The G&T Sessions

For many years, Gary has helped business from public to private sector to improve their security and data protection. Taking the complex and making it simple is what makes Gary special. Working for @GE Money, @Laterooms.com and now running Cybersecurity business @Cyberfort Group he’s had industry recognition as Business Continuity & Cybersecurity Personality of the Year. He’s also written widely on the topic including The Dummies Guide to Business Continuity. Now working with the Resilience Association and YCSC, Gary is influencing a whole industry, either directly or indirectly through his support to steer these groups or participating in events at a national level. And he was recently interviewed on the BBC News about the topics of Data Privacy and protection. Starting as a developer many years ago, he is now deemed the Professor of Communicating Cyber, as he talks in schools (including primary) through to Universities on the topics of cyber security, risk, business continuity and organisational resilience.as we all live in such a tech dominant world it’s amazing what you need to know. Hope you learn something new and enjoy the episode 

Anthony is co-founder and CEO at SeedLegals, a LegalTech platform that lets startups and investors complete the legals needed to build, grow and fund their business, at a fraction of the cost of using a law firm. More than one in six of all early-stage funding rounds in the UK are now done on SeedLegals. Anthony’s career has included 3D graphics, P2P music, internet video, social TV and online communities. In 2015 Anthony founded 6Tribes, a world of communities based on shared interests. 6Tribes was acquired less than a year later. Previously, Anthony co-founded Beamly, a social and content network for television, which was acquired by Coty in 2015. Known as “The man behind BBC iPlayer”, Anthony ran the iPlayer and other BBC services from 2007 to 2010, taking the iPlayer from pre-launch to major success story. Anthony’s patent portfolio includes patents for distributed online rewards, content discovery and interactive television. Great episode with Anthony and packed with valuable advice and guidance - thank you! Enjoy! https://seedlegals.com https://twitter.com/anthonyrose https://www.linkedin.com/in/anrose/

Cindi Howson is the Chief Data Strategy Officer at ThoughtSpot and host of The Data Chief podcast. Cindi is an analytics and BI thought leader and expert with a flair for bridging business needs with technology. As Chief Data Strategy Officer at ThoughtSpot, she advises top clients on data strategy and best practices to becoming data- driven, influences ThoughtSpot’s product strategy, and is the host of The Data Chief podcast. Cindi was previously a Gartner research Vice President, as the lead author for the data and analytics maturity model and analytics and BI Magic Quadrant, and a popular keynote speaker. She introduced new research in data and AI for good, NLP/BI Search, and augmented analytics and brought both the BI bake offs and innovation panels to Gartner globally. She’s rated a top 12 influencer in big data and analytics by Onalytca, Solutions Review, and Humans of Data. Prior to joining Gartner, she was founder of BI Scorecard, a resource for in-depth product reviews based on exclusive hands-on testing, contributor to Information Week, and the author of several books including: Successful Business Intelligence: Unlock the Value of BI & Big Data and SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0: The Complete Reference. She served as The Data Warehousing Institute (TDWI) faculty member for more than a decade. Prior to founding BI Scorecard, Howson was a manager at Deloitte & Touche and a global BI standards leader for Dow Chemical. She has an MBA from Rice University. Great episode with Cindi, enjoy ! Cindi's Twitter @BIScorecard Thoughspot Data Chief Blog https://www.thoughtspot.com/blog/data-chief Cindi's Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/biscorecard/

John came up with the idea to launch a daily podcast interviewing today’s most successful and inspiring entrepreneurs when he realised no one else was doing it. All of his favourite podcasts – ones that shared interviews with individuals who were doing amazing things and leading inspiring lives – were once per week, and some of them only once every other week. As a Commercial Real Estate Broker, John found himself in the car every single day driving back and forth to appointments wishing there was more motivational content available to him on-demand. That’s when he had his own AH-HA moment and decided that he would be the one to create that content. The name EOFire, short for “Entrepreneurs On Fire”, was inspired by the late, great Stuart Scott, who was famous not only for being an incredible sportscaster, but also for a phrase he loved and used often: “HE’S ON FIRE!” Scott would use the term in reference to a player who was on such a roll that he couldn’t be stopped. When John heard Scott use the phrase during the 2012 playoffs, he knew it was a perfect fit for his podcast that would share the journeys of entrepreneurs who couldn’t be stopped. In September 2012. John Lee Dumas launched Entrepreneurs On Fire with zero podcasting or radio experience and zero online presence. Entrepreneurs On Fire gets over 1 million listens every single month from over 145 countries. Over 3000+ interviews published to date. John signed his first book deal with HarperCollins Leadership, 2021 release: The Common Path to Uncommon Success now released in USA 23rd March 2021 and UK on 29th April 2021. USA Today: Becoming a person of value: The common path to uncommon success, March 2021 Podcast Magazine Cover: Inside the mind of a podcaster on fire, September 2020 Huffington Post: Finding Your Entrepreneurial Moment With John Lee Dumas, January 2016 Wall Street Journal: Small Businesses Use Audio to Build Their Brands, November 2015 Entrepreneur: 4 Strategies the ‘Entrepreneur on Fire’ Used to Build a $250K a Month Podcast, September 2015 Forbes: How To Podcast For Profit ($2M Sales In Year 2) With Entrepreneur On Fire John Dumas, July 2014 The shortest episode to date for The G&T Sessions but oodles of value and guidance from JLD. Enjoy!

Mike Southon is a serially successful entrepreneur, best-selling business author and one of the world’s top business keynote speakers on entrepreneurship, intrapreneurship and sales.  He specialises in teaching entrepreneurship to University students.  Mike is co-author with Chris West of The Beermat Entrepreneur, The Boardroom Entrepreneur and Sales on a Beermat.  He has spoken at over 1,000 live events all over the world and provided free face-to-face mentoring to over 1,000 entrepreneurs. Mike and I covered a wide range of topics on this episode including his love of growing companies, sales, being a rock-star himself, adventures in Liverpool and The Beatles. Enjoy!

Anna Faelten is a Partner at EY, and Head of TMT corporate finance team in the UK. Anna is originally from Sweden, but has spent a number of years working in and around the City of London with time in Academia at Cass Business School, but her real passion is data, tech and deals. She describes herself as a Tech Banker, and is a published Author Why Deals Fail and How to Rescue Them : M&A lessons for business success. Anna is also the #EY sponsoring partner for Diversity and Inclusion which involves leading how the organisation truly celebrates and supports the development of the gifts, talents and superpowers of all the people, internally as well as her clients. Very enjoyable episode and thank you to Anna. LinkedIn:  http://linkedin.com/in/anna-faelten Twitter: @annafaelten Why Deals Fail and How to Rescue Them: M&A lessons for business success https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1781254532/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_fabc_6HCA07F1C194WTHY6BHX

Samuel P.N. Cook graduated from West Point in 2000. He went on to become a U.S. Armoured Cavalry Officer where he served as the Regimental Adjutant for Colonel H.R. McMaster in the Battle of Tal Afar in 2005-2006 that was cited by President Bush as a turning point in the war. With a front row seat to history, Sam was responsible for the media messaging and writing the history of this campaign. In 2007, Sam returned to Iraq as the commander of Crazyhorse Troop, 1st Squadron, 3d Armoured Cavalry Regiment where he was cited in the Washington Post and Tom Rick’s best-selling book on Iraq for his novel counterinsurgency strategy that combined tribal negotiations and police trained parole system for a mass surrender. When he returned from Iraq in 2008, Sam went on to get a Masters in Russian and Ukrainian history at New York University’s Jordan Center for Slavic Studies. He then went on to teach history at West Point from 2010-2013. Sam founded James Cook Media in 2013 after leaving the army. The company is a storytelling marketing agency that focuses on growing then brands of authors and experts around the world. Here he created the StoryMatters mini-course with over 100,000 subscribers as well as the StoryMatters Podcast. in 2019, he founded SanityDesk, a full-stack software solution for experts and small service businesses to launch and manage their business online. SanityDesk is funded by Angel investors and is rapidly becoming an innovative solution for savvy marketing professionals who help small business owners grow their brand online. Great episode with Sam and know you will enjoy! Learn more about Story Matters https://StoryMattersacademy.com/stda-sf-2 Learn about SanityDesk https://SanityDesk.com

Everyone is now starting to realise the implications of AI on our daily lives. Maria knows more than anyone, in her role as Responsible AI and AI for Good Lead at PwC. She is based in London, but working globally leading the implementation of ethics in AI for the firm while partnering with industry, academia, governments, NGO and civil society, to harness the power of AI in an ethical and responsible manner. Maria acknowledges the benefits and risks in many walks of life for organisations and citizens. She has played a crucial part in the development and set-up of PwC’s UK AI Center of Excellence, the firm’s AI strategy and most recently the development of PwC’s Responsible AI toolkit, firms methodology for embedding ethics in AI. Maria is a globally recognised AI ethics expert, a Advisory Board member of the UK All-Party Parliamentary Group on AI, member of BSI/ISO & IEEE AI standard groups, a Fellow of the RSA and an advocate for gender diversity, children and youth rights in the age of AI. Enjoy this journey into AI and hope you learn something that helps you. Thank you Maria for joining the show. Twitter https://twitter.com/maria_axente LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariaaxente/

Tendayi Viki is an author and corporate innovation expert. As Associate Partner at Strategyzer, he helps companies innovate for the future while managing their core business. He has written three books; Pirates In The Navy, The Corporate Startup and The Lean Product Lifecycle. He previously served as Director of Product Lifecycle at Pearson, where he co-developed an innovation framework that won the Best Innovation Program 2015 at the Corporate Entrepreneur Awards in New York. Tendayi has been shortlisted for the Thinkers50 Innovation Award and was named on the Thinkers50 2018 Radar List for emerging management thinkers to watch. He is also a regular contributor at Forbes. This was our first Episode from Africa as Tendayi is currently in Zimbabwe, and hope you enjoy !! Understanding more about Tendayi Website: https://tendayiviki.com/ Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tendayiviki/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/tendayiviki

Ismail has decades of experience in helping Fortune 500 companies through his work with IBM, Accenture, Capco and Capita. Ismail is currently chief growth officer at Capita, a non exec board member for UK Sports and on the board of governors at the University of London. He recently released his first book..’from incremental to Exponential’. Ismail and I had a great time on this episode given our Northern roots and great to hear the journey and advice to help people on their journey. Enjoy ! Twitter @ismailamla Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/ismail-amla-b981891/ Link to Ismail's First Book https://www.amazon.co.uk/Incremental-Exponential-Vivek-Wadhwa/dp/1523089563/