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Damian Routley

Building startups at Founders Factory

Greater London, England

Education

  • Pangbourne College

    (1991 - 1996)

Work Experience

  • Chief Operating Officer

    2023

  • Chief Commercial Officer

    2021 - 2023

  • Managing Director, Consumer & Media

    2019 - 2021

    Founders Factory powers founders to go further, faster. We're a diverse and entrepreneurial team, who partner with the world’s best founders and corporates to build, fund and scale ambitious startups worldwide. We’re live in London, New York, Paris and Johannesburg. Proud to work closely with the founders of these great companies: https://bloomboxclub.com/ https://bowercollective.com/ https://www.oxwash.com/ https://grain.co.uk/ https://mpowder.store/ https://www.storyblok.com/ https://www.thismuchiknow.news/ https://www.allhailkale.com/ https://www.granolastudios.com/ https://beamm.co/ http://www.abydos.ai/ https://shop.shinebathroom.com/ https://www.sofi.health/ https://www.structureflow.co/ https://worldr.com/ https://metavrse.com/ https://www.helio.cloud/ https://www.getcamvas.com/ https://teams.gg/ https://temple.fans/ https://www.eterlast.com/ http://www.veople.io/ https://hellominahealth.com/ https://www.superawesomecare.com/ https://www.getwellen.com/ https://www.syndi.health/

  • Chair

    2020

  • Non Executive Director

    2020

2020 - 2024

  • Non Exec Director

    2020 - 2024

  • Non Exec

    2019 - 2023

  • Partner

    2018 - 2019

    WE ARE OTHERLY ENTERTAINMENT A forward looking IP development and production company. With an end to end approach, we focus on scripted content for television and emerging platforms. Our work is centered around ’IP thinking,’ designing big, ambitious, original story worlds from scratch, with more creative and commercial opportunities baked in from the start. AND OTHERLY LABS A media and entertainment consultancy. Using the same philosophy and cross disciplinary approach as our entertainment projects, we design narratives and experiences for creative businesses, helping them solve their most important challenges. We believe stories are at the heart of how companies operate, adapt and change.

  • Advisor

    2016 - 2018

    Otherly Entertainment tells original stories in original ways. We’re a multi-platform story studio. We develop other-worldly ideas with broad IP potential. This keeps things interesting. Our development portfolio includes projects spanning television, film, VR/AR, mixed reality & comic books

2020 - 2022

  • Non Executive Director

    2020 - 2022

2018 - 2022

  • Founder

    2018 - 2022

    Good Remedy develops the finest CBD infused products for health conscious people and helps them find calm, creativity or focus in their hectic lives. goodremedy.co/discount/linkedin15

2019 - 2019

  • Advisor

    2019 - 2019

    Supporting the exceptional team at PUSH in their mission to help people, teams and companies work better by focusing on whole self development.

2016 - 2018

  • Regional CEO - UK, USA, Canada

    2016 - 2018

    Post acquisition & integration of Glow, I am responsible for revenue and operations (P&L) in UK, USA and Canada. Global partnerships with agency holding groups and platform partnerships with FB, Twitter, Snap, Amazon and Pinterest. Board member. Adglow is one of the world's leading social media technology and advertising services firms. The Adglow team currently comprises over 250 professionals around the world (17 markets) who use proprietary technology to manage advertising campaigns on social media for the leading brands and agencies. We believe that social media thrives on two pillars, brand building and tangible results. So we built our smart technology and service on this conviction: to run, optimize, scale and meet campaign goals, taking into account the full marketing funnel from branding to performance. With social media and analysis at our core and a full team of first rate marketing professionals, we help advertisers who need a data-driven approach to social ads, relying on our team’s expertise, technology and an unmatched ads management and reporting system, ADAM.

  • CEO + Founder

    2008 - 2016

    Founded and grew Glow from startup to global social tech/services business. Became strategic partner in the Facebook marketing partnership programme, listed in Deloitte Top50 UK Tech Companies and won TechCityNews pitch awards. Worked with incredible people, clients and partners over 8 years. Glow was sold to ADTZ, later Adglow, in February 2016. Glow helps brands engage and transact with their customers across social media. We do this by leveraging customer's 1st party data, alongside rich social data to identify when customers are most likely to buy. We work with leading brands across the world to help them on find their customers on desktop and mobile, including King, Spotify, US Bank, American Express, Booking.com and TopShop.