Published in Tech Captains·5 days agoCTO interview: Jane Cummings, the physics genius who went from CERN to AgriTechThis week on Tech Captains I interviewed a CTO from a very interesting industry, that I am less interacting with: AgriTech. Agriculture is no longer only about cows, crops, and heavy machinery, but also about advanced software technology! Read how a talented tech person can find solutions to problems in…Cto5 min read
Published in Tech Captains·Jun 7CTO interview: Charles Guillemet, securing your crypto assets at LedgerThis is not your typical CTO: Charles and his team are building state-of-the-art hardware to secure, buy, and exchange your crypto assets. No matter the cryptos you own, you will need a key to get access to them and prove they are yours. Keeping this key secure and secret is…Crypto6 min read
Published in Tech Captains·May 24CTO interview: Catalina Turlea, the founder who raised €7.5m to bring mental health at workMeet Catalina Turlea, the CTO who has co-founded a start-up that helps businesses empower their employees by providing mindfulness services. How do you help solve such sensitive issues as mental health with technology, and more importantly how do you combine the two? Read the latest interview in Tech Captains and…Mental Health6 min read
Published in Tech Captains·May 10CTO interview: Danny Fields from Avalara, the largest tech company you have never heard ofNew post in Tech Captains! The latest interview with Danny Fields, the CTO of Avalara or, as Danny puts it, ‘the largest tech company you have never heard of’. Find out how to choose the best stack, how is it to be at the epicentre of cloud computing from nascent…Taxes8 min read
Published in Tech Captains·Apr 26CTO interview: Steve Cook, revolutionising the banking infrastructureThe traditional banking system has a legacy infrastructure and outdated applications which sometimes can be as much as 40–50 years old. On the other hand, the challenger banks don’t want to build and maintain infrastructure and prefer to go for SaaS solutions. Form3 has found a way to serve these…Technology5 min read
Published in Tech Captains·Apr 12CTO interview: Sara Stephens, the techie who had a cocktail barSara Stephens has held senior positions in the tech teams in global banks, however, she felt that she wanted to embrace the start-up culture. She decided to leave her corporate position and co-found and become a CTO of a start-up with the social agenda- help people over 50 to embrace…Cto6 min read
Published in Tech Captains·Mar 29CTO interview: Lior Schachter, solving some of the most complex technical challengesThe latest Tech Captains interview is with Lior Schachter, a full-stack CTO who started his tech career back in the 90s. Read how Lior has built the intent marketing platform that converts an astonishing 16% of leads into paying customers, how the tech team uses various technologies, and why they…Marketing7 min read
Published in Tech Captains·Mar 15CTO interview: Meri Williams, the legend helping to cure rare diseasesMeri Williams has left Monzo bank to become a CTO at Healx- the start-up on a mission to help find treatment for rare diseases with the help of AI. How do you innovate in a highly-regulated space? How do you use deep learning to educate technology to find a cure…Disease9 min read
Published in Tech Captains·Mar 1CTO interview: Ben Peddie, reducing companies’ carbon footprint with tech and dataWe all hear about the importance of reducing the carbon footprint and how it is a major priority in a political agenda. Companies across the globe are pressured to reduce their carbon emissions. But how do you do that, if the environmental impact is not so obvious, as with fuel…Climate Change5 min read
Published in Tech Captains·Feb 15CTO interview: Vianney Lecroart, breaking the rules to bootstrap to $10mill ARRGiving people the tools they need to solve their work challenges quickly is the main motto of Vianney Lecroart, the CTO and a Co-founder of lempire. No matter how great is the product, if there is no market need or fit for it, then the work was done for nothing. …Bootstrap7 min read
