Marc Biles Email & Phone Number

Bournemouth, Dorset, GB

Ratio is a software company. Previously owned by Bournemouth-based VC, the Richmond Group; Tara Flynn and I completed a management buyout of the company in October 2013. We’re dedicated to inventing smart products that help make people’s lives better and easier. We've made a price comparison website called choosewisely.co.uk, a social enterprise lender.

Bournemouth, Dorset, GB

choosewisely.co.uk is a simple, easy-to-use price comparison website that offers consumers clear, fair and transparent comparison of a range of financial products including bank accounts, credit & debit cards and personal loans. The software behind the site is also available to 3rd parties who can use Choose Wisely's price comparison technology to power.

Familio is a social enterprise, offering unsecured loans to young adults who struggle to get funding from highstreet banks or mainstream lenders. We're working hard to position ourselves as a lender of choice to help our community of borrowers get on the property ladder, develop their credit scores and enjoy a brighter financial future as a result.

Briefd is a men's monthly subscription service on a mission to change the way men address their underwear needs. If you're a man who's tired of ageing trollies, or you're sick of stretched waistbands, if you refuse to fight the crowds on the high street for the latest designs, if you're ready to upgrade your underwear: join Briefd. briefd.co.uk.

Bournemouth, Dorset, GB

Remora is website optimisation software for desktop and mobile. The software centres around an Artificial Intelligence engine that uses gesture, touch and behavioural data to detect when a visitor is about to lose interest in a website. The software then changes the page to encourage the visitor to re-engage.As it's a startup, it's all hands to the decks.

Bournemouth, Dorset, GB

My official responsibility as non-executive director was to constructively challenge and contribute to the strategy, financials and capability of the business; to scrutinise the performance and ability of the team in meeting goals; to monitor the performance and service quality that the business delivered and to make considered recommendations where I felt.

Bournemouth, GB

I made new companies and fixed broken ones. Since I started working for a tiny little Bournemouth company with just ten employees, I was involved in the launch of every Richmond Group company bar the original one. Those companies now employ around 450 people, have a combined worth more than £1,500,000,000 and as a group has been recognised as the best.

Loanfinder was a leading UK independent loan broker, finding loans for customers by matching them to lenders without charging any upfront fees. Great little business and a fantastic team of people behind the product.The Loanfinder service was pretty straightforward. The business would assess a customer's requirements and sociodemographic profile then match.

Conducted research into the viability of international expansion and built a strategy to replicate Richmond Group brands in other countries. · Identified viable target countries with applicable financial and cultural environments in which RG companies would be viable. · Assessed demographic, economic and potential market conditions. · Evaluated legal and.

Bournemouth, Dorset, GB

Amigo provided it's first loan in January 2005, trialling 3 niche lending products for UK consumers. One of those products proved to be a success and now Amigo is firmly established as one of the UK's biggest non-status lenders in the UK, providing guarantor loans of between £500 and £7,500.

Established a micro lending business to take on the rapidly expanding pay day loans market. · Conducted market research to identify market potential and to pinpoint key competitive targets. · Formulated product structure, business model and acquisition strategy. · Redesigned product when initial rollout stalled. · Established systems and processes for.

My favourite start up. Payment Guard was perfect. I had designed the product some years before we actually launched but it took quite a long time to find an insurer who would back me, as I had a firm belief that the product would be massively successful and needed lots of room for growth but had absolutely no track record in running an insurance business..

Debt Line was the single hardest business that I ever started. I had seen how Debt Management worked from afar, keenly watching businesses in the north of the UK, in particular Manchester. But beyond market research and some mystery shopping I'd never really experienced this end of the market. I recruited 4 call centre agents from another Richmond Group.

Bachelor Of Music (Ba), Performance & Production

Gcses & A-Levels, Music