The Diary Of A CTO

Matt is the CTO of Tallarium, an innovative market data and digital solutions provider that enables energy majors, trading houses, banks, utilities and funds in OTC energy markets to improve trading performance and manage risk more effectively. In this episode, Matt and I talk about his journey into Tech Leadership and his life lessons learned along the way.

Ben is CTO of Onto, Europe's largest electric car subscription service. Having grown by 300% in 2022 and with over 6,000 cars (the largest UK electric car fleet!) - Onto is helping people make the switch to driving electric everyday. In this episode, I talk to Ben about how he has navigated the technical challenges involved with such an innovative service.

Paolo Escobar is Head of Engineering for Konfir, an exciting tech start-up streamlining the process for completing employment verifications. Their aim is to accelerate all corners of the modern UK economy; for those switching jobs, to those renting a property, or obtaining any type of credit. Paolo is a highly revered technology leader who has built a pioneering production environment at Konfir, l...

Joshua Ma is the CTO and co-founder of Airplane .Dev, an exciting start up company founded in 2021 which is building a developer platform for internal tools. But prior to this Josh was the first hire/CTO at Benchling, a tech scale-up, and was instrumental in growing that engineering organization from inception to over 300 people, helping Benchling achieve a $6 billion valuation.  In this epis...

Nick has an undoubtedly impressive career as a tech leader Having spent a number of years in the gaming space, he has played the role of CTO, COO and a CEO throughout the years. Nick skilfully navigated corporate mergers and as a leader tackled the challenge of the blending together both technology and people cultures of different organisations. In this episode, Nick talks us through his journey a...

Fabrizio is Chief of Engineering for 90 Percent Of Everything, an innovative tech business building solutions for the shipping and logistics sectors. Since starting the business, they have scaled to over 120 engineers, and currently have over 7 products products live across 50 divisions. In this episode, Fabrizio talks us through the practices he employs to achieve a high performing Software Engin...

In 2021, Nick Co-founded Connect Earth, a London-based environmental data company that democratises easy access to sustainability data. Connect Earth is on a mission to empower people to make sustainable choices and bridge the gap between intent, knowledge and action. Nick talks us through why he is so passionate about conscious consumerism and his journey as a founder and CTO of this exciting car...

After 20 years as CTO with PCF Bank, Andrew talks us through his career to date. And as he embarks upon a new and exciting journey joining the Surrey and Sussex Police Force as Head of Applications and Devices, Andrew discusses with us his reasoning for the move and his motivations for the next step of his career as a technology leader.

Toby is CTO of FundApps, a tech company providing automated compliance monitoring services to financial institutions, including some of the world’s largest asset managers, hedge funds and investment banks. FundApps is used to monitor over $15 trillion in client assets every day. In this episode, Toby and I discuss how he has created a high performance Technology division and we closely examine the...

Edgar is the founder and CTO of FinCrime Dynamics, an innovative tech business aiming to make a positive impact in the fight against financial crime by enabling financial institutions to improve their compliance controls through the use of "Financial Crime Vaccines". In this episode, Edgar and I talk about his journey through entrepreneurship as a tech leader.

Sam is a highly experience and revered technology leader and engineering professional. In this episode, Sam talks to us about his leadership style and the excellent work he is doing at Dare in the renewables space.

Shankar is the co-founder of software Fintech scale up, SteelEye. After a successful exit, Shankar went on to become CTO for Clippd, an AI focussed technology business, enhancing performance through data in the world of Golf. Shankar shares with us his route through his career and how he arrived in tech leadership, it's been one hell of a journey!