CTO Wisdom with David Bachowski | Beyond the Program

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CTO Wisdom with David Bachowski | Beyond the Program

Welcome to CTO Wisdom. In this series, we interview technical leaders who have stepped into executive positions.

Today’s guest host, Eric Brooke, speaks with David Bachowski, CTO at Trusted Nurse Staffing where he is defining and executing the vision for all things digital.

In today’s episode, they discuss:

- How David went from being a band member to a junior mobile game developer to CTO

- The value of story-driven roadmaps over delivery-driven roadmaps

- The value of learning your business through non-engineering teams

- Advice for other CTO's

- And much more!

About today’s guest: Dave Bachowski joined Trusted Nurse Staffing in 2022 to help define and execute the vision for all things digital. Prior to TNS, he built a 17 year technology career as CTO for a wide variety of startups and companies through sheer stubbornness, affinity for adventure, and a constant smile. When he’s not spending time with his family, you can find him night golfing, playing music, or geeking out on dungeons and dragons.

About today’s host: Eric Brooke has a rich and varied leadership career – leading up to 21,000 people and Billions in revenue, throughout 14 countries. In their career, they have been an Executive six times (e.g. President, CEO, CMO, and CTO) and a Board member of multiple organizations. Eric has been a CTO of scaling startups from 0 to 120 engineers. As an adviser and mentor, they have helped multiple other startups scale both in Canada and the US. As well as supporting multiple startup incubators such as 1871 in Chicago and TechStars.

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