The G&T Sessions

Ismail has decades of experience in helping Fortune 500 companies through his work with IBM, Accenture, Capco and Capita. Ismail is currently chief growth officer at Capita, a non exec board member for UK Sports and on the board of governors at the University of London. He recently released his first book..’from incremental to Exponential’. Ismail and I had a great time on this episode given our N...

Following his time in the music business with the 80s band Scritti Politti Tom has developed a truly artistic way of living where every experience leads him to the humorous uncovering of some universal truth. He turns his disasters and successes into stand-up comedy for conference audiences. 40 years onstage, first behind a drum kit then being the multi-talented front man for whole troupes of perf...

We are joined by Ravi, son of 2 Indian immigrants, raised in #EastLondon, a graduate of #KingsCollegeLondon & @CASSBusiness and Co-Founder & CEO of #FourPointsConsulting. Having worked as an employee, a supplier & an advisor to over 30 organisations, Ravi has a fascination with businesses that show up with Conscience and Purpose and he’s now on a mission to spread the word that busines...

We are joined by  Denis Tudor , CEO & Co-Founder of  Swisspod Technologies  and based in  #lausanne   #switzerland  the lucky man. Denis has had a very interesting journey already from his origins in  #Romania  to  #SiliconValley , entering a competition by forming a "project team" over  Reddit, Inc.  then winning multiple awards for his team's work that have contributed significantly to movin...

Bill is an economist at heart, who now consults, speaks, writes and has a strong point of view about how to connect the dots between the economy and business. He charted his own course to being an  #Economist  from an early age and after his Ph. D. at  Duke University  went into business with  First Interstate . He writes for  Forbes  besides is an author of The Flexible Stance, Thriving in a Boom...

Daniel Marcos is the co-founder and CEO of Growth Institute, the leading online executive education company for C-level executives at fast-growing firms. He is a keynote speaker and a CEO Coach, with a mission to help 1 million entrepreneurs scale their impact and reduce drama in the process. He is a member of YPO and EO and is a certified coach in the Scaling Up methodology. He is a graduate of E...

Minter Dial is an international professional speaker, elevator and a multiple award-winning author, specialised in leadership, branding and transformation. An agent of change, he's a three-time entrepreneur who has exercised twelve different métiers and changed country fifteen times. Minter's core career stint of 16 years was spent as a top executive at L’Oréal, where he was a member of the worldw...

Brad has been working closely with funders, intermediaries, founders & visionary entrepreneurs for his entire professional career (30+ years). He is a venture finance expert, and creator and developer of a suite of info products, tools & services to help startup founders, funders and teams do more deals faster. Also, he is an active seed investor, company advisor, entrepreneur & lawyer...

Cédric Bollag is an expert in the Swiss and Israeli startup scene. Cédric is deeply passionate about innovation and is excited to be on the forefront of shaping the future. His network and knowledge extends to entrepreneurs of new companies, innovative corporate executives, investors, and everyone in between. Cédric Bollag is the founder of GlobalTechBox.com , a powerful online video platform that...

Jose Tomas has spent a career helping brands harness their most valuable assets: their employees, present and future. Jose is the Principal and Managing Partner of BrandSparc, a group of Brand Culturists helping companies thrive by making the most out of their teams. Most recently, Jose was the senior vice president of global human resources for General Motors, reporting directly to the CEO, and w...

Sharry has worked all over the world as a Marketing Director and is regarded as one of the best in her profession globally. She spent 12 years at Tesco is numerous commercial and marketing roles, including being part of the small team that created Tesco Bank and then Tesco Mobile. Sharry ran Marketing as part of the turnaround team at Coles In Australia (reputedly one of the greatest turnarounds i...

Become a Peak Performer with IPA: Identity, Productivity & Anti-fragility As a Peak Performance Expert, Eric Partaker helps CEOs, entrepreneurs, and leaders reach their full potential, become better leaders, and build better companies. Within his approach he draws from his time advising Fortune 50 CEOs at McKinsey, his experience helping build up Skype’s multi-billion dollar success story, and...

Leda is a recovering banker and chronic financial technology executive. Prior to joining 10x, Leda was the founding CEO of 11:FS Foundry, where she led the growth of its modular core digital banking offering. Prior to that, Leda was Chief Innovation Officer at Qatar National Bank, the largest bank in the Middle East and North Africa, a Director at business and technology consulting firm Sapient an...

Ronan Dunne Ronan is EVP & Group CEO of Verizon Consumer. He leads the teams responsible for providing wireline voice, data and TV products and services and wireless connected experiences to more than 100 million consumers every day. In addition, his teams are helping to build the first 5G technology network that will redefine how customers live, work and play. Prior to this, Ronan was executi...

With over three decades of experience and a proven track record at leading global corporations, Ziad Matar is a digital native, leader in emerging technologies, 5G, entrepreneurship, and a firm believer that the right talent powers innovative businesses. As the founding partner of Meditari, a digital advisory network, Ziad’s expertise helps bridge the gap between global innovation and local opport...

Dominique is currently a Solutions Engineer at HashiCorp. Being passionate about music, technology and giving back to the community, she prides herself in being a keen learner, solver of problems and connector of dots and people. Always interested in more efficient ways of doing things and helping others to do the same. Aside from having been an active part of the DevOps Community in London since...

Simon Scott-Nelson joins us for today's Episode. Simon is Founder at Wellity, was recently a finalist in the Great British Entrepreneur 2020, a regular Public Speaker and proudly the Mental Health & Wellbeing Leader at ISM Simon's first sales business was started in the property industry in 2009 which grew to two offices, included four business acquisitions and a successful exit in 2017. Simon...

Mary Senkowska, is CEO of My Creative Brain and a Leadership coach, originally from the Netherlands but today joining the show from New York, USA. Mary is passionate about inspiring leaders to become unstoppable in creating positive and sustainable change in their organisations. Her approach is distinguished by a modern, transformative approach to leadership of the future. She is an alumni of Heid...

Shaun Sharkey operates in the Investment Team at Crowdcube. His role is to source the U.K's hottest startups for the Crowdcube platform. He assists those startups to raise investment from the crowd, which enables them to unlock the power of community-driven growth. This was an entertaining discussion about Startups, Scale-ups and how Shaun helps Founders, Co-Founders to make their dreams come true...

Travis Fox has been Architecting lives, cultures and stages for 30 years, holding doctorates in both psychology and clinical hypnotherapy. Reaching beyond the common conscious & subconscious models. Travis has perfected a step-by-step program designed for those who are ready to transform their lives and wake up from the hypnosis of the day to day boredom. Travis’ online training program allows...

Elvin Turner is an award-winning consultant, TEDx speaker and associate professor of innovation, entrepreneurship & creativity at several business schools. Elvin has coached and facilitated hundreds of strategy and innovation programmes around the world for companies including Universal, Telefonica, Cisco, O2, Santander and Accenture. Elvin's work spans consulting, facilitation, conference spe...

Chris is the World's No.1 Personal Branding & LinkedIn Marketing Expert with over 1,600 LinkedIn Recommendations, Four x No.1 International Best Selling Books about LinkedIn and Personal Branding, He is an Official Forbes Contributor on the subjects of LinkedIn and Personal Branding, an Official LinkedIn Power Profile and has been enabling Leaders, Entrepreneurs, CEO's and Founders to become L...

Eva Dimitrova is someone who gets things done on time, every time. An infinite learner, equipped with a strong sense of duty and an aptitude for problem solving, she can transform a simple proof of concept into a marketable product in even the tightest schedules. A two-times startup founder and a Founder Institute chapter Director, Eva is an entrepreneur by heart. During the last 9 years she has h...

Patrick heads the AI Engineering and AI Sciences teams at Samsung SDS America. He is responsible for Brightics AI Accelerator , a distributed ML training and automated ML product that is also included in the Brightics AI platform. He is responsible for X.insights , a data center intelligence platform. Among his other responsibilities is to act as a visionary for the future of AI at Samsung. Before...

Ash Ali and Hasan Kubba are startup entrepreneurs. Despite not going to university, Ash became an award-winning serial tech entrepreneur and the first marketing director of Just Eat (now worth over £5 billion). Hasan built a successful startup from his bedroom with nothing more than an online course and a yearning to escape the corporate ‘rat race’. They have each spoken at TEDx, advised and mento...