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Bernardo is an Engineering Manager at Newstore Bernardo has 15+ years experience in development. He started his career freelancing in Brazil. Whilst he was freelancing in he undertook a university course in business administration. Once he finished this course he could dedicate more time to work and took a job at Newstore in Germany. He started as a software developer then quickly became the engineering manager.

A leader and innovator in equal measure, C.K. started his career as a Blogger on AOL and Netscape before moving into product development roles. In his current role as Chief Technology Officer at Hypergiant Space Age Solutions, C.K. sits on the crest of the innovation wave. On the show, Andy and C.K. discuss working in distributed teams, leadership and running sprints in World of Warcraft.

Ciaran is the COO & co-founder at Swoop Ciaran is a business and economics graduate from Trinity College Dublin. He began his career at KPMG in Sydney as a Senior Market Analyst before moving to London where he worked as a management consultant with a range of clients including EY, Intersport, Vodafone, and Oakley. Ciaran found a passion for growing businesses and building communities around them which brought him to Hiive in September 2013. At Hiive, he oversaw the development and successful launch of Hiive.co.uk, the professional network for creative people which now has over 150,000 registered members and 4,500 businesses on board including Google, BBC, Facebook, Framestore, Channel 4, Penguin and Sony. In 2018, he co-founded Swoop, an online platform for SMEs looking to raise finance through debt, equity, and grants. Ciaran has overseen the development and launch of the platform which simplifies and speeds up access to loans, grants, equity funding and savings for businesses across the UK and Irel

Simon is a Data Science & Marketing Technology Partner at IRIS Worldwide Simon believes that the role of Marketing is to understand the customer so well that the product or service sells itself. His expertise is in deep customer insight, whether it be customer and Big Data analytics or qual/quant research, and activating this data in the latest marketing technology to help businesses sell more and more often. He has extensive experience doing this in both B2C and B2B but his passion is B2C and he is fortunate enough to have worked for some iconic brands: Sainsbury's, IKEA, Barclcaycard, KFC and News UK (The Sun) to mention just a few.

Marc is the CEO and Founder at Filtered.com Marc’s career started 18 years ago when he began working at a strategy consultancy called Mars & Co. This role gave him a lot of business skills as well as helping him figure out what drives successful clients. During his working life, his goal has always been to acquire skills to help him start his own company. This led him to start working at several startups before he set up Filtered technologies which has now reached its 10th birthday.

Robert's career in data is extensive and, in his currently role as Head of Data Engineering at Centrica, he's leading the charge on technical design of Data Analytics solutions, establishing technical standards across teams, work with product managers of each product area in the squad and deliver Data Analytics solutions that help business decisions.

Evy is a career HR Professional Evy was recently the VP of Resourcing & Product at DAZN Evy is responsible for hiring amazing Tech & Product people across DAZN's four development centres in London, Amsterdam, Leeds and Katowice. She headed up a team of 2 recruitment managers, 9 recruiters and 3 coordinators. She has recently left the company to explore new career options.

Jan is the Director People & Culture at PlusDental Before joining PlusDental Jan worked in several renowned companies and has volunteered with some of the most rewarding groups and individuals around the globe. Already working full time he finished his second master's degree (M.A. in General Management at the University Witten/Herdecke). His educational foundation was an LL.B. program including HR and Psychology at the Brunswick European Law School and the University of Wisconsin.

George is the director at Cogito Group. Growing up around his dad’s carbon fiber business George was lucky enough to be introduced to computers at an early age. He went into finance straight out of university and he worked in engineering roles for the best part of 3 years. He then spent the next 4 years building up a company from scratch which wasn’t his own. It was in this where he learned a lot of the skills he talks about on the show. He really enjoyed the challenge of growing a company so decided to found his own and do it himself. From this decision, Cognito Group was born.

Aaron is the Co-founder of Accomodation.co.uk After 6th form, Aaron had a great opportunity to work at a digital marketing agency. He was trained up and managing accounts at 18. This role impressed on him the importance of design. After a while, in this role, Aaron decided to go to university. He did a year of creative advertising then moved into business and marketing. Whilst he was doing this he started building websites for local businesses. Aaron started working on marketing property and learned a lot of valuable lessons from estate agents. From the profits he made doing this he was able to buy his own house and he himself became a landlord. This let him understand the troubles landlord face and with his co-founder, they set up accomodation.co.uk

Erin is a Tech Lead at Spotify. With a degree in Art, Erin started her career as a graphic designer at NBC. She designed posters and marketing material for the company and its affiliates. Two of her colleagues taught Erin frontend development so she could further upskill herself. After NBC, Erin moved to Bitly and then Adobe for a couple of years. At Spotify, Erin has picked up a lot backend skills and data skills. Erin also works in mentorship programs, she teaches at Girl Develop It.

Shilpa is the Alternative Delivery Model Lead & Women in Tech Program Lead at Deloitte Shilpa has spent 22 years working in consulting after starting her career as a software engineer. She graduated from Manchester University's institute of technology. She could already see back then that technology was the way forward for her career and society. She’s spent 15 years working with a variety of clients helping them undertake technology and data transformations. More recently she’s taken on the title of Alternative Delivery Model Lead. This role focuses on the growth and setup of new services for clients that could be offshore, nearshore, contractors & most recently crowd sourcing services. Shilpa has also been the leader of the Women in Technology Network at Deloitte for the past 11 years, trying to create sustainable change for deloitte and their clients and society more broadly.

Anna is the Director of Recruitment and D&I at Frame.io Frame.io's mission is to power the world's video creation. In order to do that, we believe we should build a team of creative, smart and diverse individuals. Learning from different backgrounds and perspectives will allow us to elevate each other and help us build a better product for our users. Learn more about our job openings below.

Krishan is CTO at Arkera Graduating in 2013 with a degree in computing at Imperial Krishan started working at several big companies including working on Youtube for Google. He really enjoyed the agile way of working and decided to move to a startup where he could sink his teeth into a big problem and have an impact on a business. This led Krishan to Arkera.

Jill the CEO at Click Travel When Jill joined Click Travel the company had 40 members of staff and had just turned over 30 million. They’re now 236 people strong and they’ve just turned over 240 million. This growth happened in the space of 6 years. She’s an experienced Managing Director with a sustained record of delivering success in fast-growth businesses covering Operations, Sales, Marketing, HR, legal and Customer Service. Jill is an inspirational leader and outstanding team player who, through a participative approach, creates robust strategies to translate vision into action. She possesses strong analytical, leadership and decision-making skills with a passion for customer care and quality together with excellent communication skills.

Natalie is the Head of Systems & Data Analytics at Marsh JLT Specialty. Natalie’s journey in insurance started 15 years ago working in exposure management. She worked for various Lloyd’s syndicates looking after their data. Following this, she started working for a Lloyds based syndicate where she further developed her data and analytical skills. Her main focus there was looking at man-made risks, especially terrorism. After this, she moved into broking when she was offered a job at Marsh JLT Specialty where she now works. In this role she’s responsible for catastrophe modeling. She is now the Head of Data and Analytics team with a particular focus on credit.

Will is the CDO of Engine Group Will’s career started in brand marketing over 20 years ago. He started his professional life at Nestle and then worked at Diageo for a few years. Will really enjoyed marketing but wanted to incorporate more data into his career so he could better determine the ROI of what he was doing. 8-years into his career he joined Dunnhumby where he spent the next decade helping Tesco, and other clients, get value from personalised, highly targeted offers. After this, he moved to CallCredit where he led up their performance marketing initiatives. Then a few years ago Will joined the Engine Group where he became the CDO.

Cliff is the CTO at Stash Originally a physics major, Cliff did his degree in 1997. He has always dabbled in code and wrote programs at home when growing up. He learnt by programming his own choose your own adventure games. After college Cliff started working for the department of defense and worked as a civilian scientist. During this time the use of computers in Cliff’s everyday life really started to ramp up. He found himself learning different coding languages after work and building websites for people. Around 2006 Cliff re-enrolled in graduate studies and he got a Masters in Computer Science. He moved to Jersey to work at a startup which was his first real programming job. After this he moved to several different companies before heading to Stash, one of the fastest-growing investing and banking apps in the U.S.

Stuart is a serial startup entrepreneur, mentor at Launch22 and founder of The Cult London. Stuart has always had an entrepreneurial streak. He always knew he wanted to be an entrepreneur. When he was 16 he received £300 in birthday money and over three years he invested it and grew it to £30,000. This was the capital for his first startup. From here Stuart has built several startups and has also worked at large corporates like Deloitte and PwC. His experience in both large and small companies has proved invaluable in his mentoring work. He is currently a mentor at Launch22 and is the founder of entrepreneur community The Cult London.

Ian is the CEO at Digiterre. Originally Ian had nothing to do with software. He did his degree in economics and econometrics. Despite the fact he didn’t like maths and didn’t want to do maths after his A-levels Ian went to university ended up on a statistics course when the business studies department was full. After this, he got a scholarship to a university in Canada where he found out he was going to do more applied maths. After vowing never to do maths again he found himself doing 4 more years of it. This did set him up very well for his career though. He worked for Proctor & Gamble after university as a brand manager. He started working in the brand management department but eventually ended up running it. After this, he moved to Rich Tea and Digestive where he did the same role before founding Digiterre.