Welcome back to Innovation in Industry, the podcast where River Tamoor Baig, CEO of Hack Partners, interviews the leaders of the world's transport and infrastructure industries on the innovation and digitalisation needed to support our growing world.

In this episode, River is joined by Aaron Gowell, who is a technology entrepreneur and the Chief Conductor of SilverRail. SilverRail is building digital infrastructure for the global rail industry. Aaron is a big believer in rail's humanitarian benefits and is excited by the challenge of getting more people using trains.

SilverRail is a band of product engineers, mathematicians and e-commerce experts with 1,428 years of rail experience spread across three continents. Last year, their search and booking platforms powered over 1B rail searches and 25M transactions globally. They are proud to work with some of the largest travel brands in the world.

Before founding SilverRail, Aaron built and sold National Leisure Group (NLG), worked at Bain and Company, and was a founding member of General Catalyst Partners, a leading VC in online travel.