Category: What does a CTO do?

For most of you … the hard skills are hard wired. Sure, digital trends, innovation, new tech arrives at a dizzying speed but the knowledge and curiosity to explore and understand the technical is a comfort zone and probably embedded in you since you were quite young. Get into a social scenario with a techie…

Sanjay is an experienced CTO and leadership coach based in the UK but working with tech leaders around the world, particularly those working within fast growth and SME companies. He is skilled at providing expert technical advice to customers and colleagues on software design and development and has led architecture and DevOps, driving knowledge sharing, skills…

Zoe hails from Greece and is an Organizational Psychologist and Executive Level Leadership Coach. She works with companies to transform their organisational culture and help them build thriving teams that increase wellbeing as well as productivity. She also works with senior level decision makers from around the world, focusing particularly around the psychology and mindset…

Richard is a recruitment professional with 20+ years industry expertise having delivered large technology and business transformation programme teams. He is also a champion of candidate driven recruitment and is at the heart of developing our careers service linked to the wider professional growth programmes for CTO Academy members.

Tech entrepreneur with extensive board level IT innovation and computer science experience. Has been technical director of software businesses and managed large, complex enterprise projects with successful exits. His career has been defined driving innovation, strategic & operational planning, training, technical sales and software agile project management.

Meet Andrew, our CEO. With 20+ years of executive level commercial experience in SME and early stage companies across multiple sectors inc. law, tech, travel, leisure and property. Andrew has particular expertise around strategy, sales, funding/finance, M&A, mindset. He’s also a Course leader/mentor at London based start up accelerator.

In my technology career, the movement from Waterfall (which should never have been adopted and is in the original paper as not being suitable for most software development) to Agile development of either Kanban or Scrum are the main processes adopted. Bags of time and effort has been spent on which method is better. It…

You might think the established CTO wouldn’t need any support but the truth is that operating at a very senior level making key and business critical decisions on a regular basis can be extremely challenging and isolating.