This week on Tech Leaders’ Intel, we’re joined by Dave Tonge, CTO of MoneyHub, a data and payments fintech and a pioneer of open banking. Having been at MoneyHub for nearly 12 years now, Dave is well-placed to share his knowledge on consumer data rights, open finance initiatives, tech leadership and more. With new consumer duty regulations coming into place in July, Dave couldn’t have joined us for a chat at a more important time, as MoneyHub provides solutions for businesses to help them...

In this week’s episode of Tech Leaders’ Intel, we’re very happy to be joined by Primoz Fonda, VP of DevOps at global fintech company SumUp. Originally from Slovenia, Primoz has been in London for the past 11 years, climbing the ranks from system administrator to his current leadership role. We start by discussing the differences between ways of working in Slovenia vs. those in the UK, and Primoz explains why the expectation to be a generalist when he started out actually helped him on his...

Welcome to Episode 12 of Tech Leaders’ Intel. This week we’re speaking with Paolo Negri, co-founder of Contentful, a headless content management system. Founded in 2013 in Berlin, and now based in San Francisco, the company has grown rapidly and was valued at US$3bn in 2021. Paolo and his co-founder Sascha Konietzke met after an entrepreneur speed-dating event. Their early days involved working in the cheapest room of a shared office space, with an engineer sleeping on an old sofa. As you...

Welcome to Episode 11 of Tech Leaders’ Intel. This week, we’re chatting with Dennis Teichmann, co-founder of the HR-software company Jacando. In light of their rapid growth in the booming HR-software market, we asked Dennis about: how to identify market demand and when to pivot your product, how your company culture will change with time and growth and what you can do to keep some of that pioneering magic when to offshore your IT and what to look out for when you go for it. In the process...

Welcome to Episode 10 of Tech Leaders’ Intel! This week we’re excited to be joined by Vicky Bukta. She only graduated from the University of Toronto in 2017, but after joining the e-commerce trailblazer, Shopify, her impressive career growth has seen her rapidly rise through the ranks to become the company’s data-engineering team lead. We begin by discussing how she entered the field and joined Shopify, before moving onto the challenges small companies face as the number and complexity of...

This week on Tech Leaders’ Intel we’re speaking to Torbjörn Andersson, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Medius, a private equity backed company that provides cloud-based spend-management solutions. Torbjörn has over 20 years of experience in IT, 12 of which are in information and cloud security. Drawing on Torbjörn’s wealth of experience, we begin by discussing the challenges of moving over from consultancy into the SaaS field, a field that requires a far broader, strategic view...

This week on Tech Leaders’ Intel, we’re joined by Andrei Nita, former Director of Data and Analytics at ai-driven software company Builder.ai and now Director of Engineering at HyperionDev. Andrei has previously worked for the likes of IBM and Gameloft, and was at Builder.ai. for three years before his recent move. In today’s episode, Andrei begins by talking us through his journey from his roots in development to his move into data, and the ever-growing importance of data as a field in...

For this episode of Tech Leaders’ Intel, we’re joined by Imran Arshed, CTO and co-founder of Plum Guide, a marketplace peer to peer vacation booking site based out of London. From the first days of coding the system to scaling up swiftly, Imran’s insight is invaluable when it comes to understanding development and hiring processes in a fast-growing business. Whether trying to hire while still writing the bare bones of the code yourself or expanding a team to meet the developing needs of your...

This week on Tech Leaders’ Intel, we’re joined by Juan Gutierrez Plaza, the VP of Engineering for Scoro, a work management SaaS platform based in Estonia. Juan has been working in software development for 20 years now, in industries including telecom and banking before turning his focus to SaaS. From implementing a four-day working week, to the advantages of launching and running a tech start-up in Estonia, Juan talks us through best practice and the importance of having the right tools,...

In the fifth episode of Tech Leaders’ Intel, James Loveridge is joined by Ravneet Shah, CTO of Allica Bank, the dedicated bank supporting SMEs. An engineer at heart, Ravneet has been at Allica for three years, and became CTO in January 2022 after initially joining the firm as an integration lead. Today, Ravneet talks us through her journey to becoming a CTO and the challenges she overcame when making the transition. It was exposure to a multitude of different systems early on that helped her...

Welcome to Episode 4 of Tech Leaders’ Intel! This week we’re chatting to David Maidment, an experienced start-up CTO and Head of Engineering, with a great track record of spearheading digital transformation. Today, he talks to us about his unconventional route into his role, which began in a humble shoe shop. After touching on routes into technology, we turn to the journey from programming to management, the importance of making your team self-sufficient while giving them the right amount of...

In the third episode of Tech Leaders’ Intel we’re joined by Eoin Fleming, CIO of Carne Group. Eoin has around 25 years of experience in both general IT and security, predominantly in regulated industries. He’s here today to share his knowledge on an extremely important topic: ensuring your IT team is in tune with your company culture. Working in the financial sector, Eoin acknowledges that there is one thing non-IT firms are often missing – an innate knowledge of the purpose of IT. This...

While the pandemic introduced businesses to the ‘hybrid’ model of working - with some time in the office and the rest in the home office, it’s clear that the post-pandemic development of this is the four-day working week. And no, that doesn’t mean working longer hours for four days to get a Friday off, but rather working four days as usual and taking a well-earned break on the fifth day. But does such a set-up really work? And how will you ensure business continuity following such a model?...

It’s clear – we’ve seen some pretty major changes across almost every single profession in the last two years, and the global shift from office-based to remote working has put two key words at the forefront of every manager’s mind: autonomy and trust. In the very first episode of Tech Leaders Intel James Loveridge, speaks to David Ives, about managing relationships and nurturing talent in a growing company. The key to building trust? For David, it all boils down to communication. With over...