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Leeds, GB

Leeds, England, United Kingdom

Co-founded this live entertainment agency based in Yorkshire. With hundreds of acts and thousands of 5 star reviews, we've established a reputation as one of the leading providers of entertainment in the UK.

London, England, United Kingdom

Old.st Labs helps digital innovators take products from napkin to launch. We offer product design, development, strategy and development services. Our team of creatives and developers are based in Philippines which helps keep costs manageable for any project.

Leeds

Following the acquisition of Appmetrix, I joined Zeal as Chief Technology Officer. I was responsible for driving growth at Zeal through technology and innovation.

Leeds

Founded this mobile and web applications development company in Leeds in June 2019. We specialise in creating innovative digital platforms and products for early stage companies. Our unique business model and focus on graduate recruitment and training enables us to offer low cost software development services, based entirely in the UK (Leeds, West.

CEO of FusePump, a business which I founded in March 2009. Significantly grew the business, before selling to WPP in April 2014. I remained as CEO and was responsible for driving the business forward as part of Wunderman, the world's largest digital agency network, over the next few years.

Maintained overall responsibility for technology within the business. Assumed end-to-end responsibility for selling, planning and executing strategically important projects for our key clients.

Heartier (formerly Market Porter) is an e-commerce startup that aims to "recreate the traditional market street online". Their website, offers a subscription based e-commerce experience and conveniently delivers high quality fresh produce to your home or office.

The Chapar redefines the way men shop for clothes by providing an online personal stylist who will select and deliver a trunk full of clothes to your office or home whenever you need. Try on everything, keep what you want and they collect the rest. You are only charged for what you keep. I was an early stage investor in this fast growing service.

Cornerstone is an ecommerce subscription business providing "a more simple way to shave" for men. After raising seed funding, they experienced very rapid growth and subscriber rates continue to climb reflecting the quality of the product and simplicity of the service. I was one of the first investors and sit on the board.

Grabble are very busy disrupting the mobile commerce and online fashion space with their "tinder for fashion" app. I was their first investor, early stage mentor and sit on the board as an advisor.

Squawka.com is fast becoming the top online destination for football content thanks to their unique "stats worth sharing" offering. Squawka have raised significant angel as well as institutional funding. I was one of the first investors in the business and sit on the board.

Master Of Arts (Ma)

Activities and Societies: JCR Treasurer, Choral Scholar

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