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CTO Academy at Mixpanel’s London Forum: A Day to Remember
Anyone who’s ever helped pull together even the smallest event knows the feeling: the last-minute nerves, the scramble to check if the location works, and the persistent fear that something—anything—might go off track. Will people turn up? Will the tech work? Will the presenter (gulp) remember their slides? Which is why we want to raise…
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CTO Academy Secures New Round of Funding to Accelerate Global Expansion
London, UK – April 8, 2025 – CTO Academy, a globally recognized provider of leadership training for technology leaders, announced the successful completion of its latest funding round with support from Jenson Ventures. This investment marks a significant milestone in CTO Academy’s journey as the company scales to the next level and solidifies its position…
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Press Release: CTO Academy Launches Masterclass Series for Technology and Business Leaders
[London, January 2025] – CTO Academy, a global leader in executive leadership training for senior technology professionals, is excited to announce the launch of its Masterclass Series—an exclusive set of deep-dive sessions designed to explore cutting-edge topics at the intersection of technology and business strategy. Since its launch in 2019, CTO Academy has empowered thousands…
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That Was The Year That Was
My 2024 started with a bold New Year resolutions list that whilst well-intentioned, has delivered mixed results … Table A: Review of Weaver’s New Year Resolutions from the 1st of January 2024 Column AColumn BColumn C“Failed Miserably”“Some Improvement”“Smashed It”Lose 10 kgsImprove my SpanishFix the draw I broke in 2018Avoid the cookie jarStretch every most daysLaunch…
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“The Digital MBA for Technology Leaders” Shortlisted for Prestigious Learning Technologies Award
CTO Academy is thrilled to announce that its flagship program, The Digital MBA for Technology Leaders, has been shortlisted for the Best Online Distance Learning Programme in the Learning Technologies Awards 2024. This prestigious recognition highlights the program’s exceptional quality and impact with empowering technology leaders around the world. Andrew Weaver, CEO & co-founder, expressed…
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When Our Customers Endorse Everything We Are Striving to Achieve
One of the major challenges for any start-up is how to drive growth with a bootstrapped marketing budget. Paid search is expensive Organic search takes time Partnerships rarely work So you’re reliant on being creative and patient and hope your customers love your product enough to become part of your front-line sales strategy. This is…
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Spotlight on… Marco Zimmerman
🙌 Helping us keep everything on track is our man from Brazil, celebrating 12 months with CTO Academy … Here’s a spotlight on Marco Aurélio Zimmermann
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Spotlight on… Sid Mustafa
This week one of our favourite community voices here at CTO Academy … spotlight on Serdar Mustafa 🙌
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Spotlight on…Nati Welner
It’s time to celebrate one of our unsung heroes … a spotlight on our MBA Course Manager, Natalia Welner
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Spotlight on… Andrew Weaver
🙌 During the next few weeks we’ll be introducing you to members of our team and global community. We thought we better start with our CEO and Co-founder as #1. Spotlight on… Andrew Weaver
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Welcome to CTO Academy Membership and Feel the Value
This week we launched our new Membership Package which like any and every launch, came packaged with a mixture of expectation and anxiety … Was it going to work?Did flow make sense?Will it add value to the customer experience? Well … so far, so good as we’ve already seen 100+ global tech leaders sign up…
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11 Things a CTO Should Never Say to a CEO
The CEO:CTO relationship is often pivotal to an organisation but is not without its challenges and that’s often down to the very different personalities who can typically fill each role.So we had some fun this week when asking our community of global tech leaders for suggestions about what you should avoid saying to the CEO…
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“The Digital MBA for Technology Leaders” Receives Professional Development Certification
The Digital MBA for Technology Leaders has been formally recognized and certified by the Continuing Professional Development Certification Service (CPDUK) as “conforming to continuing professional development principles”, recognizing both the high standard of professional training and exceptional value being delivered by this course to technology leaders seeking to advance their careers.
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Why We Do, The Things We Do
We launched CTO Academy in 2019 and work with technology leaders to help them build the leadership and broader skill set that enables them to achieve the career impact they want. So it’s great to hear from our customers about their progress.
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The Global CTO Survey – Can You Help?
The Global CTO Survey comes out every year and brings us great insight about what matters to the CTO in 2022.
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CTO Academy Launches Scholarship Programme in Partnership with Women Who Code
CTO Academy Launches Scholarship Programme in Partnership with Women Who Code promoting women in technology careers
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From Cafe Rouge to 2,000 Reviews … How The Digital MBA for Tech Leaders Evolved
With 2000 near 5 star reviews, this course is changing the executive leadership landscape for technology leaders.
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We Need To Talk About The CEO
What does a CTO need from the CEO? What does a CTO think the CEO needs from them?
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Meet the Team: Owen Evans
Owen is based in New Zealand and has been a tech leader for more than a decade and for 6 years was a chief architect at Xero. His tech expertise and strategic oversight is helping CTOs and senior leadership teams around the world to achieve growth within a software engineering heavy company. He also shares…
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Meet the Team : Jim Mortensen
Jim is a highly experienced tech leader with extensive business achievements over a wide range of domains and particular expertise in the payment card industry, PayFac solutions, AWS, and data security. He has secured 2 successful exits as a member of the executive management team of a start-up and mid-size company. Alongside coaching global tech…
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One Afternoon With The School of Code
CTO Academy collaborated with The School of Code for a presentation on a career in tech and leadership development
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Meet The Team : Dave Jones
Dave brings extensive experience in CTO/CIO roles to the CTO Academy coaching team which includes leading Engineering departments of over 150 staff through periods of extensive growth and change. He’s also been responsible for SaaS products operating at massive scale and led the delivery of multiple platform re-architecture projects and major technology integrations.Here he is…
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Meet the Team : Sanjay Mistry
Sanjay is an experienced CTO and leadership coach based in the UK but working with tech leaders around the world, particularly those working within fast growth and SME companies. He is skilled at providing expert technical advice to customers and colleagues on software design and development and has led architecture and DevOps, driving knowledge sharing, skills…
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Meet the Team : Zoe Fragou
Zoe hails from Greece and is an Organizational Psychologist and Executive Level Leadership Coach. She works with companies to transform their organisational culture and help them build thriving teams that increase wellbeing as well as productivity. She also works with senior level decision makers from around the world, focusing particularly around the psychology and mindset…
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Meet The Team : Richard Weaver
Richard is a recruitment professional with 20+ years industry expertise having delivered large technology and business transformation programme teams. He is also a champion of candidate driven recruitment and is at the heart of developing our careers service linked to the wider professional growth programmes for CTO Academy members.
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Meet The Team : Jason Noble
Tech entrepreneur with extensive board level IT innovation and computer science experience. Has been technical director of software businesses and managed large, complex enterprise projects with successful exits. His career has been defined driving innovation, strategic & operational planning, training, technical sales and software agile project management.
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Meet The Team: Andrew Weaver, CEO and Co-Founder
Meet Andrew, our CEO. With 20+ years of executive level commercial experience in SME and early stage companies across multiple sectors inc. law, tech, travel, leisure and property. Andrew has particular expertise around strategy, sales, funding/finance, M&A, mindset. He’s also a Course leader/mentor at London based start up accelerator.
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The Established CTO
You might think the established CTO wouldn’t need any support but the truth is that operating at a very senior level making key and business critical decisions on a regular basis can be extremely challenging and isolating.
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CTO Academy Close Seed Funding Round
We are delighted to announce that CTO Academy have just closed a seed funding round. What does this mean? Well, it’s all guns blazing as we roll out an exciting and expansive range of products, courses and support to our growing global tribe of developers, scrum masters, team leaders, CTOs and CIOs. This funding round…
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How did CTO Academy take shape?
They say the best business ideas come from personal experience of something not working well or an unmet need. CTO Academy emerged from the direct experience of founder Jason Noble struggling through his career as a CTO to find the tech leadership support he wanted and needed. Always lots of training for the technical, but…
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Welcome to CTO Academy
One thing we know for sure with a new venture (having been around the block a few times), is you can have the idea, sketch out a model, design a website and prepare for launch … but you never truly know anything about your product until it starts to interact with the market. And so,…
