David Mantle

Stashbee

Stashbee is the simplest, smartest, most sustainable way for anyone to share and fill storage space. Whatever your situation or ambition, we have spaces of all sizes for people at all stages.

CEO & Co-Founder

CCO & Co-Founder

Co-CEO & Co-Founder

ICE List

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Oddbox

Investor

BearingPoint

Manager in the UK Digital Customer Management team at BearingPoint. He has many years of experience in multiple industries, functions and geographies. 

Experience:

- Market Delivery Project Manager responsible for the launch of Connected Car Services (InControl) into BENELUX for Jaguar Land Rover. Responsibilities include but are not limited to; End to End Market Launch Readiness and Project Planning, Dealer Network Training and Readiness, Supplier Training and Readiness, Key Stakeholder Management and Communications, Operations set-up  and product accreditation. 

- Programme Planning Manager for the launch feature set for Connected Car at Jaguar Land Rover. Managed and developed the central project plan and critical path for the whole solution from technical development to market delivery across multiple workstreams launching into 5 markets simultaneously. Lead, Failure Modes analysis, product localization and new market scoping.

- Supported the divestment of BP's assets across 5 African countries worth $500m. Carried out resource planning, managed the development and subsequent monitoring of milestone plans, with 10,000+ line items, across 14 complex cross boarder workstreams.

- Identified customer and product growth opportunities and analysed Group company financials for a financial services company. Establish 5 year growth plans and a coordinated approach to customer targeting and new product development

- Developed market entry business case for a new entity in South Africa including roadmap, regulatory compliance and market analysis.

Worked in:
USA, Russia, South Africa, France, Italy, Spain, Germany, Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Sweden, 

Experience areas:
Connected Car, M&A, project management, organisational change, business optimisation, strategy, risk management, communications, spanning a number of industries such as automotive, oil & gas, and financial services.

Manager

Private Equity International

Account Manager

Citigroup

Implemented business continuity planning and methodology for sector business lines including Smith Barney, Citi Private Bank and Citi Investment Research. Helped develop business recovery plans and conducted 60% of all quality reviews of business recovery plans &amp; business impact analyses for global business groups. Assisted business units in meeting audit and compliance requirements (both external and internal).

Business Continuity Management Analyst

Cushman & Wakefield

Worked for the commercial and industrial investments department focusing on portfolio investments. Assisted viewings of portfolio properties and developed a database of previous investment sales. Also spent a week in the finance department assisting on property development financing options.

Sumer Intern

I'm super passionate about innovation, technology, and startups. 

I Co-Founded Stashbee which is a Marketplace for Storage & Parking. We have over 75,000 registered users with over 2.4 million sq ft of space on the platform making us the 4th largest storage provider in the UK. 

If you ever want to chat about new ideas or need some help please give me a shout.

Michael Blakley

Equitas

Creating faster, fairer hiring with Equitas. Our inclusive interview software and dynamic interview frameworks allow companies to run their interview and assessment process with a simple, intuitive and structured approach to interviewing, assessing and selecting candidates. 

We are changing the way people assess with a focus on reducing interviewer and assessor bias, improving accuracy and making the assessment process more efficient and cost-effective. Currently working with some of the biggest healthcare providers in Ireland and the UK.

Co-Founder

Freedom Recruiting

Founded a recruitment agency in 2012 focusing on primary contract with ALDI as my first client. Worked on freelance contracts as an interview and assessment specialist with BSkyB, MOJ, Home Office & TFL. Completed over 10,000 interviews and assessments with both FTSE 100 companies and the Public sector. A selection of clients are listed below:


Ministry of Justice
 
•	Delivered high volume recruitment campaigns to help recruit over 7000 Prison Officers and over 1000 Probation Service Officers
•	Resourced, led and managed a team of 20 assessors across three HMP locations
•	Assessed complex role-plays using professional actors
•	Assessed and interviewed on HMP Graduate Fast Track Scheme
•	Lead assessor for HMP Graduate written and IT tests
•	Developed best practice guide for written test invigilation
•	Delivered and implemented a new IT system for HMP assessment centre
•	Trained both assessors and internal HMP staff on the new equipment and software
•	Compiled an IT manual for the recruitment department
•	IT integration resulted in a cost-saving of over £100,000 per year


BSkyB

•	Delivered hundreds of assessment centres and interviews for BSkyB for their high volume recruitment campaigns for call centres and engineering across UK
•	Executed quality assurance and materials training to over 15 BSkyB assessors, in order to promote continuous improvement of their recruitment process
•	Weekly updates with BSkyB leadership team to ensure their requirements are fully met and that each team exceed client expectations


ALDI Stores LTD

•	Formulated a recruitment strategy for ALDI NE region to meet their exponential growth strategy
•	Worked in partnership with ALDI to develop and deliver their attraction, telephone screening, open days, assessment centres, interviews, work trials, contract signing and exit interviews
•	Recruited over 100 new ALDI starters in one year
•	A retention rate of over 70% for new starters in the first year (previously 40%)

Founder

Havas People

Assessment Consultant with Havas People. Focused on high volume recruitment campaigns.

Associate Assessment Consultant

Hays

Recruiting on high volume, graduate campaigns through to director level.

Associate Assessment & Recruitment Consultant

Transport for London

Associate Recruitment & Assessment Consultant with TfL. Working on high volume recruitment campaigns. Delivering hundreds of high volume assessment centres.

Assessment Consultant

ALDI Stores

ALDI Graduate Area Manager Scheme

•	Managed 5 Stores and over 90 members of staff, with annual turnover of over £25m
•	Successfully trained, coached, motivated and mentored a team of 14 Managers
•	Involved with managing risks and delivering new products to market
•	Managed high volume recruitment campaign
•	Self-developed own business acumen, time management and prioritising workload
•	Responsible for sales increase of 42% resulting in 80% increase in staff
•	Developed and implemented weekly global diary organiser for over 80 Store Managers within North East region
•	Reduced inventory losses by 55%

Area Manager

Co-founder at Equitas | Interview intelligence software to ensure fair hiring

Co-founder of Equitas, inclusive interview intelligence software designed for fair hiring and helping companies build diverse teams. 

In a previous life I was a professional interview and assessment expert, designing and delivering recruitment, assessment, and interview campaigns for the likes of BSkyB, Aldi, TfL, and MoJ from entry-level hires through to C-suite. 

After 10,000+ interviews conducted across UK & Ireland, knew there had to be a better way, so set up Equitas. Working with the biggest employer in Ireland (HSE) and some incredible clients who are passionate about fair hiring, decentralised hiring, hybrid interviewing and DEI. 

Outside of work and HR tech startups talk to me about:

🏃‍♂️ Long-distance running

🥋  Brazilian Jiu Jitsu

♟  Chess

🦮  Guide Dogs

What a night for Equitas and Mitie at the British Recruitment Awards last night in London! 

Some of the biggest organisations in the world with their unbelievable TA and Recruitment teams in the room celebrating some amazing achievements. 

We were lucky enough to win: 

🥇 Gold for Recruitment Campaign of the Year. 

What we delivered with the Mitie team for Operational Prison roles hiring at HMP Millsike really is one of the best pieces of work we have ever done. An unreal candidate experience, impacting DEI and speed from the Equitas team that would make your eyes water! 


When I met Karen Hutchison Adão we hit it off immediately and she had one of the most complex and challenging projects to put together in the shortest possible time frames. The 3 keys for the win were:


1️⃣  Inclusive Interview Software - and the CS team supporting it

2️⃣  Expert pool of interviewers - interview-as-a-service was a game changer for ramping up the volume of interviews quickly

3️⃣  Proper partnership approach - the Mitie x Equitas teams were joined at the hip


On the Equitas side we couldn't have done it without Merilin Männamäe, Rachel Okungbowa, Javier Martinez, Barbara (Varvara) Marinakis, Karen Somal, Asil Choudhury, Lisa Kim MacLaren, Giulia Sciota 朱衡丽, Victoria Butler, Tom Bright, Kalpesh Baxi, Alex Elliott, Mick Steele, Adrian Colloby, Dan Awais-Dean and our unreal team of expert interviewers, actors and PEI. 

And on the Mitie team Lisette Saunders, Mike Walker, Willie Galloway, Karen Hutchison Adão, Samantha Pariser, Samantha Marriott, Jade Ward, Graeme Harper, Sarah Grady, Helen Scully, Audra Giles, Russell Trent, Kevin Reilly and the epic team of hiring managers. 

And finally a huge, huge thank you to all the partners who have helped us - Gaia, crooton, ThriveMap, David Clark, Emma Hubbard, Ben Keighley, Stephen Anderson, Siobhan Morgan, Christopher Platts, Nadia A., Maryam Lal, Eloise Ponting.... and many many more (sorry if I've missed you)!

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