Insight and Content

September 2026

FK T&P100 Report 2026

Founders Keepers' pan-European deep dive into the leading Technology and Product executives shaping the continent.

Founders Keepers - Before you hire report

8 questions the best builders ask before every senior hire

Looking to hire your next senior executive? Consider these 8 questions you should ask yourself before beginning the hiring process.

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Hiring and Retaining Great People Report

In 2024, Founders Keepers interviewed 7 unicorn Founders / CEOs to discuss their strategies on hiring and retaining top talent. We have distilled their key insights into our report.

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International Expansion

Pivotal lessons from Steve Hewitt, Former CEO / Executive Chair of Gymshark, on the realities of international expansion. When to consider expansion, how to preserve culture, and how to avoid strategic overreach.

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9/23/2026

Moments That Made Me - James Mishreki, Skin+Me & Life Supplies

Moments That Made Me is where we ask the founders within the Founders Keepers community to go back and find theirs. The hustle before the success, the job that threw them in too deep too soon, the hire that went wrong and changed how they built a team after.

8/19/2026

Every COO builds and fixes. Which does yours need to be exceptional at?

Hiring a COO at Series B or C? Here's what to consider.

Hiring a non-executive director as a founder

7/15/2026

Head-in, hands-out: what a good non-executive director actually brings to your board

Is hiring an independent non-executive director (NED) next on your list of things to do as a founder? Here's what you should know before hiring.

7/8/2026

Moments That Made Me - Ben Drury, Yoto

10/28/2024

The people who got you here won't get you there. Navigating the Mixed Emotions of C-Level and VP Succession Planning

FK’s Stephen Rosenthal had the privilege of speaking at Notion Capital's Founder Retreat in early October - an event Founders Keepers was proud to support. Alongside Notion's Michelle Cheng, here's what he and some of Europe's most exceptional entrepreneurs discussed.

7/22/2024

“Erh… so where’s the AI slide?” - CTOs/CPOs and the rise of the “Chief Education Officer”

CTOs/CPOs and the rise of the “Chief Education Officer”

5/21/2024

B2B Sales Roundtable Insights

Q1 2024 - Three Key Insights

5/13/2024

The CPTO debate is a lively one:

Even if one can manage both disciplines, the question of whether they should, splits the community.

10/30/2023

Do Chief Product Officers have a Product/Market Fit Problem in Europe?

Tech & Product Forum

10/27/2022

FK Meets | Featuring Joe Cruttwell - GM Europe, Patch

FK Meets Interview Series

9/1/2022

Katriona Windsor on Chief Marketing Officers

We sat down with Kat Windsor to talk marketing: how to hire and retain the best leaders and what to keep front of mind during a recession.

7/26/2022

FK Meets | Featuring Morgan Fowles - Managing Director, TALA

FK Meets Interview Series

4/26/2022

CEO/MD Forum | Featuring Jeremy Oppenheim - Founder and Managing Partner, Systemiq

Founders Keepers hosted the latest CEO/MD Forum on Thursday, 31st March featuring special guest speaker Jeremy Oppenheim.

2/1/2022

Chief People Officer Forum I The New Science of Stress - Part 2

Let’s pick up where we left off with Dr Alexandra Crosswell. Now that we know what stress does to us, we’ll consider how best to manage it.

1/31/2022

Chief People Officer Forum | The New Science of Stress - Part 1

People perform better as a result of stress responses - we become more creative and more focussed on the moment. The problem comes when we remain in that state for too long.

1/26/2022

Why Tech Leaders Will Prosper in 2022

Welcome to the year of uncertainty & opportunity!

11/30/2021

Chief People Officer Forum | The Future of Work

"The genie is not going back in the bottle. Winning companies are the ones being intentional about the future of work for them and their people."

11/23/2021

CEO/MD Forum | Featuring Charlie Bryant - CEO, Zoopla

Founders Keepers hosted the latest CEO/MD Forum on Wednesday, 20th October featuring special guest speaker Charlie Bryant - CEO, Zoopla

4/21/2021

CEO/MD Forum | Featuring Shimona Mehta - MD EMEA, Shopify

Founders Keepers hosted the latest CEO/MD Forum on Wednesday 21st April featuring special guest speaker Shimona Mehta - MD EMEA, Shopify

12/21/2020

FK Meets | Featuring Eleanor Herrin - CEO, Farmdrop

Eleanor Herrin - CEO, Farmdrop

12/11/2020

CEO/MD Forum | Featuring Sachin Dev Duggal - Founder & Chief Wizard, Builder.AI

Founders Keepers hosted the latest CEO/MD Forum on Wednesday 25th November, featuring special guest speaker Sachin Dev Duggal - Founder & Chief Wizard, Builder.ai.

10/27/2020

CEO/MD Forum | Featuring Sophie Schmidt - Founder & CEO, Rest of World

Founders Keepers hosted the latest CEO/MD Forum on Wednesday 7th October, featuring special guest speaker Sophie Schmidt - Founder & CEO, Rest of World.

9/4/2020

CEO/MD Forum | Featuring Cedric Bru - CEO, Taulia

Founders Keepers hosted the latest CEO/MD Forum on Friday 19th June, featuring 20 leaders and special guest speaker Cedric Bru - CEO, Taulia. Cedric shared his insights on how companies, organisations and leaders can deploy a culture of resilience – personal and organisation wide – through challenging times.

6/25/2020

CEO/MD Forum | Featuring Paddy Harverson - Co-Founder, Milltown Partners

Founders Keepers hosted the latest CEO/MD Forum on Friday 19th June, featuring 25 CEOs and special guest speaker Paddy Harverson - Co-Founder, Milltown Partners.

5/12/2020

CEO/MD Forum | Featuring Martín Migoya - Founder & CEO, Globant

Founders Keepers hosted the latest CEO/MD Forum on Tuesday 5th May, featuring 25 CEOs, including special guest speaker Martín Migoya - Founder and CEO of Globant.

4/27/2020

FK Meets | Featuring Gary Turner - Co-Founder & MD EMEA, Xero

Xero has one of those apocryphal origin stories that all great tech companies have. One evening in 2006, Rod Drury and his then accountant Hamish Edwards, were working through Rod’s accounts, frustrated by the process they were plodding through and eager to explore how it could be made better.

4/15/2020

Chief People Officer Forum | Lessons Learned in the COVID-19 Pandemic

“In a pandemic, a chief people officer can make or break a company” The Economist, 26th March 2020. A week prior to this article we launched the FK CPO Forum, inviting a diverse range of Chief People Officers across our community to come together in virtual sessions to share, to listen and to provide support to one another.

4/14/2020

CEO/MD Forum | Virtual Meet-Up

Founders Keepers hosted a CEO/MD Forum on Tuesday 7th April, bringing together a diverse range of exceptional, cross-sector business leaders. We focused on the immediate thoughts, lessons, reflections and advice participants could share on how they and their teams had reacted to the impacts of the Covid-19 crisis.

3/29/2020

FK Meets | Featuring Yossi Pollak - Founder & CEO, Sight Diagnostics

Sight Diagnostics is often defined by what it isn’t. The Israeli blood diagnostics company, founded by Yossi Pollak and Danny Levner eight years ago, is making blood diagnostic testing more efficient, accurate and affordable through the deployment of a compact, state of the art diagnostics device powered by transformative AI algorithms. As their FDA approval, exceptional clinical accuracy and global buzz prove, this is no Theranos.

3/12/2020

Chief People Officer Forum | Making People a Priority

The role of a Chief People Officer sparks eager debate. Everyone has a view, yet often can’t define what the role is. Increasingly it is the most demanded vacancy in a C-suite, yet frequently it’s the most challenging hire to make.

2/21/2020

FK Meets | Featuring Nick Halla - Co-Founder, Impossible Foods

Every so often, a company is born which captures the imagination of a global audience, be that through a transformative product, executive or mission that consumers the world over can passionately subscribe to and participate in.