Guests
The Makers Behind the Conversations
Every guest on Valuu Makers gets a public profile on PhoenixOS — a home for their links, bio, and work. Browse past guests below or apply to be on the show.

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Founder and CEO of First Principles Catalyst
The best product teams ship products 46 times faster than the worst ones. Great Product teams and leaders transform companies. Are you building an incredible product but are experiencing… - Sluggish growth or users not engaging with your product - An incoherent vision or unclear strategy for how to fulfill your mission - Your teams aren’t executing fast enough - Your product leaders or product managers aren’t living up to what you read about product - You are wasting time on product proces
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Adelina Chalmers
CTO | VP | Head of Engineering
First time CTOs say I help them transform into a strategic CTO - I accelerate their expertise around business, strategy and leadership and they become a more confident leader. Experienced CTOs say they wished they had met me 20 years ago, as they'd be even further along now. I have worked with CTOs from companies as small as 10 and as large as 100,000 staff. The type of CTOs I work with want an advisor that goes down in the trenches with them and gives them practical and implementable action
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Alex Clifford
Director Logic - Digital
With over 20 years of agency experience, my client-side experience includes the Public Sector, Telco, FMCG, Retail, Education, Utilities, Finance and Banking, Transport & Logistics working for organisations such as the UK’s Police Forces, Alstom, Thales, Baxi, Enterprise Inns, RBS, Simple, Vodafone, Olympus, McDonald’s, Ed-excel, NEC Europe, London Underground, E.ON, Islamic Bank of Britain, Flair Plc, lLEX, Mills & Boon, OUP, Sport England, VTech, Wolseley and Zurich.
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Alex Russel
Joint Managing Director at Aptronics
Experienced Managing Director with a demonstrated history of working in the information technology and services industry. I have deep domain expertise in transforming end user computing environments and creating digitally fueled workspace experiences. My skills and experience provide a strong platform that integrates thinking and doing to make an impact. Strong business development professional graduated from University of South Africa.
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CEO at OpenUK
Leading the UK's organisation for the business of Open Technology, open source software alone contributes up to £41billion per annum to the UK economy/ GDP. Digital leader, writer and international keynote speaker, experienced in a range of disruptive technologies, digital transformation and open technology strategy. Influencer interested in advisory, board positions and consultancy. Sectors/ Verticals: Software; Open/Commons; MNO; OTT and Digital; Operating Systems; Apps; ISP; SOC; OEM ; AI; Io
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Anna Collard
SVP Content Strategy & Evangelist KnowBe4 Africa
Anna Collard founded security content publisher Popcorn Training– a South African company that promotes Cyber Security awareness by using innovative, story-based techniques and gamification to make complex content simple to understand and easy to remember. Anna has been working in the information security field for 18years assisting corporates across South Africa, Europe and the US keeping their information assets safe and holds various security certifications such as CISSP, CISA, ISO 27001 lead
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Ashley Woodhall
Cyber-securing purposeful organisations
I try to make a difference. I love using my skills and experience to secure purposeful organisations who are doing good things for people and the planet. When you boil it down, cyber security is an investment, data breaches cost money. To help organisations in more ways than financial, I support and protect those which are purposeful, enabling them to remain resilient to cyber risks and realise their goals. If you don't know where to start with your organisation's cybersecurity journey, take
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Ben Murphy
Senior Director, Product Management at Lakeside Software
Ben Murphy is the Senior Director of Product at Lakeside Software. At Lakeside, he's led integrations for various solutions, including Windows Virtual Desktop, Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops, NVIDIA GPUs, and ServiceNow ITSM augmentation. With a decade of experience in end-user computing, he's also had the opportunity to share knowledge with IT leaders at industry events, leading sessions at Microsoft Ignite, Citrix Synergy, and VMworld.
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Chris Eastwood
Co-Founder & Co-CEO at Penfold
I’m Co-Founder & Co-CEO of Penfold - the digital pension. Since first learning the astonishing maths of compound interest I've been passionate about pensions and the benefits of saving as early as possible. Sadly, the industry has let everyday savers down with confusing products and outrageous levels of friction. As a result, 79% of Brits aren't on track for a comfortable retirement. So I set up Penfold with my Co-Founder Pete Hykin to change all this by building a pension experience people actu
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Chris Mercer
Co-founder of Profitschool
My career began in radio advertising. I've held a special passion for sales and marketing ever since. My days are enjoyed helping great marketers learn how to use measurement marketing (and tools like Google Tag Manager, Google Analytics, Google Data Studio, and others) to track behaviors, measure progress of the customer journey, and make sure the right users see the right message at the right time. Specialties: Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Google Data Studio, Dashboards, Facebook A
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Head of Customer Success
Chris Denbigh-White is the global director of customer success for Next DLP. He has over 14 years of experience in the cyber security space including in the office of the CISO at Deutsche Bank as well as cyber intelligence for the Metropolitan Police.
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Co-Founder
Hi! I am the co-founder of WALK-i-TASK: a height adjustable desk for home treadmills. My wife and I developed and designed our desk to help people get rid of a sedentary lifestyle. Especially, those who work from home. We have been featured on one other podcast and quite a few articles. We would love to share how our desk is helping people add more movement to their daily routine. We could share our story about how our company came about and how we have been able to successfully launch in to the
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Claire Schmidt
CEO and Founder of AllVoices
Claire is the Founder and CEO of AllVoices, a platform that enables anyone to anonymously report sexual harassment and workplace issues directly to company leadership. Before founding AllVoices, Claire served as Vice President of Technology and Innovation at 20th Century Fox. In 2010 she helped found and lead Thorn: Digital Defenders of Children, a nonprofit organization which deploys technology in innovative ways to fight child sex trafficking. During her five years at Thorn, Claire ran all pro
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Collin Graves
Founder of North Labs
For over seven years, I have been leading North Labs, a full-service, fractional cloud data analytics company that helps manufacturing and industrial organizations become data-driven. We are a Premier Tier Snowflake partner and the only veteran-owned Snowflake partner in the world. We are also an Advanced Tier AWS partner and were the very first Amazon QuickSight partner in the world. With my extensive experience in consulting, software as a service, and data visualization, I have helped hundre
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Craig Cooksey
Director: Global Strategic Solutions
A dynamic and confident IT Professional with over 21 years’ experience in strategy, development and implementation of technology. Excels at identifying required business outcomes for clients and designing optimum solutions to meet those needs. Consistently achieves exceptional results with reduced lead times, improved quality and greater client satisfaction. Passionate about transforming organizations by delivering the best possible solution while realizing the optimal return on investment.
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Danny Attias
Ranked number 1 CIO in the UK | Mentor | Digital Advisor
A delivery driven Technology Leader who is passionate about using digital transformation to enable organisations achieve their strategic objectives. Highly experienced in taking advantage of new technologies to deliver business outcomes, project delivery and organisational transformation with an inclusive, supportive engagement style. Commercially astute with experience spanning retail, agency and the third sector. Listed at the top of the 2020 CIO 100. The judges were all hugely impressed by th
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Diane Nield
Director & Wraw Master Practitioner (workplace resilience and wellbeing)
About Motivation is my middle name. I am passionate about performance and success through motivated, committed and happy people I take great pleasure in coaching and mentoring individuals to be the best version of themselves, in many cases becoming future leaders in their field. WHY ME? I have over 20 years experience in leading, coaching and managing teams in a variety of roles in a number of blue chip organisations. During this time I have developed skills in leadership, people management, acc
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Dominic Kent
Director of Content Marketing & Communications at Mio
I'm a Freelance Marketing Consultant for hire. I specialise in creating and optimising B2B SaaS content- with a niche focus on Unified Comms, Team Collaboration, and Contact Centre. Most recently, I've recently taken the Mio blog from 600 monthly blog readers to consistently hitting 200,000+ blog readers, all while delivering enterprise and SMB leads at scale. I host the UC Influencers podcast (unifiedcommsinfluencers.com) where I post a weekly interview with the most influential people in the U
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Senior Editor | Writer | Idea Collector | Tech & Culture
As Senior Editor at Nimbus Ninety, Shammah leads the Editorial team to produce research and content that explores the disruptive trends impacting how businesses work. Nimbus Ninety is the independent community for disruptive business and technology leaders. It exists to connect innovators, changemakers and disruptors from all sectors to share their experience of disruption and move forwards together. You can download the State of Recovery Report here: https://bit.ly/3AO18Mw
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Eileen Jennings Brown
Head of Technology @ Wellcome Trust; CW's Top 50 Most Influential Women in UK Tech 2020; Mentor; Tech Advocate; Speaker; Champio
Eileen is a well known figure in the top technology echelons across the UK and Europe as a tech advocate, speaker, and champion for inclusivity and equality in STEM. Eileen has also recently been named in the CW’s Top 50 Most Influential Women in UK Tech 2020 Eileen started life as an IT support analyst in 1997 and has progressed her career working for businesses across the UK and Europe in a range of different IT roles. She has worked in the IT industry for over 23 years holding senior leade
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Farzad Rashidi
Lead Innovator at Respona
In 2017, I joined Visme as the first marketing hire. Small team with no outside funding. Fast forward to 2023: Visme is an 8-figure biz with 20 million users. 🚀 How did we get there? SEO. SaaS businesses spend big on distribution. But organic traffic can help scale without burning cash. Visme's website gets 3 million visitors each month. That's equal to $1.5M in Google ads. Every. Month. But it wasn't a walk in the park. We tried the "create, and they'll come" approach. Keyword research,
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Freddie Quek
Freddie Quek is CTO at Times Higher Education, responsible for data-driven products and solutions such as the World Universities Rankings and SDG Impact Dashboard which provides insights into universities’ impact in delivering the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals. He is a disruptive, networked and agile leader who thrives in challenging environments and focuses on achieving and celebrating team successes. He is highly experienced and a multiple award-winning global technology leader
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Garry Lee
Non-Executive Director, Board Advisor and Founder. I am passionate about helping businesses to grow
As both a NED and executive director, I've helped boards across three broad categories - growth strategies, corporate governance and business improvement. I can help start-up businesses accelerate growth, growth businesses improve working practices, as well as kick start a business that's plateaued, commercially, technically or operationally. Commercial support - Proven record to turnaround sales & marketing teams, overhaul and review go to market strategies or advising on growth strategies. I w
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Gemma Rubio Rodrigo
Connecting the dots | Diversity & Inclusion | Communication & Marketing Strategy | Speaker
Communication is my fuel, and behaviour is my motto. I love creating and bringing ideas to life. I’m passionate about communication, marketing, and UX with more than ten years’ experience, and connecting people since I can remember. Good marketing, UX, and good relationships come from collaborations. I’m excited to start a visual dialogue, learn about your customers and make something beautiful together, helping your company to improve the way you communicate the value of your products and/or se
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Gerard Mcgovern
CIO at The Guide Dogs for the Blind Association
I connect people with data, and turn that data into information and knowledge, to allow organisations to meet and exceed their strategic aims.
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Founder of Nikkirev
This is nikkirev studio’s founder Nicolle Herrera, a Colombian Multidisciplinary Creative. nikkirev studio is an independent multidisciplinary creative studio where art, design and technology unite to build the world and narrative of your brand. We work with brand strategy and design, identity design, creative consulting, digital content creation and immersiveness. All achieved through a multidisciplinary approach: creative direction, character design, motion, immersive design, 2D animation, i
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Holly Grace Williams
Managing Director, Secarma Limited
Holly Grace Williams has thirteen years of experience in leading information security teams. Her early career was spent in the military working in roles such as Site Security Officer, although she now works with a wide range of organisations delivering penetration testing, information security consultancy, and strategy guidance. She holds a Master’s degree (MSc) in Information Security from Cardiff University.
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Ian Bower
Sr. Principal Consultant, NTT DATA UK
Management Consultant in Technology - I work for one of the largest technology companies in the world (Head office in Japan), and am a consultant in the London advisory business. I am a specialist in Agile ways of working, scaled agile transformation and Business Design. These are particularly interesting in today's world whereby companies have realised that they need to become more agile (not just in their processes, but in their mindset, culture and product development). Moving from traditiona
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Innovative CTO, Architect, and Engineer at Metify
I am driven by a simple yet powerful mantra: Innovate and keep it simple! My journey is turning innovation into reality. I firmly believe in a hands-on experience to truly understand every aspect of a technology being used. ► I have a passion for technology: I thrive on discovering creative ways to empower organizations with greater control and flexibility over their platforms, applications, and infrastructure. ► Complexity hinders reliability and sustainability. Finding that balance is critica
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Irwin Lazar
Vice President & Service Director
Irwin Lazar develops and manages research projects, conducts and analyzes primary research, and advises enterprise and vendor clients on technology strategy, adoption and business metrics, Mr. Lazar is responsible for benchmarking the adoption and use of emerging technologies in the digital workplace, covering enterprise communications and collaboration as an industry analyst for over 20 years. A Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and sought-after speaker and author, Mr.
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Jacqui Rigby
Helping businesses to solve customer problems through bringing together people and tech; building a culture of agility to thrive
Jacqui has more than 20 years’ experience in transformation, marketing and product often with significant P&L responsibility. She has worked at Exec level for 15 years and held 2 company Board Director positions. Jacqui led the revival of Co-op Funeral Planning, taking it from number 3 to number 1 in the market within 18 months and growing the business by 550% over 5 years. At Co-op Legal Services she defined and led a £50m programme of change across the operating model to disrupt the legal mark
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James Grove
Head of IT at Southampton Football Club
I am a Head of IT demonstrating high levels of business acumen, understanding business demands and handling the day-to-day management of the IT department, infrastructure and systems development. I have experience of leading numerous projects from inception to completion, all within time and agreed budgets. I am able to keep a level head at all times, evaluate opportunities and risks and also deliver innovative new solutions to challenges. I bring strong leadership capacity, the ability to analy
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Jared Wesner
CTO @ Strove
I’m the CTO of Strove a comprehensive employee wellbeing platform and Co-founder of The Delta - an international venture ecosystem.
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Jed Ayres
CEO, IGEL Technology
Jed Ayres, IGEL’s Global CEO, is widely recognized for the transformational impact he is making on the end user computing industry, as well as the instrumental role he has played in IGEL’s pivot starting in 2016 from a hardware-centric to a software-first company. Ayres brings more than 20 years of technology experience to IGEL and has a wide range of industry experience across workspace management, virtualization and mobility. Previously, Ayres held senior management positions at MegaPath, Rhyt
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Jeremy Snyder
Founder and CEO of Firetail
Founder & CEO at FireTail, innovators in end-to-end API security. APIs are the number one attack surface and represent a threat to data privacy and security. I look for interesting challenges in the cloud, cybersecurity, and datadomain spaces, with the potential to have a positive impact. I also have expertise in M&A, international business, business development, strategy and operations. I speak 5 languages and have lived in 5 countries. Best way to reach me is to send a connection request wit
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Jess Weems Thibault
VP of Growth at HireEducation
Design. Build. Launch. Repeat. Listen. Reach out. Match. Close. Repeat. I'm always iterating on this pattern. It's all the same to me. I am a former-teacher-turned-marketer who now helps build #highimpact, #missiondriven companies and #startups in the #edtech and #tech #SaaS verticals. In everything I do, I architect, conduct, and deliver. I strive to create something from nothing so that the capabilities of others are amplified and communities are made stronger. + As a marketer, I collabo
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John Yarbrough
Corporate Marketing and Communications Lead for Lifesize
John Yarbrough is Senior Director of Brand and Communications for Lifesize, a global enterprise communications company.
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Jon Darbyshire
CEO of SmartSuite
Entrepreneur, product designer, and investor. I have a passion for designing and creating software that enhances the productivity of people and teams - by aligning their work around common goals. I believe that software is more than just a tool when it is designed with purpose, craft, and passion. It can create experiences that enrich a company's culture, promotes individual accountability, and enhances collaboration amongst team members. I am grateful to have this opportunity and enjoy worki
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Jon Hoehler
Helping mobile, technology and digital services businesses magnify their offerings and opportunities in the modern digital econo
An experienced product and marketing executive with an extensive track record of working in the telecoms sector across emerging markets. Key metrics include: 14 years experience, worked with over 40 mobile operators and traveled to 21 countries in Africa. Experience in revenue generating initiatives across mobile content distribution, mobile marketing campaigns, customer value management (CVM), mobile apps, product management, vendor software business development and account management. Strong p
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Jonathan Porter
Founder & CPO/CTO at PorterLogic
Hi, I’m Jonathan, but most people call me Porter. I’ve been a builder and creator since I was a kid. My love for Legos and Lincoln Logs eventually migrated to technology and companies. I built my first website at 15 and started my first company in high school. I’m one of the rare Atlanta natives that’s still here, and I developed my obsession with supply chain and warehouses at Georgia Tech (ISyE 2015). After spending my early career working in supply chain software at firms like Manhattan Asso
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Joo Fouad
Founder & CEO
Some consider me a renowned international C-level / speaker; I also have been honored by Crypto Daily UK as one of 2023's Under-35 TOP Entrepreneurs, and was invited to speak and share my insights at London Tech Week, Web Summit and the Metaverse Summit, amongst other important events. For me, finance, technology, marketing, and education are the drivers that will change the world. A young and disruptive entrepreneur and finance/WEB3 specialist, João -now more than ever – quotes Petter Drucker
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Karen Gondoly
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Kieron Van Rooyen
Managing Director and Property Strategist at Turnkies
Kieron has extensive knowledge and experience in property strategy. Using property science, analytics and market research, Kieron has assisted clients from listed property funds, to emerging retailers with building effective property strategies. During his involvement with the Gauteng Chapter of the South African Council of Shopping Centres, Kieron lead the team responsible for creating a leasing standard document for the industry. He also spent a number of years overseeing teams responsible for
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Kwindla Hultman
CEO @ Daily
CEO and co-founder of Daily — SDKs and infrastructure for the future of video. If you are are creating a product or an app that has video or audio features, we can probably help. The Internet is increasingly a video-first medium, and we think of ourselves as building the infrastructure for the future of our collective digital experience. I'm also always happy to talk about video, audio, WebRTC, distributed systems, and startups topics just in general, so feel free to DM me here. I have been i
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Lily Snyder
Head Writer at Futures & Insight Institute
I use technology to solve business problems. I dive into the unknown to figure out the best ways to solve those problems whether it be software, process changes, or people. Learn more at my website: lilyotron.blog
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Linda Tsao
Technical Support Engineer at Autonomic
My thorough coursework in computer science has provided a solid foundation in the work of a Software Engineer. I have experience in creating and implementing code in Python, SQL, C and C++. I also have vast experience in testing each program to perfection and to the client’s desire. Through my professional experience I have a solid foundation of leadership and communication. I have the ability to manage and run group meetings and I am also very capable of presenting projects to clients. In addit
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Strategy Execution Mentor
A warm welcome to my LinkedIn page, thanks for taking a moment to look me up 😀🙏🌸 By way of introduction, I’m a strategy execution specialist based in Sydney, Australia. I mentor executives to accelerate their projects and change. My clients tell me they love having an independent sounding board and useful ideas to fast track their work at scale. I also run the Turbocharge Your Transformation membership, so that business leaders and innovators can lead implementation faster and better. Over th
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Lloyed Lobo
Author
Cofounded and helped bootstrap Boast.AI to 8 figures ARR. Boast is a fintech platform that provides businesses with R&D and Innovation funding. Cofounded and helped bootstrap Traction to more than 100,000 entrepreneurs and innovators. Traction is a global community that brings leaders behind the fastest-growing companies such as Shopify, Atlassian, Twilio, MailChimp, Github, Intercom, Calendly, Zapier, and more to share learnings on how to build and scale companies via podcasts, meetups, retre
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Lorik Sefaj
Senior IT Service Manager focused on IT security for a global financial institution
IT specialist with 10 years of experience in the Cyber Security field.
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Louise Thomas
CEO at Air Aware Labs
On a journey to set up a business to tackle air pollution. Building on my community work (airaware.substack.com) in South London, I am now CEO of an innovative tech company. Air Aware Labs aims to improve health outcomes through personalised air quality data. Previously senior leader in civil service with significant experience in international economic policy making. Expertise in trade, tech, science, policy, programme management and finance. An inclusive leader, driving change internationally
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Mark Chillingworth
European CIO & CTO Community Editor. Chair of the Horizon CIO Network
Mark Chillingworth has been observing, speaking and writing about and hosting CIO/CTO community events and podcasts since January 2008. Today Chillingworth works as a writer, editor and moderator for leading publications, CIOs and CTOs as well as technology service providers to ensure their message has a strong storytelling ethos. Chillingworth spent 8 years as the Editor in Chief of CIO UK and created the CIO Summit and CIO 100 formats in a tenure that took the title from failure to award winne
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Marketing and Business Strategy for B2B SaaS
An experienced marketing and strategy professional with over 25 years experience in the software industry. The past few years have been dedicated to working in the SaaS sector and focusing on B2B experiences, working with management teams to deliver consistent triple digit growth. Mark has earned a strong reputation for helping software companies “punch above their weight” with limited marketing budgets. Specific skill areas include Product Marketing, Product Management, Analyst Relations, Mark
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Doing my part to help displaced Ukrainians with Tech Skills |Technology and Cyber Transformation Leader | Advisor | Investor
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Michelle A Bassett
Internet Marketer & Online Educator
Marketing is changing right in front of our eyes; and that change is being led by Data. In the very near future we should all be on the look out for our “Save the Dates”, because the fields of Digital Marketing and Data Science are soon to be wed. With this fact close to my heart, I’ve taken the initiative and expanded my already vast skill-set with Data Science/ Business Intelligence principals. With over 10 years of experience, Digital Marketing is still my calling. High-level strategy and
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Mike Bugembe
Author, Speaker, Consultant - Helping business leaders get real business value from data, analytics and AI
Award-winning big data evangelist, author of Cracking The Data (Amazon Best Seller in three categories - Grab your copy on Amazon here: https://amzn.to/2Gd1Gnk), blogger & executive advisor working with organisations to get value from the deluge of data that is being produced in our modern era. Advises and mentors CDOs, CTOs, CIOs and data science teams looking to transform and unlock the full power of their data & AI efforts, and always on the lookout for new interesting projects. My greatest m
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Mike Pace
Senior Channel Sales & Marketing Manager
Well-rounded professional with success in managing Sales and Marketing teams as well as assessing/creating potential markets as part of a Exploratory Business Development team. Highly skilled in relationship development, opportunity assessment, lead generation, marketing strategy and implementation, and content creation. Well versed in: Salesforce, Xcel, Google Analytics, Mail Chimp, Social Platforms, GoTo Webinar, and the Microsoft Office Suite.
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Mike Stopforth
D I R E C T O R - B E Y O N D B I N A R Y H O S T - T H E O N E - E Y E D M A N
Mike Stopforth is the founder and director of business and leadership transformation specialist Beyond Binary. He is an entrepreneur, start-up investor, author and global speaker. He is recognised for his provoking insights into disruption-driven change, its impact on people, business and markets, and, notably, building the new leadership skills and strategies essential to navigate uncharted territory. Mike is a successful digital pioneer. Before Beyond Binary, he founded leading African social
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Chief Strategy Officer and Founder
Michael Schumacher is the Chief Strategy Officer and founder of Lakeside Software. Prior to founding Lakeside Software, he led the division as a director of software engineers at Cubix Corporation, where he directed product development. At Telebit Corporation, he oversaw the department as an engineer for network products. Mike has long experience as an engineer in the field of software and has worked for ISO (International Organization for Standardization) and ANSI (American National Standards I
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Co-Founder and CEO of Metify
Michael Wagner is the Co-Founder and CEO of Metify, a software startup based in Madison, Wisconsin. He began his career in 1995 as a network engineer when he joined IBM while still attending the University of Wisconsin Madison. He worked in several senior management positions at IBM in Boston and San Diego before joining Red Hat in 2010. Michael was head of channel sales and alliances for North America at Red Hat. He was one of the creators of Red Hat’s Apex Partner Program for SI’s implementing
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Natsune Oki
Managing Director
Natsune is the author of The Game of Self-Domination and the host of LifeUpEducationTV. She is also the managing director of ForeignConnect.org. Having built her life up from nothing multiple times—including being almost a kicked out high school student in Japan — NaNa has not only gone on to finish her University education in Business and Economics in the United States as a foreigner, but she’s worked with hundreds of innovators, entrepreneurs, and next-generation thinkers in Seattle. Despite h
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VP of Operations @ Blumira
Proven leader and team builder who brings an exceptional track record of achievement focused on customer experience, operational excellence, product development and a culture of success. At Blumira I launched our GTM including sales, marketing and product strategy. Built and scaled Duo Security's global operations from Series A to a $2.3B acquisition by Cisco. Expertise includes Operations Excellence SaaS solutions, Scaling Startups, Sales Leadership, Product Leadership, Marketing Leadership, Se
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Paul Wells
CEO
Paul has well over 30 years management and IT experience and have held a number of senior roles. Over a number of years now he has been fortunate enough to have worked with a group of really talented people to help create the IM&M suite of enterprise network tools to provide truly Intelligent Building Management solutions.
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Phil Hobden
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APJ Director of End User Computing (Edge) Technology, VMware
Prashant Pandey, known as Aki-san in Japan 🇯🇵, is a technologist, author and conference speaker. Learn, share and care are his values. His mission is to apply emerging technology to solve business problems and improve lives. He has lived, worked and earned in USA 🇺🇸, Canada 🇨🇦, Israel 🇮🇱, India 🇮🇳 and Singapore 🇸🇬 . Professionally, he helps clients to build the future of work to transform their security, productivity and employee experience. He has helped hundreds of clients across multiple geo
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Product Manager
I am a Product Manager and User Experience (UX) professional with over a decade of experience and expertise in User Experience strategy, Digital Transformation and Product Management. I felt passionate about making a change since I was young, getting involved in local politics and pursuing several roles in non-governmental organisations. Over the past several years my focus has been increasingly in conservation and sustainable technology. Currently pursuing the CMI Level 5 Diploma in Leadersh
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CEO & Founder of Appraisd
Roly is the founder of Appraisd, an employee performance management system that is unique in aiming to help managers get the best from their team members. He has built Appraisd from his garden shed to a global business with £1mm ARR. He has so far avoided external investment, worried that it would get in the way of his family life but also wanted to prove that you could build and scale a SaaS business through customer revenue. He is fascinated by what it means to be a manager – why middle manag
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Scale up growth advisor and fractional CRO / CCO / CEO
Global scale-up expert, hyper-growth, early and growth-stage VC and PE backed, Retail Media, Software/SAAS, machine learning and services companies. Several successful exits since 2005, returning over $600 million to shareholders, including acquisition of Go Instore by Emplifi, (an Audax partners portfolio company) in September 2021. I am a successful, creative and highly experienced International Enterprise Software Solutions & Services/Cloud / SAAS leader, scaling large sales and pre-sales te
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Senior IT Leader AmerisourceBergen | Transformation | Innovation | Cyber Security | Strategic Programs | Trustee | Change
Results-driven Information Technology Leader with strong commercial acumen and more than 20 years’ experience devising IT enabled strategies to drive continuous innovation and increased capability. Skilled in Management: Strategy ● Leadership ● Change ● Project & Programme ● Vendor ● Stakeholder ● Advisory Technologies: Cloud ● Automation & Integration ● ERP ● Infrastructure ● AI ● RPA ● BI / Data Analytics Methodologies: ITIL ● Agile ● Enterprise Architecture ● TOM ● Digital / Transformation ●
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Sagi Brody
CTO of Opti9
Co-founder and Chief Technology & Product Officer at Webair, a leader in the managed hybrid cloud and disaster-recovery space. Oversaw all aspects of product development, research and development, software development, and technical go-to-market strategies. Architected backend infrastructure including multi-tenant compute and storage platforms, OSS/BSS, single-point-of-truth, and accounts receivable software, alongside a global network of data center deployments, IP transit and transport network
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Co-founder of Geeks and Experts
With an MBA focused on entrepreneurship, from IESE Business School, Barcelona, I learned to leverage my expertise across industries from consulting to non-profits until I founded and launched G&E. From grassroots developmental organizations such as The Akanksha Foundation to food-tech unicorns (now IPO) such as Zomato, I have focussed on marketing and business development across the spectrum. But, creating value has been at the center of it all, always! My curious spirit and strive to create
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Samer Frangie
CTO
- System and network engineer - Started working for a system integrator: Designing and installing infrastructure (VMware, NetApp, EMC,etc..) and EUX solutions (Citrix and VMware) Citrix Architect - Worked as a Pre-Sales Manager for BU “Workspace” - Partner and CTO of NeoVAD, a value-added distributor for the French market that focuses on EUX and Data security. My role consists mostly on developing the “technical enablement” for partners/end users for products in our portfolio (Systrack, Itexis
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Sarbani Rose
Managing Director, Ei Squared Ltd
Sarbani Bose has 20 years’ corporate experience around digital transformation, specially around data analytics and using data smartly. Most recently, before starting Ei Square 18 months ago, she was at Virgin Media and part of a multi-million-pound transformation team delivering business intelligence improvements across a wide range of customer-facing departments. As Managing Director of Ei Square she assists companies with their data strategy by bringing silo data sources across different depar
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Simon Clifford
CVO
Ability to see the big picture of complex technology environments, finding the sweet spot to drive transformational change. This mostly involves harnessing data, through cloud compute with AI and ML. Currently driving innovative projects in Policing, including Digital 101, and Cyber Alarm. Drawing on over 20 years experience of leading digital projects. - Twitter: @simonaclifford Specialities: Digital strategy, ArtificiaI Intelligence, Machine learning, Cloud, Serverless, Transformational Change
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Stephen Russell
Making frontline data actionable for managers by revealing hidden risks in projects and teams.
Over a trillion dollars a year is wasted on poor project performance (accroding to the PMI). Hardly surprising when you understand that over 60% of projects are overspent or overdue and less than 20% wholly deliver on their objectives. Your existing project management tools will report when you're off track. Only Shumi can reveal the truth about 'why'. Concealed risks are the issues and challenges faced by teams that people find it difficult to speak up about. They may be unable or unwilling bec
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Steve Orrin
Technology Executive at Intel
Highly motivated and experienced leader with extensive experience in defining and guiding information technology and cybersecurity vision, strategy, and execution for major organizations, with expertise that includes public & private companies as well as federal agencies. An effective subject matter expert, capable of transforming business needs into technological solutions, adding value through the focused application of state-of-the-art technology and innovation. A proven history of leading
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Steven Schkolne
Founder of MightyMeld
Steven Schkolne is a computer scientist, designer, and entrepreneur who’s particularly passionate about the way humans work creatively with machines. His current focus is a web project called MightyMeld, a visualization and creation platform for sophisticated React codebases. A self-taught designer who’s classically trained in computer science, he studied first at Carnegie Mellon and then at Caltech for his PhD. While at Caltech, he built the world’s first creative tools for VR, 15 years before
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Teresa Cain
Director of Product Management, User Experience & Design at Trevi Pay
Accomplished leader with over 16 years of product and technology experience in enterprise and start-up healthcare and patient engagement products and solutions, payments, loyalty and customer experience solutions. Consultant for healthcare startups in strategy and vision to help bid for venture capital funding. Create key strategies, vision, business models and tactical execution for organizations including short and long term financial impact, risks and opportunities, M&A and building partner
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Tom Arbuthnot
Principal Solutions Architect, Modality Systems
A Microsoft MVP and Microsoft Certified Master, Tom Arbuthnot is Principal Solutions Architect at Microsoft 365 Collaboration specialists Modality Systems. Tom stays up to date with industry developments and shares news and his opinions on tomtalks.blog, Microsoft Teams Podcast and email list. He is a regular industry speaker at events around the world.
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Warren Beazley
Founder of Edison Hill Search, Search Consultant for CTOs and senior tech leaders
Dad, Grandad, Partner and Cofounder of family run boutique IT/Digital Search firm Edison Hill Search. Recruiting in IT since the mid ‘90s.
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Co-Founder and Co-Chairman at GTA Future of WorkCo-Founder and Co-Chairman at GTA Future of Work
* * Available immediately for a new opportunity around project, programme and product delivery, new ways of working, SDLC and processes, change and innovation, transformation.** Delivery Executive, BIMA top 100 most influential people in digital (Tech Trailblazer) and 95.8% customer service rating from an undercover Gallup inspector at The Dorchester in London, who is utilising his own unique framework to explore, analyse and provide solutions in all remote working and digital collaboration env
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