RefNow - Employment Reference Checks

RefNow is revolutionizing the way HR teams and recruiters collect employment references with our cutting-edge online platform. With over 12,000 satisfied clients, we've streamlined the process, allowing references to be collected in under 30 seconds. Our platform is scalable and suitable for businesses of all sizes. With our free option, you can request references from up to 5 candidates, and if you require more, we offer flexible plans to meet your specific needs.

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Co-Founder and Co-CEO

Bally's Interactive

Senior Software Engineer

Gamesys

Software Engineer

Graduate Software Engineer

iTradeNetwork, Inc.

iTradeNetwork Europe provide SaaS hospitality management for large businesses inside and outside of the UK.

Graduate Software Developer

Games Inc

Internship at GamesInc providing Quality Assurance tests for a company that produces gaming platforms for the distribution and usability across HTML5 and flash based systems including Windows, Mac, iOS and Android.

Software Quality Assurance Engineer

Camps Kenwood & Evergreen

Worked as a general counsellor looking after children ranging from 7-15 years of age (specifically 13-14 year old boys). Engaging in activities and camp trips throughout a period of 7 weeks making the experience for them both exciting and rewarding.

My working experience as a general counsellor has allowed for greater improvement with personal and communication skills with people from around the world. It has opened up a realm of contacts and friendships that will always provide opportunities.

Responsibilities:

•	Leadership
•	Communication
•	Honesty
•	Reliability
•	Teamwork

General Counsellor

3-month Internship working within the field of quality assurance testing and ensuring that products had been developed correctly and excluded any sign of technical bugs that could affect consumers. The internship involved online slot machine gaming and required a high level of detail and constant attention to guarantee the finest quality in online gaming.

Software Quality Assurance Intern

As an experienced software engineer, I have had the opportunity to work on captivating user experiences that foster strong engagement and a sense of belonging.

I am the Co-Founder and Co-CEO of RefNow, an automated referencing platform. At RefNow, we focus on revolutionising the recruitment process and providing an unparalleled user experience, ensuring a seamless and efficient journey for candidates, referees, and hiring managers alike. Our platform simplifies reference checks, saving valuable time for all parties involved.

Recognising the significance of community in driving user satisfaction and loyalty, I have witnessed firsthand how it can enhance retention strategies.

My passion lies in building websites, problem-solving, and generating innovative ideas. While I may not be an AI expert, I am deeply intrigued by its potential and eager to expand my knowledge in this rapidly evolving field.

If you share my enthusiasm for optimising recruitment processes, fostering engaging communities, or exploring the possibilities of AI, I would love to connect. I am always seeking opportunities to collaborate, learn, and make a positive impact.

Ben Adams

Cindy Gallop

MakeLoveNotPorn

MakeLoveNotPorn https://www.makelovenotporn.com/ is the world's first user-generated crowdsourced social sex videosharing platform - 'Pro-sex. Pro-porn. Pro-knowing the difference.' We celebrate #realworldsex as a counterpoint to porn, in order to socialize sex, making it easier for everyone in the world to talk about openly and honestly, in order to promote good sexual values and good sexual behavior. We're spearheading the Social Sex Revolution - the revolutionary part isn't the sex: it's the social.

Founder & CEO

Handi

Board Advisor

Awkward Essentials

We Are Rosie

We Are Rosie exists to inspire the future of work in marketing & advertising by connecting independent workers to project-based work at scale. Their focus is on creating work that is in harmony with their lives and delights their employees, consultants, and clients. Their team of 1,700+ experts work across marketing, media, and strategy, with some of the largest brands in the world. We Are Rosie offers expertise from the brand and agency side, when and how you need it.

Pomp and Whimsy

The alcohol industry is and always has been male-dominated. Very few brands are geared specifically towards women, and the mostly male-led industry makes erroneous and outdated assumptions about the female consumer. Dr Nicola Nice founded Pomp&Whimsy because, in her own words, "I want to see a community of women who are creating things with women in mind, and who are using the spirits world as a platform for having a place at the table." Pomp&Whimsy is the first female-founded, crafted through the female lens for the female palate, gin liqueur, exploding the old world order paradigm - this is a spirit designed for women that men will love, not the other way round.

Cindy Gallop LLC

I consult for clients and brands who want to change the game in their particular sector. I do radical, innovative, groundbreaking, transformative; I don't do status quo. I like to blow shit up. I am the Michael Bay of business.

Founder

IfWeRanTheWorld

A radically simple web-meets-world platform designed to turn good intentions into action, one microaction at a time.  Delivers Action Programs and Action Branding for brands and businesses. Currently in beta.

Founder and CEO

Danoo

The Talent Business

Bartle Bogle Hegarty US

Chairman/President

I like to blow shit up. I am the Michael Bay of business.

Out of adversity comes opportunity. It's only when things break down as completely as they are currently, that new models and ways of doing things are enabled to emerge that never could have previously. I work remotely (and in-person when that comes back into fashion) as a brand and business innovator, available for clients who want to seize this opportunity to change the game in their sector, and who are looking for radical, breakthrough, innovative and transformative ways to do so. My consulting approach can be summarized as 'I like to blow shit up. I am the Michael Bay of business.'

Diversity consultant and speaker, available to work with companies who want to lead the diversity agenda in their sector and are committed to identifying and implementing effective strategic and creative approaches to drive real change in this area.

Founder & CEO of MakeLoveNotPorn - 'Pro-sex. Pro-porn. Pro-knowing the difference' - launched at TED in 2009: https://www.ted.com/talks/cindy_gallop_make_love_not_porn MakeLoveNotPorn is the world's first and only user-generated, human-curated social sex videosharing platform, socializing and normalizing sex to make it easier for everyone to talk about, openly and honestly, to promote consent, communication, good sexual values and good sexual behavior. MakeLoveNotPorn helps end rape culture by doing something very simple: showing you how wonderful great, consensual, communicative sex is in the real world; role modelling good sexual values and behavior; and making all of that aspirational, versus what you see in porn and popular culture. 

Interested investors, please email cindy@makelovenotporn.com



MakeLoveNotPorn https://www.makelovenotporn.com/ is the world's first user-generated crowdsourced social sex videosharing platform - 'Pro-sex. Pro-porn. Pro-knowing the difference.' We celebrate #realworldsex as a counterpoint to porn, in order to socialize sex, making it easier for everyone in the world to talk about openly and honestly, in order to promote good sexual values and good sexual behavior. We're spearheading the Social Sex Revolution - the revolutionary part isn't the sex: it's the social. 


'One woman, Cindy Gallop, was so suspicious LinkedIn had changed its algorithm that she conducted an experiment. 

Gallop, who is quite a big cheese on LinkedIn with 141,000 followers, got a fellow female businesswoman, Jane Evans, and two male colleagues to publish exactly the same post as her. 

Gallop’s reached 0.6 per cent of her followers. Evans’s reached 8.3 per cent of her 19,100 followers. The two men reached 51 per cent and 143 per cent of their respective follower numbers. ...

Gallop and Evans are so enraged by this discovery they have started a petition. “We’re calling on LinkedIn to take urgent action,” they say, demanding “an independent equity audit of the algorithm and its impact on under-represented voices”.  ..

LinkedIn is no longer just a place to post your CV and contact details. It is where many people build up their companies. In the old days, if you were an entrepreneur you might have been a member of the Norfolk chamber of commerce. Now you go onto LinkedIn to promote your business and find useful connections virtually. 

You could argue that LinkedIn merely reflects the male-dominated corporate environment, but Gallop tells me that 43 per cent of all LinkedIn users are women — it does matter if women looking for funding or hoping to promote their services are heard less.

LinkedIn denies any gender bias but it does say “our systems are designed to prioritise knowledge and authentic insights”. Gallop and her supporters argue the machines favour, albeit unknowingly, knowledge and authenticity from men.'


Harry Wallop The Times
https://lnkd.in/eRrF4VvE  #FairnessInTheFeed

Open article: It pays to speak fluent LinkedIn — if you can crack the bro code by thetimes.com

It pays to speak fluent LinkedIn — if you can crack the bro code

I want just one, very simple thing, LinkedIn.

I want the people who follow me because they want to see my posts, to see my posts.

All 140,000 of them. 

That's all. 

That should be algorithmic ground zero. 

Please just make that happen. For all of us. 

(I am VERY active on here.)

Ryan Roslansky Daniel Shapero Tim Jurka Jessica Jensen Daniel Roth Tomer Cohen

"This reflects what people of color have been reporting about LinkedIn for years," Gallop said. 

"Proxy bias disadvantages global majority professionals, people of color, women and non-binary people, disabled and neurodivergent users, LGBTQ and trans voices, migrant, working class and refugee professionals, non-native English speakers."  ....

Ms Gallop said this loss of visibility also harmed those who followed them for opportunities and support. 

For example, only a few hundred people were reached by amplified funding callouts from two female VCs who were actively targeting female founders.

That represented a critical missed opportunity, Ms Gallop said, considering 43% of LinkedIn users are women, and only 1.7% of venture capital last year went to female founders.

"The more this continues, the more the algorithm perpetuates digital economic and societal inequity, then that becomes a systemic hallmark of the AI-driven future," she said.' 

Thank you Dr. Kate Raynes-Goldie for covering this in Business News 💥 

#FairnessInTheFeed

Zoe Kleinman, BBC Woman's Hour Technology Editor: "I've been watching this for a while now, a number of women commenting on LinkedIn that their posts don't seem to be getting visibility.

So one woman, she's very high-profile, an entrepreneur, she's called Cindy Gallop, she's got 140,000 followers on LinkedIn, and she says she shared a post which was viewed 401 times, which just seems quite strange, doesn't it, the maths don't quite add up. .... "

Samantha Niblett MP: "Much like Zoe, it was Cindy's posts on LinkedIn that caught my attention.... 

My pushback to LinkedIn was, if you say you are doing your very best to improve economic outcomes for everybody, and they say they have 44 million members in the UK, which is incredible reach, then they need to be focussing on outcomes rather than their algorithm.

Of course, one of the other challenges we have is the lack of transparency... I am looking forward to LinkedIn proving they're not, rather than just saying they're not." 🙌 

Listen here: https://lnkd.in/evvBxqvt

Sign our petition on Change.org for #FairnessInTheFeed - Calling For Fair Visibility For All On LinkedIn: https://lnkd.in/eZh4Kum5

Every MAN on here needs to read Felice Ayling' post. Especially men who want to grow their businesses and make money.

"When platforms allow misogyny to run rampant - through poor moderation, biased algorithms, or both - they’re not just making women “uncomfortable.”

They’re blocking economic growth.

Women posting less 

Women selling less 

Women earning less 

Women hiring less 

Women investing less

Leads to economies growing slower.

This is a supply chain issue. A productivity issue. A GDP issue.

Not a “poor women” issue.

Treating women’s voices like a diversity footnote is costing the entire business ecosystem. ...

The economic reality: silencing women slows everyone down.
When women’s voices are sidelined, there are ripple effects:

⭕ Slower innovation
Because homogeneous voices create homogeneous ideas.

⭕ Poorer decision-making
Research from multiple business schools shows mixed-gender teams make significantly better decisions.

⭕ Lost market insight
Women control 80% of consumer purchasing power. Silencing them is like running a business blindfolded.

⭕ Worsening founder pipelines
If being visible online is unsafe, fewer women step into thought leadership, senior roles, or founder paths.

⭕ Weaker economies
The World Bank estimates economies could grow by trillions if women participated at equal levels.

Women’s voices aren’t a feel-good initiative. They’re a profit centre."

https://lnkd.in/eAGVSJ9m

Open article: The Audacity to Lead: Why Women’s Voices Are an Economic Priority - Not a Diversity Exercise by Felice Ayling • 6 min read

The Audacity to Lead: Why Women’s Voices Are an Economic Priority - Not a Diversity Exercise

Everybody - here is the recording of yesterday's excellent discussion with me, Jane Evans Kalyanna Williams Ruth M. Dasary Sierra Ph.D. Dorothy Dalton Robert Baker Nadine Nembach Martyn Redstone, about what is going on with the LinkedIn algorithm, and why algorithmic suppression = economic oppression.

Please watch - this is well worth 90 minutes of your time, to understand the real forces at play, and how this issue is crucial in a far bigger context:  https://lnkd.in/esw55MS4

Please share, using our tag #FairnessInTheFeed - consider holding office/work watch parties 😊 

Please sign our petition Calling For Fair Visibility For All On LinkedIn: https://lnkd.in/esuAaM5m

Please download your favorite social posts from #FairnessInTheFeed and share on here: https://lnkd.in/enJwX2-j

And please be astonished together with me, as I say in this recording, that LinkedIn leadership has not responded with:

"What a great opportunity to bring this highly engaged group of people, representing our highly engaged community, in as a ready-made task force to help advise on how we solve for this to ensure LinkedIn delivers what its promise has always been - equal business/professional opportunities for all - and in doing so MAKE SO MUCH MORE MONEY 💰 💰 💰 "

What a treat to catch up yesterday with MakeLoveNotPorn WeFunder investors Lucy Nicholls 🪷 and Daniela Andrade 😍 

What an even bigger treat to do it over afternoon tea and a glass of champagne at the Mandarin Oriental 🥂 🧁 

This was the perfect way to end the week - combined with a great discussion on how to reinvent the future for all women with a new financial ecosystem. We're conspiring....  😎

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