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Rimilia
CPO
FinTech, Product, Executive search, UK
Rimilia
Intelligent, finance automation to control cash flow and cash collection in real-time.
HQ
UK
Placement
Role
CPO
Role location
UK
Rimilia needed a CPO to drive growth and customer success through new product based innovative solutions that would enable Rimilia to scale.
Andy Lilley has over 20 years of professional experience across professional services, pre-sales and product, having spent 13 years at Bottomline Technologies, where he spent the latter 6/7 years of his tenure as Product Director. The EMEA business grew from 150 to 1000 employees, and revenue increased from £25m to £100m. As Product Director, Andy was part of the European executive team responsible for product strategy, product marketing and product delivery within Bottomline Technologies’ European business, which provides strategic payments and financial document automation solutions to corporates, NBFI’s and banks. Successfully delivering innovative deployed, hosted and SaaS software solutions, to over 10,000 Customers. He grew the product team from 7 to 12 PMs and instilled a much more commercial mindset across the function.
In less than a year after their successful hire of Andy, Rimilia has built out their product roadmap and continue to shape product across the organisation in the UK and the USA, where they are projected to scale.
“The opportunity ahead for Rimilia and its customers is vast, but to seize it, we must focus clearly, move faster and continue to transform. A big part of my job is to accelerate our ability to bring innovative products to our customers, rapidly helping them unlock more cash into their businesses, especially in these uncertain economic times. I’m delighted to welcome Rob and Steven and add their leadership and experience to the team.”
Investors:
Eight Roads Ventures, Kennet Partners, Silicon Valley Bank
Prediktor
Chair
SaaS, Board, Executive search, Norway
Prediktor
A leading provider of Industrial IT products, solutions and services.
HQ
Norway
Placement
Role
Chair
Role location
Norway
Prediktor were shifting from custom solutions to a SaaS offering and wanted to scale the business by 10x. Prediktor wanted to hire a Chair not only to lead Board, but to help support the strategic direction of the business on how to scale successfully.
John Thompson is an experienced Chair, Non-Exec Director, Advisor and Coach. He has a wealth of experience in go-to-market strategies, gearing businesses up for new rounds of funding and scaling early-stage companies through to exit.
John Thompson was brought into Prediktor as their Chair in March 2020. He has been able to advise the business and help lay the foundations for key milestones for the journey ahead.
Investors:
IdeKapital
Peakon
CTO
SaaS, Tech, Executive search, Denmark
Peakon
A rapidly growing people analytics platform for engagement and retention.
HQ
Denmark
Placement
Role
CTO
Role location
UK
Peakon needed a CTO to take over from the co-founder, Christian Holm. The engineering and product management functions were run out of Copenhagen. It was essential to find someone experienced to ensure buy-in from the team, someone who had scaled engineering teams to 100+ and importantly someone that fitted with the culture of the business.
Prior to joining Peakon Anne-Sofie Nielsen spent the 4 years as CTO and Chief Innovation Officer at the online supermarket nemlig.com, building award-winning e-commerce web & app solutions as well as leading complex projects to add or replace internal IT systems. Before that, she was VP of Product Development at Kofax / Kapow Software, developing advanced Robotics Process Automation software.
After joining Peakon at the beginning of 2020, Anne-Sofie has been leading the Engineering & Data Science teams. There she has been responsible for doubling the company’s development department in order to scale the business. We look forward to seeing the impact that she delivers over the next year.
“In Peakon, I have found related souls who share my passion for creating good, inclusive environments to work and thrive in. It is a talented tech team with high abilities and a focus on quality that only most companies can only dream of. We have some very exciting years of growth ahead of us, and I am very much looking forward to starting that journey with the rest of Peakon.”
Investors:
Atomico
Peakon
VP Product
SaaS, Product, Executive search, Denmark
Peakon
A rapidly growing people analytics platform for engagement and retention.
HQ
Denmark
Placement
Role
VP Product
Role location
Denmark
Peakon was growing rapidly and required an experienced Product Leader to come in and take over responsibility for the Product Management function which up until that point was being led by CEO, Phil Chambers. The role was to combine strategic and operational elements, including defining, shaping and driving Peakon’s product vision, and ensuring it aligned with the businesses overall strategy. They were expected to identify market trends and consumer needs and ultimately be responsible for creating exciting products that continued to differentiate the company within its sector.
Torben Mottes has 15 years experience in startups, having worked for Yahoo, Netsuite, SocialShield (acquired by Avira), Ingenio and Vivino.
At Vivino, Torben had helped Vivino launch an eCommerce offering that integrated over 13,000 online retailers, aiding the growth of users from 4.5 million to 17 million users in 2 years with over 100 features on a local Apple app store.
Torben relocated from California to join Peakon as VP Product in Denmark and has been leading the Product Management and Design teams since mid-2019. As VP Product, he has been understanding customer needs and defining new features. Since he has joined, Peakon has grown from 4 million to 16 million, had over 100 features on local Apple app store and has entered a new market segment, connecting users to over 12,000 retailers.
“Torben leads our Product Management and Design teams. As VP Product, he listens to customer needs and defines new features to be built, so that Peakon continually evolves and stays best-in-class.”
Investors:
Atomico
Otovo
GM
Marketplace, GM, Executive search, Norway
Hired
Babak Tighnavard & others
Role location
Multiple GM's
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Otovo
A marketplace for residential solar energy installations.
HQ
Norway
Placement
Babak Tighnavard, Inigo Amborieta & Rodrigo B.A. Freire
Role
GM
Role location
Multiple GM's
Otovo’s global expansion will help accelerate a transition for the greener economy across the world. As such, they required seasoned executives to drive revenues and build and manage local teams.
Babak Tighnavard’s background as operational manager of the Kinnevik-owned company Saltside Technologies. For several years he was the leader in their work to launch Blocket-like services in emerging markets in South Asia and Africa. Babak was hired as a GM Sweden at Otovo. Responsible for launching Otovos first market outside of its founding country Norway, Babak grew Sweden to a 100m SEK revenue business before becoming the CCO. As CCO he managed sales and Marketing in Sweden and Norway, hitting 200m SEK revenue before he became Chief Growth Officer where he manages Otovo’s growth into new markets.
Inigo Amoribieta is an exceptional GM with a strong background of working in high-growth environments helping digital businesses scale and grow. Throughout his career, Inigo has built high performing teams from the ground up and is an experienced leader who has excellent strategic insight and is also hands-on. Inigo was hired as GM Spain. Inigo has successfully built operations from scratch and has grown the team to 15 people in the Spanish headquarters.
“Babak will be a key person in Otovo’s management team. He has extensive experience in launching consumer products internationally.”
Andreas Thorsheim CEO and Co-founder of Otovo
Investors:
OBOS, Akershus Energi, TRK Group
Mubadala
Investment Director
Investment, Investor, Executive search, United Arab Emirates
Stage
Limited Partnership
Role location
UK & Sweden
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Mubadala
A Abu Dhabi sovereign investor.
HQ
United Arab Emirates
Placement
Role
Investment Director
Role location
UK & Sweden
Mubadala’s mission was to be a leading series-B investor in Europe and wanted to capture the growing need for Series-B investments in the Nordics. The requirement was therefore for a proven investor with experience of building VC firms as well as leading successful Nordic investment cases through to exit.
Mats is a seasoned investor with extensive experience of VC investing in the Nordics and internationally. A Swedish national with base in London and Stockholm, Mats was a Co-founder of Spintop Ventures, GP Bullhound Ventures and TeknoInvest. As CEO of NASDAQ listed FutureMedia earlier in his career, Mats led the turn around from $1-100m. Mats has an MBA from Harvard and BSc from the University of Lund.
After initially coming on board as a part-time consultant, Mats is now working full time and has been involved in building out the London-office, as well as overseeing new investment opportunities in the Nordics.
Investors:
SoftBank Group
BenevolentAI
Head of People
Health, People, Executive search, UK
BenevolentAI
Artificial intelligence for drug discovery and development.
HQ
UK
Placement
Role
Head of People
Role location
UK
BenevelentAI had employed 165 people including data scientists, computer scientists, mathematicians, drug development, R&D scientists, and a highly commercial organisation across their offices in London, Cambridge and New York. BenevolentAI required a Head of People to develop, cultivate and promote a cohesive and highly collaborative culture, in addition to establishing a talent organisation and people roadmap to support continued growth.
Emmy Rumble-Mettle joined from Group M where she had been Director of Talent and Development, leading a team of 40. There she had defined and established the D&A and culture across the broad range of groups and divisions, consisting of over 30,000 employees.
After joining, Emy made an immediate impact on BenevolentAI. She immediately set about defining the BenevolentAI way, a unique structure and way of working that brought together departments.
Investors:
Temasek Holdings, Lansdowne Partners, Lundbeck, Nortrust Nominees, Upsher-Smith laboratories and Woodford Investment Management
BenevolentAI
CEO
Health, CEO, Executive search, UK
Hired
Baroness Joanna Shields
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BenevolentAI
Artificial intelligence for drug discovery and development.
HQ
UK
Placement
Role
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.
Baroness Joanna Shields remains one of the most prominent figures in the European tech sector. She brought a wealth of international experience following senior leadership roles at Google, Bebo and Facebook, where she led the European operations. Her last role was Minister for Internet Safety & Security, where she helped devise and execute the UK National Cyber Security Strategy.
Baroness Shields has made a very significant impact at Benevolent.AI. Not long into the role, she shifted strategy which saw the business pivot from no longer using machine learning just to identify new drug treatments, but to actually develop its own drugs as well. She established key partnerships with pharma giants AstraZeneca and Novartis. She closed a $90m funding round whilst having to deal with the fallout of Neil Woodford’s early involvement with the company. And at the start of 2020, she focused the team on the Coronavirus. The researchers identified a possible treatment which went into clinical trials.
“Joanna is a business builder with a strong leadership track record in growing companies with state-of-the-art, disruptive technology at their heart. Joanna’s appointment demonstrates the trajectory at which we intend to grow BenevolentAI and points to the impact that we want to make as a company in applying artificial intelligence to accelerate scientific innovation.”
Investors:
Temasek Holdings, Lansdowne Partners, Lundbeck, Nortrust Nominees, Upsher-Smith laboratories and Woodford Investment Management
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