Venturi's Voice: Technology | Leadership | Staffing | Career | Innovation

Jeremy is Head of Software Engineering at News UK A self-taught coder at the age of 33 Jeremy pivoted into technology later in his career after working in a financial company, Barclays and running his own consultancy. His work in the city saw him running teams in London, NYC & Singapore, and this, combined with his love of working with people saw him take a management role in News UK. As the Head of Software Engineering Jeremy is responsible for nurturing and developing software engineers across the business. His aim is to make News UK a target destination for the best software engineers in the UK with a focus on skills and career development.

Richard George is the Head of Engineering at RS Components Richard is an energetic & focused professional with over 20 years of experience in Wireless, Mobile, Enterprise, Consumer and Cloud services. He is an acknowledged visionary and strategist in both product and process, with a past that demonstrates system thinking and the ability to drive strategies, adapt management styles and lead execution processes that convert opportunity to success. Richard has a hard-earned reputation for delivering high-quality products, on time, on budget.

Rosemary is Head of Technology at YOOX-NET-A-PORTER Group. We spoke to Rosemary back in December. The podcast focuses on teaching code outside the traditional classroom setting. YOOX-NET-A-PORTER is leading the way in this regard. Rosemary talked us through this initiative and several others in her podcast. She tells us about the time the team used an onsite instructor to teach them scala via practical problem solving and Rosemary stresses the importance of hands-on learning for those getting to grips with coding. Andy also asks about team management and allocating product spend. YOOX-NET-A-PORTER YOOX NET-A-PORTER GROUP is the world’s leading online luxury fashion retailer. The Group is a Global company with Anglo-Italian roots, the result of a game-changing merger, which in October 2015, brought together YOOX GROUP and THE NET -A-PORTER GROUP; the two companies had revolutionized the luxury fashion industry since their birth in 2000.

An accomplished visionary and resilient Senior Technical Manager Ed’s career spans over 10 years. He has been responsible for leading, mobilising and delivering cost-effective and scalable technology solutions for clients across a variety of sectors. As a lead polyglot Engineer he has a consistent track record in aligning business, strategy and technology needs, whilst being able to build and maintain trusted and collaborative relationships with key stakeholders, vendors, clients, and business leaders. He is solution focused with proven success in driving business innovation using Agile and Scrum principles.

John is the Senior Engineering Manager at Flixbus. FlixBus is a young mobility provider offering a sustainable and comfortable travel through Europe and the United States under a vision of "Smart and Green Mobility for Everyone to Experience the World"​. Launched 2013 in Germany, FlixBus offers an expanding network of 300,000 daily connections to 2,000 destinations in 29 countries. With services like free WiFi, an innovative ticketing-system, flexible online booking, its own smartphone-app and CO2 compensation, the Flix Comfort is state-of-the-art on the market.

Erin has recently taken a role as the Vice President of People at SevenFifty after more than four years at Custora. Erin is SHRM-CP certified, this education combined with her experience in several startups has enabled her to create employee friendly guidelines for the companies she has worked for. Her role as a people-oriented professional has given her experience in: End-to-end recruiting strategy, the onboarding process, career development and performance management, team engagement and retention, policy, employee handbook creation & growth strategies. Erin has prior experience in sales, marketing, and customer success implementation. She has always worked to strengthen the ties between these departments because she knows that cooperation between silos allows companies to thrive.

Futurice is a software engineering and innovation consultancy. They build new digital products, create services and harness a culture of innovation to produce outstanding software for clients. Since 2000, they have helped clients in industries ranging from energy, retail and construction to media, finance and automotive develop their business practices, ways of working and culture to meet the challenges of digital disruption.

Céline is an experienced Executive Team Leader and Chief Communications Officer with a demonstrated history of working in the Financial Services/Banking and Tech industries. She’s a strong management professional skilled in Public/Investor Relations, Fundraising, Mentoring, HR and Talent, Planning/Events and Operations.

Vasileios is a technology-agnostic thinker, and a leader with experience in diverse technologies spanning from web, mobile & microservices, to cloud, serverless and bots His team building and delivery experience range from innovative prototypes to tactical business solutions and all the way up to global, strategic programmes of work.

Katie is the CTO at Adstream. Katie is the Winner of CTO of the Year at the Women in IT Awards. At Adstream she has migrated their legacy infrastructure to a fully automated, auto-scaling, DevOps managed cloud-hosted architecture model. She has also transformed their legacy linear development function into a modern agile software development practice with component focused teams.

Russell is the Director of Engineering at MOO. Russell began his development experience in 1998 and has continually worked with large, established brands and high-volume websites over the following 16 years. Since transitioning to management at Burberry and continuing at eBay, we caught up with Russell as Director of Engineering at MOO to discuss his transition from individual contributor to management to Director.

Chris Roberts is the Founder and CEO of Nimble Approach. Coming from an Agile Transformation background (Leadership, Coaching and Delivery), Chris went on to form Nimble after having the inspiring idea whilst leaning heavily on the best people in his network to set up the Home Office's first Digital Hub outside of London in 2016. Simply put, Nimble are a community of elite specialists who use Agile to deliver user-focused technology products. In two short years, Chris has grown the business from just himself as a freelancer to 50 specialists, with a strong presence in the Sheffield/Leeds and Manchester areas.

Charles Charles is a solution architect (specialising in business and applications architecture) for banking platforms - both "innovation" platforms and core banking platforms - across various global Tier 1 universal banks. Special interest in event-driven, micro-service, polyglot, cloud-native REST architectures with modern analytics solutions. Jibran Jibran is a management consultant with 10 years experience in the Capital Markets sector and passion for innovative & disruptive technologies. He’s currently heading up the UK R&D team and building out Blockchain, Data Analytics,Machine Learning and RPA practices at Capco.

Gideon is Founder & CEO of EdgePertol Ltd When Gideon finished his chartered accountant from university he took a role at Trafigura, a global oil trading company. This sparked Gideon’s passion for oil and global trade. Working in this industry is where Gideon ‘really started learning’ and this led him to form Edge Petrol. EdgePetrol EdgePetrol is a data-driven web app for petrol retailers. Its intelligent software solution allows petrol dealer owners to see their retail fuel margins and boost site performance on a real-time basis (giving complete transparency across their petrol retail portfolio) so they can make informed decisions on how to optimise their business operations to maximise returns. Podcast Gideon caught up with Andy the other month to talk about overcoming the fear of starting your own business. They also spoke about growing a business at scale and who you should hire as your first employees.

Zoe is Managing Director at Softwire. As the managing director of Softwire Zoe is responsible for leading a 150-person software development and consultancy house. She specialises in bespoke enterprise systems and subsystems across a wide range of industries. Zoe is an award-winning executive level technology professional. She has published three books to date: Galvanising the Geeks, Networking Know-How and An Actor's Life for Me (Urbane Publications) and is a sought-after keynote speaker.

Mark is the head of Engineering at Moonpig Mark has over 17 years experience in Web development across a diverse range of industries including automotive, e-commerce and media/publishing. He has worked with companies to launch both new products into existing markets and also expanded brand reach into new markets.

Moty Jacob is Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Traiana. As the head of security at Traiana Moty ensure 2 trillion USD is transferred securely between assets everyday. 15 years of cyber security experience allowed him to secure this role. He has worked in companies of various sizes including; startups, FORTUNE 500 firms and national governments. He has been responsible for driving high value IT security initiatives and delivering a broad range of solutions protecting customers and their critical infrastructure.

In this show Andy Davis talks to Eric Alford, the VP of engineering at StockTwists. Andy chats to Eric about his career and role as Vice President of Engineering.They also chat about retaining staff and why it’s hard in the current economic climate to keep hold of top talent. They also discuss New York city and why it’s attracting so many tech professionals.

In this episode Andy Davis talks to Ruhul Amin, Co-founder at Onfido. On the show they discuss Ruhul founding Onfido and some of the challenges he overcame in his startup journey. Andy also asks Ruhul about the changing face of internet security.

In this episode, Andy Davis talks to Jamie Graves, the CEO, and Founder at ZoneFox. On the show, Jamie chats to Andy about his entrepreneurial streak, his routes into technology and founding his security business. Jamie Graves: Jamie is the founder of ZoneFox an award-winning Endpoint Monitoring & Threat Detection software that helps customers protect their business-critical assets, data and intellectual property from malicious and accidental insider threats. He also co-founded Inquisitive Systems an Edinburgh based company that aims to rapidly become a world leader in building information security software. Inquisitive Systems is a spin-out from Edinburgh Napier University. It started trading in September 2010 after being founded by Jamie and Prof Bill Buchanan in 2008.