We caught up with Kirsten Wolberg for this week’s Meet the Masters interview series. Sarah Noyce, Director at The Up Group, spoke to Kirsten about her experience of moving from an executive career into a non-executive career and her thoughts on what makes a great Board Member.

James Burrows spoke to Iain McDougall, Yapily’s Chief Commercial Officer, for this weeks Meet The Masters interview series. Iain shares his insight into what it takes to be a great commercial leader, how he creates high performing teams and his must reads for 2022.

‘Influencing is not just about getting your own way, it is about working together and building relationships to achieve the outcomes that the business needs’. The Up Group spoke with Sakina Najmi, Vice President Marketing at Tractable. Sakina shares her favourite leadership quotes, her advice on prioritising D&I and her career highlights to date.

For our Meet the Masters Interview series this week, we spoke to Thierry Bedos, SVP & GM of Development Platform and Infrastructure at Expedia Group. Thierry shared his thoughts on leadership, engagement, and diversity.

For this week’s Meet the Masters series we spoke to Elena Novokreshchenova, Executive Vice President International of Remitly. Elena also serves as a Non Executive Director at the Board of Virgin Money UK Plc. Elena shares her favourite author on all things tech and digital; her transitional career moment, and the advice she would give to other leaders in the tech industry.

Lydia Shepherd, Director at The Up Group met with Andy Britcliffe, Chief Digital Officer of Purplebricks, the UK’s leading tech-led estate agent. Andy spoke about the importance of utilising government schemes to increase diversity in teams, his career highlights to date and the advice he would give his daughters on building a start-up.

Rui Pedro Silva is the Group Chief Digital Officer and Managing Director of ERIKS Digital, the global technology and data hub of ERIKS who are on a mission to digitally transform the world of industrial services. In his interview with Frankie Greenwell, Consultant at The Up Group, Rui explains how product and technology is viewed in the industrials world and the inspiration he takes from Clayton Christensen’s Milkshake Theory.

As part of our Meet the Masters Series, Stephanie De Wangen, Director at The Up Group, spoke to Marieke Flament, CEO of Mettle – a digital start-up by NatWest, that provides small businesses and self-starters with the resources they need to start, run and grow their business. Marieke talks about the interesting insights she has discovered through conducting Diversity & Inclusion surveys, the top qualities she looks for in candidates, and her go-to podcast.

Anca Condrea, Director at The Up Group, caught up with Boukje Taphoorn, Chief Marketing Officer of bol.com, the largest online retailer in the Netherlands and Belgium. Boukje shares her thoughts on why it’s important to find a brand voice before taking a stand on social issues and how bol.com are doing exactly that. During a recent win at the Dutch Marketing Awards, the judges described Boukje as ‘a marketer with a mission’ and here you can read why.

This week for our Meet the Masters series, we talk to the Chief Marketing Officer of Gousto, Tom Wallis. Tom shares with us his thoughts on what makes a great marketing leader, how his metric-driven approach helps build high-performing teams, and reflects on the leadership lesson he has been reminded of over the past year.

Mike Arpaia is a Partner at Moonfire Ventures, a European pre-seed and seed-stage venture capital firm which just raised a $60m fund to support founders at the earliest stage. Pete Alexander, Director at The Up Group, talks to Mike about his transition from Machine Learning to the VC world and about early-stage technology in Europe. Mike discusses his career path to date and why now is a great time for European early-stage venture.

Luisa Barile has had a busy start to the year. Bought By Many, of which Luisa is Chief Financial Officer, have just announced their Series D $350m funding round, which values the business at over $2bn. Danielle Ward, Director at The Up Group, catches up with Luisa on the journey thus far and her advice for first time CFOs considering the role.

Fiona Tee, Chief Financial Officer at Currencycloud spoke to Danielle Ward, Director at The Up Group on the importance of having diversity and inclusion aligned with business goals, embedding those values within the organisation, and the benefits of employee-led initiatives.

This week for our Meet the Masters interview series, Stephanie de Wangen, Director at The Up Group, spoke to Cecilia Routledge, Global Director of E-Mobility at CTEK. Cecilia talks through building a high-performance culture and leadership lessons from the past year.

To kickstart our 2021 Meet the Masters interview series, we spoke to Manish Gajria, Chief Product Officer at Koru Kids, on interview tips, diversity and leadership lessons.