Archives: Captivate Podcasts

Eero is the CEO of Valohai – the last MLOps Platform you’ll ever need to try! They provide Machine Learning Infrastructure as a Service – helping companies solve the challenge of MLOps in one easy to use platform – all whilst having lots of fun. A Finnish native who has been shaped by the US… Continue reading #62 Eero Laaksonen

Niels is the CEO and Founder of Sprout.ai an insurance technology company using AI to help automate the claims process as well as identifying potentially fraudulent claims for some of the biggest insurance companies in the world. Sprout came about after a personal experience of using an insurance company and realising their was a problem… Continue reading #61 Niels Thoné

Sanjay is the Head of Products and R&D at Transwap a fintech who have recently set up shop in Edinburgh with a brand new R&D hub. We had a great chat about how he has turned his passion for AI from a hobby into a career, which is pretty inspiring! Transwap are super interesting and… Continue reading #60 Sanjay Rakshit

Chris is the Lead Product Manager at Manchester AI phenomenon Peak. A Data Scientist by trade and someone with a super interesting background and journey into data, it was great to chat to Chris. We also chatted about Peak’s upcoming one day data conference, AltitudeX which is being held in Manchester on November 4th –… Continue reading #59 Chris Billingham

John is the newly appointed CEO of Edinburgh headquartered Data Analytics start-up Forth Point, focusing on helping organisations realise the potential of industry 4.0 Using his experience of setting up Aquila Insight, growing the team and company all the way to acquisition by Merkle, John is excited to jump back into start-up world and do… Continue reading #58 John Brodie

Rich is the CEO of Gigged.AI, a new platform using Artificial Intelligence to help people take advantage of the ‘Gig Economy’. After a varied career in Sales, including a hugely successful stint at a multi-national Recruitment Agency, Rich was burnt out. He decided to take a break from everything and even dedicated a few months… Continue reading #57 Rich Wilson

Matt is the Head of Data Science at Manchester based scale-up Netacea! I’ve known Matt for a long time so was buzzing to get him on the show. He’s experienced both sides of being recruited into data and hiring his own team so was a great person to have on. I hope you enjoy! As… Continue reading #56 Matt Jackson

Brian is the CEO of Mind Foundry, an AI start-up which spun out of Oxford University and was founded by two pioneers of the AI and Machine Learning world. Brian was brought in as CEO following a successful journey as an entrepreneur in his own right and is now part of the team building something… Continue reading #55 Brian Mullins

Andre Franca is the Director of Applied Data Science at causaLens who are on a mission to develop Causal AI. Causality is a major step towards developing true AI. We had a great chat about his Academic background, his move into the world of investment banking and why he decided to join the rapidly growing causaLens.… Continue reading #54 Andre Franca

Tony Lucas is a serial entrepreneur and recently appointed Head of CWM Tools at Supermetrics, a Scandinavian scale-up who are potentially one of the best kept secrets in tech. Tony has founded and sold several businesses, including an AI start-up to a multi-billion dollar American software firm, so I was buzzing to sit down with… Continue reading #53 Tony Lucas