Unilink is a world leader in prisoner self-service and offender management software. Unilink’s main product supplied is the award winning prisoner self-service product currently carrying out around 200 million prisoner transactions every year helping prisoners to take more responsibility for their own lives and reducing prison officers’ workload.

Paul and Francis discuss Francis’ background and career, the founding and evolution of the business, becoming an international enterprise and growth plans for the future. 

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RD Content is an award-winning global video production agency with an impressive client list. They specialise in offering strategic media planning, creative ideation, onset film work and post production editing, sound and animation all under one roof. Founded in 2009, RD Content has grown from a very small team to an international company with offices in Singapore, London and Abu Dhabi.

Paul and Ryan discuss Ryan’s background and career, the founding of the business, key differentiators for the business model, and how the industry is evolving. 

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Iceotope is a Sheffield-based technology business specialising in patented precision immersion cooling. Iceotope help their customers to become more sustainable by reducing their energy and water consumption and reducing the cost of data centre design, build and operations. Their technology offers extreme cooling performance whilst isolating and protecting the critical IT from the surrounding environment and atmosphere.

Paul and David discuss David’s background and career, how Iceotope’s technology works and how it can revolutionise the design of data centres, the future of data storage and how Iceotope can help their customers achieve net zero carbon emissions. 

Read more about David’s charity Educate the Kids here - educatethekids.com

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AeroCloud is a management platform using cutting-edge technology to optimise flight management, situational awareness, and passenger prediction. Using AI, real-time data and data visualisation to drive efficiencies in the global airport industry.

Before founding AeroCloud, George was a professional racing driver for 10 years. George believes that this experience has been invaluable in his journey to founding and building AeroCloud as successful company.

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Fairstone is a privately-owned full-service wealth management firm with £15bn of client investment funds and employing over 1100 people. Their aim is to bring intelligent wealth management solutions to their clients across a lifetime financial journey.

Lee founded Fairstone in 2008, growing the business from a start up to market leader. Lee talks about his background, how he founded Fairstone, how scale brings advantages and the impact of recent political volatility and market instability on the business. 

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In this episode of the Founder & Chief podcast, Paul McGlone is joined by Charlie Cook, Founder and CEO of Rightcharge.
Rightcharge is a platform which enables great chargepoint installations to allow customers to move to an electric vehicle easily and smoothly. Rightcharge technology recommends customers the right home charger for their needs, matches them with verified installers and finds the best energy deals to save them money.

Charlie explains his entrepreneurial background, how and why he founded Rightcharge and offers insights into what it’s like to start a company in a new, growing market. 

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Happy Drinks is on a mission to remove artificial sweeteners from soft drinks by delivering the next generation of drinks with natural ingredients only. One of Happy Drinks Co’s brands, Eden Bay, is the third biggest brand of tonic in the UK and Ireland and sells a can every 1.3 seconds. 

Ian explains his personal motivation behind the brand, the importance of Stevia in making flavoursome plant-based drinks and explains how and why the company diversified into manufacturing. 

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Chris may not know tools, but he certainly knows ecommerce; as he’s seen it develop over a career spanning decades at Sainsburys and other online retail businesses. He knows the importance of understanding client buying habits, getting to know their needs and building channels for communicating openly with clients.

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Morten and Paul discuss the challenges of setting up a business selling fresh produce to supermarkets, scaling the business in a growing industry and who Morten would invite to this dream dinner party.

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