Voice brings you conversation with leaders from various technology disciplines - data, cyber security, development, cloud, infrastructure, business intelligence and more… Each week you will be able to relate, take inspiration and action the business education from our compelling guests. Outside of technology we tend to cover; career progression, influences, best practices, leadership, talent, recruitment and the inspiration behind our guest successes in career and life!
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Gender diversity in the data space - Catherine Wilks
October 29, 2019 09:47 - 31 minutes - 43.2 MBCatherine is the Data & Analytics Practice Area Lead at Slalom Consulting. With a background in theoretical particle physics, Catherine did a Ph.D. at the University of Liverpool before moving into the corporate world. Catherine chose to go into physics because she enjoyed the subject and it was a subject that came very naturally to her. She also knew the degree would give her great career options in the longer term. When she was doing her PhD she realised that working at such det...
Building data science teams, moving industries & understanding data ROI - Anthony Channon
October 28, 2019 11:14 - 27 minutes - 37.9 MBHead of Science and Development at Recordsure Anthony has been at Recordsure for a month. His goal at the company is to expand its data science capabilities in the areas of AI, speech to text technology & language processing. His aim is to bring these technologies closer to Recordsure’s development functions. Been at Recordsure for a month. Was brought onto the team to expand its science capabilities around AI, speech to text & language processing and bring these closer to their dev...
Data thought leadership from London and beyond - Simon Whiteley
October 25, 2019 09:18 - 28 minutes - 39 MBSimon is the director of engineering at Advanced Analytics As the Director of Engineering at Advancing Analytics, Simon’s passion is helping companies achieve their analytics goals using the best of data engineering know-how, coaching their data leadership and educating their teams around the latest and greatest Azure analytics technologies. Simon is a big believer in the wider data community. He regularly presents on cloud analytics architectures and was the original founder of the ...
Transferring from academia to business - Diego Capozzi Ph.D
October 25, 2019 08:18 - 24 minutes - 33.3 MBDiego is the Lead Data Scientist at FutureLearn With a background in Astrophysics Diego has worked as a professional researcher in Astrophysics for more than 8 years. In that time he undertook post-doctoral research. He was also part of one of the largest collaboration of astrophysicists in the world which was called the dark energy survey. After his academic career, he moved into a role in data science and found that the work was very similar. The principles and problems he faced ...
Creating startups all over the world - Moritz Heininger
October 23, 2019 08:20 - 27 minutes - 37.1 MBMoritz is the Co-founder and Managing Director at DiscoEat One of the three co-founders of DiscoEat, Moritz helped create the app that allows restaurants to fill empty spaces on their tables at quiet times. Moritz has traveled extensively and has a degree in international management and finance. After university, he started his career in management consulting. After three and a half years he joined the startup world and he became the managing director of food panda then several oth...
Building a robotic automation startup - Garuka Serasinghe
October 22, 2019 08:10 - 25 minutes - 34.6 MBGaruka is the CTO at Intellimorph Before working at Intellimorph, Garuka worked at a big four consultancy. His role focused on property process automation and artificial intelligence where he led large projects on automation. Areas Garuka has worked in include: banking, pharmaceuticals, government & healthcare.
Leading the data team at RS Components - Charles Maracle
October 21, 2019 11:23 - 31 minutes - 43.6 MBCharles is the Lead Senior Data Architect at RS Components Charles has over 20 years of experience in IT, of which over 15 years specializing in database technologies. He has spent most of his career designing databases, SQL and report development, and managing database servers. Charles believes that data requires great attention to detail and an understanding of definitions.
Cryptocurrency and conspiracy theories - Robert Learney
October 21, 2019 08:11 - 28 minutes - 38.8 MBRob is the lead technologist and blockchain DLT at Digital Catapult A Trained medical doctor, Robert worked in the NHS for 6-years. He really enjoyed the role but always had a desire to ‘invent stuff’. So he went back to university to study a degree that would allow him to do that. Robert first took an interest in blockchain whilst doing his Ph.D and the bitcoin phenomenon exploded in 2012. He knew then Bitcoin was something he needed to be part of. In that time he also co-founde...
Building a customer-centric energy company - Greg Jackson
October 18, 2019 12:47 - 30 minutes - 42.3 MBGreg is the founder and CEO at Octopus Energy After a short sojourn in the video game industry when he finished his GCSE’s Greg returned to university to do a degree in Economics. He landed his first professional role in the marketing department at Proctor & Gamble. When Greg started at P&G the concept of technology and marketing being closely entwined was very alien. But with the advent of the consumer-facing internet that all changed and the two disciplines began gelling togethe...
Leadership and management at Splice - Juan Pablo Buriticá
October 17, 2019 08:27 - 34 minutes - 47.7 MBJuan is the VP of Engineering at Splice. Moving to America in 2007 Juan initially worked as a chef after studying culinary arts. After the financial crisis of 2008, he found himself moving away from cheffing and started building websites for people. He initially learned his computer skills from building myspace pages for his friend's bands. It wasn’t long until Juan moved into the startup scene in US. He moved from Florida to New York and began his role at Splice.
Finding your own work-life balance - Stephen Ballot
October 15, 2019 09:05 - 26 minutes - 36.2 MBStephen is the Director of Product at OLX Group A lot of Stephen’s background is in product management. He started of his career as a software engineer and expected to do that for his entire career. But then, one Saturday, he was awoken by a support call where some big SMS system was down and he had to figure out how to fix it. He realised he enjoyed life too much to keep sacrificing his Saturdays like that so he started exploring opportunities. He was looking for a role where he can...
Transforming news - Julian March
October 15, 2019 08:03 - 35 minutes - 48.4 MBJulian is the CEO at Made By Many An award-winning digital publisher, Julian has lead transformation and innovation within big brands including Sky News and ITV. He has 20 years of editorial experience, expertise in TV, video & digital media production, with a focus on the numbers to drive revenue and profit, and the leadership skills to develop high-performing teams. He is currently helping Made By Many through the next chapter of their growth story.
Machine learning, quantum computing & artificial intelligence - Mattia Fiorentini
October 11, 2019 12:29 - 34 minutes - 47.2 MBMattia is the head of machine learning & quantum algorithms at Cambridge Quantum Computing. Mattia is an enthusiastic research lead in the areas of Machine Learning and Quantum Computing. In his classical computing activity, he applies deep learning to algorithmic trading and financial time-series forecasting. With my team, he has implemented many intra-day trading strategies in diverse financial markets. During Mattia’s studies towards his PhD in computational Physics, he focussed ...
Breaking down investment barriers with impact investing - Tom McGillycuddy
October 10, 2019 08:09 - 22 minutes - 31.2 MBTom is the co-founder at Tickr Tom began his career in 2011 in Barclay’s graduate scheme. He spent several years working in their investment division working in both the UK and Hong Kong. In 2014 joined a US investment management firm called Wellington Management where he spent the next 5-years. It was in this role that Tom started working in impact investment. This investing strategy involves investing in companies that are solving problems that are scaleable and the first to mark...
Contracting as a CDO - Althea Davis
October 09, 2019 08:08 - 33 minutes - 45.9 MBAlthea is a senior data professional and Chief Data Officer. A passionate advocate of the value of data, Althea has spent the past 20 years working as a data management professional. She is currently a contract CDO and her hands-on knowledge includes data strategy, information management, big data, data governance & data quality. She is currently working in Amsterdam where she is leading and managing the global data governance services for an international alcohol brand. Her mandate i...
Working in a video games studio - Nick Warr
October 08, 2019 08:15 - 28 minutes - 39.1 MBNick is the Head of IT at Bossa Studios Originally a graphic artist Nick specialised in art with a computer specialisation. At university, he studied 3D graphics and 3D art. When Nick started working he found his industry was full of artists but not many people who were technically minded. So Nick found himself slowly gravitating to the more technical side of his role. Nick started in tech support and began slowly specialising in networking and bounced back and forth between this ...
Developing websites in Liverpool - Steve Todd
October 07, 2019 11:02 - 26 minutes - 36.6 MBSteve is the Technical Director at Mashbo Steve caught the coding bug whilst doing his A-levels and he moved away from a career as a pilot to pursue programming. He did a Computer Science degree at the University of Liverpool and has worked and lived in the city he grew up in ever since. In 2011 Steve and two colleagues founded Mashbo. They set up their own company so they could create a positive, forward-thinking company culture they’ve always wanted at work. Mashbo was origin...
Transforming marketing with artificial intelligence - Paolo Rossi
October 07, 2019 10:12 - 25 minutes - 34.5 MBPaolo is the Software Development Manager at Volume.ai A software developer with 10+ years of experience, Paolo started learning computer science in his native Italy. Paolo has a master's degree in computer vision and artificial intelligence. Five years ago Paolo decided he wanted a new adventure and challenge and moved to the UK and he started working for Volume. When he started the company was mainly a digital agency. But when Paolo started it was already changing to a more AI-foc...
BI, data & Marketing - Nimrod Avissar
October 03, 2019 08:23 - 30 minutes - 42 MBNimrod is the Business Intelligence Lead at Hermes Investment Management Starting his BI career a decade ago, Nimrod began working in the space as a consultant. He quickly progressed to a lead consultant then team leader. After a few years working in a consultancy, he moved to Hermes where he now works with their in-house BI team. With a BA in Philosophy and Mass Media, Nimrod pivoted into data and has been responsible for overseeing the making of greenfield data warehouses around E...
Business intelligence at Virgin Atlantic - Hayley Print
October 02, 2019 07:02 - 28 minutes - 39.1 MBHayley is the Business Intelligence Manager at Virgin Atlantic Airlines. Hayley’s path into business intelligence is an unconventional one. She originally studied theology in Las Vegas and initially wanted to be a pastor in the US. Her first job out of university was in a bank. She worked in Finance for a while before getting recruited by a stockbroker and moved into investment management for a decade. During this time she first encountered big data began working closely with data...
Project management, finding success & asking questions - Mhairi Davidson
October 01, 2019 08:15 - 31 minutes - 43.1 MBMhairi Davidson is the delivery Team Lead at CDL Software After leaving universtiy Mhairi was unsure what she wanted to do. She knew she wanted to earn some money so decided to pursue a career in recruitment. After applying for a few positions she ended up working in the oil and gas market in Aberdeen. After this, she worked in the public sector and then for a sports nutrition company. After a few years in Recruitment, Mhairi decided it wasn’t for her anymore and she decided to move i...
Situational leadership at Lloyds Banking Group - Edson Ferreira
September 30, 2019 09:42 - 21 minutes - 29 MBEdson is the Head of Engineering at Lloyd’s Banking Group. Arriving in the UK in 2004 Edson found employment within a fortnight working for a small building sub-contractor in the Bolton area. This role required him to develop their information management systems and upgrading their day to day operations. After a few years, he moved to a company called Amptech which has now been acquired by Trimble. He spent 7 years at Trimble before moving to Findel Education as their Head of Web De...
Data & analytics at the Bodyshop - Mike Leverington
September 28, 2019 12:55 - 29 minutes - 40.8 MBMike is the Head of Data & Analytics at the Bodyshop. Mike's interest in data started when he began studying economics at A levels. It was the first time he’d seen a subject that married maths with real-world problems and issues. It was his first taste of using data to make business recommendations. Mike carried on learning economics right through to a Master’s degree. After a brief foray into investment banking, Mike went to work at a company called Game Theory. This company taught...
The importance of culture and values in a human-centric workplace - Purnima Sen
September 28, 2019 12:45 - 41 minutes - 56.6 MBPurnima is the Operations & People Director at Sparta Global When Purnima started her career in technology there was no clear career path set out for her. With a degree and masters in economics, Purnima ended up in technology almost by accident. Her IT career started when she joined a company called Sun Systems. Whilst at this company Purnima got a really good understanding and appreciation of technology. Although she isn’t technical herelf Purnima began to understand a lot of th...
Creating apps, mobile development & business mergers - Jay Graves
September 25, 2019 08:34 - 29 minutes - 40.3 MBJay is the CTO at Wunderman Thompson Mobile Originally from the east coast, Jay moved to Denver to do more snowboarding. He worked various jobs building websites for companies during and after the dot com bubble burst. When the App boom happened Jay moved into mobile development. He joined a company called Double Encore and they helped build mobile apps for social media platforms. As they were early starters in the app sector they became known for creating high-quality apps. Double En...
Voice technology in telephony - Nigel Cannings
September 24, 2019 09:05 - 29 minutes - 40.9 MBNigel is the CTO at Intelligent Voice. Before his career in tech, Nigel was an IT lawyer (before IT lawyers were a thing). He’s invested in several small software companies in his time and now specialises in voice recognition and related technologies. Intelligent Voice provides market-leading surveillance and monitoring solutions for telephone calls, e-mail, IM, social media, and any text documents. We also have an incredibly fast speech to text engine, capable of processing speech ...
Data is society's next crude oil - Simon Asplen-Taylor
September 23, 2019 08:46 - 35 minutes - 48.8 MBSimon is the Chief Data Officer at Rank Group. Recently shortlisted for Data Leader of the year 2019, Simon has had a long and varied career in Data. In his current role at Rank, he is responsible for driving value and insights from data. He’s previously worked at Regus plc where he, working with the operations team, increased profit margins by 64%. Simon has also spent time at Lloyd bank when he was responsible for driving a billion pounds of revenue per annum. In both of these role...
Socialchain & Manchester's social media hub - Katy Leeson
September 20, 2019 12:06 - 24 minutes - 34.1 MBKaty is the Managing Director at Socialchain Katy’s spent her career in media and marketing. She was the head of New Media and Marketing at MediaCom north before moving to Socialchain. In this podcast, Andy and Katy talk about the growth of Socialchain, the ups, and downs of agency work and the advantages of podcasting. When she’s not working at Socialchain Katy is busy hosting her own podcast, ‘I shouldn’t say this but…’ (http://bit.ly/katy-podcast).
Remote workers, agile methodologies, SEO, and Searchmetrics - Malte LandwehrMalte Landwehr
September 19, 2019 10:01 - 30 minutes - 41.6 MBMalte is the VP of Product at Searchmetrics Malte stumbled into SEO when he was about 15 years old. He’d built his own website and he was surprised to see website traffic from areas he didn’t expect. After investigating he realised his traffic was coming from his SEO efforts. This happy accident led Malte down the career path he’s on today. When Malte went to university he studied Computer Science further augmenting his skills in SEO and web development. After university, he worked i...
Finding fulfilment in your career - Mita Patel
September 17, 2019 11:20 - 25 minutes - 34.8 MBMita is a Senior Product Manager at Mindera Starting her career in the construction industry Mita advanced from an entry-level software developer to a development manager. She also spent 18 months in India setting up an offshore team. After a successful career in software, she decided to move into product management. Mita felt she has mastered all things she wanted to as a developer and working on a product from conception, research and through to execution was an exciting propositi...
Delivering digital transformation & agile methodologies - Richard Ellis
September 13, 2019 09:09 - 25 minutes - 34.8 MBRichard is the Head of Digital Retail at Answer Digital Fast approaching his 10th year at Answer Digital, Richard is very passionate about all things agile. He’s an agile project manager and scrum master who has worked in a variety of industries and sectors. He has recently been working closely with the retail sector helping companies deliver agile change projects and programs and facilitating scalable initiatives.
Constantly innovating at Lyst - Lucas McGregor
September 12, 2019 11:16 - 31 minutes - 43.3 MBLucas is the CTO at Lyst Lucas is an experienced Internet Tech and Product Head. He has a strong background in start-ups, acquisitions, and intrapreneurial leadership for large organizations. He is skilled in management, Software as a Service (SaaS), product development, big data, agile, and intellectual property.
Rockstar developers: A contentious term - Joshua Graham
September 11, 2019 08:39 - 27 minutes - 37.8 MBJoshua is a Senior Technical Consultant at Computer ConQuest and a co-host of the Getting Apps Done podcast. At 14 Josh could boast he owned the most powerful computer in town. He owned a Pentium 166 with 8mb of RAM. It was at this point he immediately fell in love with computer and programming. After a lot of trial and error, teaching himself to code, Josh built a career for himself as a software developer. He’s now got so many coding languages under his belt he can’t fit them all ...
DevOps, Kubernetes & company growth - Dmitri Lerko
September 10, 2019 08:25 - 26 minutes - 36.7 MBDmitri is the Head of DevOps at LoveHoliday. Dmitri is interested in exploring Google Cloud, Kubernetes, building scalable distributed systems and cloud-native tech. Before heading up DevOps at Loveholidays, Dmitri worked at IBM Watson Health and holds patents from his time there. Check out Dmitri’s blog at deploy.live: https://deploy.live/
Facilitating information sharing in healthcare with Blockchain - Alexandra Eavis
September 09, 2019 10:07 - 32 minutes - 44.5 MBAlex is the CEO of Dovetail Lab Alex is an experienced company director, entrepreneur and project manager. She is the Co-Founder and CEO of Dovetail Lab, a software company that has developed a blockchain platform to pioneer better information sharing in healthcare by giving patients control of their data. A majority stake in Dovetail has recently been acquired by EMIS Group plc, an AIM-listed health technology company that currently provides clinical systems to approximately 60% of ...
Nordic leadership - Juha Ristolainen
September 05, 2019 08:43 - 24 minutes - 33.5 MBJuha is the engineering lead at Transferwise. Juha is a Computer Science graduate who has spent the past 20 years working in IT and the last 30 programming. He spent the first decade of his career building a consultancy in Finland which in time brought him to the UK and Germany. In this period Juha learned most of his programming and project management skills. Ever since then he’s been doing more management and CTO type roles in different companies. His varied career has seen him ...
Product management in the video game industry - Ronald Pompa
September 04, 2019 08:36 - 23 minutes - 32.9 MBRonald is the VP of Product at FACEIT. Ronald always wanted to work in the video game industry but he started his career at Spotify. He began his professional life as a project manager but as he progressed his role morphed into the product manager he is now. Ronald is currently VP of Product at FACEIT which is the leading competitive gaming platform. FACEIT allows players to easily play in tournaments and leagues for virtual and real-world prizes through automated tournament managem...
Building your startup, remote working & future planning - Robert Gelb
September 03, 2019 08:38 - 23 minutes - 32.9 MBRobert is the Founder of Kindaba and the CEO at HeySummit Ever since he was young Robert has enjoyed undertaking and building projects. He found creating new businesses and processes far more rewarding than working as a small cog in a large company. His passion for projects began after university. He started a non-profit project where he and 4 friends worked and lived in a converted school bus. They drove around America and made short documentary films about people doing good thing...
Building a challenger consultancy - Leon Gauhman
August 30, 2019 08:56 - 33 minutes - 46.1 MBLeon is the Founder and CPO/CSO at Elsewhen When he began his career Leon saw Software Engineering as a side-project. He finished an arts degree and started creating generative art using computers. This sparked his interest in software, he rejected an arts master and pivoted into a career where he could solve real-world problems. As a software engineer Leon wanted to bring together the disparate aspects of product development and business and let business owners gain more control of t...
Volunteering, community and mentoring with Salesforce - Nitzan Marinov
August 29, 2019 09:27 - 33 minutes - 46.1 MBNitzan is a Senior Salesforce Systems Manager & Information Security Lead at The Challenge Before working with Salesforce Nitzan worked as a software developer and project manager for various companies, including outdoor advertising, several software houses, and a stock market trading training company. Most of her career has been based around the database application space and that made the transition to Salesforce the most logical step. Nitzan started her Salesforce career voluntee...
How can your Company culture increase your businesses ROI - Chris Brown
August 28, 2019 08:31 - 28 minutes - 39.4 MBChris is the VP of People & Culture at Zenjob Living in Berlin since 2012, Chris has seen the cities tech startup scene change massively. He moved with this wife to Berlin to get out of his comfort zone and hasn’t looked back since. He started his career at Soundcloud and this was where he cut his teeth in recruitment and HR. From there Chris moved N26 as their Director of Employee Experience before finally moving to Zenjob where he’s now the VP of people & culture.
Developing digital surgery - Hansel Dunlop
August 27, 2019 09:34 - 28 minutes - 38.8 MBHansel is the VP of Engineering at Touch Surgery 5 billion people don’t have access to safe surgery. Changing that statistic is Touch Surgery’s mission. Hansel is helping the company achieve this goal through his role as the VP of Engineering. Hansel builds and trains teams of developers and provides them with everything they need to do their jobs. He leads an engineering team of 30+ people which is responsible for building scalable, automatically testable, and easily deployable pla...
Bringing the customers voice into the agile delivery process - Aris Capellos
August 16, 2019 12:20 - 28 minutes - 38.9 MBAris is the CEO & Co-Founder at Gutsy Ninja For the last 10 years, Aris has been working as an agile delivery manager. He especially enjoys contracting roles within organisations that help drive software delivery, assist and improve Agile processes and techniques such as Scrum Master and Agile Coaching initiatives. Having been convinced of the Agile mindset many years ago, Aris took the opportunity to investigate ways of bringing the customer's voice closer to the overall process. Gu...
Predicting market uncertainty with machine learning - Vlasios Voudouris
August 15, 2019 08:17 - 20 minutes - 27.6 MBVlasios is the Chief Data Officer at Argus Media. With a Ph.D. in informatics, Vlasios started his career working in academia. His Ph.D. led him to specialise in managing data sets over geographical space and time. When he left university he worked on several consultancy projects and could boast that the UK government was a client. After this Vlasios spent some time setting up his own company where he successfully commercialised a lot of the research he did over his academic care...
Leading successful development teams - Jason Hyland
August 14, 2019 08:34 - 30 minutes - 42.2 MBJason is the development manager at Connells Group Jason is a digital technology manager with over 10 years’ experience developing and delivering digital platforms. He’s delivered everything from simple PHP Facebook applications through to complex asset management systems on Umbraco. During his career, in addition to development and project delivery, he has built and managed digital teams of up to 15 people and worked with onshore and offshore external production houses. He’s introdu...
Transforming the work structure at DCMN - Christian Graf
August 13, 2019 08:44 - 27 minutes - 38.2 MBChristian is the CTO at DCMN With 20+ as a software developer, Christian started coding when he was 16. Drawn to the allure of entrepreneur life he started his first company when he was 17. His company provided a hosting service to businesses. He found that this was a nice niche he could exploit at the time that paid for Christian’s studies. When he finished studying physics he started a second company in Berlin where he created a video recruiting interview software. After this,...
Growing Mercedes-Benz.io - Sophie Seiwald
August 12, 2019 09:48 - 35 minutes - 49.1 MBSophie is the Managing Director at Mercedes-Benz.io Although Sophie isn’t a super technical individual (by her own admission) she has always worked in and managed IT teams. A self-professed Daimler child, she started her working life there as an intern then moved into a trainee position. From there, Sophie always found herself working in IT projects. For Sophie, IT is always one part of a larger project. She is equally comfortable in defining big system landscapes and a projects overa...
Providing big data solutions for multi-national clients - Charlie Toprak & Ben Jones
August 08, 2019 09:30 - 32 minutes - 44.3 MBCharlie is the Senior Technical Recruiter and Ben is the Group CTO at GfK. GfK harnesses big-data on consumers and brands to provide multi-national clients with actionable intelligence that helps inform their strategies and shapes markets. GfK Tech is responsible for the entire life cycle of global market research applications. They develop applications for internal and external customers to enable big data. They apply modern technology and proven practices to solve problems around bi...
Curating musical playlists for businesses - Marco Baldini
August 07, 2019 09:41 - 28 minutes - 39.1 MBMarco is the VP of Engineering at Ambie Ambie is a smarter way for businesses to manage their background music. By combining music experts with smart and simple tech, we help hundreds of businesses around the world increase efficiency while creating the perfect atmosphere, using music. Ambie curates playlists for businesses. Their mission is to deliver the right music at the right time to create the mood the business owner expects or what the business owner needs.
Finding your feet in your first management position - Leanne Lynch
August 01, 2019 11:57 - 30 minutes - 41.9 MBLeanne is the IT Digital Services Director at Heathrow Airport A highly accomplished and resilient IT Director, Leanne has global experience in leading the development and execution of IT Strategies to support business transformation. Her success is underpinned by her ability to weave together ideas and the right talent and get tangible deliverable done. Leanne is known completing transformation projects and she makes sure that everyone involved understands the purpose of the transfor...