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Phillip Chambers

CEO at Orbex

Islington, England

Invests in

  • Min Investment:

    $5,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $50,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $25,000.00

Skills

Scrum
Agile Methodologies
MySQL
Start-ups
Mobile Devices
Mobile Applications
Software Development
Cloud Computing
User Experience
Web Development
REST
Product Management
Software Engineering
Beer
Presidents Club
Brewing
Self Shooting
Integrated Pest Management
jQuery
Guns

Education

Work Experience

2024

  • Chief Executive Officer

    2024

  • Non-Exec Board Member

    2022

    Member of the board at Heartcore.

Various

2010

  • Angel Investor

    2010

    Supporting European startups, I've invested in: Adzuna, Charge Fairy, Blast, Humaans, Spill, Lightdash, Diametos, Liveflow, Manara, Breakroom, Sama, the Electric Car Scheme, Bucket, Voco, Crew, BeMakers, Vira Health, Yonder, Screenloop, Flox, All Gravy, Prologue, Meander, Alrik, Jorgen House, Zavvy, Mayday, Natter, Salesdesk, Humble AI, Pandektes ApS, Collabkit, Trezy, Beams, Digitail, Filigran, Finlegal, Sust, Subsets, Elona Health, Qatalog, Orbex, Forecast, Payslip, Demodesk, TestGorill, Cobee, Commsor, Tonsser, Flip, Enoda and Brill Power amongst others.

2021 - 2023

  • GM, Peakon Employee Voice

    2021 - 2023

2015 - 2021

  • CEO & co-founder

    2015 - 2021

    Be More: http://peakon.com

2010 - 2015

  • Product Line Director - Communications Products

    2014 - 2015

    P&L responsibility for GoToMeeting, our freemium offering GoToMeeting Free, and I run our emerging products such as Convoi, Talkboard, Sightboard and hu.tt

  • CTO - Podio

    2010 - 2014

    Building the product and technology organisation to change the way the world works.

Qype (acquired by Yelp)

2007 - 2010

  • CTO

    2007 - 2010

    Buit the product, infrastructure and technology organisation to grow from 5 people to Europe's leading local review site. Took the business from one language and 700k UU to 10 markets, 9 languages and 18M UU/mo. Launched API, along with iPhone, Android and Nokia Ovi apps.

  • Non Exec Director

    2008 - 2010

    Board member and investor in the winners of Best Travel Startup 2009. Zoombu was acquired by Skyscanner.

  • Head of Technology

    2006 - 2007

    Head of Technology during Gumtree's rapid growth phase, from a top 100 to top 20 site in the UK and South Africa. International expansion to Australia, Poland. Responsible for all: Product Development Product Management Site Operations Tech Arch Infrastructure

2004 - 2006

  • NHS - Technical Architect

    2004 - 2006