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

Sebastian is the Co-founder and Director at Titus Learning As the co-founder of Titus Learning Sebastian has always championed e-learning and alternate educational routes. After a brief stint at university, he found he worked best when engaging in ‘non-traditional’ educational avenues. This realisation saw him set up Titus Learning to bring the advantages of e-learning courses to as many people as possible. Jump to 24.22 to listen to Seb's three lessons. Key points covered in this show include: How e-learning is disrupting the ‘traditional’ education sectors How can we create a tech curriculum that can adapt to the pace of change of technology

Rich is an EMEA Recruitment Specialist for Google Cloud. Starting his career recruiting for marketing roles in an agency, Rich, quickly learned the benefits developing long term relationships can have on one's career. Building true and meaningful client and candidate relationships has always been at the core of Rich’s recruitment strategy. In 2012 he started working for a recruitment company who then looked to expand their digital recruitment arm. Rich started recruiting digital marketing professionals for a variety of other businesses. Over the next 6 years, his division grew across the UK. Rich started to manage several different teams and advise teams in other areas of the world on how to found their own digital business units. He was also added to the board of directors. After a seven-year stint working agency side, Rich moved to an in-house role working for Google Cloud. This move was spurred by his desire to work in long term partnerships with clients. Initially, he acted as the point of contact for all cloud marketing and communications across EMEA, before also getting involved in technical project management hiring, hiring for other business units like Waze and finally acting as a point of contact for DACH Sales.

John is an entrepreneur and founder of Pushfor. John’s career started when he was 11 years old after a chance encounter with a computer magazine. His first computer was a ZX81 Sinclair and he had to type in his programs from computer magazines. Always a fan of taking things apart to find out how they worked John started deconstructing the programs he was typing into his computer and began learning from there. This combined with a natural flair for working with people quickly saw John working in consultancy. John worked with Experian and in his spare time he wrote a security application to protect some software he’d been writing. John developed software protection technology that turned into a powerful security engine that was used for companies like Microsoft Games.

Jeremy is Head of Software Engineering at News UK A self-taught coder at the age of 33 Jeremy pivoted into technology later in his career after working in a financial company, Barclays and running his own consultancy. His work in the city saw him running teams in London, NYC & Singapore, and this, combined with his love of working with people saw him take a management role in News UK. As the Head of Software Engineering Jeremy is responsible for nurturing and developing software engineers across the business. His aim is to make News UK a target destination for the best software engineers in the UK with a focus on skills and career development.

Richard George is the Head of Engineering at RS Components Richard is an energetic & focused professional with over 20 years of experience in Wireless, Mobile, Enterprise, Consumer and Cloud services. He is an acknowledged visionary and strategist in both product and process, with a past that demonstrates system thinking and the ability to drive strategies, adapt management styles and lead execution processes that convert opportunity to success. Richard has a hard-earned reputation for delivering high-quality products, on time, on budget.

Rosemary is Head of Technology at YOOX-NET-A-PORTER Group. We spoke to Rosemary back in December. The podcast focuses on teaching code outside the traditional classroom setting. YOOX-NET-A-PORTER is leading the way in this regard. Rosemary talked us through this initiative and several others in her podcast. She tells us about the time the team used an onsite instructor to teach them scala via practical problem solving and Rosemary stresses the importance of hands-on learning for those getting to grips with coding. Andy also asks about team management and allocating product spend. YOOX-NET-A-PORTER YOOX NET-A-PORTER GROUP is the world’s leading online luxury fashion retailer. The Group is a Global company with Anglo-Italian roots, the result of a game-changing merger, which in October 2015, brought together YOOX GROUP and THE NET -A-PORTER GROUP; the two companies had revolutionized the luxury fashion industry since their birth in 2000.

An accomplished visionary and resilient Senior Technical Manager Ed’s career spans over 10 years. He has been responsible for leading, mobilising and delivering cost-effective and scalable technology solutions for clients across a variety of sectors. As a lead polyglot Engineer he has a consistent track record in aligning business, strategy and technology needs, whilst being able to build and maintain trusted and collaborative relationships with key stakeholders, vendors, clients, and business leaders. He is solution focused with proven success in driving business innovation using Agile and Scrum principles.

John is the Senior Engineering Manager at Flixbus. FlixBus is a young mobility provider offering a sustainable and comfortable travel through Europe and the United States under a vision of "Smart and Green Mobility for Everyone to Experience the World"​. Launched 2013 in Germany, FlixBus offers an expanding network of 300,000 daily connections to 2,000 destinations in 29 countries. With services like free WiFi, an innovative ticketing-system, flexible online booking, its own smartphone-app and CO2 compensation, the Flix Comfort is state-of-the-art on the market.

Erin has recently taken a role as the Vice President of People at SevenFifty after more than four years at Custora. Erin is SHRM-CP certified, this education combined with her experience in several startups has enabled her to create employee friendly guidelines for the companies she has worked for. Her role as a people-oriented professional has given her experience in: End-to-end recruiting strategy, the onboarding process, career development and performance management, team engagement and retention, policy, employee handbook creation & growth strategies. Erin has prior experience in sales, marketing, and customer success implementation. She has always worked to strengthen the ties between these departments because she knows that cooperation between silos allows companies to thrive.

Futurice is a software engineering and innovation consultancy. They build new digital products, create services and harness a culture of innovation to produce outstanding software for clients. Since 2000, they have helped clients in industries ranging from energy, retail and construction to media, finance and automotive develop their business practices, ways of working and culture to meet the challenges of digital disruption.