Leaders & Founders

For the first instalment in our VC and Investment focused series, we are extremely excited to be joined by the awesome man that is, Hampus Monthan Nordenskjöld. Hampus is a Founding Partner at TrueSight Ventures, a venture capital firm investing in pre-seed and seed stage startups in Europe and the US, with a focus on the Nordics and UK markets. They invest in ambitious founders and teams going af...

Wow...do we have a special episode for you today! We were thrilled, delighted and excited to catch up with our most recent Leaders & Founders guest, Amanda Thomson. Not only is she an absolutely lovely and brilliant person, but a seriously successful entrepreneur with a passion for changing her industry for the better and delivering world-class products. Amanda is CEO and Founder of Thomson &a...

Worldfavor are an exciting sustainability business based in Stockholm, Sweden on a mission to help founders and business leaders all over the world make more conscious and educated decisions when looking to improve their value and supply chain. Through their digital sustainability hub, they harness the power of huge data sets to allow their partners a transparent, real-time view of their entire va...

Fredrik Ulvenholm is the CEO of Vilja Solutions, an exciting and leading Swedish-based FinTech organisation that help their clients and customers build beautiful cloud-based core banking platforms that get them to market extremely quickly and reliably. Their future-proof platform ensures compliance, automates internal flows and offers a high level of customer service. It has the shortest time-to-m...

This episode is part of season 2 and the 1st in a mini series around Artificial Intelligence.  In this episode we welcome Dr Sindhu Joseph, Founder and CEO of CogniCor. CogniCor are a Cognitive Virtual Assistant Platform, recently named IDC Innovator in conversational AI Platforms 2018, the company has deployed its solution in leading banks, wealth managers, and insurance firms across the glo...

On this episode of Leaders & Founders, we're bringing you the story of an incredible Swedish-based FoodTech company tackling the huge issue of food waste at food retailers and supermarkets: Whywaste. Whywaste was founded with the singular vision to eliminate the food waste at food retailers. To do this, they develop software solutions to improve in-store processes for grocery retailers. They l...

OLIO are fast becoming one of the UK's most well-known brands and a huge driving force in driving down food waste across the planet. So, we were more than excited when we got the chance to sit down with Tessa Clarke to understand more about OLIO and the story of her business for our FoodTech & Sustainability series! After a very successful CxO career in a number of industries, Tessa knew that...

As part of our FoodTech & Sustainability series, we recently had the opportunity to catch up with a global leader in the world of AgriTech and a true flag-bearer for food sustainability and improvement, Matija Zulj, CEO & Founder of Agrivi. Having enjoyed a very successful career in corporate IT, Matija decided that his next venture would be something that he truly cared about: solving the...

For the second episode of our FoodTech & Sustainability series, we were delighted to be joined by Mo Khodadadi. Mo is the CEO & Founder of SATIS.AI ., a sophisticated AI-driven tech company that help restaurants and food chains to make better decisions in food supply chain. Through a series of computer-vision based models and machine learning technology, they help businesses to become more...

Yuri Misnik is a highly experienced senior technology and thought leader in the world of banking, cloud, data and is a passionate technologist. and innovator at heart. Yuri moved to Abu Dhabi at the backend of 2019, where he took a position as Group Technology Officer and Member of the Group Executive Committee at First Abu Dhabi Bank. In this position, he aims to help FAB continue to evolve...

Season 2 is officially here - and what an episode we have for you to kick off the new season! Today, we have the pleasure of being joined by one of Europe's most ambitious and exciting entrepreneurs: Hjalmar Ståhlberg Nordegren. Hjalmar, who appears on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list, is a Co-Founder of Karma, an exciting and innovative tech startup based out of Stockholm, Sweden that focus on providi...

Rachel Haines is an Organisational Development Director at Klarna, where she leads a team of 250 people across 35 teams and in every global region which they operate. In her role, it is Rachel's team that are responsible for making Klarna the very best place to work for their amazing teams. Klarna are one of Europe's most successful technology companies. Originally starting in Stockholm, Sweden in...

Wow - what a treat we have for you today! Our first duo of the series; and what a duo it was! On today's episode of the Leaders & Founders podcast, we were delighted to be joined by Arif Harbott and Cuan Mulligan, senior transformation leaders at AlixPartners. Together, they have designed, led and delivered some of the world's most successful and effective transformation projects and are deepl...

What an amazing story we have today as we are joined by Benjamin Wootton, one of the ex Co-Founders and Global CTO of Contino. This is what it's all about for us: scaling businesses, the challenges, the hard work, VC funding, exits...this one has it all! Ben co-founded Contino in 2014 and quickly helped them become one of the world's most successful Enterprise DevOps and Cloud Transformation consu...

This episode is part of the Influential Women Leaders series. We welcome one of Europe's top FinTech founders, Jessica Holzbach, Co-Founder of the Berlin banking platform Penta. Penta is a digital business-banking app, like the UK’s Tide. It has raised over €35m to date and grew its headcount by 200% between Feb 2019 and 2020. Jessica was on the honoured Forbes 30 under 30 list. In this episode we...

Tim Harkness is an experienced psychologist with a career spanning the private sector and elite sports. Since 2009, Tim has been Chelsea FC's Head of Sports Psychology and Sports Science and has worked on some incredible engagements with the IPL, FIFA World Cup and a variety of some of the highest performing and most successful athletes in the world. Over his career, Tim has worked with profession...

Today we had our first PT 2 version of the podcast, where we were delighted to be joined once again by David Brear. As the Founder and Group CEO of 11:FS, David has had to make some very tough and challenging decisions over the past few months. For a business on a huge growth trajectory, they have certainly felt the market following lockdown like most businesses in the world. From having to make r...

Kelly Waters is the Founder of 101 Ways, the leading Product Development Consultancy based between London and Amsterdam. Kelly set up 101 Ways around 7 years ago, quickly gaining a fantastic reputation for their innovative and effective work which was supported by Kelly's very successful career in technical leadership positions such as Director of Engineering, Head of Technology and CTO. 101 Ways...

This episode is part of the Influential Women Leaders Series, the guest is Kelly Hartman, CPO of Payments company Flywire. Kelly is a C Suite executive with over 25 years experience which spans across multiple industry's & Countries including: Media, Government, Technology, Retail, Manufacturing & Financial Services, Australia, Europe, Africa and America. Kelly is a passionate person and t...

Matthew Sinclair is a Partner and VP Engineering at BCG Digital Ventures, London. In his role at DV, Matthew oversees all technology and engineering activity for the London group, which has allowed him to be involved in an incredible 20+ ventures. BCG Digital Ventures is a corporate investment and incubation firm, with offices in London, Berlin, New York, Sydney, Shanghai and Tokyo, as well as mul...

Raz Shuty as a Director of Engineering at Delivery Hero, the Berlin-based multinational online food-delivery giant. Delivery Hero operates in over 40 countries internationally and partners with over 500,000 businesses, with offices all over the world and more than 1,500 employees in the Berlin HQ alone. Raz himself has founded his own tech business (which he admits failed faster than he expected!)...

A great episode as we welcome Brad Goodall to the Leaders & Founders Podcast. Brad is one the most progressive and thought provoking tech leaders on the London scene and is the current CEO & Co-Founder of the UK based FinTech Banked. In this episode we hear about how Brad made his way into business and into tech, from not finishing Australia's version of A-levels and not going to universit...

Anouk Agussol is the CEO & Founder of Unleashed Company, a specialist culture and people partner for Startups and Founders. Unleashed partner with early-stage and scaling businesses to gear them up for speedy and sustainable success through People + Culture. They typically target three core areas which are often the most challenging for new and growing businesses: - How to attract and hire the...

In this episode we kick off the Influential Women Leaders series, our first guest is Philippa Rocks, Change Director at Octopus. We discuss COVID and how that has had an impact on Philippa's role, how she and Octopus have adapted with over 1000 employees working remotely. Philippa talks through her background and how she got into projects and change after leaving Leeds University with a 2:1 degree...

Sean Hunter is the CIO at OakNorth, one of the most successful and fastest growing FinTech companies and Challenger banks in the world. Through OakNorth Bank, they help small to medium sized businesses realise their dreams and ambitions, where they may otherwise be overlooked by more traditional banks. In unprecedented times, OakNorth remains positive and strong in their approach in what is an unc...