Opto Sessions – Invest in the Next Big Idea

Haydn Brain, Ed Gotham

optoteam@cmcmarkets.com

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Booking Overview

This is an investment-focused interview podcast featuring prominent investors, fund managers, and company CEOs discussing investment opportunities, business strategy, and emerging industries. Credible candidates include fund managers, investment strategists, founders, and senior executives from technology, fintech, biotech, and other high-growth companies; booking difficulty is high because the show emphasizes exclusive access to top-tier industry leaders.

Metrics

Episodes: 268

Frequency: Irregular

Rating: 4.8/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Male

Location: United Kingdom

Contact Information

optoteam@cmcmarkets.com

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Host

Haydn Brain - Co-host of an investment-focused podcast covering investment opportunities, fund management, company leadership, and emerging industries.

Ed Gotham - Co-host of an investment-focused podcast featuring investors, fund managers, and CEOs discussing investment opportunities and business strategy.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

high
Typical Credentials:  
Senior investors, fund managers, founders, and chief executives with substantial expertise in investment markets, company building, or emerging technology sectors.
Required Achievements:  
Leading a prominent investment fund or company, Building or scaling a high-growth business, Holding senior executive responsibility at a notable company, Developing significant innovations in emerging technology sectors

Recent Guest Discussions

Ben Taylor - Artificial Intelligence, Drug Discovery, Biotechnology, Lab Automation, Machine Learning, And The Future Of Medicine

Ben Borodach - Artificial Intelligence In Tax Filing And Planning, Financial Platforms, Fintech Infrastructure, And Household Financial Decision-making

Eric DeMarco - Defense Technology, Drones, Hypersonic Systems, Space Infrastructure, Artificial Intelligence, And Scalable Defense Systems

Recent Topics

Investing, Fund Management, Finance, Technology, Entrepreneurship

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
Opto Sessions – Invest in the Next Big Idea
:

How Recursion Is Using AI to Rethink Drug Discovery

June 29, 2026

In this episode, Ed is joined by Ben Taylor, Chief Financial Officer and President of Recursion UK, to discuss how AI is reshaping drug discovery, biotech, and the future of medicine. Ben explains how Recursion uses AI, lab automation, biological data, and machine learning to improve the way new medicines are discovered and developed. They explore why drug discovery has such a high failure rate, how AI can open up new areas of biology, and what this could mean for healthcare over the next dec...

The AI Tax Firm Challenging How Americans Use Money

May 08, 2026

April is rethinking tax as something that should happen year-round, not just at filing time. In this episode, co-founder and CEO Ben Borodach explains how April embeds AI-powered tax filing, planning and estimation tools into financial platforms, why tax can become a more useful part of everyday financial decision-making, and how the company is building trusted infrastructure for banks, fintechs and millions of American households.

Kratos CEO on Drones, Hypersonics & Future of Defense

March 19, 2026

What can Kratos Defense do that larger defense primes can’t? In this episode of Opto Sessions, CEO Eric DeMarco explains the company’s low-cost approach to AI drones, hypersonic systems and space infrastructure, and makes the case that the future of defense belongs to scalable, software-enabled, affordable systems.

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