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T&P100 Report 2024-2025

Founders Keepers conducted a pan-European survey of the continent's
leading Chief Technology Officers and Chief Product Officers.


Seeking out their perspectives, frustrations and ambitions, we believe the T&P100 is the most comprehensive research carried out specifically focused on the technical side of Europe's C-Suite board tables.

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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.

Tech & Product Forum - The CTPO Debate
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”

Roundtable
5/21/2024

B2B Sales Roundtable Insights

Q1 2024 - Three Key Insights

Tech & Product Forum - The CTPO Debate
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.

Tech & Product Forum - Do Chief Product Officers have a Product/Market Fit Problem in Europe?
10/30/2023

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

Tech & Product Forum

FK Meets | Featuring Joe Cruttwell - GM Europe, Patch
10/27/2022

FK Meets | Featuring Joe Cruttwell - GM Europe, Patch

FK Meets Interview Series

Katriona Windsor on Chief Marketing Officers
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.

FK Meets | Featuring Morgan Fowles - Managing Director, TALA
7/26/2022

FK Meets | Featuring Morgan Fowles - Managing Director, TALA

FK Meets Interview Series

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

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

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

Why Tech Leaders Will Prosper in 2022
1/26/2022

Why Tech Leaders Will Prosper in 2022

Welcome to the year of uncertainty & opportunity!

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

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

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

FK Meets | Featuring Eleanor Herrin - CEO, Farmdrop
12/21/2020

FK Meets | Featuring Eleanor Herrin - CEO, Farmdrop

Eleanor Herrin - CEO, Farmdrop

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

CEO/MD Forum | Virtual Meet-Up
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.

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

Chief People Officer Forum | Making People a Priority
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.

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