Scott Dylan Email & Phone Number

Scott Dylan is the Founder of NexaTech Ventures, a Dublin and California-based venture capital firm with a €120 million fund focused on investing in early-stage AI and technology startups. NexaTech Ventures supports innovative companies in sectors such as healthcare, finance, logistics, and creative industries, offering not only financial backing but also strategic guidance, mentorship, and operational support.As the driving force behind NexaTech Ventures, Scott is committed to fostering innovation and growth in emerging technologies, ensuring that the companies within his portfolio are positioned for long-term success. His hands-on approach includes working closely with founders to scale their operations, refine their strategies, and navigate the complexities of today's competitive marketplace. Under his leadership, NexaTech has rapidly become a key player in the venture capital space, particularly within AI-driven industries.Key responsibilities include:- Overseeing investment strategy, deal sourcing, and due diligence for AI and tech startups.- Providing mentorship and strategic advice to portfolio companies to drive growth and innovation.- Building strong relationships with industry leaders and fostering partnerships to accelerate technological advancements.Ensuring ethical business practices and a sustainable approach in all investments, with a focus on long-term impact.NexaTech Ventures reflects Scott's commitment to shaping the future of technology while ensuring startups have the tools they need to thrive in a fast-changing world.

Boston, Ma, Us

An official member of the Forbes Business Council.

London, England, Gb

Scott Dylan co-founded Inc & Co, an award-winning venture capital and investment group, alongside Jack Mason and Dave Antrobus. Inc & Co specialised in acquiring and revitalising distressed businesses across a range of sectors, including technology, retail, digital agencies, and hospitality. Under Scott’s mentorship, the group achieved transformative growth, turning around numerous businesses that faced financial challenges and ensuring their long-term profitability.During his time at Inc & Co, Scott played a pivotal role in driving the company’s expansion, which resulted in a turnover exceeding £150 million. His strategic vision focused on leveraging private equity, implementing digital transformation strategies, and creating synergies within the acquired businesses to maximise efficiency and growth.Key responsibilities included:- Leading M&A activities, specifically in distressed acquisitions and strategic exits.- Operational turnaround of acquired companies, focusing on cash flow, debt management, and restructuring.- Developing growth strategies for portfolio companies, ensuring they were positioned for long-term sustainability and success.- Engaging in high-level negotiations, building relationships with key stakeholders, and fostering strategic partnerships.Scott’s expertise in distressed M&A and his hands-on approach to revitalising businesses were key to the success of Inc & Co. He exited the company in September 2024, having built a legacy of transformative business achievements and positioning Inc & Co as a leader in its field.

Tunbridge Wells, Kent, Gb

Acquired Baldwins Travel in September 2021 in Multimillion pound purchase.

London, England, Gb

Acquired Knomo in January 2021

London, England, Gb

Manchester, England, Gb

Manchester, Greater Manchester, Gb

Acquired Skylab in May 2020

Uckfield, East Sussex, Gb

London, London, Gb

Bath, Gb

Acquired Wood for trees in August 2020Successfully turnaround the company and Exited February 2023

London, England, Gb

London, England, Gb

Acquired Laundrapp in February 2020Successfully turnaround and exited in April 2022

London, Gb

Fresh Thinking Group an independent capital investment group which operates throughout the UK and Europe. Investing in Healthy, Distressed and Struggling Businesses. FTG currently has a number of companies within its portfolio across multiple sectors, including Digital Agencies, Ecommerce Companies, Technology-based companies and Logistics orientated companies.Fresh Thinking Group also provides seed capital to startup entrepreneurs to test new innovative ideas. Successfully grew a portfolio of companies turning over £130mscott.dylan@freshthinking.group

Manchester, Gb

Ingenious Acquisitions operating through the UK and Europe acquires and invests in Healthy, Distressed and Struggling Businesses to Turnaround and Grow. Companies which Ingenious Acquisitions is actively interested in are:- Professional Service Companies such as Digital Agencies, Marketing Agencies, Branding Agencies- Technology-based companies- E-commerce Companies- Co-working and Serviced Office Spacesscott@ingeniousacquisitions.co.uk

South West, Gb

Acquired Mylife Digital in August 2020After successful turnaround, sold Mylife Digital in April 2021

Manchester, Greater Manchester, Gb

Manchester, United KingdomWe Are Ingenium: An agile user-centric, full-service digital agency with a can-do attitude.It is our aim to supercharge your digital presence, boost conversions and deliver maximum Return on Investment (ROI). Trust us to kickstart your online marketing or development campaign today.With offices in Manchester and London, we base our approach on solid research, helping us understand your business objectives from the outset. We then move to deliver fantastic user experiences and campaigns to catapult your company to the next level.We are a knowledgeable and friendly agency with a background in a variety of industry sectors. With nearly 20 years of experience under our belt, we know what it takes to help you succeed. We bring highly innovative and creative solutions to digital business problems, whether that involves overhauling a website, setting up a PPC campaign, increasing conversions, or delivering a top-notch social media project.At We Are Ingenium, along with Agile, we also follow the process of ‘RODA’: Research, Optimisation, Development and Acquisition. Using this deliberate, time-tested methodology, our experienced team of professionals have transformed the digital prospects of hundreds of companies, from major brands and blue chips to SMEs and non-profit organisations.If you can think it, we can do it!We pride ourselves on our ability to take an idea and develop unique, custom solutions - and we deliver a full range of digital services, including digital marketing, website design and development, digital transformation and UX/UI consultancy. Get in touch with us today for a friendly chat about how we can transform the digital aspects of your business.Email: scott@weareingenium.comWebsite: https://weareingenium.com

Manchester, Gb

The Assembly is a Collaborative office workspace environment for Startups and Freelancers needing desk space. As a member of The Assembly, you get your own dedicated desk, fast internet and access to meeting rooms. Not to mention the added benefit of being surrounded with people to whom you can provide your valuable skills and experience and who can do the same for you in return.

Glasgow, Glasgow, Gb

For this position, I competently conducted an intense review of the business, effectively restructuring the board and leading the company through a management buy-out. 11 weeks later I lead the companies first acquisition of a manchester based agency.I developed a three year growth and exit strategy, primarily through Mergers and Acquisitions but also through organic growth, whist leading the first acquisition of a company in Manchester, with first year growth delivering set to close at £2 million combined versus the Growth and Exit Plan of £20 million in 3 years. I effectively restructured the entire organisation, re-positioning for growth and driving efficiencies. I introduced Agile Methodology through an intense re-training programme, utilising Agile as a corporate methodology and not just for delivery of projects. Furthermore, I designed and delivered a new cloud based digital infrastructure, enabling the company to be more mobile and introduced Digital Transformation as a new service channel to the business. I was also responsible for a new corporate culture programme, helping to embed changes and new developments. In addition, I redesigned and introduced an Account Management team to the business; driving business productivity.Clients included: EDF Energy, Philharmonic Orchestra, University of Southampton, University of Bath, Tomnitoul Whisky, Almeida Theatre, Young Vic, Lyric Theatre, The Hallé, People Make Glasgow, Benromach Whisky, Angus Dundee Whisky, Royal Exchange Theatre, Atlas Hotels, Redefine BDL, BBC and NHS

Lead the acquisition of Fluid Creativity in February 2015 forming the start of a new group of agencies to be owned by We are AD.Established in 2001, Fluid Creativity was one of Manchester’s first website design agencies and has worked with a range of top clients over the years, including Panasonic, American Soda and Manchester University.Fluid Creativity complements and strengthens AD’s track record in ecommerce, with their years of Magento experience and a strong digital marketing team.

Maidenhead, England, Gb

A demanding role, tasked with reinvigorating the business through a major transformation initiative that moved the business to a totally digital, Cloud based organisation. Driving fundamental change as a thought leader I have established a clear position for the brand as an innovative player in a competitive field. Areas of improvement have included staff engagement and morale boosting through up skilling and training of client facing employees, while providing additional support to the service delivery team; helping establish ANDacademy and ANDbootcamp to coach for high performance. Raising the profile of the organisation I have developed a network across the digital ecommerce community to share ideas, raise awareness and generate positive PR for the brand, as an employer of choice.

London, Gb

Recruited to work closely with the Marketing Director on an interim basis to define the new direction for the business in Digital. During my tenure I oversaw the introduction of online marketing, created an online presence and introduced a comprehensive digital strategy to move the business forward. Through this period of transition I led the successful revamp of the companies website, implementation of new infrastructure such as iPads, and HootSuite that builds workflow within the company and ensures ongoing regulatory compliance. Educating the Product Marketing team has been key to driving success for the business. During my tenure digital traffic has increased by 2000% and the introduction of SEO and PPC has achieved a 1000% return on investment. The company is well placed to move forward despite a challenging economic environment.

Liverpool, Liverpool, Gb

An interim role to support the modernisation of the business, develop and deliver marketing strategies that improve customer sign up and create agency relationships to shape the future of the company. Realising a missed opportunity I realigned the focus of the business to actively promote services to existing and previous customers, thus capitalising on repeat sales. I successfully drove senior management engagement for new methodologies, facilitating a trickle down approach that has led to wider staff engagement of an aligned vision and target. Giving the company a renew brand has reaped dividends, on the company's forecasted profit.

In 2006 I took the decision to establish my own digital agency, bringing together my technical expertise and entrepreneurial spirit, resulting in the agency being 14th in the Top 100 Agencies in 2012. As Director of Digital I worked closely with clients (including Google, Caldesene and SimplyBe) to develop comprehensive marketing campaigns that provided both on and offline exposure, creating a unified plan that drove traffic to websites across social media traffic and enhanced SEO and PPC results, i.e. an optimal mix to provide the best return on investment. I also oversaw all financial, staff and operational issues, implementing robust processes and procedures to facilitate a sustainable business.

Redmond, Washington, Us

My role within Microsoft was to develop a new encryption platform for their current network. I also developed a new secure network structure and which I then implemented throughout the organisation, on top of their current setup.

London, Gb

Whilst at the M.O.D I was charged with the development and deployment of a new encryption and security based technology.This was a short term contractor role.

Strand, England, Gb

Whilst with The Really Useful Group, I redesigned and developed their main website ‘www.reallyuseful.com’ along with one of its production sites ‘www.thephantomoftheopera.com’. The key focus here was to restructure and reorganise the website, as their old website was very messy and unprofessional.Technologies Used: ASP.NET, VB.NET, JavaScript, CSS, XML, Photoshop, Fireworks, Flash and SQLThis was a short term contractor role.

Frankfurt Am Main, Hessen, De

Whilst with Deutsche Bank, I redeveloped their ‘Techmart’ system (part of their internal asset management systems). During this redevelopment I migrated their underlying databases from MySQL to Oracle, and rewrote the entire project with Coldfusion.Technologies used: PHP, Oracle, Coldfusion, and JavaThis was a short term freelancer position

Whilst with Tarantula I designed and developed an E-Learning system for Virgin. This tool is used by employees of Carphone Warehouse as a tool to build knowledge about the Virgin Mobile Brand, Tarrif and Phones. The E-Learning system includes a testing centre which I also created.Technologies used: PHP, HTML, MySQL, and JavascriptThis was a short term freelancer position for one project.

Miami, Florida, Us

Whilst with Cable and Wireless (aka Hyperlink Interactive) I developed the Criminal Justice Secure Mail Network.Part of this role included creating new features such as ‘auto configuration’ files for mail applications, fix bugs within the system and stress testing. I also had to make configuration changes to there Mirapoint Servers.Another key task was for me to create a file management system and a content management system. This allowed administrators to easily edit files on the system, and administer who could access different areas. All the code I created here was compliant with W3C standards.Knowledge and Skills Gained: Disability Discrimination ActTechnologies used: Javascript, PHP, XML, MySQL and HTML, SQL, C# ADO and VB.NETThis was a short term freelancer position

While at MTL I produced a number of content management system (CMS) based websites.For each development, the full project lifecycle was observed (needs analysis, visual design, technical implementation, project management, delivery and support).I also developed an application which connected to ships at sea via satalite to grab data and bring it back to the data centre. This application then sorted the data into different formats for different platforms and sent it around the globe as and when needed.Part of my role at MTL was to fulfill a requirement to create addons to packages such as Sage and Quickbooks so that certain data could be posted into these.Skills used: PHP, MySQL, ASP, SQL, ADO.NET & VB.NET, Oracle, Java, XML, C#, and C++.This was a short term role to project manage, deliver and complete the project brief.

• Contributed to a diverse range of websites including a number of large content-managed sites.• I used Websphere/Weblogic for various e-commerce and portal projects. I was responsible for visual and behind the scenes code, database/component design and implementation, and took an active interest in usability testing.Successful projects included:- An e-mail marketing tool offering online HTML e-mail composition, subscriber group management and campaign reporting- A flexible, modular content management system built around PHP, MySQL, XML and Smarty Templates (for caching)- A recruitment application in ASP.NET- A multilingual content-managed site for GE Capital built around PHP with an Oracle 8i database.- I also used Websphere Commerce Suite / Websphere Commerce Portal and Websphere Portal Server on the British Telecommunications Portal alongside Oracle DB.Technologies Used: PHP, MySQL, XML, Smarty Templates, ASP.NET, Websphere Commerce Suite / Websphere Commerce Portal, Websphere Commerce Portal Server, Oracle

My role as developer gave me an active involvement in all aspects of web-application development, from design and scoping to deployment and support while specialising in project implementation.I gained experience of a range of development methodologies and excelled as part of the development team, responsible for the successful delivery of several high-profile projects including:- An ASP-based property investment management system- An Enterprise-Java driven discussion forum- A unique XML and XSL based website for the Alliance & Leicester, called Smartermotoring.com.- I provided ColdFusion development to drive a mobile location based service offered by Swiss mobile operator: “diAx”.Technologies Used: ASP, XML, XSL, HTML, Java and Coldfusion

Bachelor Of Laws (Honours) Llb, Law

A-Levels, Law, Psychology, English And It

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