Meet the Halo People Supporting to Make Suffolk the UK’s Startup Hotspot through Grad Schemes

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Jack Parsons

Business, Careers

4.2 • 5 Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Episode Guest

Rhys Degruchy is the Graduate Development and Support Leader at Halo, where he mentors new talent and helps shape the next generation of high performers. With a background in physics and a passion for people, Rhys is driven by trust, autonomy, and a relentless desire to improve.

Ben Thorpe is the Infrastructure Manager at Halo, having grown through the ranks over seven years. Obsessed with progress and delivery, Ben leads by example and is known for turning ambition into action across high-impact projects.

Episode Timestamps

0:00 Introduction

0:44 Meet Rhys and Ben from Halo

1:36 Why They Said Yes to My Duvet Flip

2:18 Their First Ever Jobs (Coffee Shops & Sunglasses)

4:23 Early Lessons in Communication and Confidence

6:00 How They Found Halo (and Why They Stayed)

8:19 From Suit & Tie to Shorts & Trust: The Halo Culture

10:35 Why Halo Feels Like a Sports Team

12:24 Obsession at Work: What It Means at Halo

13:46 Why Young People Progress So Fast Here

15:02 Who Shouldn’t Work at Halo

16:28 What Halo Has Taught Them About Life

18:10 The Message to Future Applicants

19:20 Their Duvet Flip: Why They Get Out of Bed

Episode Partners

Check out the latest from Halo:

https://halograduates.com and https://www.instagram.com/halonextgen/

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hi, my name is Rees. I'm the graduate development and support leader at Halo.
0:04.0	Hi, my name is Ben. I'm the infrastructure manager at Halo.
0:06.0	I'm over 200 people and this is my big little. What keeps you turning out with a big smile? It genuinely feels like I'm just lacing my boots up and ready to go for the team. What's your advice if someone's trying to sell themselves? Be authentic, be original. the end of the day you're being put in this position because you're trusted by and
0:20.9	not only your company but by yourself it's more of the day you're being put in this position because you're trusted by my own company but by yourself. It's more of the determination. They have all these
0:24.5	projects, we have all these things to do and it's just determination to get it done. If you could
0:28.2	sum halo up in one word, what would that word be? I'm ambitious. No one really stops. No,
0:32.9	like at the top of the hill, it's always out of hill. What's always uphill what's your dovet flip what gives you out of bed in the morning to flip the dover. Hi my name is Reese I'm the graduate development and support
0:45.5	leader at Halo hi my name is Ben I'm the infrastructure manager at Halo for sitting down with
0:50.0	Jack yeah I'm feeling a little nervous but should be good love I'm really looking forward to sitting down with Jack should be good fun I'm most excited to talk yeah, I'm feeling a little nervous, but should be good love. I'm really looking forward to sitting down with Jack, should be good fun. I'm most excited to talk about just my career path. I haven't really thought about it before, so good to talk about it and see where I've come from. I'm most excited to talk about how you learn the opportunities that it's got available. I wanted to come on my Dewe Flip because it seemed like a good opportunity. I said yes to dovet flip because it seemed like a good opportunity for talking about myself.
1:15.9	I'm most excited to talk about how you learn the opportunities that it's got available.
1:20.1	I hope people take away from the episode the hard work really does get you quite far.
1:23.1	I hope people take away that it doesn't matter really who you are.
1:26.5	Just work hard and you'll get there.
1:34.3	Let's do it. Yep. Let's go.
1:37.3	Rees Ben, welcome to my dovet, Philip. How are we?
1:39.3	Well, good, yeah. Well, thank you.
1:42.3	So I want to talk about your career journey and where it started and where you are now.
1:47.9	But let's start with your first job. Who wants to go first?
1:51.6	Yeah, I go first. I was, I worked for a coffee shop in the kitchen, washing the pots.
1:57.9	Five hours every Saturday, every Saturday 10 to 3.
2:03.0	Yeah, I did that for like two years, 16 to 18.
2:06.2	And then left and then went back when I was at uni
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