Let's Talk Leadership Podcast

On this week's 'Let's Talk Leadership' Podcast Elly is joined by Kristina Walcker-Mayer, Chief Product Officer at Bitwala who launched Europe's first blockchain banking solution! Kristina is a fellow Podcaster who has enjoyed super successful career across several tech startups. Her focus on customer need and product delivery brings a new and refreshing point of view to Fi...

This week on Let's Talk Leadership, Elly is joined by Jamie Hinton, Chief Executive Officer at Razor, and voted as One to Watch - LDC Top 50 Most Ambitious Business Leaders! In March Razor was listed as one of Europe's 1000 Fastest Growing Companies - a fantastic achievement! Jamie studied Music Tech and used to be a sax player, he started his tech career at Technophobia where he was kee...

On this week's 'Let's Talk Leadership' podcast Sandra is joined by Aayush Jain, Co-Founder and CEO at Greendeck and listed in the Top 100 Asian Stars in UK Tech 2020! Aayush has set up his own business twice! With a background in Biology, Aayush was always interested in tech and passionate about software, building projects in college and he started his first business with some...

On this week's 'Let's Talk Leadership' podcast our hosts Sandra and Elly were joined by Anwar Ahmed, Head of Technology and Innovation at Willis Towers Watson and one of the Top 100 Asian Stars in UK Tech 2020. For someone who confesses he used to be shy, Anwar's personality and drive is really catching!  His passion and thirst for learning and development is so clear, pus...

On this week's 'Let's Talk Leadership' podcast our hosts Sandra and Elly are joined by Sam Perridge, Head of Consultancy at Scott Logic. Having planned to have Sam on board for a while we were really excited to finally get this recorded and hear what Sam and the wider Scott Logic team are up to! An early computer lover, Sam found his home in the north after a brief adventure ru...

On this week's 'Let's Talk Leadership' podcast our hosts Sandra and Elly were joined by Itai Aaronsohn, VP of Product Management at Aklamio.  Now based in the buzzing tech hub of Berlin and introduced to TP by our amazing Sarah, Itai has had a fascinating career journey across Israel, Switzerland and Germany.   It was really refreshing to hear Itai chat about a big, personal bu...

On this week's episode of the Let's Talk Leadership' podcast our hosts Sandra and Elly were joined by Caitlin Gough, Director at Bluefruit Software. Caitlin shares her story from California to Cornwall, being the only girl on a Graphic Design course at college, finding a support network online to start-ups, maternity leave, and redundancy.  This is one seriously passionate lady, who...

On this week's 'Lets Talk Leadership' podcast our hosts Sandra and Elly were joined by Toby Smith-Firth who is European IT Director at Masonite UK. Toby was in CIO 100 UK (2020) and has recently joined Masonite to shape their European IT Strategy. This episode is focused on the importance of technology and leadership, and how technology can achieve business outcomes and change peopl...

This week on Let's Talk Leadership, Sandra and Elly are joined by Liam Cadd, Head of Digital Transformation at Sky.   Liam started his tech career in project management, where his passion and drive to solve problems was quickly recognized. He talks to Elly and Sandra about some of the amazing tech leaders he has worked with and been inspired by.     Liam gets honest with our hosts about menta...

On this week's 'Lets Talk Leadership' podcast our hosts Sandra and Elly were joined by Felix Danczak who is Chief Operating Officer at Zephr. Felix discusses taking key learning points from his varied career, his passion for communication and delivery, and the challenges of developing business during COVID-19. Elly, Sandra and Felix also talk about growing and embedding company cult...

Julia gave us some solid advice on the latest Let’s Talk Leadership podcast 👇 1. Whatever your seniority level, OWN every project you’re tasked with 2. Always hire the BEST people 3. Don’t just delegate – be a DOER as well! We had a thought-provoking chat about what it takes to build a great company – Julia’s an experienced founder and inspiring person to learn from. This episode is well worth a...

 On this week's 'Lets Talk Leadership' podcast our hosts Sandra and Elly were joined by Arunkumar Krishnakumar who is a Partner at Delphos International, an Award-Winning Financial Advisory Firm, focusing on emerging markets.   Arun is a passionate tech investor with a keen interest in FinTech and Deep Technology Solutions. On this episode he speaks to us about his interesting journ...

On this week's 'Lets Talk Leadership' podcast our hosts Sandra and Elly were joined by Dmitry Muzhikov who is Chief Product Officer at Alteos.  Dmitry is an experienced product leader in the start up industry. He has worked for some amazing companies and we couldn’t wait to find out more! Dmitry explained through his adaptive leadership style and it was really interesting to find ou...

On this week's 'Lets Talk Leadership' podcast our hosts Sandra and Elly were joined by Ivan Peralta who is the VP of Engineering at TravelPerk. Ivan has an impressive career, he’s transitioned throughout from Head of Product, Engineering roles and into the VP of Engineering role he is in today. Ivan took our hosts through his career story and it was extremely interesting to hear eve...

On this week's 'Lets Talk Leadership' podcast our hosts Sandra and Elly were joined by Christof Hellmis who is the Chief Product Officer at McMakler. Christof has over 20 years of experience in Technology management and product development. He has worked with well known companies such as Nokia, HERE Technologies, gate5 and now McMakler.  We were thrilled to have Christof on the show...

On this week's 'Lets Talk Leadership' podcast our hosts Sandra and Elly were joined by Ben Dale who is CTO at PeoplePlus UK. PeoplePlus is a leading public service provider supporting hundreds of thousands of people each year. Their mission is to make a direct difference to the lives of one million people by 2022. We were thrilled to have Ben on the podcast and we couldn’t wait to h...

On this week's 'Lets Talk Leadership' podcast our hosts Sandra and Elly were joined by Martin Dachselt who is the CEO at Bayes Esports Solutions. We were extremely excited to have Martin on the show. His career has seen him work for some amazing companies such as Smartfrog, DOJO Madness, Delivery Hero and now Bayes Esports Solutions. Martin explained his fascinating career journey a...

On this week's 'Lets Talk Leadership' podcast our hosts Sandra and Elly were joined by Chad Jennings who is the VP of Product & Design at AMBOSS over in Berlin. Chad has spent the last 20 years working in product management, design, content and research for multiple start-ups and Tech companies. Chad explained all about his adventure into Tech and he has provided our listeners w...

On this week's 'Lets Talk Leadership' podcast our hosts Sandra and Elly were joined by Jen Mossop Scott who is the Director of Business Systems at TalkTalk. We were so excited to have Jen on the show and hear all about her career journey so far! Jen started the episode off by telling us about her wonderful career story. Growing up in Canada, Jen is now based in Manchester, England a...

On this week's 'Lets Talk Leadership' podcast our hosts Sandra and Elly were joined by Carsten Windler who is the Head of Development at KW-Commerce. Carsten has spent the past 15 years as an industry leader in software development for travel and tourism and e-commerce business’ across Berlin. We were thrilled to have Carsten on the podcast and find all about his interesting story....

On this week's 'Lets Talk Leadership' podcast our hosts Sandra and Elly were joined by Beth Gildersleve who is Technology Director at Sky Betting & Gaming. Beth is a fantastic leader and we were thrilled to have her join us on the show. Beth carved her career at the Post Office working in customer service. Following this, Beth has headed up some major programmes within the NHS a...

On this week's 'Lets Talk Leadership' podcast our hosts Sandra and Elly were joined by Lubomila Jordanova who is Co-Founder & CEO of PlanA.Earth and Co-Founder of Greentech Alliance. As well as co-founding two amazing business, Lubomila has an award winning career and she even featured on Forbes 30 Under 30! Lubomila told our hosts all about her interesting and impressive career...

On this week's 'Lets Talk Leadership' podcast our hosts Sandra and Elly were joined by Lyric Jain who is the founder and CEO of Logically. Logically is a social enterprise specialising in the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to improve how we consume and interact with information online. They develop both consumer and B2B/G products that use AI to analyse the vast quantities of i...

On this week's 'Lets Talk Leadership' podcast our hosts Sandra and Elly were joined by Bontle Senne who is the Executive Director of Transformation at Virgin Media.  As well as an Executive Director, Bontle is also a children’s writer, blogger, speaker and literary activist! We were extremely excited to have Bontle on the show. Bontle spoke about her amazing (and very impressive) ca...

On this week's 'Lets Talk Leadership' podcast we have an extra special surprise for you… it is a live episode! As part of the AI Tech North's Greath Northern AI Summit, hosts Sandra and Elly were joined by Russell Collingham (hedgehog lab), Cate Kalson (Oliver Wyman) and Neil Dunlop (Infinity Works). This was such a special experience and our hosts were extremely grateful for t...