Q2 Round-Up
10 July 2025
We're not sure how another 3 months has passed so quickly, but its certainly been another busy one for Team G&F!
We’re excited to share that Gathered & Found is an official sponsor of CTO Craft Con: The Finance Edition, taking place 18–19 November 2025 at the iconic Barbican Centre in London. This year’s conference promises to be a standout event for technology leaders in the financial sector, bringing together sharp minds, fresh insights, and lots of conversations around the evolving role of tech in finance. From strategic keynotes to practical breakout sessions, expect two days of discussions regarding the challenges and opportunities facing CTOs, engineering leaders, and digital innovators. And here's something we're especially thrilled about: We’ll be recording a live episode of the Leaders & Founders podcast on-site, capturing the perspectives and stories from the heart of the community. If you're attending, come say hello - or better yet, be part of the episode!
We have a delicious new partnership: Gathered & Found is teaming up with cult London burger brand, Burger & Beyond. While food and beverage isn’t our usual playground, this collaboration was simply too good to turn down. It’s a perfect example of what happens when fearless innovation meets flavour-first ambition. We can’t reveal too much just yet as the project’s still under wraps, but what we can say is this: it’s a bold leap into new territory, combining smart tech with serious taste. Big ideas. Big energy. Bigger burgers.
Alongside our day-to-day roles, we believe that staying curious, connected, and a step ahead is key to doing great work. That’s why you’ll often find us in the room at some of the best industry events, listening, learning, and bringing those insights back to our clients. In Q2 alone, the team made the rounds at major gatherings including:
From emerging AI trends to inclusive innovation and next-gen digital strategy, each event sparked valuable conversations and challenged us to think bigger.
We're big on keeping things social outside the office doors (where possible anyway!) and we've been making the best of the gorgeous weather, including a couple of rounds of golf to keep the men of G&F competitive. Our very own Dan Johnson even took part in a charity golf event, playing 72 holes in one day whilst raising money for Macmillan Cancer Support - amazing work all round!
Before we waved goodbye to the end of June, the team finished off the quarter with an outing to the first day of Royal Ascot. Suited and booted, we enjoyed some delicious food, placed a few cheeky bets on some questionable horses, and basked in the incredible sunshine. Turns out we scrub up pretty well!
Q2 welcomed two new consultants to our network - Mario Gilinti and Luca Schidu. We know they're going to be a huge asset to our team and make a massive impact when working on client projects! We also said a big hello to Sam Kilmartin, who joined us as our newest Client Partner, bringing a wealth of experience in the tech space with him.
We're expecting more growth in 2025 so make sure to keep your eyes peeled on our vacancies page for all open opportunities!
The Gathered & Found engineering, product and design team have continued to deliver some incredible results for our partners across travel, fintech, banking and insurance. Whilst H1 took a little while to get going, we were hard at work driving innovation and transformations at some of the biggest companies in the UK. We also secured the signature of some incredible British and global brands from the world of fintech, enterprise and banking. We can't wait to share this exciting news with you all and showcase some of the great work being delivered!
Following the sheer number of requests from existing partners to support with AI POC’s and AI Readiness Assessments, we officially launched GF:AI, which is our brand new Innovation arm. This team and our Advisors work with customers - mainly in FS and Payments for now - to rapidly prototype POC’s, focusing on validating use cases and then delivering solutions at pace into the business. This has been an exciting new venture for G&F, and is one that we are doubling down on to ensure we deliver ethical and value-driven AI solutions to the market.
We've been spoilt with four more incredible Leaders & Founders podcast episodes over the past few months, and we're still digesting the learnings. April started off strong with Jas Shah - Fintech connoisseur, before having an insightful conversation with Nicole Olbe – UK Managing Director of ADYEN. We then enjoyed chatting all things challenger banks with Jason Oakley - CEO of AFIN Bank, finishing the quarter with an incredibly moving and honest episode featuring product leader David Wascha. We've got more amazing guests lined up, so make sure to subscribe and follow us (if you aren't already!)
Testimonials
Gathered & Found were able to deliver a great, experienced, culturally right fit for what we were looking for at FreeMarketFX covering a whole range of Service Design, User Experience, Front and Back end Engineers. This enabled us to scale our team capability very quickly, something we would not have been able to do ourselves. The team supplied were heavily motivated and experienced within the Fintech space and have helped deliver some great outcomes. I would definitely recommend the G&F calibration.
Greg Sherwin
CIO & CTO, FreeMarketFX
I’ve been partnering with Gathered & Found while working for several companies now and I have systematically been impressed by their responsiveness, flexibility, overall ease to work with, forward thinking and the consistent level of their engineers and consultants. It has been a real pleasure working with them over the last years.
Nicholas Goubert
CPTO, Ocean Technologies Group
