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

Tristram is Head Of Engineering @ Mkodo. He is also co-organiser of NSLondon, A meetup for iOS and Mac based in London.  Tris is an expert in building award-winning mobile native apps for regulated markets. He has led and worked on numerous consumer apps which have reached over 10 million users. He's passionate about delivering and developing high-quality reliable software. believing continuous integration is essential and wherever possible I’ve automated processes to shorten development cycles. Ben and Tristram sit down to discuss his career path, from shop floor salesman to head of engineering, as well as some of the learning points along the way, and some words of advice to progress in your own career.

Nina is Head of Data at Just Group PLC, and is DataIQ 100 2021 most influential data leaders! During this episode, Ben and Nina sit down to discuss Data Governance and why it matters, and imagining a world without data governance. While you're here, why not check out Nina's previous podcast episode: Extracting the True Value of Data | Nina Monckton

Tomislav's experience comes from being brought up in an entrepreneurial business-minded family, working in the advertising and marketing industry for the last 13 years, as well as having direct front- and back-of-house experience across a number of key market sectors; namely estate agency, automotive and high street/online retail. Tomislav is also MD @ initforthe; Helping businesses and people work better together with great software in a digital and remote world. During this episode, Ben sits down with Tomislav to discuss what makes a happy and motivated tech team, and what leaders can do to ensure their workforce is a happy one.

ZeroLight deliver creativity at scale through cloud-based visualisation. Their product-configuration and content-production platform establishes competitive advantages for automotive OEMs around the world, using the cloud to make real-time rendering accessible and affordable for any user in any market.  During this roundtable discussion, Ben and co-host Ross Alexander sit down with Chris O'Connor and Dave Hawes from ZeroLight to talk about the future of the digital world, the metaverse, and being best prepared for future changes to the digital world that might occur. Also a big thank you to Chris, Dave and everyone at ZeroLight for hosting us in their incredible offices in Newcastle, we had a brilliant time!

Kit is Co-Founder & Head of Sales at GigPig, the fastest growing music marketplace in the UK. Designed by artists for artists, all for the love of music. GigPig is a management & booking platform designed specifically to empower hospitality operators to take their entertainment bookings in-house. Ben, Jack Rainbow and Kit sit down at GigPig HQ in Manchester to discuss the current issues that hospitality venues have when sourcing new acts, and how GigPig is rebuilding the live music scene one great gig at a time. Huge thanks to Kit and GigPig for being wonderful hosts, we had a great day meeting you all! 

Dennis is CEO & Founder @ Forecast Forecast is a Work Intelligence company, delivering an AI-native platform for profitable Project & Resource Management. During this episode, Ben and Dennis sit down to discuss access to tech talent in the current market, scaling teams, and building best-in-class leadership across multiple locations (US, UK and DK).

Monshur is CEO & Founder of WeAgile, founded in 2019 after realising the agency model was in need of a shake-up. WeAgile is a London based digital agency that’s obsessed with helping businesses bring their ideas to life. During this episode, Ben sits down with Monshur to discuss Mental Health and leadership – as a successful business founder, people don’t understand the toll it can take on your mental health. And how sometimes as a founder you need to take a step back and ask for people’s opinions and get very honest (sometimes harsh) feedback

Becky is VP Product at infogrid Infogrid is changing the world through building intelligence. Our AI-powered platform gathers and analyses data from the smartest IoT technology to drive our mission of making every building healthy, efficient and sustainable. During this podcast, Ben sits down with Becky to discuss Becky's career in tech, her experiences as a female in the tech space, female leadership, and advice for businesses to promote more female leaders in their organisation.

This week Ben sits down with the leadership team at CURE at their HQ in Berlin! CURE are building the "one-stop-shop" platform for healthcare. Our app allows our customers to get medical consultations, prescripted and over-the-counter medication delivery, and physical, psychological, and social healthcare. Ali El-Ali is CEO & Co-Founder @ CURE Manuel Aberle is COO & Co-Founder @ CURE And Victor, who is leading Market Performance @ CURE We would like to thank CURE for welcoming us into their incredible offices in Berlin and taking the time to have this discussion, we loved meeting you and the office dog!

Ben and Co-Host Shaun Smallridge visited the SAP offices in Walldorf, Germany, to sit down with Florian Heretsch and Martin Lang to discuss the future of business and mobile technology, how this space is developing, and Florian and Martin's views on leadership. Florian is Vice President, Head of Mobile Experience & Engineering @ SAP. Martin is Mobile Experience - SAP Product Management. SAP is a German multinational software company. It develops enterprise software to manage business operations and customer relations. The company is the world's leading enterprise resource planning software vendor. Thank you to SAP for hosting us in their offices and sharing some incredible insights into Mobile and Development.