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Céline is an experienced Executive Team Leader and Chief Communications Officer with a demonstrated history of working in the Financial Services/Banking and Tech industries. She’s a strong management professional skilled in Public/Investor Relations, Fundraising, Mentoring, HR and Talent, Planning/Events and Operations.

Vasileios is a technology-agnostic thinker, and a leader with experience in diverse technologies spanning from web, mobile & microservices, to cloud, serverless and bots His team building and delivery experience range from innovative prototypes to tactical business solutions and all the way up to global, strategic programmes of work.

Katie is the CTO at Adstream. Katie is the Winner of CTO of the Year at the Women in IT Awards. At Adstream she has migrated their legacy infrastructure to a fully automated, auto-scaling, DevOps managed cloud-hosted architecture model. She has also transformed their legacy linear development function into a modern agile software development practice with component focused teams.

Russell is the Director of Engineering at MOO. Russell began his development experience in 1998 and has continually worked with large, established brands and high-volume websites over the following 16 years. Since transitioning to management at Burberry and continuing at eBay, we caught up with Russell as Director of Engineering at MOO to discuss his transition from individual contributor to management to Director.

Chris Roberts is the Founder and CEO of Nimble Approach. Coming from an Agile Transformation background (Leadership, Coaching and Delivery), Chris went on to form Nimble after having the inspiring idea whilst leaning heavily on the best people in his network to set up the Home Office's first Digital Hub outside of London in 2016. Simply put, Nimble are a community of elite specialists who use Agile to deliver user-focused technology products. In two short years, Chris has grown the business from just himself as a freelancer to 50 specialists, with a strong presence in the Sheffield/Leeds and Manchester areas.

Charles Charles is a solution architect (specialising in business and applications architecture) for banking platforms - both "innovation" platforms and core banking platforms - across various global Tier 1 universal banks. Special interest in event-driven, micro-service, polyglot, cloud-native REST architectures with modern analytics solutions. Jibran Jibran is a management consultant with 10 years experience in the Capital Markets sector and passion for innovative & disruptive technologies. He’s currently heading up the UK R&D team and building out Blockchain, Data Analytics,Machine Learning and RPA practices at Capco.

Gideon is Founder & CEO of EdgePertol Ltd When Gideon finished his chartered accountant from university he took a role at Trafigura, a global oil trading company. This sparked Gideon’s passion for oil and global trade. Working in this industry is where Gideon ‘really started learning’ and this led him to form Edge Petrol. EdgePetrol EdgePetrol is a data-driven web app for petrol retailers. Its intelligent software solution allows petrol dealer owners to see their retail fuel margins and boost site performance on a real-time basis (giving complete transparency across their petrol retail portfolio) so they can make informed decisions on how to optimise their business operations to maximise returns. Podcast Gideon caught up with Andy the other month to talk about overcoming the fear of starting your own business. They also spoke about growing a business at scale and who you should hire as your first employees.

Zoe is Managing Director at Softwire. As the managing director of Softwire Zoe is responsible for leading a 150-person software development and consultancy house. She specialises in bespoke enterprise systems and subsystems across a wide range of industries. Zoe is an award-winning executive level technology professional. She has published three books to date: Galvanising the Geeks, Networking Know-How and An Actor's Life for Me (Urbane Publications) and is a sought-after keynote speaker.

Mark is the head of Engineering at Moonpig Mark has over 17 years experience in Web development across a diverse range of industries including automotive, e-commerce and media/publishing. He has worked with companies to launch both new products into existing markets and also expanded brand reach into new markets.

Moty Jacob is Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Traiana. As the head of security at Traiana Moty ensure 2 trillion USD is transferred securely between assets everyday. 15 years of cyber security experience allowed him to secure this role. He has worked in companies of various sizes including; startups, FORTUNE 500 firms and national governments. He has been responsible for driving high value IT security initiatives and delivering a broad range of solutions protecting customers and their critical infrastructure.