Building Tech Teams with James MacDonald

NTP Talent

The weekly podcast exploring how Australia hires, builds, and leads tech teams in the age of AI. Each week, James MacDonald sits down with a founder, CTO, or people leader to discuss the work itself—the strategic wins, the lessons learned from tough calls, and how leadership is evolving as AI reshapes what a team looks like. Building Tech Teams is produced by Day One®, trusted partners in the technology space and the production partner behind Blackbird Ventures' Wild Hearts. Sister shows include First Cheque, Oversubscribed and In The Blink of AI.

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Building Tech Teams with James MacDonald

Episodes (127)

Oct 29, 2025 Tech Exec // Oliver Shanahan, Group Head of Cybersecurity and Infrastructure at BetMakers Technology Group
Oct 22, 2025 Tech Exec // Matt Vitale: Executive Director at New Dialogue
Oct 15, 2025 Tech Exec // Victoria Aspden: Executive General Manager - Digital & Transformation at Ampcontrol

Building Tech Teams with James MacDonald

Oct 29, 2025
58½ minutes
80 MB

From a childhood without electricity to co-founding a listed betting company, Oliver Shanahan’s story is a masterclass in technical grit and commercial pivots. As the Group Head of Cybersecurity and Infrastructure at BetMakers Technology Group, Oliver traces his path from wiring up early ISPs and mining ERPs to building TopBetta from a two-person LAMP stack into an ASX-listed business. In this episode of Tech Execs, James MacDonald sits down with Oliver as he unpacks the high-stakes realities of bookmaking, the decision to pivot from B2C to B2B through acquisitions like Dynamic Odds, Global Betting Ser...

Building Tech Teams with James MacDonald

Tech Exec // Oliver Shanahan, Group Head of Cybersecurity and Infrastructure at BetMakers Technology Group

NTP Talent

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