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CEO and Co-Founder

Cambridge Judge Business School

Guest speaker for MBA and MFin lectures on the importance of Investor Fit in the Venture Capital industry and how technologies currently being developed will make this easier.

Guest Speaker

TAINA Technology Limited

-	Produced financial model, collateral and managed prospective VC and institutional investor communications that ensured valuations between 8-10X end of year ARR, leading to term sheets
-	Delivered 60% of new revenues in 2019
-	Won key first clients in the crypto and stock-trading segments
-	Negotiated key customer contracts, ensuring the business could price higher than competitors through a superior offering
-	Established a presence in the USA as part of international expansion (pre-US incorporation)
-	Co-designed and produced a retail customer-facing web and mobile web application to early adopter clients, from a business (non-technical) perspective (B2B2C distribution model)
-	Managed the successful go-live of said app, ensuring customer and compliance needs from application were met by the Technology and Compliance teams
-	Created training manuals and processes for client customer service teams to manage exception handling
-	Solicited and fed customer feedback into roadmap, produced business cases and championed customer needs with high value generating potential
-	Managed, maintained and upsold key client relationships
-	Designed and produced marketing and sales collateral, managed website re-design
-	Responsible for prospect demonstrations in key growth segments
-	Trained new users on the platform, requiring a detailed knowledge of the system and architecture
-	Invited on the Oracle podcast to discuss TAINA, Data & Analytics
-	Represented TAINA at events and in publications, including a DIT event in Frankfurt and in L39 publications.
-	Managed market communications specific to B2B and B2B2C distribution model of the business, ensuring regular feeds of market news.
-	Co-ordinated office move
-	Trained team members in production of collateral, account management and demonstrations 
-	Key decision maker for non-technical business hires
-	Successfully applied to the Morgan Stanley Multi-Cultural Innovation Lab as part of a team

Commercial and Communications Lead

Axis Corporate

Leading European Fintech: 
- Building a business on DLT for international remittances and lending platform. Activities include economic modelling, business analysis, competitor analysis, vendor negotiations, pricing strategy, customer journey mapping and client relationship management.  
- Creating Funding applications; Strategy, Product road map, commercialisation of core technology, financial sector partnership and distribution model strategy.
Leading European Fintech:
- Producing a report on market entry strategy and product alignment. Including TAM, SAM, SOM analysis, assessing likely demand for a groundbreaking financial product.
Other:
- Advising Fintechs and FIs on application to the Alternative Remedies Capability and Innovation Fund

Senior Consultant

Leading UK Bank: 
  - Assisted Branch rationalisation and Bank digitisation Programme
  - Digital tool selection, business case writing, Fintech partnership co-ordination

UK Challenger Banks and Fintechs:
  - RBS Alternative Remedies package Capability and Innovation fund strategic advisory

Head of Fintech partnerships: 
      - Ecosystem integration and evolution (technical and process)
      - Regulated DLT e-money payments and micro-payments projects 
      - Durable Media Proof of Concept
      - Business Case and senior stakeholder buy-in

Consultant

UKIMUN

Games and events company specialising in competitive game-ification around elections and other political scenarios. 
Basic data model creation for US and UK election scenarios.

Co Founder

Public Sector Security Services  – Project Manager and Business Analyst					
Led Software as a Service based project. Including: 
- Led process design for new software development marketplace project
- Management of multiple stakeholders senior to him both inside CSC and from other towers in a SIAM model
- Supported the transition of new joiners to CSC, acting in an ambassador role to multiple new work streams
- Delivered several process analyses, delivering better value to the client

Global Insurer Next-Generation IT Operating Model - Business Analyst				
- Assisted the design of a Digital TOM to enable more rapid product and service development. 
- Ensured digital strategy cohesion; combining the CSC digital vision for a Global Insurer's Operations with the vision of the client. 
- Managed internal stakeholders in an engagement with multiple moving parts.

MiFiD II impact assessment for Global FS Institution 
- Organisational impact analysis
- Recommendations on impacted business areas

Next-Generation IT Operating Model 
- Produced impact analysis for IT TOM for future integration of big data, BI, automation and hybrid cloud capabilities 
- Produced technology maturity matrix for future integrations as part of strategic change roadmap

Achievements:
- Created CSC viewpoint on the new EU-US Data Privacy Shield Agreement (data privacy)
- Co-authored CSC's thought leadership on Next-Generation Digital Target Operating Models
- Impact Analysis of MiFID II regulations on a Global Financial Institution
- Assisting with development of a Future Target Operating Model and future strategy for a global Financial Services firm
- Software Development Marketplace for Public Sector
- PRINCE II Foundation certified

Associate Consultant

thisislanguage.com

- Led business development in the UK market and assisted with US market growth
- Assisted the design of future growth strategy following a successful funding round
- Produced a phased business growth plan based upon demographic hotspots
- Assisted agile product development feedback loop from customer interactions

Account Executive & future strategy planner (Edtech startup)

- KYC reviews of High Risk and Ultra High Risk institutional clients

Senior Associate

CfBT Education Trust

- Business process re-engineering
- Business Analysis
- Proof reading of policies and standards

(Hays Contractor) Data Analyst - Agresso Project

Sovereign Housing Association

- Communications with stakeholders throughout the group
- Housing Market Research & Review for Sovereign Living Operations Manager
- Research project for Board into possible compatibility of Islamic Finance with Social Housing
- Legal Administration of complex Shared-Ownership property sales (6 party conveyancing procedures)
- Internal and external stakeholder management

(Hays Contractor) Conveyancing co-ordinator and Market Researcher

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Daniel Sawko

🎥 Gabriel Isserlis

SuperScout

Upgrade your private location database!

Our software helps you: 
- manage and search through your personal locations database with a map or keywords
- share beautiful shortlists with clients and colleagues
- never do the same research twice! 

Prettier than Dropbox; More secure than SmugMug. More functional than both. 

Built from the ground up for location scouts, managers, and production companies.

Founder & CEO

Boardwave

The Boardwave network is a powerful community of Founders, CEOs, Chairs, Independent NEDs & Investors from across Europe, representing companies at every stage of development in the tech industry.The Boardwave network is a powerful community of Founders, CEOs, Chairs, Independent NEDs & Investors from across Europe, representing companies at every stage of development in the tech industry.

Boardwave member

Tutti

Tutti is building technology to give creatives more time to create.

Today, we are a SaaS enabled marketplace for amazing creative venues - places for film/photo shoots, rehearsals, live-streams, concerts, and more. Traditionally it can take days or weeks to find and book these places, but on Tutti, creators find and message 1000+ spaces in minutes.
Simultaneously, our software helps amazing, unusual venues automate their booking processes and save countless hours on admin.

Learn more: https://www.tutti.space

Tutti was launched at the Founder Institute, London (www.fi.co) in 2018.
Supported by the Rattle Collective 2019-2021 (now closed).
Supported by the CultTech Accelerator in 2023. 

Funding: 
Self funded: 2018 - 2022
Raised £295k from 356 people (crowd) in 2022.

Techstars

Mentor

Founder Institute

Successfully graduated as a member of the London Winter 2018 cohort of the Founder Institute - the world’s premier idea-stage accelerator and startup launch program.

Top 3% Graduate & Mentor

Marketplace Risk

Today, the Marketplace Risk platform is the most comprehensive source of education, networking and information sharing for marketplace, sharing, gig, peer-to-peer and collaborative economy startups to learn risk management, trust & safety, compliance and legal strategy necessary to launch, grow and exit successfully. From our blog, e-newsletter, Platform Podcast, Slack Forum and Live Event & Webinar Series, to our conferences and summits, Marketplace Risk is the first and only dedicated resource for startups to take their businesses to the next level.

Advisory Board Member

Founders Pledge

As a member of the Founders Pledge community I’m committed to leveraging my success for good. Founders Pledge enables entrepreneurs and investors to give back, give more, and give effectively, by pledging a portion of future exit proceeds to charity. They provide charity research, organise events with thought leaders in social impact, and handle the administrative burden of donating to globally.

Pledger

OPUS

OPUS is a community that provides opportunities for emerging leaders who recognize the value of peer-to-peer relationships as a powerful catalyst for positive change in the world.

Member

Home Grown Club

A members' club for entrepreneurs, investors, performance business leaders and the change makers of tomorrow. Happy to refer new members - DM me for details

Founding Member

Culttech Accelerator

Graduate

Unlocking space for creativity: Founder/CEO of Tutti

My expertise lies at the intersection of creativity and technology, which has inspired 
1. Tutti: "AirBnB for creative spaces" 
2. SuperScout: "Your personal database of locations, supercharged with AI" 

(Side note: I won't accept connection requests unless you give me a compelling reason, or I've met you in person)

With degrees in film making and software development, as well as a decade of work in music, theatre, and photography, and years building tech startups, I have a unique set of insights. 

These have inspired creative technical solutions to problems I have experienced first hand in the creative industries, one of the fastest growing sectors that is already worth more than $3tr to humanity. 

Follow Tutti & SuperScout to see those ideas become a reality

www.tutti.space - www.superscout.ai

Follow me here to get honest stories, insights, and thoughts about the highs, lows, and in-betweens of building a startup: 

- It's not an easy or quick journey, but it's a bloody rewarding one. 

- You can't do it alone. If you think you can, you're kidding yourself. 

- You don't know what you don't know - you'll always be learning things you never knew you needed to know.

- Everything is about relationships. Start building them early and often. You never know who might be able to help you. 


Lastly, this is me behind the companies and experience: 
I love to: 
- Invent solutions
- Design product (UX - I'm great at functional, not so good at pretty)
- Support other founders (it's a bloody difficult journey)
- Inspire others
- Dream up & build the future!

Remember when I used to share an awesome venue on Tutti (visit www.tutti.space) every week? 

Well, I'm going to try and get back to that, except with SuperScout because we recently launched our Showcase tier, where users can use our tech to show off their incredible locations to the world. 

We have some incredible early showcase sites of customers across England, Czech Republic, Wales, Rep of Ireland, and the US and I can't wait to show off what they have, from castles to cliffs, harbours to homes, mansions, military museums, and even an upside down house! 

If you want to see some incredible locations for film/tv, give me a follow! 
(You'll have to put up with a sprinkling of dad/founder posts too) 

Here's a quick teaser - a literal castle in north Wales! 
DM Richard Williams-Bulkeley if you want to learn more or shoot there! 

#locations #film #showcase

Empowering filmmakers with radically better software (SuperScout); Dad, Founder, Mentor, Cat Dad

SuperScout received another brilliant testimonial yesterday! 

SuperScout is everything we’ve been looking for in a location platform and we can’t recommend them enough. Their team have really set the bar when it comes to customer support and are always listening to the needs of the industry.

The location platform provides a clean and simple design that is easy to navigate and offers a customisable design to suit your branding. Uploading new locations is quick and easy, whether it’s from a laptop or while on the go from your phone. It’s also hassle-free for location owners to use when uploading their own locations, which makes the whole process much easier and quicker. No stress.

The AI function is a key feature of SuperScout. We often get very specific location briefs from productions, and the AI generated keywords are a really helpful tool for narrowingdown the search. Not only does this save us and industry a lot of time, it also helps to increase the presence of our locations and hopefully generate further interest. 

SuperScout has been a game-changer for us and we’re excited to see how the platform evolves in the future.

Thank you Vicki & Surrey Film Office. 
Thrilled to be working with you! 

#locations #filmoffice #testimonials

SuperScout also received a wonderful review from our first US film office, who have seen literal hours of time saved every time they scout a new location! 

"SuperScout combines many elements of our locations workflow into one attractive tool, streamlining our processes. 

Last week, we toured a terrific location for the first time. Within moments of leaving the location, our photos were uploaded to SuperScout and shareable; they were tagged and searchable and had our contact info attached. 

With our previous workflow, we would have had at least six manual steps to complete in order to share the photos in a useful way, including uploading and downloading and re-uploading the photos. 

SuperScout realistically reduced the time we have to dedicate to managing new location photos from hours to minutes. 

SuperScout is a vital tool in our ongoing mission to highlight our region and both differentiate ourselves from and compete with national production hubs. 

Gabriel and the team at SuperScout are incredibly responsive, always ready to help us maximize the elements of SuperScout that we use most, and keeping us up to date on new features and enhancements that are being added regularly."

Thank you Tim Banach & Nora Brown. It's wonderful to be working with you! 

#customerlove #filmlocations #startup

We received another glowing review this week, courtesy of Richard Williams-Bulkeley:  

"For a couple of years I have been looking for a way to manage my locations and their associated images to then communicate them to the Film and Media Industry. I investigated building a website, SmugMug and other image related options but nothing gave me what I wanted. My requirements were:

 - Easy to use
 - Flexible
 - Function rich
 - Slick
 - Fast
 - Professional looking
 - Mapping fully integrated, including Google Maps and W3W
 - Reasonably priced

At last I have found what I have been searching for and more! 

SuperScout met all my requirements. After 2 short sessions I have got to grips with the functionality (and I am a 57 year old location owner!) and am seeing the benefits every time I use the system. It really is fantastic, so simple and intuitive but bursting with really great features for location owners, location managers and scouts alike. It has exceeded my expectations in every way.

In addition they have provided superb support and added some great functionality I hadn't expected, for example the Past Productions Page. The speed of their development is brilliant and their team really understand the Film and TV locations world, its needs and challenges. 

SuperScout is a joy to use!" 


Here's an early version of Richard's new site, powered by SuperScout: 
https://lnkd.in/eV3JAviu

It's fantastic to have you on board Richard! 

#customerlove #filmlocations #product

This past week was really quite insane. I experienced all parts of my new normal in just a few days.

During the week I helped onboard some new customers including one who owns a castle (seriously cool!), and pushed new functions to SuperScout (with the help of Dharmil Trivedi). 

I've recently started coding more with the help of Cursor and Wispr Flow, but it's not 100% perfect, so I'm very happy to have Dharmil's expertise on hand to polish it off. 

I took my son out, either for walks or to play group to give my wife extra time to practise. She had a concert Sunday in Germany, that was going to be recorded for the radio, so... no pressure. 

Then we flew off to Germany. First to a place near Regensburg Saturday for rehearsals, and then Weiden Sunday for the concert: Schumann Quartet & Mozart Quintet. Very memorable programme. 

The concert was recorded by BR Klassik and will be broadcast on 2 Mar, if anyone reading this is in Germany and wants to tune in then! Their group's name is the "Barbican Quartet." 

And it's back to normal life (or as normal as it gets now...) today. Demo calls for potential clients in Hong Kong and Czech Republic for SuperScout, finalising onboarding for an awesome customer in England, and preparing for our big event in December. 

It's certainly not a boring life... 

#dad #travel #performance

These last 2 days I was absolutely blown away by our customers and their support for SuperScout

We spent the last 2 days at FOCUS meet the makers and while I had no official schedule, I didn't have a moment to rest. 

I was running around constantly, talking to existing and potential customers (I would have loved a 3rd day - didn't get a chance to talk to everyone I needed to) 

The most incredible thing was the number of people I spoke to who said "I've heard amazing things from ___" 

As a startup, my goal has always been to solve problems for my customers. 

Throughout my startup journey I have been solving various problems for various customers, but it's with SuperScout that I've truly found the magic intersection of:
💙  wonderful customers who I love talking to
❤️  within an industry that's incredibly near and dear to my heart
💚  who have problems my team and I are perfectly suited to solve. 

I can't wait to see what we build together in the coming year: Gary Kinch Erica Gilson Pippa Cawdron Cherise Fairman Ruth Bryant James Patrick Thorpe Vicki Brown Gar O'Brien-Collins Anna, Tom, Hana Lowe Hana Kabashi Joseph Ferreira Campos 

To everyone who said hi and we're not working together yet - I look forward to continuing our conversations! 

(Sorry if I forgot to tag anyone - it's been a bit insane) 

#customerlove #support #startup

This week we had a brilliant time at FOCUS meet the makers! 

We met loads of our Film Office customers (some for the first time in person): 
- Gary Kinch Erica Gilson - Essex Film Office
- Ruth Bryant James Patrick Thorpe - Buckinghamshire Film Office
- Pippa Cawdron Cherise Fairman - Hertfordshire Film Office
- Vicki Brown - Surrey Film Office
- Gar O'Brien-Collins - WRAP
- Anna Macakova - Central Bohemia Film Office
- Hana Kabashi - South Bohemia Film Office

As well as many a bunch of location scout & manager customers & supporters: 
Joseph Ferreira Campos Hana Lowe Tom Howard Megan Foerster 

And we got the chance to show just how far our technology has come in a year to many people we met last year at the same event. 

We're still buzzing off the brilliant energy we had. Can't wait to the follow up conversations! 

Thank you to everyone for sharing the SuperScout love. Particularly Gary Kinch Gar O'Brien-Collins Alan Jay Hana Lowe

#superscout #customerlove #filmlocations

In what would normally be most people's downtime from their startup, I'm running around Europe working as "Dad" and occasional videographer. 

My wife is a professional violinist, and the quartet she started 10 years ago with 3 friends at university (which is much like a startup) has become one of the leading groups in Europe in recent years. 

They won ARD, the most prestigious competition for quartets in Europe, 2 years ago, and now have agents in multiple countries. (It'd be like getting A-Tier VC funding after years of bootstrapping.)

So when I'm not running SuperScout, I'm busy helping her however I can, making her dreams a reality. 

Most of the time that means taking care of our little one while she's in rehearsals (which allows me to do a surprising amount of work) or on stage.

But she's recently given me another job: videographer. Using my little one as a counterbalance ("steadicam weight") I spend a lot of time filming behind the scenes of the amazing places they travel. Because she's now set herself a goal: to create a short daily vlog of her travels, because they really are fascinating. 

So I thought I'd share one (with almost entirely my camera work): 

IF you like this and want to see more of her travels / work, you can find her on
❤️  YouTube: https://lnkd.in/eRDGvmtP
💜  Instagram: https://lnkd.in/ewPZ2pQe
💙  TikTok: https://lnkd.in/evddT8My

(This also explains why I've entirely stopped going to startup events in London...) 

#contentcreator #dadlife #founderlife

We have some amazing evangelists helping share our product! 

Last week alone, I had 3 amazing experiences of this.  

❤️ Someone I reached out to (I thought cold) had seen one of our customers using SuperScout on set, and wondered what it was! Apparently that customer then showed the whole team a quick demo! 

💙 Another person I contacted is in an association with a bunch of our customers and have consistently heard good things from multiple people over the past 10 months. She really wants a demo now. 

🥰 Last year I gave a demo to a room of industry people, and someone who had been in that audience has been following our journey. He heard some of his former colleagues were considering buying from one of our competitors, and he told them to consider ours, and reached out to me on the company whatsapp, to connect us. He did not have to! At all! But he went out of his way to try and help us, which is amazing! 

In fact none of these customers sharing our product have to. At the moment our network capabilities are limited, so it doesn't benefit (also doesn't hurt) our customers to have others using it. 

But people are going out of their way to help share the value of SuperScout, which is incredible!

Thank you to everyone talking about SuperScout and sharing it with colleagues. It's time for there to be a new standard in software for the locations industry. 

Time to Ditch Dropbox & Scrap SmugMug. They're not build for this industry, SuperScout is! 

#customerlove #filmlocations #locationscouts

🌊 This lighthouse pioneered the first failed toilet in maritime history—but the views are incredible.

Trwyn Du Lighthouse sits on Black Point at Anglesey's eastern tip (North Wales):
⚫ 29m tower with distinctive three black bands
🌊 Sea-washed stepped base designed for wave management
🏝️ Views across to Puffin Island and the Menai Strait
🚗 Small toll road access with nearby parking

What makes it work: Built in 1838 as a prototype for larger sea-washed towers, this is coastal drama with proper maritime architecture. The stepped base and rocky shoreline give you natural texture, and the contrast between the striped tower and surrounding seascape delivers strong composition options.

Previously shot here: House of the Dragon Season 3 (coming soon)

Get in touch with Richard (link in comments) to learn more.

Quick demo: Uploading locations to SuperScout 🎬

Whether you're managing a single location or thousands, here's how easy it is to get your files in to your database:

→ Drag and drop your files (photos, videos, PDFs)
→ Set addresses with autocomplete
→ Add private notes and details only your team sees
→ Set default public info—hide exact addresses, use a radius, control what gets shared

Built for location managers, scouts, production companies, and film offices who need to organise locations fast without the headache.

#locationscout #locationmanager #filmlocations

That awkward moment when your zoom view is disrupted by family! 

I did my best to hide the fact that I was working from my bed, because I'm currently on tour with my wife & son, and there's no available desk in the house. 

But then my wife unexpectedly asked me to take my son during the middle of the meeting. So I had to crawl to the edge of the bed (barriers on both sides for son), mid-meeting, and there's no hiding that... 

Then I had to hold my son on the call (pretty standard at this point - so that was fine) but I suddenly saw that the covers, my pyjamas, and the pillows and headboard were all in view... Oh dear!

Fortunately I don't think my potential clients are going to hold it against me - they're excited about our software, not worrying about where I have to hold meetings! But still, not what I'd intended. 



#dadlife 
#founderlife 
#customercalls

🏠 An upside-down house where gravity-defying scenes come naturally—and IKEA furnished the whole thing.

The Lakeside Upside Down House offers instant visual impact for contemporary productions:
🎨 Red wine-colored exterior with high-gloss finish
🛋️ IKEA-designed interiors with furniture mounted on ceilings
📍 Located in Lakeside Shopping Centre car park (easy crew access)
🔄 Mind-bending perspective shifts for unique shot composition

What makes it work: This isn't set dressing—it's a fully realized inverted environment where production can achieve impossible-looking shots in-camera. The compact footprint means fast setups, while the shopping center location provides nearby amenities for extended shoots. Perfect for commercials, music videos, or any production needing surreal visual hooks.

Get in touch with Gary Kinch at Essex Film Office to learn more about shooting here! (link in comments)

#FilmLocation #LocationScouting #UKFilming

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