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Board Member
Mar 2023
1 in 7 people experience neurological differences.
At Cognassist, we have empowered over 220,000 people to understand how they think through our digital cognitive assessment.
Every person has their own unique cognitive profile and a diverse way of thinking. We all learn and process information differently.
Supporting these cognitive differences in education and workplace impacts lives. Our aim is to challenge misconceptions and stereotypes about neurodiversity and support employers and educators to identify and support cognitive differences.
Cognassist, a B Corp business, is a multi-award-winning neurodiversity platform backed by cognitive science to empower evidence-based decision making and meaningful neuro-inclusion.
Board Member
Aug 2022
Focal Point Positioning Ltd. was founded in 2015 with the aim of bringing accurate position and time to smartphones and autonomous platforms, indoors and out. Focal Point's team are building on over 100 years of experience in cutting-edge positioning technologies and are bringing game-changing new technologies to the world of PNT.
Board Member
Feb 2022
Proximity is the Retail Super-App, designed to transform how you engage with your customers.
The only tool you need to increase efficiency and personalisation with every interaction, our all in one app empowers your associates to quickly organise their day, easily curate every customer moment, and seamlessly transact wherever your stock and customers are.
TANGIBLE RESULTS:
+150% data capture
30% increase in ATV
50-70% email open rate
15% conversion rate
MODULES:
- Data Capture
- Clienteling
- Appointment booking
- Mobile POS & Endless aisle
- Event Management
- Dashboard reporting
Proximity is a revenue generator. ROI is easily measured and quickly realised, typically within 3-9 months of going live.
Get ready to make a bigger impact with the Retail Super-App.
Board Member
Jun 2021
Legatics is an end-to-end deal platform focused on efficiency and client experience. We transform traditional legal processes into simple and highly automated software that frees lawyers from administrative tasks and reduces write-offs.
We have optimised and automated legal processes. The redesigned processes form software modules that lawyers can add to their matters. Each brings greater coordination and efficiency to transactions.
We understand lawyers. Our software development is led by lawyers to ensure that it accurately embodies legal tasks and is simple, intuitive and enjoyable for all parties to use.
We provide real-time visibility over deal progress. Law firms’ clients love the increased transparency our platform provides. Our overview screen displays the live status of deal progress and summarises the actions each party needs to take next. This drives the deal forward and maintains momentum.
Board Member
Dec 2014
Skimlinks powers commerce content strategies for publishers. As the world’s largest commerce content monetisation platform, it helps grow a revenue stream that can contribute as much as a quarter of a publisher’s overall revenue, which enables publishers to be less dependent on advertising.
Its technology automatically earns publishers a share of sales they drive through product links in commerce-related content created by editors. The platform is a one stop solution providing the technology and the data to start, grow and successfully scale a content commerce strategy across desktop, tablet and mobile.
Skimlinks connects 60,000 publishers to 48,500 merchants around the world, generating $2.5m of sales every day. With over ten years in the industry, Skimlinks is ideally placed to become a trusted long-term partner for publishers. Clients include half of the top content publishers in the US&UK such as Conde Nast, Hearst, Yahoo!, Huffington Post, Reach and MailOnline.
The platform is scalable and supported by 100% trusted privacy frameworks certified by EDAA and IAB with complete GDPR compliance.
Skimlinks is a Taboola company.
Learn more at https://skimlinks.com
Visit our careers site to learn more about working with Skimlinks! https://skimlinks.com/careers
Board Member
Nov 2013
EDITED enables competitor and enterprise retail analysis and automation, empowering buyers, planners, merchandisers, and marketers to grow profits.
By connecting business analytics and external market data, our Retail Intelligence products help make better data-backed decisions, expediting insights into action.
Board Member
Jan 2012
Mediatonic is a games developer with over 300 devs across London, Brighton, Madrid, Leamington Spa and Guildford, and is a proud member of the Epic Games family. Best known for Fall Guys, we delight in creating games that are joyful, inclusive and approachable; and love the weird, the surprising, and the wonderful. We build franchises with networking and social play at their core, on a constant quest to connect our players in new ways.
As a creative business, we recognise that creativity is best inspired by different experiences and perspectives. We strive to create a culture of belonging, where all our colleagues feel welcome, supported and diversity is celebrated. We passionately believe that games are for everyone, whether we’re playing or creating them.
So if you're eager to tackle the biggest creative and technical challenges you can get your hands on, interested in working on diverse titles across multiple platforms and IPs, and are equipped with a deep love of games, we’d love to hear from you.
Board Observer
Jan 2011
We’re the UK’s best online marketplace connecting great homeowners with great local tradespeople.
More than 10,000 tradespeople all over the UK use our site to get the job done for our homeowners, grow their reputation and expand their business. Between them they specialise in over 200 different skills and trades.
Millions of homeowners trust our service, and once the work is complete, they leave a review of the tradesperson. With 95% of work on our site receiving 4* or above, it’s this feedback that gives others the peace of mind that they’ve found someone reliable.
Millions of homeowners have used our service and our tradespeople receive positive reviews 95% of the time.
We’ve been doing this for over 18 years and are committed to providing a great value, easy to use go-to service for both tradespeople and homeowners.
Board Observer
Jul 2010
Scoota is a creative-first omni-channel programmatic platform. At the heart of the system is a patent-pending delivery technology that allows high-impact creative formats to be delivered without the need for a pre-tested marketplace. This turns existing DSPs into creative powerhouses instantly, handing back complete control for high-impact delivery to the buyer, while making deep creative analysis by domain available through a sophisticated suite of reporting dashboards.
The creative management tool within the platform automates the build of even the most ambitious, template-free creative, via a simple drag & drop from Photoshop. Powerful dynamic creative can be applied to Desktop, Mobile, DOOH, and CTV with ease.
For DOOH, Scoota introduces a collection of creative-first USPs that allow wonderfully dynamic and flexible programmatic campaigns to be conceived, built, and made live within a single day.
We care about and invest in an open and long-term approach, enabling partners to work with us through integration with their own systems of choice, or via our platform, whether as a self-serve solution, or a fully managed service.
Board Observer
Jul 2009
OrderDynamics is now part of the Tecsys family. For the latest in supply chain excellence, follow us at https://www.linkedin.com/company/tecsys-inc/
OrderDynamics is retail's most advanced, out-of-the-box, Distributed Order Management technology (OMS / DOM). As a true multi-tenant cloud-based technology, our solutions help accelerate omni-channel sales growth by connecting online and physical (brick & mortar) stores.
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Board (10)
2023
Board Member
Mar 2023
1 in 7 people experience neurological differences.
At Cognassist, we have empowered over 220,000 people to understand how they think through our digital cognitive assessment.
Every person has their own unique cognitive profile and a diverse way of thinking. We all learn and process information differently.
Supporting these cognitive differences in education and workplace impacts lives. Our aim is to challenge misconceptions and stereotypes about neurodiversity and support employers and educators to identify and support cognitive differences.
Cognassist, a B Corp business, is a multi-award-winning neurodiversity platform backed by cognitive science to empower evidence-based decision making and meaningful neuro-inclusion.
2022
Board Member
Aug 2022
Focal Point Positioning Ltd. was founded in 2015 with the aim of bringing accurate position and time to smartphones and autonomous platforms, indoors and out. Focal Point's team are building on over 100 years of experience in cutting-edge positioning technologies and are bringing game-changing new technologies to the world of PNT.
Board Member
Feb 2022
Proximity is the Retail Super-App, designed to transform how you engage with your customers.
The only tool you need to increase efficiency and personalisation with every interaction, our all in one app empowers your associates to quickly organise their day, easily curate every customer moment, and seamlessly transact wherever your stock and customers are.
TANGIBLE RESULTS:
+150% data capture
30% increase in ATV
50-70% email open rate
15% conversion rate
MODULES:
- Data Capture
- Clienteling
- Appointment booking
- Mobile POS & Endless aisle
- Event Management
- Dashboard reporting
Proximity is a revenue generator. ROI is easily measured and quickly realised, typically within 3-9 months of going live.
Get ready to make a bigger impact with the Retail Super-App.
2021
Investment Director
Oct 2021
We are the growth equity division of Gresham House, working with exceptional entrepreneurs to take their business to the next level.
We specialise in scaling companies across a diversified range of sectors, including healthcare & education, consumer markets, technology & communications, and business services.
Board Member
Jun 2021
Legatics is an end-to-end deal platform focused on efficiency and client experience. We transform traditional legal processes into simple and highly automated software that frees lawyers from administrative tasks and reduces write-offs.
We have optimised and automated legal processes. The redesigned processes form software modules that lawyers can add to their matters. Each brings greater coordination and efficiency to transactions.
We understand lawyers. Our software development is led by lawyers to ensure that it accurately embodies legal tasks and is simple, intuitive and enjoyable for all parties to use.
We provide real-time visibility over deal progress. Law firms’ clients love the increased transparency our platform provides. Our overview screen displays the live status of deal progress and summarises the actions each party needs to take next. This drives the deal forward and maintains momentum.
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