The Diary Of A CTO

Eugi Bartolo is an award-winning technology and product leader who operates right at the intersection of private equity, digital transformation, and value creation. Eugi has built an impressive career working with global brands like Just Eat, Sky, and The Economist, and more recently partnering with private equity and venture capital firms to turn technology from a cost centre into a true driver o...

Peter is a highly seasoned CTO with more than two decades experience in technology. His career has spanned high-performance engineering environments such as Formula One, through venture-backed startups, founding his own SaaS business, as well as acting in and advising on private equity backed growth companies. In this episode, we discuss Peter’s approach to leadership and how to use technology as...

My guest this week is Swen-Helge Huber, Senior Director at Solace. Swen has held senior technical and leadership roles across a range of areas including systems architecture, consultative presales, software development as well as people and technology leadership, and worked with some of the biggest names in enterprise technology — including Sun Microsystems, TIBCO, Software AG, Talend to name a fe...

I was recently joined by the excellent Andrew Winnicki, Director of Technology and Data for Hakluyt & Company. Andrew is a technology leader with over 25 years of experience building, scaling, and transforming digital products across media, fintech, SaaS, and enterprise environments. He’s led engineering and technology functions at organisations including NVIDIA, Discovery+, carwow, and most r...

I was recently joined by Andrey Kozlov, Chief Technology Officer at 1FS Wealth. Andrey has spent close to two decades building complex, high-scale mobile applications. He has performed senior engineering and architecture roles at the likes of Betfair, Trainline and BCG, and now heading up technology at 1FS, where he’s building an innovative wealth management product. In this episode, we talk throu...

I was joined this week by Michael Kennedy, Chief Technology Officer at K2 Corporate Mobility. Michael has circa 20 years experience leading large-scale technology transformation and building global teams across industries — highlights include launching Goldman Sachs’ Warsaw office from the ground up through to co-founding a tech start-up. In this episode, we discuss Michael’s super interesting car...

My guest is Anvar Karimson, author and Group CTO and Executive Committee member at Kepler Cheuvreux, one of Europe’s leading independent financial services groups. Anvar has crafted an impressive career, driving technology innovation across global financial markets — assuming roles such as leading front office development at ICAP and heading up client facing technology at BGC Partners, to now over...

My guest is Alexander Scott, Chief Technology Officer at Sustainable Advantage. Alex is a highly experienced CTO and CIO who has spent over 25 years leading digital and technology transformation within various industries — from education, logistics, gaming, financial services, and ESG consulting, and on a global level across UK, Europe, US, EMEA and APAC regions. Now Chief Technology Officer at Su...

Federico Cicchi is VP of Engineering at Roli, a super cool digital piano / musical education company. Federico’s impressive career has spanned gaming, AR construction tech, hardware and Web3. In this episode, we discuss his journey from hands-on coding into leadership and all the lessons learned along the way.

Peadar Coyle is founder and CTO of AudioStack, an innovative company pushing the boundaries of AI in media and entertainment. In this episode, Peadar and I have a frank and open conversation about the challenges of starting a business and the emotional rollercoaster that results.

I was delighted to be joined recently on the podcast by Carlos Andrioli, a senior technology leader with over 20 years of experience building high-performance, scalable and secure systems across fintech, SaaS, AI and cloud-native platforms. Carlos has led engineering teams at organisations including Liberis, Trade Republic, Plum and ultimate.ai, and is also the CTO & Co-Founder of GetLost, whe...

This week I am joined by Matt Westrup, CTO for Hearst Networks EMEA, a highly respected media and entertainment group. In this episode, we talk about Matt’s very interesting and impressive career, working in some of the biggest names in media and broadcasting. We discuss his early days as a camera operator, through to taking senior operational leadership roles, and now leading technology strategy...

Niteen Crawford-Prajapati is a technologist, privacy advocate, and CPTO at Verifymy. Niteen's career spans from an early ad-tech and large corporates like Microsoft to leading startups and now building privacy-focused verification systems. He's gone from helping design some of the tracking technologies that power the internet to creating tools that help people disappear from it entirely. In this e...

Michael Moore is CTO of Nmible, and a seasoned tech leader who has grown his career from a hands-on Software Engineer, through to Technical Lead, Engineering Manager and then to CTO. In this episode, we discussed Michael's approach to hiring talent and building culture as well as him sharing personal recent experiences in the job market as a candidate. A must listen episode!

Miguel Marin Vermelho is CTO at Flown. An innovative start-up building a platform to encourage deep work in a remote setting. In this episode, Miguel talks us through his career journey and his approach to managing his own productivity, mental health and energy levels to allow for deep work. If you ever procrastinate or struggle with concentration levels, this is the episode for you!

David Stringer is the Director and Head of Technology & Innovation at Bidwells. After a long and accomplished career in the Royal Navy, David carved out a new path as a technology leader, assuming influential roles with Cushman & Wakefield, PWC and now Bidwells. In this episode, David shared with us the problem solving mindset he has crafted over the years that not only enables him to be a...

In this episode, I sit down with James, a seasoned technology leader whose career spans roles as a software engineer, consultant, founder, lecturer, and more — with experience across both nimble startups and major corporates like BAML and Schlumberger. We dive into his journey, his work at Tau Ceti, helping build high-performing teams, and the key principles behind effective tech leadership. James...

Stuart Wright is CTO of SEGA Europe and top 100 CIO for 2025. In this episode, Stuart shares his highly entertaining career journey, his approach to fostering culture and his actions around striving for real equality and diversity in the workplace.

Krishna Dubba, Cofounder and CTO of Covent. Covent is a start-up using AI to match together event organisers and sponsors. In this episode, Krishna shares his inspiring career within tech and data, across academia, research and applied ML and of course as an entrepreneur. He achieved his PhD in Machine Learning & AI and then has gone on to found a number of exciting data and AI focused busines...

Anna Keren is the CTO & Co-founder at Falkin, an innovative start-up doing some super interesting work around fraud and real-time scam prevention. In this episode Anna shares her fascinating career story and talks us through how she pushed past a number of limiting beliefs to continue to grow and develop her career, before finally taking the plunge to found her start-up, Falkin.

Ben is CTO of Bayezian, a leading Data Consultancy and Solutions Business. In this episode, Ben discuss his leadership style, his approach to Data & AI initiatives and how to ensure companies are actually deriving value from their data platforms.

Alaa Abouzeid is VP of Software and Firmware Engineering for Reveal Media, a company building innovative body worn camera solutions for front line workers in a number of important critical cases. Alaa has been with the company for over 14 years and grown his career there into a position of tech leadership. In this episode, Alaa shares his approach to engineering leadership and more about the innov...

Ben Jarvis is CTO of the Data & AI Practice at Telefónica Tech, a Data and Technology services Consultancy. In this episode, Ben shares his inspirational story of how he has worked his way up from a Data Analytics Consultant to CTO. We hear his thoughts on how important it is to stay technically involved as a CTO and how do you ensure you are getting value out of a data platform.

Dedy Kredo is the Founder and Chief Product Officer at Qodo, an agentic AI platform designed to help developers build high-quality software at scale. Before launching Qodo, Dedy held senior roles across product, data, and technology in both early-stage startups and global enterprises like VMware. In this episode, he shares his journey from curious coder to startup founder, offering insight into th...

Daren Rudd is the Vice President of Consulting for CGI, leading the insurance business and technology division. He has a long standing career in consulting and insurance, having taken leadership roles at Cognizant, Brit Insurance and Hiscox. In this episode, we take a walk through his career and discuss how to create a competitive advantage in the Consulting world.