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Hove, East Sussex, Gb

Tillo is the global embedded rewards and incentives platform built for profitability 🚀. We connect our customers with rewards and incentives from 2000+ global brands, making it easier for them to attract, engage, and retain their end-users at all stages of the customer life cycle. More than just rewards management, we also unlock innovative and profitable use cases for digital gift cards, maximizing opportunities for revenue generation beyond conventional gifting.Our unique plug-and-go API provides a seamless connection to the brands people love. With a single integration, the Tillo Platform makes it possible to manage and deliver rewards and incentives effortlessly, making us a preferred choice for leading Fintechs and scale-ups worldwide.

London, Gb

Salary Finance is a Fintech which helps employees improve their financial situation with responsible financial products and educational resources.

Birmingham, Gb

Successfully launched Boomin flawlessly, leading a team of 120 across Data, Product, Engineering, Support and Quality, ensuring consistent platform availability and zero outages while airing premium nationwide TV adverts. Scaled the launch by delivering 100s of integrations and ingesting multiple data sources. Collaborated across the business for tech-due diligence to aid funding, assisted investors and customers in understanding the platform and delivery capabilities to underpin launch, and helped in the acquisition of external products and companies.

London , Gb

NED at CrowdToLive® a property crowdfunding platform that allows for homeownership without a traditional mortgage by raising equity financing through a pool of investors. I am also involved in the following:◼ Zinc's Venture Builder Traveling Fellow, working and advising startups and founders.◼ CTO Academy: Creating Syllabus For Tech Leadership & Coaching: Coach◼ Gartner Peer Community Ambassador◼ Living bridge: Providing Direction & Ongoing Advice On Structures & Innovation to IT Director & Chairman For Target Acquisition: Consultant◼ Mencap: Supporting Digital Transformation Programme To Migrate From Legacy Technology With New Ways Of Working As Cloud Practice: Consultant◼ Alvarez & Marsal: Technical Due Diligence For Proptech Acquisitions: Consultant◼ CultureCon, Microsoft Future Decoded, Excellence in Leadership (savoy IET) & Oxford Business School: Event Speaker

London, England, Gb

Rebuilt and led Engineering and Product teams and focused on growing the team and restructuring operations. Key achievements include leading re-platforming for scale program, developing a roadmap, infosec and technical strategy for FCA authorization which was granted in March 2020 and collaborating on a record-breaking crowdfund and SDLC to grow the user base by 70% in 6 months.

West Midlands, Shirley, Solihull, Gb

From dining room table to £1.5bn IPO valuation and internationalisation. As the first technical employee and founding CTO during my 7-year tenure, key achievements include:◼ Expanded operations internationally to Australia and North America, achieving enterprise growth to +2,000 internationally based employees.◼ Achieved low staff turnover against industry standards, fostering an environment of strong morale and a unique, passionate, collaborative customer-led engineering culture with empowerment and ownership.◼ Scaled global Product data and engineering team from zero to +400 people in multiple locations over 4 years.

◼ 02/2008 - 12/2012: Theroadahead: Technical founder & Microsoft Technical Consultant◼ 02/2006 - 01/2008: Amadeus, France: Database Subject Matter Expert◼ 04/2003 - 02/2006: IBM: Tech & team lead with DEFRA on the UK Emission Trading Registry◼ 03/2001 - 04/2003: Toyota UK: Web Developer◼ 11/2000 - 03/2001: EQOS: Web Developer◼ 10/1999 - 11/2000: UNUM: Programmer◼ 09/1998 - 10/1999: EDS Gatwick: Programmer & Software Analyst

2.1, Bsc Computing

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