CTO Wisdom with Cat Miller | Beyond the Program

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CTO Wisdom with Cat Miller | 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 Cat Miller, CTO of healthtech startup, Flatiron Health.

In today’s episode, they discuss:

• How Cat got into a technical career and her journey from junior software developer to CTO.
• The difference between a Director position and an Executive role (including the misconceptions around these positions)
• The importance of establishing success criteria as a CTO and how that has impacted her team.
• Her approach to problem solving and the resources that have helped her grow.

About today’s guest: As CTO of Flatiron Health, Cat Miller leads an organization of over 400 technologists, working to reimagine the infrastructure of cancer care. A software and data engineer by training, Cat has over a decade of experience in data-focused startups and nine years growing an engineering team at Flatiron, through acquisition and beyond.

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 organisations. 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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