Brands Transforming Our World

Caring Wildly: How Bloom & Wild reinvented flower gifting

Thu, 26 Feb 2026 14:30:00 GMT

Bloom & Wild co-founder and CEO Aron Gelbard joins Brands Transforming Our World to share how he reinvented the online flower industry. Having pioneered letterbox flowers and built a tech platform designed for gifting, Aron explains why customer feedback drives every decision, why Bloom & Wild stopped selling red roses for Valentine’s Day and what “caring wildly” looks like at scale.

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Clue CEO Clare Elford on the hidden tech powering investigations worldwide

Thu, 11 Dec 2025 13:53:02 GMT

Clue Software CEO Clare Elford joins Giles Fraser and Rory Cellan-Jones to discuss how she’s turned a once-niche policing tool has become a critical AI-powered investigation and intelligence platform used across policing, sport, nonprofits and the private sector. Clare shares how she rebuilt Clue into a modern SaaS company and why cross-sector collaboration is essential to tackling growing threats in a world transformed by AI.

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Technology, tenacity and the future of urban delivery with Stuart CEO, Cornelia Raportaru

Thu, 23 Oct 2025 08:31:00 GMT

Cornelia Raportaru has built her career on curiosity and adaptability – growing up in post-communist Romania and rising to lead one of Europe’s most innovative logistics tech companies. In this episode, she shares how Stuart is transforming last-mile delivery through AI, sustainability and precise delivery models, and what she’s learned about leadership, resilience and the future of urban logistics.

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Inside the quantum revolution with Oxford Ionics CEO and Co-Founder, Dr. Chris Ballance

Tue, 16 Sep 2025 12:47:22 GMT

Oxford Ionics CEO & Co-Founder, Dr. Chris Ballance, joins us to share his journey from getting (very briefly!) expelled from school to leading one of the UK’s most exciting quantum computing companies. We discuss breaking world records, building a $1bn business, the race to commercialise quantum and why brand matters as much as science.

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Nina Mohanty on Bloom Money, savings circles and the future of inclusive fintech

Tue, 08 Jul 2025 14:40:04 GMT

In this episode of “Brands Transforming Our World“, we sit down with fintech founder Nina Mohanty, whose start-up Bloom Money is reimagining financial services for immigrant communities. Drawing on her Silicon Valley upbringing and her personal experience as the child of Indian and Taiwanese immigrants, Nina explains how traditional savings circles (used by communities worldwide) can serve as powerful tools for inclusion and economic resilience.

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Six decades of technology with Richard Holway, MBE

Tue, 27 May 2025 06:00:00 GMT

Richard Holway MBE joins the Brands Transforming our World podcast to reflect on six decades in UK tech: from starting as a programmer in the 1960s to becoming one of the industry’s most trusted analysts and investors. He shares hard-won lessons on leadership, resilience, investment, and what makes a great tech business.

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Dame Stephanie Shirley: The woman who rewrote the rules of tech

Wed, 30 Apr 2025 06:00:00 GMT

In this episode of Brands Transforming Our World, we sit down with Dame Stephanie Shirley CH: child refugee, pioneering tech entrepreneur, and philanthropist. She shares her extraordinary journey from arriving in the UK without her parents, founding an all-female remote working start-up in the early 60s and building it into a $3bn tech company. We also explore her game-changing approach to philanthropy and what still drives her at the age of 91.

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Executing a flawless IPO

Mon, 07 Apr 2025 09:17:01 GMT

In this conversation we speak with James Robinson, an innovative senior communications leader who spent six years leading global communications for fintech pioneer Marqeta, including its successful IPO on Nasdaq in 2021.

James discusses the strategies, tactics and learnings while leading Marqeta through the lead up to and through its public listing.

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The Future of AI with Graphcore CEO, Nigel Toon

Tue, 04 Mar 2025 07:00:00 GMT

Listen as we sit down with Nigel Toon, CEO of Graphcore, to hear how one of the UK’s most successful engineers, entrepreneurs and leaders is accelerating the future of AI.

From a fascinating career at the cutting edge of semiconductor technology - through founding Graphcore in a Bristol pub, selling to Softbank and innovating at the cutting edge of AI - it’s a fascinating 45 minutes. 

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Martha Lane Fox - a British technology icon tells her story

Tue, 04 Feb 2025 07:00:00 GMT

Join us for episode seven of the Brands Transforming Our World podcast as we dive into Martha Lane Fox’s remarkable journey.

From co-founding and floating Lastminute.com through surviving a horrific accident to championing digital accessibility and innovation within government and joining the board of a (pre-Elon Musk) Twitter, we can think of few UK businesspeople who’ve inspired so many within our industry.

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Accelerating towards a sustainable future with Hitachi ZeroCarbon CEO, Ram Ramachander

Thu, 16 Jan 2025 17:26:42 GMT

In this episode conversation we meet with Ram Ramachander, CEO at Hitachi ZeroCarbon.

Ram takes us on a deep dive into the innovations driving a sustainable future and how Hitachi ZeroCarbon is spearheading efforts to achieve a zero carbon world. From groundbreaking technology to bold strategies, we’ll explore how brands like these are reshaping industries and making a difference to our planet.

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The Playbook for Global Tech Success with Stephen Kelly

Thu, 28 Nov 2024 07:00:52 GMT

Join us for a fascinating conversation with Stephen Kelly, CEO of Cirata and former UK Government COO. Stephen shares insights from his extensive career building global tech companies, transforming public sector technology, and leading organisational change. From saving £50bn in government to his current mission at Cirata, Stephen discusses the keys to authentic leadership and creating lasting impact.

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A truly unique UK tech story with Raspberry Pi’s Eben Upton

Thu, 31 Oct 2024 08:30:42 GMT

In this month’s conversation we meet with Eben Upton CBE, CEO at Raspberry Pi.

Eben is a computer scientist and engineer and co-founded the Raspberry Pi Foundation in 2008, aiming to inspire a new generation of learners to engage with programming and electronics. Designing single board and modular computers since 2012, Raspberry Pi is a genuine UK success story and the biggest – and in our eyes, the most exciting – listing on the London Stock Exchange this year.

Eben discusses building a UK technology trailblazer with such a clear mission at its heart; the role of technology in driving social change, and much more.

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30 years of growing pioneering tech brands with Amadeus Capital Partners’ Anne Glover CBE

Wed, 25 Sep 2024 10:41:37 GMT

Our latest guest is Anne Glover CBE, CEO of one of the most influential Venture Capital firms in technology. Anne’s had an incredible career, with the last three decades spend spotting, funding and growing genuinely game changing tech start-ups. We cover everything from her transatlantic journey from a Materials Science degree to her storied tenure at the helm of Amadeus Capital Partners; the importance of failure; and why strong brand values – and living them – is crucial as companies scale. It’s a fascinating listen.

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Scaling a European AI pioneer

Thu, 29 Aug 2024 12:32:36 GMT

In the second episode of our brand new series, our next guest is David Parry-Jones, Chief Revenue Officer at language AI pioneer, DeepL. He covers everything from scaling a true AI innovator and beating the industry giants to finding roles where you can truly be yourself. It’s a fascinating listen from an incredibly experienced, people-focussed tech leader.

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Taking on the world one semiconductor at a time

Tue, 23 Jul 2024 16:42:12 GMT

In the first episode of our brand new series, we speak with David Moore, the CEO of UK semiconductor success story, Pragmatic, about his leadership lessons; how Pragmatic’s flexible chips are the industry’s future; running a global tech firm out of the UK and of course AI.

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