We’ve rounded up some brilliant technical leaders from our Tribe and extracted the wisdom from their brains so we can share it with you. Find weekly episodes featuring interviews on the secrets of their success. A hugely valuable series for tech leaders and ambitious software engineers of all levels with a passion to learn and develop.We’ll be uncovering the habits, strategies and attitudes of highly successful CTO’s, Heads of Engineering and Technical Leaders from UK, Europe and North Ameri ...
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S2 | Episode #22 - Maximilian Werk - Head of Engineering at Jina AI - "Key Skills For Effective Communication"
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About the Speaker Maximilian Werk is head of Engineering at Jina AI, a leading technology company in Germany and Europe. With a background in software engineering and a proven track record of successfuly leading teams, Max brings a wealth of expertise to the field of leadership. Throughout his career, Max has demonstrated exceptional communication …
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S2 | Episode #21 - Georgij Oroschakoff - Head of Product & IT at Froots - "Empowering Teams and Driving Product Success"
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About Georgij Georgij Georgij Oroschakoff is the Head of Product and IT at Frootss, a digital asset management company based in Vienna. With a background in business development, Georgij brings a unique perspective to his role as a product leader. He believes in the power of problem-solving and simplifying complex issues into manageable tasks. Geor…
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S2 | Episode #20 - Thorsten Spieker - Director of Engineering at Avi Medical - "Building an Empowered Engineering Culture"
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About Thorsten Thorsten Spieker ,Director of Engineering at Avi Medical, is a seasoned engineering leader with a strong background in building and empowering engineering teams. With over 10 years of experience in Silicon Valley and Germany, Thorsten has worked with both large companies and startups, honing his skills in software development and pro…
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S2 | Episode #19 - Stefan Anca - Co-Founder & CTO at Likeminded - 'Empowering Technology Leaders in the Mental Health Industry'
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About Stefan Stefan Anca is the co-founder and CTO of Likeminded, a tech startup in the mental health space. Originally from Romania, Stefan has been living in Germany since 2004. He studied computer science and advanced computer science in Bremen. Stefan's career began as an engineer in a small family-owned company, but he soon realised his desire…
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S2 | Episode #18 - Scott Weiss - Chief Product Officer at XO Life - "Design, Product, and Beyond"
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About Scott Scott Weiss is the Chief Product Officer at XO Life, a leading technology company specialising in healthcare solutions. With a diverse background in design and product management, Scott has worked across the globe in the UK, US, and Germany. Scott began his career at Apple, where he worked on interface. He then transitioned to Microsoft…
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S2 | Episode #17 - Katarzyna Malolepszy - Head of Product & Engineering at Expatrio - 'Unleashing the Power of Product Management'
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About Katarzyna Kasia Malolepszy is the Head of Product at Expatrio and a seasoned product professional with a strong background in the German tech industry. With extensive experience in building and leading product teams, Kasia has successfully brought multiple products to market and has a deep understanding of the finance and insurance sectors. H…
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S2 | Episode #16 - Thomas Berszieck - Product Management Lead at Heyflow - "Building Trust and Streamlining Processes"
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About Thomas Thomas Berszieck is a seasoned product management lead with over eight years of experience in the field. He began his career in consulting and later transitioned to product management by chance. Thomas has a strong background in enterprise companies and has successfully navigated the B2B SaaS industry. Currently, he serves as the Produ…
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S2 | Episode #15 - Catalina Turlea - Co-Founder & CTO at nilo.health - "Removing the Mental Health Stigma and Empowering Change"
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About Catalina Catalina Turlea is a seasoned technology leader and one of the three co-founders of the mental health startup nilo.health, based in Berlin and Munich, Germany. With over 10 years of experience as a software engineer, Catalina has predominantly worked in startup environments. Her passion lies in driving innovation and creating solutio…
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S2 | Episode #14 - Jeff Glasson - Chief Technology Officer at TWAICE - "Driving Innovation and Overcoming Resistance to Change"
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About Jeff Jeff Glasson is an experienced technology leader with a diverse background in enterprise and startup environments. Originally from Silicon Valley, Jeff began his career as an engineering manager at Apple before moving on to serve as the VP of Engineering at VMware and Cloudera. He then relocated to Germany, where he held the position of …
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S2 | Episode #13 - Yaniv Preiss - Head of Engineering at NewStore - "Engineering Management Curriculum: Learning the Skills to Succeed"
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About Yaniv Yaniv Preiss is the Head of Engineering at NewStore, a company that works with retail brands worldwide to accelerate their digital transformation. Yaniv has held various roles in testing automation development, DevOps, and management at different startups and corporates. He consults privately to engineering managers and leads the engine…
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S2 | Episode #12 - Simon Müller - Chief Technology Officer at wattx - 'Building Sustainable Future Proof Start-ups'
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About Simon Simon Müller is a seasoned entrepreneur with a background in both computer and mechanical engineering. He founded and exited a startup and built the digital lab of a mid-sized company, which fuelled his passion for the startup world. Simon strongly believes that the combination of innovation and agility of the startup world is where the…
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S2 | Episode #11 - Chiedza Muguti - Chief Product Officer at Alteos - "The Value of Time and Patience in Product Management"
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About Chiedza Chiedza Muguti is an experienced product leader, coach, and mentor, currently working as Chief Product Officer at Alteos. With a background in business analysis, she has extensive knowledge working with engineers, QA architects, and delivery teams. As a product leader, she emphasises the importance of understanding engineers' technica…
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S2 | Episode #10 - Borna Pourhossein - Engineering Manager at Friendsurance - "The Importance of Guilds and Career Growth"
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About Borna: Borna Pourhossein is the Engineering Manager at Friendsurance. He's been with the company for over seven years, being promoted to team lead and engineering manager after starting as a senior frontend engineer. His experience has shown him the importance of having an environment that allows you to grow and where you are challenged. Born…
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S2 | Episode #9 - Lukas Grillmayer - Chief Technology Officer at craftguide - "Creating Engaging Technology Driven Learning Experiences"
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About Lukas: Lukas Grillmayer is the Chief Technology Officer at craftguide, a Munich-based software and content provider that has set itself the goal of redesigning the interface between education, industry and craftsmen. Synopsis: In this episode of The Technology Leadership Podcast, Lukas Grillmayer discusses providing engaging digital learning …
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S2 | Episode #8 - Tamer El-Hawari - CPO at Project A Ventures - "Product Management and Leadership within Early-stage Startups"
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About Tamer: Tamer El-Hawari is the CPO at Project A Ventures and has been with the company for 11 years. He has a background in information systems, studying computer science and business. After founding his own company and gaining valuable experience, Tamer went on to work at Rocket Internet GmbH, where he helped scale up e-commerce companies wor…
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S2 | Episode #7 - Jürgen Vogel - Engineering Advisor and Co-Founder at Solvemate - "The significance of an open culture in a company's success"
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About Jürgen: Jürgen Vogel is an Engineering Leader and Co-Founder of Solvemate (now acquired by Dixa), a customer service platform for businesses. Juergen has in his career built and scaled multiple companies and led their teams to noteworthy success. Synopsis: In this episode of the Technology Leadership Podcast, Jürgen Vogel discusses the signif…
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S2 | Episode #6 - Adriana Ellice-Flint - VP of Product at receeve - "The Importance of Product Strategy"
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About Adriana: Adriana Ellice Flint is an accomplished product leader with a wealth of experience in senior roles. Adriana's career in financial services began as a product advisor, and she has since risen to become a Vice President of Product. Currently the VP of Product at receeve, Adriana's expertise in connecting the vision and mission of a com…
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S2 | Episode #5 - Christian Rebernik - CEO and Co-Founder at Tomorrow University of Applied Sciences - "Startup Success and the Importance of Learning from Failures"
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About Christian: Christian Rebernik is an accomplished entrepreneur with a plethora of professional expertise and experiences under his belt. He’s been an experimental startup founder and advisor, served as the CTO and MD during the early days of the 2006 group, and co-founded Vivy as its CEO. Christian has also served on the boards of various star…
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S2 | Episode #4 - Jorrit Posor - Data Engineering Technical Lead at FINN - "Scaling a decentralized data organization"
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About Jorrit: Jorrit Enzio Posor is a seasoned technology professional, who currently serves as the Tech Lead for the centralized data team at FINN, a fast-growing car subscription company. With his deep-seated passion for utilizing data to drive business growth, he leads a team responsible for defining and maintaining the tooling necessary for dat…
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S2 | Episode #3 : Daniel Paulus - Director of Engineering at Checkly - "How to make effective and efficient hires in tech"
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About Daniel: Daniel Paulus is the Director of Engineering at Checkly. He started his professional career in the German Air Force as an officer for 13 years, where he studied computer science at a military university. Throughout his time in the forces, Dan held various roles such as team lead, engineering manager, project manager, and IT manager, a…
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S2 | Episode #2 : Kaylie Boogaerts - Director of People at Checkly - "Onboarding strategies that lead to success"
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About Kaylie: Kaylie Boogaerts is a remote culture and processes consultant with over 5 years of experience in people and culture in remote-first companies. As the Director of People at Checkly, she leads a team of 31 people across 13 countries, and also consults with startups to help them attract and set up their first people person for success. S…
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S2 | Episode #1 : Mirza Beširović - Group Product Manager at Dixa - 'How to upskill in Product Management'
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About Mirza: Mirza Beširović is a group PM at Dixa, a B2B SaaS customer service platform. As a poetry translator turned tech professional, Mirza's career journey has been non-linear and unique. He began his journey a decade ago translating poetry, but eventually found his way to Germany and a part-time student gig at a tech company. This opportunit…
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Episode #19: Glyn Roberts - CTO of Digital Solutions at iTechArt Group - 'What it takes to be a CTO or technology leader in today’s times'
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About Glyn: Glyn Roberts today is the CTO of Digital Solutions at iTechArt Group, a leading software development company that helps VC-backed mature startups and fast-growing tech companies build successful, scalable products. He’s worked as a CTO for many startups in the past, helping them with successful solutions to business problems. In additio…
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Episode #18: Turan Rustamli - Chief Technology Officer at OneDome - 'How to develop an employee-friendly and vision-led structure of working'
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About Turan: Turan Rustamli is the CTO at One Dome, a platform that enables home movers to conduct an end to end property transaction via a single interface. Previously, Turan served as the CTO of an early-stage startup, Landmax Software, focused on innovation around the property in the street. As someone who’s always been into mathematics and AI, …
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Episode #17: Josh Cole - Chief Technology Officer at InsideOut - 'Creativity and innovation as pre-requisites to hiring in the technology industry'
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About Josh: Josh Cole is the CTO at InsideOut, an award-winning mental health platform for employees across organisations. He has worked in the technology industry for over a decade doing software engineering, team and performance management, cloud infrastructure, secure development lifecycles, shiring, and product development, to name a few. Inter…
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Episode #16: Jules Decol - Engineering Lead at The Big Search - 'Leading and growing engineering teams within a startup'
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About Jules: Jules Decol is the Engineering Lead at The Big Search, an organisation that helps manage recruitment for growing organisations. He was the Co-Founder and CTO at Chosen AI, a company that used AI to provide people analytics to optimise the workforce at any organisation. Chosen AI was acquired by The Big Search in 2020. Jules is also inv…
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Episode #15 - George Good - Chief Technology Officer at Healios - 'Communication is the key to your growth in any role in the tech space'
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About George: George Good is the CTO at Healios, a leading digital healthcare services company based in London. He has over two decades of experience in the technology industry and has explored different programming languages, tech stacks, and roles. George also serves as the Software Engineering Team Leader at Board Intelligence, a product-based c…
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Episode #14: Ali Haidar - Online Security Specialist - 'How to overcome the known and unknown roadblocks to securing information transfer and how to stay in line with the latest technology'
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About Ali: Ali Haidar is a senior threat intelligence analyst at UBS, a Swiss multinational investment bank and financial services company founded and based in Switzerland. He started his career in security services in 2003 and has been in the industry for over 18 years. Starting in the small country of Lebanon, Ali was a security consultant for a …
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Episode #13: Alexey Tschudnowsky - Head of Software Development at Gematik - 'Hiring strategies and the techniques to retain employee motivation in your company'
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About Alexey: Alexey Tschudnowsky is the Head of the Software Development department at gematik GmbH. He is a PhD holder with extensive experience working as a Research Associate and has managed many students during the period. Alexey works on national healthcare solutions and is responsible for the technical excellence of more than 30 software eng…
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Episode #12: Peyman Pouryekta - Co-Founder & Managing Director at Neural Jam - "Creative entrepreneurship and sustainable start-up ideas"
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About Peyman: Peyman Pouryekta is the Co-Founder and CEO of the House of Creative Entrepreneurship, a company that helps creative entrepreneurs around the world grow their businesses. He has extensive experience working as the CTO and Director of Engineering in different companies, co-developing AI-operated products for the real estate industry and…
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Episode #11: Stefan-Theodor Popescu - Head of Engineering at smava GmbH - "The massive drive to digitalisation in tech"
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About Stefan: Stefan-Theodor Popescu is the Head Of Engineering at Smava GmbH, a leading loan portal in Germany. He graduated from the Imperial College, London, with a Bachelor's in Computer Science. In his career spanning over a decade, Stefan has extensively worked on automotive and software technologies, also exploring full-stack engineering and…
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Episode #10: Vinoj M. Zacharia - Senior Engineering Manager at Floqast - "Leadership is helping your team be successful on a shared goal"
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About Vinoj: Vinoj M. Zacharia is a Senior Engineering Manager at FloQast, an accounting workflow automation created by accountants for accountants to work smarter, and not harder. Vinoj is a developer-turned-engineering-leader who builds data-driven, empowered, accountable, collaborative teams from the ground up. He is passionate about scaling peo…
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Episode #9: Khalil Dimachkie - Chief Technology Officer at Youtility - “Optimising your hiring strategies to align with your business goals"
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About Khalil: Khalil Dimachkie is the CTO at Youtility, a startup that helps consumers save on their home finances without leaving their mobile banking or digital finance apps. Khalil has been in the tech sector for over 17 years now, with expertise in all phases of the software development and Agile delivery. He is an experienced tech leader and C…
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Episode #8: Dragos Nedelcu - Founder at CodeWithDragos - "The importance of effective communication among software engineers"
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About Dragos: Dragos Nedelcu is the Founder and Expert Software Trainer at Code With Dragos, a renowned software training institute in Berlin, Germany. His passion lies in helping other software developers become industry leaders. Dragos started as a self-taught software developer and spent the first years building custom software for small busines…
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Episode #7: Juha Ristolainen - Chief Technology Officer at Upvest - "The #1 way to hire the best workforce is to reinvent your onboarding and leadership styles"
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About Juha: Juha Ristolainen is the Chief Technology Officer at Upvest. He is a software leader and technologist with over 20 years of professional experience in delivering and building digital services and applications. Juha has worked for companies of every scale - from startups and operators to mid-size corporations and even large OEMs. He's bui…
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Episode #6: Iryna Zhovtobryukh - Chief Technology Officer at ELEMENT Insurance - "The tech space is seeing many women break social barriers to get to the top of the corporate ladder!"
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About Iryna: Iryna Zhovtobryukh is the Chief Technology Officer at Element Insurance AG, a leading digital insurance company based in Berlin, Germany. She has a decade and a half’s worth of experience building technology teams and companies and has expertise in software development, quality assurance, and end-to-end product development. Starting he…
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Episode #5: Chris Travers- Director of IT Operations at Adjust GmbH- "Technology is changing, You have to be comfortable feeling uncomfortable”
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About Chris: Chris is Director of IT Operations, Previously Head of Database at Adjust GmbH. His team is responsible for managing data and building the next generation of products for Adjust, a leading global marketing analytics platform. With 20+ years of experience, Chris takes us through how he moved through the ranks at Adjust, from starting as…
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Episode #4 Clemens Peters- Technical Team Lead – Honest Food (Part of Delivery Hero) “Everything you need to know from an engineering lead about successful startups ”
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Clemens Peters is currently a Technical Team Lead at Honest Food company Part of the Delivery Hero Group. With close 10 years experience in successful start-ups, building products, building teams and helping innovate. During this episode Clemens takes us through his career, why he joined Honest Food, Why he decided to pursue a Masters and several t…
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Episode #3 Rashid Shobaki - Engineering Manager- Forto- "Successful people will lead to the success of the company”
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"Successful people will lead to the success of the company” About Rashid: Rashid Shobaki is a Technology Entrepreneur and Leader. His passion is helping individuals and companies succeed and achieve their goals. He has over 10+ years within tech companies, start-ups and now Management positions. Rashid is currently an Engineer manager at Forto, lea…
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Episode #2 Simon Munch-Anderson- CTO- Ultimate.AI
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About Simon: Simon Munch- Anderson is CTO at Ultimate.AI, A Series A tech company based in Berlin that offers a virtual customer service agent builder bringing multilingual customer service automation to businesses. He has over 20+ years of experience in building innovative products and teams. Mostly focussed on early-stage start-ups. Simon loves t…
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Episode #1: Oleksii Ishchenko - Head of Engineering at Dentolo (Part of Zurich Insurance Group)
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About Oleksii: Oleksii has more than 15 years of experience in building and leading development teams, as well as collaborating with other business departments to build amazing products. With 10+ years of those in start-ups, his previous roles have spanned a multitude of sectors including insure-tech, healthcare, gaming, real estate and fintech. Hi…
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