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 it's cool to see them set up in Edinburgh for their R&D hub. I hope you enjoy! As always, we're brought to you by the wonderful people at Cathcart Associates. Music by https://icons8.com/music/author/noisyfilter (Noisyfilter) from https://icons8.com/music (Fugue)

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#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 - check it out www.altitudex.live or get in touch with me for more information. I hope you enjoy! As always, we're brought to you by the wonderful people at Cathcart Associates. And for this episode we are sponsored by Peak and their data conference AltitudeX Music by https://icons8.com/music/author/noisyfilter (Noisyfilter) from https://icons8.com/music (Fugue)

#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 something awesome! We chatted about everything from his early days as a Data Scientist to setting up Aquila Insight, lessons learned and his thoughts on recruitment. I hope you enjoy! As always, we're brought to you by the wonderful people at Cathcart Associates. Music by https://icons8.com/music/author/noisyfilter (Noisyfilter) from https://icons8.com/music (Fugue)

#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 to training for an amateur MMA fight! After some time to process everything and realising a side gig he had started whilst at Gartner had the potential to be something bigger, he and his Co-Founder went for it! A great chat with a very interesting guy. I hope you enjoy! As always, we're brought to you by the wonderful people at Cathcart Associates. Music by https://icons8.com/music/author/noisyfilter (Noisyfilter) from https://icons8.com/music (Fugue)

#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 always, we're brought to you by the wonderful people at Cathcart Associates. Music by https://icons8.com/music/author/noisyfilter (Noisyfilter) from https://icons8.com/music (Fugue)

#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 pretty special. I hope you enjoy! As always, we're brought to you by the wonderful people at Cathcart Associates. Music by https://icons8.com/music/author/noisyfilter (Noisyfilter) from https://icons8.com/music (Fugue)

#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. I hope you enjoy! As always, we're brought to you by the wonderful people at Cathcart Associates. Music by https://icons8.com/music/author/noisyfilter (Noisyfilter) from https://icons8.com/music (Fugue)

#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 him and pick his brains. We had a great chat, with lots of brilliant stories! I hope you enjoy! As always, we're brought to you by the wonderful people at Cathcart Associates. Music by https://icons8.com/music/author/noisyfilter (Noisyfilter) from https://icons8.com/music (Fugue)

#53 Tony Lucas

Erik is back! Go have a listen to episode three if you missed it to find out all about Erik's career and background in data. This episode we dive into a few different topics, namely MLOps, Data Visualisation in Data Science and team structure. Erik and I have been organising MancML together since late 2016 so it's always a pleasure to have him on the show! As always, we're brought to you by the wonderful people at Cathcart Associates. Music by https://icons8.com/music/author/noisyfilter (Noisyfilter) from https://icons8.com/music (Fugue)

#52 Erik Arne Mathiesen-Dreyfus

Hannah is the Head of Operations at The Oakland Group, a Consultancy HQ'd in Leeds specialising in delivering large scale data solutions for clients across the country. Coming from a technical background, Hannah has worked in a number of Product and Project Management roles, where her ability to speak to technical people and business people has been a huge benefit. Currently heading up a number of projects for Oakland, Hannah is a great example of the kind of person you need in your business if your technical projects are to thrive. Oh and she happens to be a Karate Black Belt and has represented England - so good luck saying no to her ... As always, we're brought to you by the wonderful people at Cathcart Associates. Music by https://icons8.com/music/author/noisyfilter (Noisyfilter) from https://icons8.com/music (Fugue)

#51 Hannah Varley-Fodden

Heather is the Head of Data at UST, a global provider of digital technology, transformation and IT services. With a long career in Data, Heather has been involved in building data teams for the NHS, insurance companies and now UST to help deliver data solutions for their clients. It was great to chat to Heather about her background, career and the new challenge she recently took up at UST. I hope you enjoy! As always, we're brought to you by the wonderful people at Cathcart Associates. Music by https://icons8.com/music/author/noisyfilter (Noisyfilter) from https://icons8.com/music (Fugue)

#50 Heather Dawe

Adam Sroka is back! Adam joined me in the second ever episode of How AI Built This so to head more about his journey into data go check that out. This episode is more focused on a recent blog post Adam did on how to stand out as a Data Scientist in 2021, which we go into in more detail. A great guy who has recently moved role which we touch on and a few other bits and pieces. Buzzing he wanted to come back on and as usual, we had a great chat. I hope you enjoy! As always, we're brought to you by the wonderful people at Cathcart Associates. Music by https://icons8.com/music/author/noisyfilter (Noisyfilter) from https://icons8.com/music (Fugue)

#49 Adam Sroka - How to stand out as a Data Scientist

Ben is the CEO of Lancaster based Relative Insight, an analytics company working with some of the world's biggest companies to help them better understand anything to do with language. A tricky field to navigate, but Ben and the team have been perfecting this for many years now and are probably one of the biggest unsung heroes in the much heralded North West tech world. Hope you enjoy! As always, we're brought to you by the wonderful people at Cathcart Associates. Music by https://icons8.com/music/author/noisyfilter (Noisyfilter) from https://icons8.com/music (Fugue)

#48 Ben Hookway

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