Stephen Kelly and Chris Yeh join James Ashton to discuss what UK tech leaders can learn from Silicon Valley – and vice versa. Plus, how to harness the sector’s current growth spurt and the relentless reinvention of successful bosses including Oracle’s Larry Ellison, Airbnb’s Brian Chesky and Marc Benioff of Salesforce.

Stephen Kelly is chairman of Tech Nation, the state-backed organisation that supports the growth of the UK’s most promising technology firms. Set up in 2014, Tech Nation speaks out on behalf of the sector and runs training and skills programmes for young leaders, as well as a fast-track visa scheme.

Until 2018, Kelly was chief executive of the FTSE 100 software company Sage. He has also served as chief operating officer for the UK Government, driving the efficiency and reform programme. He led two more tech companies - Micro Focus and Nasdaq-listed Chordiant Software – and spent nine years at Oracle earlier in his career.

Chris Yeh is a Silicon Valley-based author, investor, speaker and mentor. Along with LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman he wrote Blitzscaling, a book that explains how world-changing companies including Amazon and Alibaba were built.

Yeh co-founded the Global Scaling Academy to guide start-up founders. He has worked with hundreds of companies and entrepreneurs since switching away from product design which he studied at Stanford University.

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