CTO Interviews With Global Tech Leaders

CIO / CDO, RANDSTAD
International expert in digitalization with 25 years experience in leading positions directing teams of 200 with annual budgets of $160m. Mentor/advisor for startups and executive positions.

DIRECTOR OF ENGINEERING, SPOTIFY
Joining us from Stockholm, Marcin was kind enough to launch our interview series of Lockdown Learnings. 5 years with Spotify and now Director of Engineering working with the Playback Tribe.

TECHNOLOGY PARTNERSHIPS LEAD AT ITV
Paul has a fantastic mixture of corporate and start-up experience in tech. Now the Technology Partnerships lead at ITV in the UK, previously head of TV research at SKY and founder of Satchel Messaging which created a mobile messaging platform.

CHIEF TECHNOLOGIST, EMEA FSI AT RED HAT
20 years in the Financial Services industry currently as Chief Technologist for EMEA Financial Services at Red Hat and previously as Managing Director at an Investment Bank in London where he was a leader in the AppDev space.

SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT MANAGER, AWS
Experienced tech leader from professional services to logistics, gaming and most recently cloud technology at AWS.

GROUP CTO, GFK
Ben is former Group CTO at Euromoney and Head of Retail IT at Paddy Power. Now the Global Group CTO at GfK (Growth for Knowledge) we ‘meet’ Ben enjoying a commute free lockdown in Winchester.

HEAD OF DATA MANAGEMENT, NORDEA

Data professional & leader across multiple industries. Most at home in untangling complicated environments with a mixture of technical and business challenges. A keen exponent of building teams where everyone has confidence to execute and develop.

Colin McQuade
HEAD OF TECH, BARCLAYS INTERNATIONAL
Wealth of experience as former CTO at Yahoo Europe, AOL (UK) and MD of Group TV and Digital Platforms at Sky.

CEO & LEADERSHIP COACH AT VALUERISE CONSULTING
Dominik is an author, speaker, consultant, tech leader and manager. He wrote The Scrum Culture: Introducing Agile Methods in Organisationsand is a previous winner of the Carl Zeiss Innovation Award.

INDEPENDENT IT CONSULTANT
Graham has built 20 years of knowledge and experience across many sectors of how to use digital and consumer technology to transform businesses.

PROGRAMME DTR FOR DELOITTE DELIVERY
Having spent most of her career delivering and leading data, information and insight driven transformations for clients, Shilpa is currently working on a role to help drive Deloitte strategy around innovative delivery models.

SENIOR ENTERPRISE ARCHITECT, NORWEGIAN POLICE
28 years as an officer in the Norwegian Armed Forces means that Petter brings rich insight into our chats about technology leadership. Talking to us from Oslo he talks us through his lockdown experience and where he sees a future full of change and possibility.

AGILE COACH AND OWNER OF NATIVE WIRED
Gitte has been an agile coach at leading companies like Spotify, LEGO and IBM for more than a decade and has been independent since 2013. Her main focus is communication and implementing psychological safety.

MANAGER SPECIAL PROJECTS, ERICSSON
Joined Ericsson in 1994 where he also works as a trainer for product development leadership and is a contributor to the international agile community.