Great Business Minds

Hello and welcome to another episode of the Great Business Minds podcast, the definitive show for the business of digital infrastructure. I’m your host Joao Marques Lima and I use my experience as a digital infrastructure journalist to dig deep into business issues but also get to know those who build our digital world. Great Business Minds is brought to you by Portman Partners, the premier execut...

Welcome to another episode of the Great Business Minds podcast, the definitive show for the business of digital infrastructure.   Great Business Minds is brought to you in partnership with Portman Partners, the premier executive search firm for the digital infrastructure industry.    This week we are joined by cricket and tennis player Rajiv Ramaswami, who is also an accomplished Indian entreprene...

Welcome to another episode of the Great Business Minds podcast, the definitive show for the business of digital infrastructure.   Great Business Minds is brought to you in partnership with Portman Partners, the premiere executive search firm for the digital infrastructure industry.    In this episode we are joined by an industry titan who has leading experience in creating, scaling up, and exiting...

Welcome to another episode of the  Great Business Minds  podcast, the definitive show for the business of digital infrastructure. Our guest in this episode is a successful entrepreneur who has spent the last decade building a business that is today valued at more than US$5 billion. Felix Van de Maele has led data intelligence firm Collibra through record growth and is responsible for its global bu...

Welcome to another episode of the Great Business Minds podcast, the definitive show for the business of digital infrastructure. In this episode we are joined by someone who has become a walking font of knowledge within the data centre sphere as some would say. David Liggitt is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of datacenterHawk which he started in 2014 with the vision to help customers make...

Welcome to another episode of the Great Business Minds podcast, the definitive show for the business of digital infrastructure. Our guest this week has a strong capital market background as well as a solid international track record with experience in start-ups through to large international businesses. He has also successfully conducted IPOs and raised private equity for data centre expansion pro...

This week we are joined by someone who is building what will most likely become the world’s largest data centre campus . The site is so big, it could nearly contain three Cities of London. The most intriguing thing: he says this is the smallest project on the table for the business. We are talking of course about Josh Snowhorn, founder and CEO of Quantum Loophole, who values approachability, acces...

Our guest this week is a scale-up enthusiastic, board member and advisor. He has worked in the recruitment industry for more than 25 years helping several brands grow their businesses both nationally and internationally. Dave Pye says his style in working alongside Founders and CEOs is very much focused on four ‘Cs’: Creativity, Curiousness, Culture and Collaboration. He has been working with some...

Our guest this week, is a master of cryptocurrency, an entrepreneur and philanthropist. He has acquired over 30 years of experience in corporate restructuring; M&A; IPO privatisation; private equity and hedge fund investments across mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan before establishing himself as the founder and CEO of Hamilton Investment Management, a global fund manager with multi-billion as...

Our guest this week is a data centre legend and he is the man responsible for matching talent with the right job, setting the foundations for hundreds of data centre businesses to succeed.   Peter Hannaford has worked for Societe Generale, Waterfields, Schneider Electric and Datacenter People amongst others, and today runs Portman Partners, a boutique executive search and strategic advisory firm f...

Our guest this week is an archaeologist turned telecoms and data centre top global leader and shaker of the status quo.   One of his favourite hobbies is to coach baseball and he is a U2’s music fan, be it with or without you, on a beautiful day or a Sunday bloody Sunday in a city of blinding lights.   We’re talking of no one else but Bill Barney, CEO of recently launched Turbidite, chairman and m...

From selling old pianos for £10 in the south of London as a teenager to being one of the world’s leading digital infrastructure investors and visionaries, our guest this week is one of the key builders of our digital world. He is a serial investor, a hugely successful entrepreneur, an author, a philanthropist and above all, a maverick.   Michael Tobin has been involved with some of the biggest nam...

Have you ever struggled with going from idea to scale relatively fast? Dean Nelson, founder and chairman of Infrastructure Masons, is a master of scale and has over the years built a tremendous community with thousands of movers and shakers who together represent over $150 billion in infrastructure projects spanning 130 countries. Owner of a seasoned technology executive career spanning 31 years o...

Hi everyone, I’m João Marques Lima, your host for the Great Business Minds podcast.  I wanted to kick off this new podcast and the season in a way that you can get to know the podcast and I a bit better before we dive into the world of digital entrepreneurship. I’m a London-based journalist and I started my work back in 2015 covering the exciting world of IoT and data centres. This gave me a uniqu...