Ross Seychell

A new standard of benchmarks for confident compensation Wrong compensation decisions cost companies millions – lost hires, wasted budgets, top talent walking out the door. All because they’re navigating with a broken compass: inaccurate benchmarks. With payroll accounting for over 70% of operating costs, businesses can’t afford to get compensation wrong. That’s why 1,500 companies – such as Adyen, Wise, and Octopus Energy – trust Ravio as the new standard for compensation benchmarking. It’s not about yesterday’s survey data or piecing together job postings, salary sites, and crowdsourced reports with AI. Ravio benchmarks are powered by live data pulled directly from company HR systems, which is expertly mapped and levelled by our compensation specialists, and backed by a robust methodology you can defend in any boardroom. Flexible enough to align with your strategy, but rigorous enough to stand up to scrutiny – a true quality-first benchmark. With Ravio, you don’t just get numbers – you get market intelligence that matters: real-time pay trends to win hires, insights to plan smarter, and pay positioning to keep your best people. All reflecting today’s market reality, not last year’s.

Ben is the unordinary global flexible benefits platform that lifts people up. Our mission is to create a world working at its best. Where every individual can live their best life — at work and outside of work. Our technology connects the entire benefits ecosystem, creating better outcomes for employers, employees, brokers, and providers. We envision a world where in-work benefits make us feel seen and heard not as employees, but as people. Where we live our lives in full-colour, expressing ourselves through the benefits we choose. Benefits can play a pivotal role in reshaping the world of work — one where work moves from just sustaining livelihoods to shaping lives. In our increasingly connected world, the idea of work-life balance is outdated. We’ve moved beyond putting up walls between work and life — work feeds into life and life feeds into work. With tens of millions in benefits spend managed for our customers all around the world, we’re transforming the landscape of benefits and work-life integration. Switch Ben On for benefits that work for life.

Index Ventures partners with exceptional entrepreneurs – those with unique insight who are intrinsically driven to make their vision a reality. We help them turn their bold ideas into global businesses, and through the companies they build, have a long-lasting and positive impact on the world around us. Index-backed businesses are supported by an experienced team of investors, strategists, and an extensive global network built over three decades of startup investing. Working side-by-side through the scale up journey, we forge deep and long-lasting relationships with founders and their teams. The vast majority of these partnerships begin early in the company’s life, at Seed and Series A, and extend to IPO and beyond. Operating as one team, with feet firmly on both sides of the Atlantic – from London to Tel Aviv, and San Francisco to New York – we are an international team with a global mindset, with experience supporting founders wherever they emerge. When they succeed, they generate returns that in turn support Index’s investors, including non-profit foundations; education, healthcare and research endowments; and other impact-driven organizations.

I partner with organisations helping them solve business problems with a people focus, enabling them to unlock greater organisational effectiveness. I advise and consult on a broad range of topics, drawing on my experience as a HR professional, executive and investor over the last 25 years. Some of the areas where I have deep experience: - People strategy - Organisational planning & business operations - HR operating models - Leading HR teams - Employer brand & talent acquisition - People data, analytics & technology - HR operations - Total reward & compensation - Remuneration & nomination committees - Organisational development, productivity and employee listening - Corp development inc M&A, SE transformation & public market preparation I work directly with company founders, CEO/executive teams, boards, venture capital and private equity investment firms. I also coach and mentor HR leaders to unlock their full capability. If you want to get in touch - ross@seychellgordon.com

Atomico is the founder-built European venture capital firm. We partner with the most ambitious entrepreneurs using technology to rewire the world, better. Skype co-founder Niklas Zennström launched Atomico in 2006 with the belief that entrepreneurs are the ultimate gamechangers for positive transformation across the most critical aspects of our society and economy. Starting in Europe, the firm’s mission is to further their global progress, with a platform offering unmatched support from the early stage to scale. 130 of Europe’s most ambitious founders have partnered with Atomico, including Aiven, Bird, DeepL, Hinge Health, Jobandtalent, Klarna, Lilium, Pipedrive, Stripe, Supercell and Wellhub. Atomicos team of investors and operational leaders are drawn from some of the most successful technology companies in the world, including Skype, Google, Twitter and Wise.

A new standard of benchmarks for confident compensation Wrong compensation decisions cost companies millions – lost hires, wasted budgets, top talent walking out the door. All because they’re navigating with a broken compass: inaccurate benchmarks. With payroll accounting for over 70% of operating costs, businesses can’t afford to get compensation wrong. That’s why 1,500 companies – such as Adyen, Wise, and Octopus Energy – trust Ravio as the new standard for compensation benchmarking. It’s not about yesterday’s survey data or piecing together job postings, salary sites, and crowdsourced reports with AI. Ravio benchmarks are powered by live data pulled directly from company HR systems, which is expertly mapped and levelled by our compensation specialists, and backed by a robust methodology you can defend in any boardroom. Flexible enough to align with your strategy, but rigorous enough to stand up to scrutiny – a true quality-first benchmark. With Ravio, you don’t just get numbers – you get market intelligence that matters: real-time pay trends to win hires, insights to plan smarter, and pay positioning to keep your best people. All reflecting today’s market reality, not last year’s.

Ben is the unordinary global flexible benefits platform that lifts people up. Our mission is to create a world working at its best. Where every individual can live their best life — at work and outside of work. Our technology connects the entire benefits ecosystem, creating better outcomes for employers, employees, brokers, and providers. We envision a world where in-work benefits make us feel seen and heard not as employees, but as people. Where we live our lives in full-colour, expressing ourselves through the benefits we choose. Benefits can play a pivotal role in reshaping the world of work — one where work moves from just sustaining livelihoods to shaping lives. In our increasingly connected world, the idea of work-life balance is outdated. We’ve moved beyond putting up walls between work and life — work feeds into life and life feeds into work. With tens of millions in benefits spend managed for our customers all around the world, we’re transforming the landscape of benefits and work-life integration. Switch Ben On for benefits that work for life.