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

Brian Powell is Chief Operations Officer @ TalentNow.  Brian has built himself a spectacular reputation on building up tech teams in various industries and is now leading 20 different companies within a massive portfolio for Vora. During this episode, Ben sits down with Brian to talk about team building in terms of scaling, and his agile process – a proven 8-week breakdown of solutions and prototyping.

Steven is Engineering Manager at HelloFresh, leading a cross-functional team combining software engineering and big data expertise. They are building a world-class platform for A/B testing and fostering a culture of experimentation in the company. HelloFresh is on a mission to change the way people eat, forever. With more than 15,000 high-performing and ambitious employees across the globe from New York to Berlin, London to Sydney and Tokyo to Milan. During this episode, Ben sits down with Steven to discuss modern hybrid working and how to strategise your time effectively, as well as post-pandemic leadership.

Svilen Gospodinov is Engineering Team Leader @ Remote | Author | Forbes 30 under 30 Paulo Pereira is VP of Engineering @ Remote & Author Remote opens the vast potential of the world for every person, business, and country, building a world where every person and business truly belongs. With 53 locations around the world, Ben sits down with Svilen and Paulo to discuss their remote working culture, how this is set up and the success they have seen as a result of this.

Richard is Engineering Director at BYTE/DEPT® BYTE/DEPT® is a marketing technology agency based in London, New York and Berlin on a mission to combine technology and creativity to solve brands’ problems. They bring together data, technology, content, and paid media to drive revenue for brands. During this episode, Ben sits down with Richard to discuss the development of technology within the marketing and advertising sector, natural language processing – Machine Learning, and generative atmospheric music. Thanks again Richard for the fascinating chat!

Daniel is Senior Director of Business Technology at Hudl. He is a team builder and decisive, technical leader with a strong track record of success--especially on large and complex problems. He has been noted throughout his career for his ability to dissect complex problems into achievable goals. He is a servant leader who has mentored others and built successful high-powered teams by creating a culture of trust, focusing on collaboration, and continually pursuing quality. Hudl is changing the future of sports technology. We create software to help coaches win, athletes look like pros, and recruiters find more talent. Our software provides more than 4.3 million coaches, athletes, trainers and analysts across 30+ sports the insight they need to win at every level of competition. During this episode, Ben sits down with Daniel to discuss the cutting edge tech involved at Hudl and how this is changing the industry, Daniel's servant leadership style, and the working culture they foster at Hudl.

Jeff Watkins is Chief Product & Technology Officer at xDesign Jeff is a Technology Leader, tech blogger, public speaker and Technical Architect with over 20 years' experience within the IT industry. xDesign specializes in bespoke mobile and web app design and development, offering complete custom digital and mobile app solutions. During this podcast, Ben sits down with Jeff to discuss Jeff's career in the industry, leadership, xDesign's strategy for success and the culture of the business.

Mehmet Ceyran is CTO @ Classic Trader  With more than 7m page views and more than 14,000 listings, Classic Trader (www.classic-trader.com) is continental Europe´s largest marketplace for classic automobiles and motorcycles. Offering the best service for sellers, buyers and enthusiasts of classic vehicles, Classic Trader enriches its service portfolio with services around vehicle appraisal, transportation, payment services and warranty products. Classic Trader currently represents a trading volume of more than 1 Billion Euros on site and offers its services in 9 country versions. During this episode, Ben sits down with Mehmet to discuss his journey to CTO, new technologies and frameworks, and the ever-changing software engineering world.

Ben sits down with Michael Smith and Rob Bowely, Technology Directors at Moneysupermarket Group. Moneysupermarket Group is a British tech company operating a marketplace approach to match consumers with providers as efficiently as possible. Through their brands MoneySavingExpert, MoneySupermarket and Quidco their mission is to help households save money. They enable consumers to save money by offering free tools that enables consumers to compare and switch on a wide range of products, including energy car insurance, home insurance, travel insurance, mortgages, credit cards and loans. More recently are able to offer users cashback on nearly 5000 brands through the leading cashback site Quidco. During this episode, we hear how Michael and Rob foster a culture of high performance and autonomy within teams to continually develop the business and everyone inside it. This podcast was recorded at Moneysupermarket's offices in Manchester, so we'd like to thank Michael and Rob for hosting this episode and making it possible.

Ben sat down with James Wade, Head of Engineering at Street Group. James loves technology and has spent the best part of two decades immersed in Internet technologies. Street Group is the new name for Agent Software, the team behind Spectre & Hello Again, and their brand new product Street.co.uk. Their mission is to elevate how agents and their clients manage the process of moving home. Street Group have three products, with one goal: To provide a seamless customer experience at every stage of their journey, enabling estate agents to achieve more by doing less using their automatic, personalised and highly targeted software. Spectre Sales is the UK’s No.1 instruction generation tool and has generated over £12 billion of property instructions since its inception in 2015. Spectre helps agents increase market share whilst saving time via automation. Spectre Lettings is the market leading solution for agent’s wishing to grow their lettings portfolio. Identify and automate communication with landlords when they are most likely to be considering a change of agent, such as before upcoming tenancy renewals. Street.co.uk, blending world-class technology with the expertise of your local agent. Coming Soon. During this episode, Ben and James discuss James's career journey – Learning to scale up from a developer to Head of Engineering and the different ways of working as a developer.

Will Lowe has over 20 years of experience in consulting organisations on customer centricity, value creation from data, data science, data regulations and marketing technology. His career began in marketing with Nestle and Diageo before joining dunnhumby where he spent 10 years helping global retailers and brands become more customer-centric and monetise their customer data. He was also the Managing Director of Callcredit’s (now TransUnion) Marketing Division, a credit bureau which is one of the UK’s largest consumer data and digital marketing businesses. Will is now the Chief Data Officer for ENGINE, leading a team of experts to help businesses transform around digital and data using our experience in data, analytics, technology, personalised communications and organisation and cultural change. During this episode, Ben sits down with Will to discuss the biggest challenges in the world of data right now and predictions for the future of data.