Influential Future's Career Focus Podcast

Jun 03 2024 39 mins

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This podcast interviews people about their career journey so far and what made them choose their profession. It aims to familiarize young people with what professions are out there, what skills, knowledge and education are required to become successful in their career journey. It also explores current technological developments in different professions and how these are changing constantly.

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Career Focus Interview with a Senior Manager, Climate & Sustainability

Jun 03 2024 34 mins

Today as my guest I am hosting Zdravko Slavov, Senior Manager within the Climate and Sustainability space.He has in-depth knowledge on financial products, what drives the market, technology, and sustainability. In today’s episode, Zdravko shared his career path to date; how he initially wanted to do product design, specifically for the car industry, but as he pursued his universi

Career Focus interview with a Senior Machine Learning Engineer

Apr 12 2024 40 mins

Today as my guest I am hosting Anna Aleksieva, Senior Machine Learning Engineer.She has extensive experience in startups, and most recently within financial services for one of the UK’s largest challenger banks. She has in-depth knowledge in data science, and machine learning. In today’s episode, Anna will be sharing with us her career journey to date, how she was in split mind

Career Focus interview with an Lead Data Scientist

Apr 04 2024 39 mins

Today as my guest I am hosting Nikolaos Sotiriou,Lead Data Scientist.He has extensive experience in data science, technology, and how best to utilize them within financial services. In this episode, Nikolaos was kind enough to share how his passion for physics motivated him to find practical application of his knowledge, and what led to his current professional path. Along the way

Career Focus interview with an AI Cloud Solution Architect

Dec 22 2023 37 mins

Today as my guest I am hosting David Florez Fernandez, an AI Cloud Solution Architect.Having worked with Microsoft for 8 years he has extensive experience in the world of technology. He was kind enough to share with us his career journey from university, his initial career within finance, and finally how he set out his Data Science journey, and consequently his current career path.

Career Focus interview with a Venture Principal

Nov 19 2023 37 mins

Today as my guest I am hosting Joseph Heade,Venture Principal.He has extensive experience in venture funding and research. He shared with us his journey from education to the professional world and what he has learned along the way that has helped him on his career path. In addition, he was kind of to speak about his experience, how we got involved in new technologies, and specific

Career Focus interview with a Head of Business Intelligence Analytics

Oct 15 2023 42 mins

Today as my guest I am hosting Ivan Panajotov, Head of Business Intelligence Analytics. He has extensive expertise in financial and credit scoring during his time with one of the largest credit scoring companies in the world. From then on, he got motivated to apply his knowledge and skills in different fields and expand his know-how. I discussed with him his career journey to date,

Career Focus interview with a Senior Data Scientist/Team Lead

Oct 05 2023 52 mins

Today as my guest I am hosting Ivan Naydenov, a Senior Data Scientist/Team Lead, and a good friend of mine for over 20 years. Ivan initially worked in credit scoring but then he got the data science bug and has been working on very exciting and challenging data projects throughout his career. He has shown tremendous understanding of how to analyze data problems and find intricate s

Career Focus interview with a Senior Product Manager

Aug 28 2023 37 mins

Today as my guest I am hosting Nikolay Migineishvili, a Senior Product Manager with over 10 years of experience. Moving from big pharma to big tech Nikolay has shown an outstanding aptitude for adaptability, know-how, and delivering high-value projects. In this edition of CareerFocus we not only discussed his career path to date, but also what skills he gained along the way that ma

Career Focus interview with a Strategic Sustainability Advisor

Jun 18 2023 37 mins

Today as my guest I am hosting Rado Georgiev, Strategic Sustainability Advisor. Rado has established himself as a seasoned professional within the sustainable finance field with over 15+ years of expertise. In our interview, we discussed his journey into sustainable finance, what makes it so exciting and challenging, what it means to be sustainable, current trends in the field and

Career Focus interview with a Head of Data & Analytics

Mar 27 2023 60 mins

Today as my guest I am hosting Alexander Angelov, Head of Data & Analytics. Alexander has established himself as a seasoned professional in the data science space with over 10 years of experience in the field. In our interview, we discussed his journey into the realm of data science/ engineering, what it takes to lead successful projects, finding out your niche, and the new and