Influential Future's Career Focus Podcast

Welcome back to Career Focus . Today I’m joined by Alex Graham, CFA , a corporate development and M&A professional with more than 15 years of experience across investing, advisory, strategy, and deal execution. Alex is currently M&A Director at Alpha FMC, and has previously held corporate development and finance roles at Next 15, Flywheel Visions, and BizCorps. He also brings an internatio...

In this episode, I speak with Gabriele Musella, Co-Founder and CEO of Coinrule , a platform helping everyday investors and traders automate their crypto strategies without needing to code. Gabriele shares his journey across global technology, fintech, and innovation ecosystems, with experience spanning organizations such as Vodafone, Nokia, WPP, Lloyds Banking Group, UBS, MIT, Google, and Pioneer...

🎙️ Welcome to a brand-new episode of Career Focus! Today I sit down with Guillermo Malena, Co-Founder of Allie AI ( https://tryallie.com ), on a mission to reinvent data-driven decision-making in CRE. A former Bloomberg Product Manager and Cornell alum, Guillermo shares why he went out on his own, the hardest parts of shaking up legacy markets, and the tech trends you need on your radar.  Note: Th...

🎙️ Welcome to a brand-new episode of Career Focus! Today, I’m joined by Reggie James, Founder of Digital Clarity — a seasoned expert with a remarkable career spanning the early-days of the internet (AltaVista and Yahoo) to starting his very own successful digital consultancy. In this episode, Reggie shares insights from his career journey, including: The 95-5 rule and its impact on brand awareness...

Today as my guest I am hosting Alexandru Voicu, Head of Growth & Strategy at Newton - https://newton.ro/   In this interview we discussed his immense interest in the finance world, what led him to get involved with Newton and his views on the future of technology. Thank you to all our listeners and supporters. Note: The views expressed in this episode are personal in nature and in no way refle...

Today as my guest I am hosting Martin Iliev, CFO of startup GlycanAge https://glycanage.com/ In this interview we discussed his immense interest in the startup world, his career path before becoming a CFO, and how he found his calling. Note: The views expressed in this episode are personal in nature and in no way reflect the views of any organization, company, or institution. 

Today as my guest I am hosting Beatrice Zatorska, a serial entrepreneur and CEO/Founder of PDBuddy- https://pdbuddy.app/ She has extensive experience in the corporate world and now being involved with her current startup. She shared with us the challenges of being a founder and owner of your own business, what lessons she learned along the way and what it means to push boundaries and innovate.  No...

Today as my guest I am hosting Zdravko Slavov, Senior Manager within the Climate and Sustainability space. He has in-depth knowledge on financial products, what drives the market, technology, and sustainability. In today’s episode, Zdravko shared his career path to date; how he initially wanted to do product design, specifically for the car industry, but as he pursued his university studies he got...

Today as my guest I am hosting Anna Aleksieva, Senior Machine Learning Engineer. She has extensive experience in startups, and most recently within financial services for one of the UK’s largest challenger banks. She has in-depth knowledge in data science, and machine learning. In today’s episode, Anna will be sharing with us her career journey to date, how she was in split minds as to what indust...

Today as my guest I am hosting Nikolaos Sotiriou,Lead Data Scientist. He has extensive experience in data science, technology, and how best to utilize them within financial services. In this episode, Nikolaos was kind enough to share how his passion for physics motivated him to find practical application of his knowledge, and what led to his current professional path. Along the way he has gained i...

Today as my guest I am hosting David Florez Fernandez, an AI Cloud Solution Architect. Having worked with Microsoft for 8 years he has extensive experience in the world of technology. He was kind enough to share with us his career journey from university, his initial career within finance, and finally how he set out his Data Science journey, and consequently his current career path. In addition, w...

Today as my guest I am hosting Joseph Heade,Venture Principal. He has extensive experience in venture funding and research. He shared with us his journey from education to the professional world and what he has learned along the way that has helped him on his career path. In addition, he was kind of to speak about his experience, how we got involved in new technologies, and specifically venture fu...

Today as my guest I am hosting Ivan Panajotov, Head of Business Intelligence Analytics. He has extensive expertise in financial and credit scoring during his time with one of the largest credit scoring companies in the world. From then on, he got motivated to apply his knowledge and skills in different fields and expand his know-how. I discussed with him his career journey to date, how to find wha...

Today as my guest I am hosting Ivan Naydenov, a Senior Data Scientist/Team Lead, and a good friend of mine for over 20 years. Ivan initially worked in credit scoring but then he got the data science bug and has been working on very exciting and challenging data projects throughout his career. He has shown tremendous understanding of how to analyze data problems and find intricate solutions to them...

Today as my guest I am hosting Nikolay Migineishvili, a Senior Product Manager with over 10 years of experience. Moving from big pharma to big tech Nikolay has shown an outstanding aptitude for adaptability, know-how, and delivering high-value projects. In this edition of CareerFocus we not only discussed his career path to date, but also what skills he gained along the way that made him a success...

Today as my guest I am hosting Rado Georgiev, Strategic Sustainability Advisor. Rado has established himself as a seasoned professional within the sustainable finance field with over 15+ years of expertise. In our interview, we discussed his journey into sustainable finance, what makes it so exciting and challenging, what it means to be sustainable, current trends in the field and how we can make...

Today as my guest I am hosting Alexander Angelov, Head of Data & Analytics. Alexander has established himself as a seasoned professional in the data science space with over 10 years of experience in the field. In our interview, we discussed his journey into the realm of data science/ engineering, what it takes to lead successful projects, finding out your niche, and the new and exciting techno...

Today as my guest I am hosting Elie Kawerk, PhD a Senior Data Scientist. He has over 10 years of experience in the data science world with a  ton of practical experiences. In our interview, we discussed his journey into physics and academia, how he got interested in data science, the challenges of running projects, and how technology is changing today’s world.  Note: The views expressed in this ep...

Today as my guest I am hosting Yordan Angelov, a Senior Quality Assurance Engineer. In our interview, we discussed his journey into the world of programming, what he has learned along the way, how important quality assurance is in today’s computer programming, how technology is evolving and what the future holds. Note: The views expressed in this episode are personal in nature and in no way reflec...

Today as my guest I am hosting Anirudh Tagat,Phd a seasoned Economist and Research Author at the Department of Economics at Monk Prayogshala , a not-for-profit academic research organization based in Mumbai as well as In-Resident Economist at the Internet Society . He has his own website https://www.anirudhtagat.com/ , so please check it out. He has over 10 years of professional experience and in...

Today as my guest I am hosting Monika Petrova, a Senior Product Manager with over 10 years of experience. She has a lot of experience working in the technology sector and most recently within FinTech. She will be sharing with us her expertise in various fields including project and product management, how to break into the industry, skills, and knowledge she gained along the way. In addition, we w...

Today as my guest I am hosting Hugo Chim, who will be discussing with us his experience of doing a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree at the London Business School (LBS).  He will be providing more details why he chose this course, what he learned from it, how it pushed him out of his comfort zone and so much more. Note: The views expressed in this episode are personal in nature and in...

Today as my guest I am hosting Ventsislav Marinov, a Senior Software Engineer/Tech Lead with 10+ years of experience. He has a lot of experience working across a wide range of industries, most recently financial services, and he will be sharing with us his expertise from software design, implementation, project management, as well as where new technologies are moving towards to.  Note: The views e...

Today as my guest I am hosting Kirill Egorov, who currently works is a Quantitative Analyst with many years of experience. I will discuss with him how his interest in mathematics and its’ practical application led to a career in the world of Quantitative Finance. In our conversation we discussed the different fields within Quantitative Finance and what they mean, the required skillsets, how to bui...

Today as my guest I am hosting Nicola Ghio, who currently works as a Senior Machine Learning Scientist. I will discuss with him how he made the transition from Computer Sciences to Data Science/Machine Learning. In our conversation we discussed how to find out an interesting career field to get involved in, how to develop your skills, the importance of being open-minded and flexible, where Data Sc...