Best philipfanthom Podcasts (2025)

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Season 2 Episode 26 - Dennis Akkerman - “Get Naked!!.. to be a great leader” 32:45

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We were very excited to interview Dennis Akkerman, the founder and managing director of Orbis Business School. He has over two decades of experience in leading major transformations in more than 25 countries. He has worked with multinational companies including; Citibank, HSBC, Shell, and Coca-Cola, as well as entrepreneurs and SMEs. In his first b…

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Season 2 - Episode 25 - Ian Pears - "Navigating Technology, Security, and Digital Transformation: Insights from a Distinguished Leader in Defence and Maritime Sectors" 35:40

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Ian Pears is the former VP of Information Security at Carnival Cruises (P&O, Cunard..etc). During 30 years in the Royal Navy, Ian worked extensively in the design, management, and delivery of Information Warfare capability. With two commands served in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as supporting Naval operations he also stood up the Royal Navy’s nas…

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Season 2 - Episode 24 - Andrew Phillips – “Executing the perfect product journey” 40:43

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Up until very recently, Andy was the New Product Development Director at Dyson. He's a proven senior director with 25+ years of experience driving product development, business transformation, and operational excellence in global technology and innovation-driven organisations. Trusted by the C-suite to lead major transformation initiatives, blendin…

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Season 2 - Episode 23 - Craig Randell – CIO of HotelPlan – “The Future of hospitality and the impact of technology” 33:02

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Craig is currently serving as the Group Director of IT at Hotelplan Group, overseeing technology strategy and operations for some of the UK's most respected travel brands. His leadership has been pivotal in enhancing operational efficiency and delivering exceptional customer experiences. Recognised for his strategic vision and ability to lead Globa…

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Season 2 - Episode 22 - Jessica S Hall - "Building World-Class Products in an AI Era" 29:11

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Jessica S. Hall is the Chief Growth Officer at OpsCanvas, leading product strategy, market positioning, and go-to-market execution. A seasoned product and design leader, she has extensive experience in guiding companies through digital transformation and building customer-centric products. A TEDx speaker and Co-author of The Product Mindset, Jessic…

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Season 2 - Episode 21 - Charlotte Bemand – Secrets to strategy in a fast paced digital world 30:56

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Director of Digital Product and Business Partnering at HBK - Hottinger Brüel & Kjær, Charlotte Bemand is an accomplished executive with extensive experience working across global FTSE 100 corporations, family-owned enterprises, multinational organisations, and the public sector. She specialises in strategic development, transformation, and scaling …

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Season 2 - Episode 20 - Gurdeep Grewal – Why Predictability is key to an entrepreneur’s success (An investors perspective) 38:49

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Gurdeep currently serves as an advisor to several private equity firms and IT services companies around the world. In addition to his advisory roles, he’s also an investor and strategic partner in an AI startup behind two innovative products: ConnectingYouNow.ai (CYN) and Firebreak.ai. His expertise lies in supporting executive teams to build robus…

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Season 2 - Episode 19 - Brenden Mielke (VP of Product Language Learning, Pearson) - How to evolve a legacy analogue business into the digital world 28:21

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In this episode, Brenden shares his experience in transitioning legacy businesses to digital. Including the initial impetus for starting the digital transformation. We discussed some of the biggest challenges when transforming a traditionally analogue business into a digital-first organisation. Brenden shares with us how to assess the digital matur…

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Season 2 - Episode 18 - Russell Hornsby-Clifton (Advisory Board Member, Inicio AI) : Keys to business acceleration and scaling a Fintech business 25:28

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Russell is an experienced senior leader with a proven track record of successfully building business, managing change, developing individuals and leading global projects. Expert in transforming struggling operations by redesigning and achieving organisational goals. Holder of the Institute of Directors Certificate in Company Direction and full Memb…

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Season 2 - Episode 17 - Nicola Wadham – Dealing with technical debt & modernisation within tight budget constraints 32:58

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Nicola’s career has been within organisations that build or make products; with IT as an enabler and a service. She has worked across multiple sectors including - Oil and Gas, FMCG, Engineering, Utilities and government regulatory bodies. Nicola has been a leader in many types of organisations from the very large enterprises to the very small and a…

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Season 2 - Episode 16 - Neil Fenton (CEO of 10 Duke) - Managing Multi Country teams to achieve great outcomes 36:03

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Neil Fenton is a software entrepreneur with over 20 years of experience in creating new software products and systems with a particular focus on identity and access management technologies delivered on a SaaS basis. In this episode, we cover the biggest challenges in managing multi-country teams, and to overcome them, together with discussing the t…

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Season 2 - Episode 15 - Jora Gill - Technology and the Boardroom (and how to bridge the gap) 41:15

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Jora Gill is CEO and Co-founder of FireBreak, where they spearhead AI and Graph technologies to improve IT project outcomes and mitigate project risks early. He is also CEO and Co-Founder of ConnectingYouNow, where they lead initiatives to improve organisational productivity through a personalised conversational search and analytics platform, with …

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Season 2 - Episode 14 - Henry Cohen - Leadership during transformational change 33:57

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Henry is an experienced and successful CxO and change professional, with excellent stakeholder management and inter-personal skills. He has significant years of experience in managing large-scale businesses and technology change programmes (£5m to £800m), especially in the digital space, for a wide variety of UK and European-based Insurance and Med…

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Season 2 - Episode 13 - Amol Punekar - Communicating the value of data at board level 22:07

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Amol is a Commercial Growth Leader & Managing Director with 20+ years of experience driving digital transformation across global technology firms, including AND Digital, ThoughtWorks, Slalom, Wipro, and Oracle. He has a passion for leveraging Data and AI to create transformative impact and has consistently built competitive market strategies, execu…

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Season 2 - Episode 12 - Gary Sage - The Freedom Formula: Mastering Leadership and Performance 43:03

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As founder of 50x, Gary has many years experience of helping scale businesses, and exponentially transform the way organisations do things in seemingly impossible timespans. He is the Ex-CEO of Mator Systems and has driven exponential transformative change in organisations, like Maersk / AP Moller, SHL, Elsevier, Partnership Assurance and Camelot. …

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Season 2 - Episode 11 - Professor Vin Walsh – The Power of Sleep 40:20

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It was amazing to have the opportunity to interview Vin Walsh, a Professor of Human Brain Research and Royal Society Industry Research Fellow at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL. I could have quite easily chatted with him for hours. He has published over 300 scientific articles, several books and specialises in the how the brain achieve…

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Season 2 - Episode 10 - Asitha Rodrigo (CTO, SAPI) – What truly motivates a high performing engineering team 32:38

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Asitha Rodrigo (CTO, SAPI) is a renowned innovative CTO, Prior to SAPI, he was the CTO at Seedrs. Previously Asitha was Chief Technology Officer at a number of high growth Private Equity backed businesses in the financial services and media industries. He has a passion for building and maintaining high performing technology teams. In this episode, …

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Season 2 - Episode 9 - Claire Thorne – Women in tech (what are the blockers). 31:28

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In this episode, I talk with Claire about what inspired her to start a company focused on championing women in technology and Claire shares a bit about her journey and background in the tech industry. We uncover what are some of the biggest challenges women face in the tech industry today and how best to address them. We also explore trends in the …

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Season 2 - Episode 8 - Doug Johnson - Sustainability, Innovation and New Ways of Thinking 27:20

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It was amazing to spend some time with Doug Johnson to discuss how innovation and sustainability can transform an entire industry. Doug is Founder of Mesh Energy (a Certified B Corporation), an independent and trusted provider of innovative sustainable energy services to property owners and architects looking for impartial and expert advice. During…

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Season 2 - Episode 7 - Dileep Marway – The behaviours of high performance 28:16

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Dileep is a commercially focused, results driven executive level technology leader with nearly 20 years experience: leading strategy development and execution, successful digital transformation and delivering organisational, IT change alongside cost effectiveness (to budget), secure and high availability operational IT In this podcast we uncover wh…

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Season 2 Episode 6 - Ade McCormack – Leadership is NOT about heroics,… it’s about fostering an ecosystem 27:43

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Ade is a former technologist who now, forty years on, is focused on leadership. Is a former Financial Times columnist. Has lectured at MIT Sloan on leadership matters. Works with Cambridge University (Moller Institute) on leadership development. Trained in astrophysics and has worked for the European Space Agency. Has worked in over forty countries…

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Season 2 Episode 5 - Roly Walter (Founder, Appraisd) – “The accidental manager,… and how to help” 29:55

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Roly launched online performance management system Appraisd in 2012. Since then, it has been adopted by hundreds of businesses and is used by tens of thousands of employees around the world. Roly began his career as a Business Analyst at Goldman Sachs designing global online HR tools. It was this experience that inspired him to design and launch Ap…

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Season 2 Episode 4 - Joe Hardstaff – The Business benefits of data efficacy 31:20

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Joe is an innovative decisive, and accomplished IT Executive who delivers and embeds digital, data and technology transformation, technology architecture and project / programme management having led £100M transformation and acquisition programmes generating more than £200M revenue improvements. Business orientated strategic thinker skilled at driv…

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Season 2 Episode 3 - Cliff Oguzie – The changes in change 32:05

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Cliff is a senior leader of change initiatives with about 20 years experience across multiple industries. He currently works in professional services helping clients achieve their business and tech strategies by establishing high performing teams that deliver products with excellence. To help fuel his passions, Cliff started the Change Leaders Play…

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Season 2 Episode 2 - Josh Knox (“Knox”) – Architect Specialist with ReversingLabs - "Knox" - How to take control of your career journey 34:21

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Joshua Knox is Cybersecurity Technologist specialising in Kubernetes and Kubernetes security. Prior to this role Knox was a Principal Engineer focusing on automation and application development Before transitioning to the IT industry, Knox was a High School teacher. For many years he taught python and javascript to his students. Once switching his …

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Season 2 Episode 1 - Rob Brown (Chief Transformation Officer, So Energy) – “Out to Lunch” Why sharing some food could be the key to high performance 33:08

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Rob has over 30 years’ experience leading, managing, consulting and delivering innovative solutions to businesses of all shapes and sizes. He has focused intensely on organisation transformations and helping other leaders and teams become high performance and to gain results that are longer lasting, impacting more people positively. During this epi…

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Episode 25 - Keys To Success For Start Ups And Scale Ups – Graham Smith 34:12

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It was great to catch up and chat with one of our long standing friends, Graham Smith, who is a highly accomplished and respected Strategy and Implementation Advisor. During this session, Graham shared his insights into how to successfully launch a start-up or a new product, together with offering some amazing advice for companies who have an exist…

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Episode 24 - Word Forest - A Conversation With Simon and Tracey West - Episode 2 of 2 32:21

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It was an absolute pleasure to spend more time with Simon and Tracey West from Word Forest today. Word Forest are an environmental and education charity based in the UK that works to combat the devastating effects of global warming and climate change by planting fast growing trees in the tropics, predominantly food bearing. To assist the communitie…

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Episode 23 - Word Forest - A Conversation With Simon and Tracey West - Episode 1 of 2 34:01

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It was an absolute pleasure to spend time with Simon and Tracey West from Word Forest today. Word Forest are an environmental and education charity based in the UK that works to combat the devastating effects of global warming and climate change by planting fast growing trees in the tropics, predominantly food bearing. To assist the communities the…

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Episode 22 - Adrian Pagdin – Creating a work place based on belonging and purpose 30:54

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Adrian Pagdin (Consultant, Advisor, Author and Project Manager) began his career in the Hotel industry before moving into project management and then on into the world of Learning & Development. Adrian has been a consultant and manager within some well known brand names, including Unilever, Holiday Inn and Hemsley Fraser. He is also the author of t…

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Episode 21 - Alexa Curtis (Founder & CEO of BeFearless) – The relationship between social media and mental health in young people 18:18

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In 2011, at just 12 years old, Alexa started a fashion blog; A Life in the Fashion Lane. It became a platform for Alexa to express her feelings around everything relating to teens, body image and mental health. In 2018, Alexa founded the Be Fearless Summit, and also launched her own radio show on Radio Disney called BEFearless Every Day with Alexa …

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Episode 20 - David Callow - How to foster harmony between the technology and business departments within an enterprise 28:47

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I was delighted to welcome David Callow to the Talent Smart podcast for this latest episode. Dave has been in technology for over 25 years and has been a senior leader for over 10 years. He is the Chief Information Officer for NHS Professionals who look after 60 NHS trusts and work with over 180,000 healthcare professionals to provide a flexible wo…

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Episode 19 - Paul McCarthy (Author of The FIRED Leader) – Are you in a dysfunctional leadership team….and what to do about it (Episode 2 of 2) 35:39

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In this episode we discuss what are the key recurring components of a dysfunctional leadership team, together with exploring the true cost of a dysfunctional leadership team? Paul also shares the quick ways to assess if a leadership team is working well together? We discuss the topic of trust vs psychological safety how trust is the major contribut…

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Episode 18 – Paul McCarthy (Author of The FIRED Leader) – How to elevate your leadership (Episode 1 of 2) 31:31

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In this episode we talk through Paul’s book, The FIRED Leader and Paul breaks down the acronym F.I.R.E.D, together with why did he decide to write this book? We discuss what are the new leadership requirements and what are the key mistakes that organisations make when defining their leadership (identification, recruitment, onboarding and developing…

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Episode 17 - Karen Poulter (CIO and IT Leader) - “Creating a high performing culture based on open communication and trust” 29:21

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We were delighted to welcome Karen Poulter to our latest episode of the Talent Smart Podcast. During this episode, we discussed the essential ingredients for a high performing culture, together uncovering what are “Employee networks” and how to build them. Karen also shared his insights into why is it so important that employees have a ‘voice’ and …

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Episode 16 - Build An ‘Improvement Mindset’ Within Your Cyber Security Team - Dimitrios Delivasilis 21:26

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We are delighted that Dimitrios agreed to share some time with us and discuss his thoughts and insights on how to create a building and maintaining a high performance culture within your Information Security Teams. Dimitrios is strong technology executive, specializing in business-driven security architectures and business risk control management. …

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Episode 15 - Brian Hanly - The commercial advantage of AI for your business 34:22

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I was thrilled to welcome Brian Hanly, Co-Founder & CEO of Brightbeam and serial entrepreneur to the Talent Smart Podcast. Brian has a deep specialisation in the application of modern ways of working, product management and technology to help enterprises compete in the digital age and to help growth companies to gain commercial advantage with the h…

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Episode 14 - Jonathan Rivers (CTO of Fortune) – Building and fostering a culture of innovation 35:48

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I am very excited that Jonathan Rivers spared some time to chat with me. Jonathan is a Visionary technology leader and “disrupter” with 20+ years of experience leading key growth initiatives in the technology, hosting, and media industries. Known as an expert in delivering innovative, high quality, cost-effective IT solutions and strategic initiati…

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Episode 13 - Jason Nash - How AI can be leveraged for Diversity and Inclusion 37:50

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We are thrilled to be joined in this episode by Jason Nash (Founder and CPO of JAM 7) who has worked with some of the globe's leading brands—such as Barclays, Microsoft, Sony, and Travelport. Jam 7 are growth agents, customer-centric, data-driven, outcome-focused technologists. Using AI every day to automate away the repetitive non-value-adding act…

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Episode 12 - Sabrina Menasria - The Power of Singularity 24:52

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We are delighted to welcome Sabrina Menasria, change agent and founder of Singularity. Having worked at executive level to drive change in organisations like Chanel and L’Oréal; In 2020, Sabrina coined the word « singulars » to define neurodiversity and people with over excitabilities (intellectual, emotional, creative, sensitive and motor) and tho…

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Episode 11 - Mark Brincat Group CTO, Intive – The Opportunities that Ai and ChatGPT Present to the World 36:01

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We are delighted that Mark Brincat was able and willing to spend some time to discuss AI and ChatGPT. Mark has over 20 years experience with a strong background in digital transformations through multiple industries. He has a real passion for technology and how this enables the evolution of the customer experience and transform business models. Mar…

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Episode 10 - Ket Patel - Democratising Change Thinking Within Your Organisation 17:31

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We are delighted to that Ket Patel has kindly agreed to spend some time with us and explore the topic of Change,… but perhaps not how you have heard before. In this episode, we look into how (and why) your organisation could (and should) be looking at Democratising Change Thinking. We discuss; what does this actually mean? How do leaders start this…

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Episode 09 - Ket Patel - Creating Organisational Agility 22:40

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We are delighted to that Ket Patel has kindly agreed to spend some time with us and explore the topic of Change,… but perhaps not how you have heard before. In this episode, we look into Organisational Agility; What is ? What is the benefit? How do organisations know if they have real agility? In addition, we discuss how to build more resilience wi…

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Episode 08 - Alexandra Mousavizadeh 27:25

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We are delighted that Alexandra Mousavizadeh (CEO of Evident) joined us for a conversation on AI.By philipfanthom

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Episode 07 - Mo Taher 22:56

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We are delighted to have Mo Taher (AKA The Airport guy) join us for a chat about all things aviation, airport and engineering, with a special focus on the talent crisis that the industry is facing in the years ahead.By philipfanthom