Three jocks on a Friday afternoon. What could possibly go wrong?

That was my genuine warning at the top of this one — and I meant it. Gillian Docherty is Chief Commercial Officer at the University of Strathclyde, Chair of CodeBase, and former CEO of The Data Lab. But what really drew me to this conversation is the story underneath all of that. Twenty-two years at IBM. A recruiter who refused to hang up the phone. A CV written over a weekend for the first time in two decades. And a decision — no package, a four-year-old at home — to walk away and build something from scratch.