Tech Paired Podcast by Michael Phair & Stuart Alexander

Tech Paired Podcast

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Brought to you by Tech Pair — the founder-led tech and change recruitment company that does things differently. Join Michael Phair and Stuart Alexander as they sit down with the people building the future of technology - founders, leaders, and innovators shaping how we work, build, and grow. Each episode cuts through buzzwords and gets real about what it takes to scale teams, lead through change, and stay human in a tech-driven world. From cybersecurity to SaaS, AI to culture, these are the honest conversations behind the hires, the growth, and the lessons that stick. Tech Paired — where peopl...

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Tech Paired Podcast by Michael Phair & Stuart Alexander

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Tech Paired Podcast | #8 | Reinventing Your Career at 40: From Retail to Global IT Leadership with Gerry Thomas 22.06.2026 48:58

Is it ever too late to reinvent your career? In this episode of Tech Paired, Michael Phair is joined by Gerry Thomas, an experienced IT leader whose career journey proves that where you start does not have to define where you end up. After spending 15 years in retail management, Gerry made the decision to return to education, retrain in technology, and build a career that would eventually see him...

Tech Paired Podcast | #7 | AI-First Engineering, Team Design & The Future of Software Development with Allan Mayberry, Senior Director of Engineering at Planet DDS 05.05.2026 59:15

What does AI-first engineering actually look like inside a real software organisation? In this episode of Tech Paired, Michael Phair is joined by Allan Mayberry, Senior Director of Engineering at Planet DDS, to explore how AI is reshaping software development, engineering leadership, team design, hiring, security, and the future of technical careers. Allan leads a 100+ person engineering organisat...

Tech Paired Podcast | #6 | Platform, People & Purpose: Engineering at Scale in a Changing World with Cameron Lepper, Director of Platform Engineering at Tribal Group 22.04.2026 57:22

In this episode of Tech Paired, Michael and Stuart sit down with Cameron Lepper, Director of Platform Engineering at Tribal Group to explore what it really takes to build platforms, teams, and meaningful careers in modern tech. Cameron leads Platform Engineering, SRE, DBA, and FinOps across a global cloud product suite, with teams spanning the UK, Philippines, Australia, and beyond. But this conve...

Tech Paired Podcast | #5 | Scale Without Chaos: Global IT Leadership, Major Incidents & Transformation with Donald McNeil, previously IT Director at Dexcom, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Transform Hospital Group 09.03.2026 47:59

What does it really take to scale IT globally without creating chaos? In this episode of Tech Paired, we sit down with Donald McNeil an experienced IT executive whose leadership career spans organisations including Dexcom, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Life Technologies, and Fisher Scientific. Across that journey, Donald has led complex IT organisations supporting multi-site manufacturing, distributio...

Tech Paired Podcast | #4 | The New Software Engineering Era w/ Patty O'Callaghan, Technical Director, Head of AI (Architecture and Engineering Group) at Charles River Laboratories 23.02.2026 45:17

Patty O’Callaghan, Technical Director, Head of AI for the Architecture & Engineering Group at Charles River Laboratories and a Google Developer Expert in AI & Cloud joins us on Tech Paired to unpack what software development looks like in an AI-first world. This is a real-world conversation about how engineering teams are changing right now: AI writing code, developers evolving into archit...

Tech Paired Podcast | #3 | Building, Scaling & Reinventing: The Entrepreneurial Playbook with Fraser Ferguson 13.01.2026 1:05:16

Fraser Ferguson - Founder & CEO of KubeNet, serial entrepreneur, and former FTSE 250 board member joins Michael Phair and Stuart Alexander for a wide-ranging conversation on what it really takes to build technology businesses that survive multiple eras of change. Fraser’s career spans nearly three decades of UK tech evolution: from early internet and the dotcom boom, through telecoms and recru...

Tech Paired Podcast | #2 | Structure as Empathy: Scaling with Andy Doyle - Chief Product Officer & AI Leader 25.11.2025 52:24

Andy Doyle, Chief Product & AI Leader, joins Michael Phair and Stuart Alexander to explore how the best tech leaders turn chaos into clarity. Andy shares lessons from scaling SaaS, IoT, and AI ventures, and why structure, empathy, and listening are the hidden forces behind high-performing teams. We dig into why so many growing companies mistake their product teams for “feature factories ,” how...

Tech Paired Podcast | #1 | Birthdays Not Missed: Building Quorum Cyber with Federico Charosky, CEO 19.10.2025 1:03:21

Federico, CEO of Quorum Cyber, traces his journey from Buenos Aires to building one of the UK’s fastest-growing cybersecurity firms. We dig into the brutal truths of leadership, AI’s real impact on security work, why SMBs are targets, and why your security program should favor platforms and simplicity. We end on quantum risk and a surprising metric: birthdays not missed. Quorum Cyber (founded Edin...