Steven Law Email & Phone Number

Sheffield, England, Gb

London, Gb

Board member leading engineering, infrastructure and product teams on our journey from PE backed small business to £60m+ revenue and successful sale to DWS

London, England, Gb

Responsible for setting software engineering strategy across the division which incorporated 40+ software businesses and 1,500+ engineers

Bedford, Gb, Gb

Capita Education Software Services (ESS) is a Division of Capita plc with annual revenue of ~£110m. ESS comprises four very successful software product businesses selling into the Education sector including SIMS. • Responsible for leading Engineering team of 350 split between the UK and India, building and supporting four main product suites using a mixture of technology including Microsoft Azure, .Net, Java and Oracle • Reporting directly to ESS MD• Full budget responsibility for £20m annual R&D spend• Driving strategy to harmonise platforms and technologies across all Engineering teams

Bedford, Gb, Gb

• Spearheaded the move of SIMS to SaaS in MS Azure which will be one of the largest SaaS solutions in Europe with over 1 million users per day processing data in ~85% of the UK’s schools including the data of ~7m students, ~1m staff and ~14m parents • Drove scaling up of team from 30 to 120 in UK and India over 18 months • Recruited first data science team into ESS business

Bedford, Gb, Gb

• Responsible for leading Engineering team of 500 split between UK and India using a mixture of technology including Microsoft, Azure, .Net, Oracle and Node.JS• Drove the creation and adoption of a development centre in India growing from 0 to 150 engineering staff in 2 years• Created a team in UK and India to build a brand-new SaaS product in MS Azure Cloud using a microservice architecture built with Node.JS, MongoDB, Angular and using Docker for deployment

Bedford, Gb, Gb

• Responsible for leading Product and Engineering team of 150 using mostly Microsoft technology stack • Drove the adoption of Agile and Lean development methodologies across the engineering team

Bedford, Gb, Gb

• Responsible for setting the commercial product strategy and managing the product team of 25 • Drove the introduction of key new products

Lightbox Education was a Division of RM Education formed by merging 3T Productions, Softease and ERLP with annual revenue of £12m. Lightbox’s business was a mixture of bespoke development for educational publishers and government customers (e.g. DCSF, Becta and TDA) and publishing its own products (e.g. Honeycomb, Fuse Creator, RM Maths).• Responsible for Development team of 60 staff split between UK and India including publishing, development, QA, project management and content managers• Drove significant improvements in programme management and project delivery

Decided to try something different and worked with some friends on several property development projects

Gizmondo manufactured and sold a handheld multi-entertainment device. Core features of the device included gaming, movies, music and GPS.• Appointed as COO after successfully negotiating the sale of Warthog to Gizmondo’s parent company Tiger Telematics, Inc in November 2004.• Responsible for the day to day operation of the business, including Sales operations, Web and Digital operations, IT, Publishing, Helpdesk, Distribution and Logistics.• Spearheaded the launch of the Gizmondo product in the UK and the US from an operational perspective.• Saved more than £1m annually by recruiting and building a team to bring in-house several key functions previously outsourced, including; Web Development, Web Shop, Digital Marketing and Customer Helpdesk.• Designed and implemented the publishing processes for all Gizmondo Games and Applications, including the copy protection and replication systems, packaging design and trademarks.

Warthog was a work-for-hire computer games developer for various platforms, including PS2, Xbox, PC and a range of Wireless platforms.• Responsible for all aspects of the day to day operation of the business on an international basis.• Drove and managed company growth from a headcount of 40 to 280 in four years through a combination of organic growth and the acquisition of four companies in three countries. • Directed the acquisition and integration process of four separate companies, across two continents, including all the legal and financial aspects.• Led the team to float the company on the public market (UK: AIM) and raised over £10m in new capital for the company.• Director on the public board throughout.• Negotiated the sale of Warthog to Tiger Telematics and managed all aspects of the process from initial contact to signing the deal.

Peerlogic developed and sold Enterprise Application Integration (“EAI”) software to large blue chip customers around the world.• Joined Peerlogic as VP Strategic Planning after successfully negotiating the sale of Lincoln Software to Peerlogic in September 1999.• Part of the Senior Management Team which successfully sold Peerlogic to Critical Path, Inc in September 2000 for $450m.• Drove the integration of four separate companies across two continents and their associated products to form Peerlogic.• Spearheaded the design, creation and launch of a new integrated product called “LiveContent”.

Lincoln Software developed and sold Computer Aided Software Engineering (“CASE”) tools for real-time and business application development.• Co-founded Lincoln Software after purchasing the business and assets of Ipsys from the receiver for £50k in September 1995.• Responsible for Business and Product Strategy and day to day operations of the company.• Won a multi-million pound, multi-year contract with British Aerospace to supply CASE software which was used in the development of; Eurofighter, HAWK, Sea Harrier, Nimrod and Tornado.• Negotiated with several Venture Capital companies before taking a £1m investment from 3i for 17% of the company just 18 months after purchasing it for £50k.• Negotiated and managed the sale of the company to Peerlogic which was then sold to Critical Path leading to Lincoln’s investors receiving a total of $55m in a mixture of shares and cash.