This episode is part of the Influential Women Leaders series. We welcome one of Europe's top FinTech founders, Jessica Holzbach, Co-Founder of the Berlin banking platform Penta. Penta is a digital business-banking app, like the UK’s Tide. It has raised over €35m to date and grew its headcount by 200% between Feb 2019 and 2020. Jessica was on the honoured Forbes 30 under 30 list. In this episode we learn more about Penta and its future plans, Jessica talks about where the idea came from plus how ...
Jul 14, 2020•36 min
Tim Harkness is an experienced psychologist with a career spanning the private sector and elite sports. Since 2009, Tim has been Chelsea FC's Head of Sports Psychology and Sports Science and has worked on some incredible engagements with the IPL, FIFA World Cup and a variety of some of the highest performing and most successful athletes in the world. Over his career, Tim has worked with professional athletes in the world of football, rugby, cricket, tennis, golf, squash, rugby and many more, as ...
Jul 10, 2020•1 hr 38 min•Season 1Ep. 12
Today we had our first PT 2 version of the podcast, where we were delighted to be joined once again by David Brear. As the Founder and Group CEO of 11:FS, David has had to make some very tough and challenging decisions over the past few months. For a business on a huge growth trajectory, they have certainly felt the market following lockdown like most businesses in the world. From having to make redundancies and have the hardest conversations o his career, David and 11:FS - like so many others -...
Jul 03, 2020•57 min•Season 1Ep. 11
Kelly Waters is the Founder of 101 Ways, the leading Product Development Consultancy based between London and Amsterdam. Kelly set up 101 Ways around 7 years ago, quickly gaining a fantastic reputation for their innovative and effective work which was supported by Kelly's very successful career in technical leadership positions such as Director of Engineering, Head of Technology and CTO. 101 Ways help their partners to adapt to new innovative ways of working and help to transform teams into forw...
Jul 01, 2020•1 hr 19 min•Season 1Ep. 12
This episode is part of the Influential Women Leaders Series, the guest is Kelly Hartman, CPO of Payments company Flywire. Kelly is a C Suite executive with over 25 years experience which spans across multiple industry's & Countries including: Media, Government, Technology, Retail, Manufacturing & Financial Services, Australia, Europe, Africa and America. Kelly is a passionate person and this really shines through in this episode. We discuss her background, the role of CPO, tackling COVI...
Jun 16, 2020•49 min
Matthew Sinclair is a Partner and VP Engineering at BCG Digital Ventures, London. In his role at DV, Matthew oversees all technology and engineering activity for the London group, which has allowed him to be involved in an incredible 20+ ventures. BCG Digital Ventures is a corporate investment and incubation firm, with offices in London, Berlin, New York, Sydney, Shanghai and Tokyo, as well as multiple Labs teams in various digital and technology hubs worldwide. As a business, they build, scale ...
Jun 11, 2020•1 hr 6 min•Season 1Ep. 8
Raz Shuty as a Director of Engineering at Delivery Hero, the Berlin-based multinational online food-delivery giant. Delivery Hero operates in over 40 countries internationally and partners with over 500,000 businesses, with offices all over the world and more than 1,500 employees in the Berlin HQ alone. Raz himself has founded his own tech business (which he admits failed faster than he expected!) and has worked in both successful companies that have gone through exits, and at companies that nev...
May 25, 2020•1 hr 5 min•Season 1Ep. 7
A great episode as we welcome Brad Goodall to the Leaders & Founders Podcast. Brad is one the most progressive and thought provoking tech leaders on the London scene and is the current CEO & Co-Founder of the UK based FinTech Banked. In this episode we hear about how Brad made his way into business and into tech, from not finishing Australia's version of A-levels and not going to university to taking QMV from start up to a multi million dollar business. We discuss how his move to the UK ...
May 19, 2020•53 min
Anouk Agussol is the CEO & Founder of Unleashed Company, a specialist culture and people partner for Startups and Founders. Unleashed partner with early-stage and scaling businesses to gear them up for speedy and sustainable success through People + Culture. They typically target three core areas which are often the most challenging for new and growing businesses: - How to attract and hire the best talent when you don't have a brand - How to build a team that is highly engaged, super product...
May 15, 2020•1 hr 4 min•Season 1Ep. 5
In this episode we kick off the Influential Women Leaders series, our first guest is Philippa Rocks, Change Director at Octopus. We discuss COVID and how that has had an impact on Philippa's role, how she and Octopus have adapted with over 1000 employees working remotely. Philippa talks through her background and how she got into projects and change after leaving Leeds University with a 2:1 degree in Sports Science. There is insight into how she has progressed through different industries and al...
May 13, 2020•27 min•Season 1Ep. 4
Sean Hunter is the CIO at OakNorth, one of the most successful and fastest growing FinTech companies and Challenger banks in the world. Through OakNorth Bank, they help small to medium sized businesses realise their dreams and ambitions, where they may otherwise be overlooked by more traditional banks. In unprecedented times, OakNorth remains positive and strong in their approach in what is an uncertain market. They continue to lend to businesses to help them achieve their goals and hit their gr...
May 05, 2020•41 min•Season 1Ep. 3
Julien Lavigne du Cadet is the VP Engineering at ZOE is a nutritional science company based between Boston and London. They are on a mission to help people eat with confidence and work closely with world-leading researchers and machine learning experts, leading the world’s largest ongoing scientific nutritional research project to understand our unique responses to food. As a business, they have raised tens of millions from investors and entrepreneurs who have built multi-billion dollar technolo...
Apr 24, 2020•1 hr 2 min•Season 1Ep. 2
David M. Brear is the Group CEO & Co-Founder of 11:FS. For our very first episode, he was generous enough to take some time out of his hectic schedule to speak with me about all things 11:FS for the Leaders & Founders community. 11:FS is a challenger consultancy that builds and launches next generation digital propositions for some of the biggest banks in the world. They are a team of FinTech experts on a mission to revolutionise the digital banking industry - and David and his team are ...
Apr 20, 2020•44 min
