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Greg is the General Manager at Brill.app The foundation of Greg’s career in digital has been built around delivering results for Fortune 500 companies and enabling their digital transformations. His specialties include building and managing high-performing digital product teams, and the creation of high-value digital products.

John is the Chief Product Officer at ImproveWell The ImproveWell platform uses a smartphone application that empowers staff to communicate their ideas for improving care directly to senior management. An intelligent data dashboard provides a proven and trusted way to review the feedback coming in from the frontline. From the ward to the board, everyone can make suggestions to improve their workplace.

Phil is the Head of Engineering at Interact Phil is an experienced technical consultant with a demonstrated history of working in the information technology and services industry. He’s skilled in enterprise software, learning management, software as a service (SaaS), software development, and start-ups. Phil is a strong information technology professional with a Bachelor of Science - BS focused in Computing from The Manchester Metropolitan University.

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 Ireland.

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.