LeaderX Icon Series with Colin McQuade: Honest Talks With Industry Icons on Their Setbacks and Journeys to Success

Colin McQuade shares the pivotal moments that shaped his career from starting in military communications with high-security responsibilities to leading the team that built Sky Digital in the 90s. He reflects on learning true Internet-scale engineering at Yahoo, transforming Sky into a high-performance engineering organisation and tackling ultra-low-latency trading systems at Barclays.

Colin also discusses his current work with AI company Sentiance and offers a clear definition of what a modern CTO must be today: a strategic bridge between commercial ambition, engineering discipline and technology risk.