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Echo
COO
Health, Ops, Executive search, UK
Echo
Innovative online pharmacy
HQ
UK
Placement
Role
COO
Role location
UK
Echo was preparing to raise it’s Series A funding and required an experienced Operations executive to join the founders and development a road-map for the full automation of Echo’s operations and fulfilment.
Roger Hassan joined Echo from HelloFresh, where he led the global fulfilment function overseeing production, logistics, property infrastructure, operations technology and food safety. Roger had good domain experience having previously worked for his father’s pharmaceutical wholesale business.
Roger made an immediate impact on Echo’s internal operations. He very quickly took on a wider remit which including strategy, before being invited to step into the CEO role where he led the successful trade sale to Lloyds Pharmacy Group.
“360Leaders are NOT recruiters … they’re very experienced head-hunters who come in to understand your business and your talent needs. They systematically search the market and use their extensive network to introduce the right people for the right role. Ben Markland found our new Vice President of Operations and we couldn’t be happier with the hire. I would highly recommend these guys for anyone looking to make a senior hire!“
Investors:
White Star Capital
BenevolentAI
CTO/CEO
Health, Tech, Executive search, UK
BenevolentAI
Artificial intelligence for drug discovery and development.
HQ
UK
Placement
Role
CTO/CEO
Role location
UK
Benevolent AI wanted an experienced Chief Executive Officer to take the reigns from the founder, Ken Mulvany. The brief was for a highly experienced operator from the technology sector well suited to a science orientated, deep tech business. Combined with a commercial and strategic focus, the CEO would be capable of carrying the vision and mission of the company. It was important that they understood the value of IP.
Jerome Pesenti Co-founded Vivisimo, a company that was acquired by IBM. Jerome then led the creation of IBM’s AI cloud unit where he managed a team of 300 AI engineers. He led two acquisitions before joining Benevolent to run the Technology business unit as CEO.
Jerome Pesenti joined Benevolent.AI excited by the mission. Within a few months, he had reorganised the teams, changed the management structure and brought in new ways of collaboration that were felt right across the organisation. He opened an engineering hub in New York.
“Jerome has been focused on big data and machine learning for the past 16 years. He joins benevolent.ai from IBM Watson where he created and led the development of the Watson Platform – a set of cloud services leveraging natural language processing and machine learning that allows developers around the world to embed AI technologies into their applications.
Investors:
Temasek Holdings, Lansdowne Partners, Lundbeck, Nortrust Nominees, Upsher-Smith laboratories and Woodford Investment Management
Meawallet
CEO
FinTech, CEO, Executive search, Norway
Meawallet
Digital payment solutions for banks & merchants.
HQ
Norway
Placement
Role
CEO
Role location
Norway
The investors wanted a new CEO to take advantage of the growth opportunities with contactless payments and bring new energy and rigour to the business at a critical phase of international scale.
Previously Nuno was part of building up Opera Software to one of Norway’s leading Tech companies. His latest role was scaling up OPay, an international Mobile payment business within the group.
At Meawalet Nuno took charge of the international commercial development in the company, announcing new funding of 10 million NOK from its major shareholder Idekapital not long after he joined.
“With the new leadership and funding, we are confident the company will move into its new stage of growth.”
Investors:
IdeKapital
iZettle
Product Director
FinTech, Product, Executive search, Sweden
iZettle
Empowering small businesses to take payments and get investment.
HQ
Sweden
Placement
Role
Product Director
Role location
Sweden
iZettle was growing rapidly in Europe and wanted to establish a lending business, a model its US competitor, Square had followed. The brief was to find a commercially oriented, entrepreneurial Product executive who could work alongside one of the founders to establish iZettle Capital, a lending business leveraging it’s SME POS data.
Justin Drees was a Senior Product Manager at Klarna, where he led the creation of its Checkout product and its UK launch. He went on to found his own food-tech business before joining iZettle.
Within 9 months, Justin had designed, tested and launched iZettle Capital. He remained on the board for two years and has subsequently taken on an expanded role as Product Director overseeing all payments, hardware and financial services product lines.
Investors:
Paypal
Forecast
CRO
SaaS, Sales, Executive search, Denmark
Forecast
Automated operations to empower people and leverage insights.
HQ
Denmark
Placement
Role
CRO
Role location
UK
With an ambition to close a Series A fundraise, Forecast needed an experienced commercial leader that had scaled from 0-10 million ARR to lead their journey.
Rob, is the previous GM EMEA for BounceX (now Wunderkind) where he was the first senior hire on the ground outside the US. An American born and bred, he scaled their EMEA operations from $0-$10 million ARR and developed their playbook across both SMB and Enterprise. Prior to this Rob was the CRO of Opt-Intelligence where he scaled their brand tenfold.
After joining Forecast, Rob has brought his expertise to the leadership and is devising new growth strategies, playbook and growth mindset to the London operations. In his first four months, Forecast has scaled at 20% month on month and will be raising a substantial Series A in 2021.
“We’re very lucky to have Rob Massa, who is starting to orchestrate the commercial machine today as a Chief Revenue Officer. Bringing over 10 years of experience in high growth startups, Rob will oversee the commercial operations of Forecast. Previously, Rob served BounceX as GM EMEA, applying his entrepreneurial mind coupled with management expertise to quickly accelerate growth in EMEA.”
Investors:
Crane Venture Partner, Seed Capital, Heartcore Capital
Greenely
VP Product
Consumer, Tech, Executive search, Sweden
Greenely
An app to give you full control over your electricity use.
HQ
Sweden
Placement
Role
VP Product
Role location
Sweden
Greenely was looking for a Head of Product to lead, build, and mentor a team of product managers, UX-designers and engineers at Greenely as the business scales on international markets. The Head of Product will drive the development of products that delight users and be the champion for a product-first culture in the company. The person will lead the strategy, and execution of new products, packaging and pricing through experimentation to drive aggressive growth and increase Greenely’s user and customer base.
Joakim Gronvall is a tech entrepreneur that has co-founded several consumer tech companies. He successfully led Yell’s transition from being a physical phone book into a digital platform in Russia. Pre Instagram, he also co-founded Bilddagboken, which was the instagram of the Nordics with almost 5m UMVs every week, and over 500.000 photos being uploaded every day. Prior to Greenely Joakim was the CEO and co-founder of Triple, a B2C platform that enables travellers to book unique city activities created and hosted by people living there.
Joakim started his role in August and is already impacting the team. We look forward to seeing what he can achieve in coming the coming year.
“What struck us the most when we met Joakim, was that we’ve been building the product for people like him. His rare background combined with his thoughts on where we should take our platform in future really compelled us. I am extremely excited to work closely with Joakim for the upcoming years.”
Tanmoy Bari, CEO of Greenely
Investors:
Luminar Ventures, byFounders, Per Emanuelsson
Fluxloop
Chair
Media, Board, Executive search, Norway
Fluxloop
Innovative user experiences using natural user interfaces and advertising.
HQ
Norway
Placement
Role
Chair
Role location
Norway
The need was for an experienced Chair with both board and founder/ CEO experience from startup through to exit within the SaaS MarTech space.
Alex, an Oxford graduate with M&A experience from PWC, was CFO/COO at Unanimis through the exit to Orange before founding StrikeAd and raising VC-funding, scaling to the US and eventually exiting to Sizmek.
Within a few months into the role, Alex opened doors to multiple commercial opportunities and was invited to be Venture Partner with Ide Kapital investors.
Investors:
IdeKapital
Firefly
CRO
EdTech, Sales, Executive search, UK
Firefly
Parent engagement platform for learning continuity.
HQ
UK
Placement
Role
CRO
Role location
UK
Firefly wanted to build out their go-to-market team by hiring a CRO that would allow them to build a scalable commercial playbook across the UK, USA and APAC.
Prior to joining Firefly, Adam Portlock was CRO and COO at Sam Labs another high growth Ed-Tech, where he led a series A investment, grew YoY revenues by 300% and set both B2B and B2C proposition strategies.
In under a year, Adam Portlock established the foundation for the enterprise playbook and has revitalised Firefly’s go to market team while adapting the business in response to demand as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
“I’m proud to now join the fantastic team at Firefly Learning as Chief Revenue Officer to further grow the most engaging modern learning platform for school students, teachers & parents.”
Investors:
Downing Ventures, Beringea, BGF Ventures
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