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In this week’s episode, we spoke to Ian Ritchey, former Chief Engineer at Rolls-Royce. Ian has been involved in some of the most demanding engineering projects, whilst leading a highly capable team of specialist engineers. During our chat, we talked through his career at one of the most prestigious engineering companies and his near-miss of being at the forefront of AI research.

In this episode, we spoke to Jonathan O'Halloran, Founder and CEO at QuantumDX, a molecular diagnostics technology company based in the North-East. We talked to Jonathan about his journey from academia to business, his travels around the world working on diagnostics for Tuberculosis (TB), and the challenges that come with quickly scaling production of a product in the face of huge demand.

In this episode, we spent some time with Andrew Hodgson, portfolio chairman, talking about ethical capitalism and the wonderful work that Recycling Lives is undertaking. Recycling lives is both rehabilitating offenders whilst being a strongly performing private-equity backed acquisitive recycling business. It’s fantastic to see a business that is adding significant social value whilst thinking out the box for recruiting high calibre employees from new talent pools, and we hope you enjoy the episode.

In this edition of Exec Insight we spoke to Sarah Ellerby, CEO of Nova Pangaea and former elite professional pool player.  Nova Pangaea is a technology business dedicated to changing the way we think about biofuel processing times with its groundbreaking process, REFNOVA®. During the interview we spoke to Sarah about her break from sports, the challenges she faced in switching industries, the problems Nova Pangaea are solving to create biofuels and how mentors helped her along the way. 

In this episode, I spoke to Matt Boyle, MD of Collingwood Solutions, and former national Interim Challenge Director for Driving the Electric Revolution, a part of the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund set up by the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy. This week we touched on his career at Sevcon and its sale to BorgWarner for $200m and the challenges the UK is facing in its quest for electrification by 2030.

In this episode, I spoke to Rob Law, CEO and Founder of Trunki. Trunki is a children's lifestyle brand, made famous by its ride-on suitcases. We talked about his journey from the flames of Dragon's den, building resilience in the face of adversity and the process of writing his new book, 65 Roses and a Trunki.