The Route to Networking

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of The Route to Networking: Military Leavers Edition, Louis Parratt is joined by Richard Berry, Global IT Operations Manager at SCC and a former member of the Royal Signals with more than 22 years of military service.  Richard shares his journey from military communications into leading global IT operations teams across networking, cloud, storage and infrastructure...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of The Route to Networking, Jamie Maher is joined by Tony Rossabi, Co-Founder of Ocolo and a long-time leader across telecoms, fiber, and digital infrastructure.  With more than two decades of experience across Voice over IP, connectivity, and data centers, Tony shares his perspective on how the industry has evolved from the early telecom boom to today’s AI-driven...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of The Route to Networking, Jack Rafferty is joined by Andrej Danis, Partner & Managing Director at AlixPartners, and Kanishk Raghuvanshi, a Director within Andrej’s team focused on digital infrastructure strategy, transformation and M&A. Together, they explore how the digital infrastructure market is shifting from a period of hypergrowth into a new phase c...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of The Route to Networking, Charlie Cassie is joined by Obinna Isiadinso, Global Sector Lead for Data Center Investments at the International Finance Corporation, part of the World Bank Group. With a background in investment banking and private equity, Obinna shares how his career has evolved alongside the rapid growth of digital infrastructure. They explore the in...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of The Route to Networking, Jack Rafferty is joined by Gary Cudmore, Senior Vice President at Rowan Digital Infrastructure. With over four decades of experience, Gary shares his journey through the evolution of data centres, from early mainframe computer rooms to today’s hyperscale, AI-driven infrastructure. They explore how the industry has transformed over time,...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of The Route to Networking, George Copley is joined by Nathaniel Harman, Co-Founder and CEO of Ocean Bit. Nathaniel shares his journey from oceanography research to building offshore energy infrastructure designed to power the next generation of high-performance computing and AI data centres. They discuss the fundamentals of ocean thermal energy, how early experime...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of The Route to Networking , Jack Rafferty is joined by Bill Severn, President and CEO of 1623 Farnam. Bill shares how he went from commission-only door-to-door sales to leading one of the most strategically connected carrier-neutral interconnection hubs in the United States. They discuss the evolution of telecom from the analog era to today’s AI-driven infrastruct...

Send us Fan Mail This week on The Route to Networking podcast, Jamie Maher is joined by Tony Vrushaj, Data Centre Team Leader at IBM, to explore how data centres have shifted from background infrastructure to strategic assets powering AI, cloud, and national ambition. Tony shares his non-linear journey into the industry, from fixing tractors as a child to building data centres in the UK during a p...

Send us Fan Mail This week on The Route to Networking podcast, our CEO George is joined by Joe Limardo, an AI and Cloud Architect Evangelist whose career has evolved from enterprise contact centre technology into hands-on AI implementation across OpenAI, AWS and Google. As AI dominates headlines, this episode cuts through the noise. Joe shares what the shift actually means for engineers, reflectin...

Send us Fan Mail This week on The Route to Networking podcast, Antonio is joined by Paul Chu, an AI software engineer and Master’s student at ENS Paris-Saclay, whose journey has taken him from France’s competitive engineering system to research labs at Stanford and the heart of the Bay Area tech ecosystem. At a time when AI is moving faster than ever, it’s refreshing to hear from someone breaking...

Send us Fan Mail This week on The Route to Networking podcast, Tom Jones is joined by Chimezie Onwuka, an Uptime-certified data centre specialist with nearly a decade of experience across managed services, telecoms and fintech.  From studying physics to operating live facilities, Chimezie shares how he built his career inside mission-critical environments and why data centres underpin the digital...

Send us Fan Mail This week on The Route to Networking podcast, Ben Davies is joined by Bradley Shadowens, a data centre infrastructure specialist working at the forefront of AI and high-performance computing. Bradley shares his journey from electrical and computer engineering through the US Navy to building AI-ready data centres from first principles. He explains what it really takes to design, de...

Send us Fan Mail This week on The Route to Networking podcast, Ben Davies is joined by James Garcia, Director of Data Centre Management at RunPod. James shares his journey from growing up around networking equipment in his garage to helping build AI-ready infrastructure at scale. He talks about scaling Speedtest’s global network from thousands to tens of thousands of servers, the shift to IPv6, an...

Send us Fan Mail In this APAC edition of Route to Networking, host Mitchell Cole sits down with Tulin Sevgin, a senior leader in cybersecurity risk and advisory. Tulin’s career spans hands-on technical roles, high-frequency trading, and building a cyber practice within a major law firm. She shares how her early interest in IT and building PCs led her into cybersecurity before it was a defined care...

Send us Fan Mail This week on the Route to Networking podcast, Ben Davies is joined by Roman Kapp, AI Implementation Lead at Gcore. Roman shares his journey from corporate learning to entrepreneurship and now enterprise AI. His career has been shaped by trial and error, constant experimentation and a drive to build things people actually use. He talks about how a psychology background shaped his a...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Women in Tech , Holly sits down with Rachael Childs, Creative Technologist, AI Specialist, and Founder of Glow Lock Labs and Wallside Studios. Rachael’s journey is not the usual path into tech. She started as an artist who never saw herself as technical, yet she now builds AI tools, works with global tech companies, and helps creators bring new ideas to life. Ra...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of The Route to Networking: Military Leavers Edition , host Rian Horsman sits down with James Jones, Network & Infrastructure Manager at ATM, to discuss his journey from the British Army to leading IT operations across multiple countries. James opens up about the challenges of leaving the forces with little guidance, starting again from the bottom, and how dete...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of The Route to Networking: Military Leavers Edition , host Jordan Dyer sits down with Dan Rawlings, Network Development Engineering Manager at WeWork, to explore his remarkable journey from the RAF Regiment to a career in IT and networking. Dan shares how resilience, discipline, and adaptability shaped his transition from life on deployment to leading complex netw...

Send us Fan Mail In this Military Leavers Spin-Off Edition of The Route to Networking Podcast , host Louis Parratt is joined by Danny Munetsi, who went from the Royal Signals to leading RF and DAS projects at Virtua. From football ambitions to mastering military systems engineering, Danny’s journey is one of resilience, adaptability, and continuous growth. He shares how military training gave him...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of The Route to Networking Podcast , host Ben Davies is joined by Florian Kritzler, Head of Sales Germany at nLighten. From training up to 12 times a week as a competitive swimmer to leading sales in one of Europe’s most innovative edge data centre companies, Florian’s journey is anything but conventional. He shares how the discipline, resilience, and feedback cult...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of The Route to Networking Podcast , host Louis Parratt is joined by Peter Marshall, Telecoms & 5G Innovation Leader. With more than 25 years shaping the telecoms industry across Vodafone, Ericsson, and BT, Peter shares his journey from building quantum lasers under the Atlantic to leading global innovation in 5G. He reflects on the pivotal career leap that too...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of The Route to Networking Podcast , host Ben Davies is joined by Max Röttgermann, Senior Product Manager for IP Transit & DDoS Defense at Deutsche Telekom. With over two decades at the forefront of telecom innovation, Max shares his journey from CB radio enthusiast to building one of the most scalable DDoS mitigation platforms in the world. He reflects on his...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of The Route to Networking , host Jordan Dyer is joined by Ahmed Janaid, Director at RKS Consultants and one of the few professionals in the world to hold both a double CCIE and the prestigious Cisco Certified Design Expert (CCDE). From discovering his passion through a simple console cable to becoming a leading architect of secure, large-scale infrastructure, Ahme...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of The Route to Networking – Military Leavers Edition , host Louis Paratt is joined by Adam Pinchback, Director of Customer Solutions at Viasat and former member of the Royal Corps of Signals. From high-pressure deployments in Iraq to designing bespoke connectivity solutions for global clients, Adam’s journey is one of grit, growth, and reinvention. He shares how h...

Send us Fan Mail In this inspiring episode of The Route to Networking – Women in Tech , host Holly Staff sits down with Elizabeth Barr, Head of Cisco Networking Academy for the UK, Ireland, and Nordics, and board member of Women of Cisco. With a non-linear path into the industry, Elizabeth shares how curiosity, international experience, and a passion for purpose-led work have shaped her impactful...