Ben Edwards Email & Phone Number

Worthing, Gb

Audio Trader is a trusted platform specializing in buying and selling musical instruments and audio equipment. We provide a hassle-free process for musicians to trade their gear, offering competitive quotes, convenient pick-up, and quick payments. Our extensive experience and dedication to quality service ensure a seamless experience for our customers.

Mountain View, Wy, Us

Providing technology consulting services to a range of companies including pre-money start ups to mid-size revenue generating e-commerce companies. Areas of consulting include app development management and launch. E-commerce web development and technology stack. Business strategy and customer acquisition. Fund raising, tech innovation and much more.

Goring-By-Sea, England, Gb

o Continued growth of direct channel to 55%+ of the group turnover, 7 international storefronts in total and over £4.7m monthly sales. o Integrated new payment provider, adding customer focussed features like Google Pay, Apple Pay, improving conversion rate and drastically cutting costs.o Grew IT development & infrastructure team to over 75 people.o Launched Ziffit into the US market in Oct 2019 (website and app).o Became Head of Risk & Governance Committee, improved process and scope.o Became lead of Marketplace (Amazon, eBay) development and strategy. First used seller on Walmart.com in 2021.o Led the Technology team response to due diligence and RFI for sale process of private equity ownership to Livingbridge. Group achieved B-Corp status.

Goring-By-Sea, England, Gb

o Led the technology strategy planning process, agreeing top level business strategy and direction for the next 2-5 years, including direct channel focus.o Re-platformed worldofbooks.com onto headless MACH principle-based platform of API microservices, Commercetools. Enabling a best-in-class ecommerce tech stack, (CMS, Search, Gateway, etc), and allowed the website to cost effectively and reliably scale to meet the demands of the direct channel focus. Growth of the website from 2% up to 50% of group turnover in this period (~£100k > £3m a month sales), whilst launching numerous international storefronts (US, DE, etc).o Developed and grew SaaS offering of the group’s technology to allow charities to re-sell items online (Shopiago.com), majority of major UK charities onboarded.o Formation and leadership of a Data Compliance Group, member of Risk & Governance Committee, driving down business risk, reporting to the board.

Goring-By-Sea, England, Gb

o Defined IT Development team structure / processes and grew developers to over 30 in a near shore European office, optimised SDLC and prioritisation processes.o Launched native Ziffit iOS and Android apps, enabling strategic growth, highly successful, over 70% of Ziffit trades are on app, by utilising camera to scan item barcodes. Consistent effort improving the UX, customer experience and product.o Built excellent relationships with cloud hosting providers (GCP), payment gateways (Checkout.com, PayPal) and platforms (Salesforce, Commercetools).o Acted as a key part of the technology team providing responses to RFIs during due diligence and prep of the sale of the business in 2016 to Bridges Ventures.o Became the lead of IT Infrastructure team, responsible for hardware provision, IT Security, networking, helpdesk management and data protection.

Goring-By-Sea, England, Gb

o Launched worldofbooks.com in 2011 on Magento, launched first international storefront in 2012 (Australia). Early turnover on low budgets of over £1m a year.o Created, designed and launched Ziffit.com in May 2013 as part of a four man team, website only initially – now generates over £60m a year in turnover from items traded in.

Goring-By-Sea, England, Gb

o Valuation and identification of first editions, specialist rare books and signed copies.o Modification and SEO optimisation of World of Rare Books website.

Goring-By-Sea, England, Gb

o Picking of book orders from warehouse shelving. Required quality control and hitting KPIs.