William Marla

Chair

Augmentum Fintech

Nov 2024 - May 2026 (1 year 7 months)

I chaired this Investment Trust, listed on the FTSE. This role ended after the take-private by Verdane Fund Manager AB, a process that I led in 2025/26.

Chair

Nutmeg

Aug 2018 - Sep 2021 (3 years 2 months)

I served as non-exec Chair of Nutmeg, one of the UK's leading fintech businesses, helping it to achieve the highest ever revenue-multiple exit in European fintech at the time, to JP Morgan.

Chief Executive Officer

Goodlord

Jan 2018 - Current (8 years 10 months)

Helping this innovative market leader grow, innovate and remain a great place to work

Chairman

Hubbubcouk

Sep 2016 - Mar 2017 (7 months)

Supporting this business where I am a large angel investor

Non Executive Director

Dunelm

Jul 2015 - Nov 2024 (9 years 5 months)

Co CEO

Hubbubcouk

Jun 2014 - Sep 2016 (2 years 4 months)

I led an investment round into this business and have joined its founder, Marisa Leaf, as co-CEO

Head of Operations

Paddy Power

Sep 2012 - Sep 2013 (1 year 1 month)

Responsible for Technology, HR, Risk/Trading, and Corporate & Multichannel Strategy for this listed PLC - the biggest quoted bookmaker in the world.

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Non-exec Chairman

Media Ingenuity

Feb 2012 - Aug 2012 (7 months)

Helping this UK online finance business (the leading finance display advertiser, online) grow and scale

Non-Exec Director

Secret Escapes

Dec 2010 - Aug 2012 (1 year 9 months)

The UK's worst-kept secret in travel - UK members get up to 70% off the best hotels and holidays

Non-Exec Director

Paddy Power

May 2010 - Aug 2012 (2 years 4 months)

Non-executive Director of this listed business, serving on Audit Committee, and helping with various strategic, technological, people and operational issues.

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Managing Director

Oxalyst Systems

May 2010 - May 2012 (2 years 1 month)

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Non-Exec Director

DealCheckercouk

Sep 2008 - Jan 2011 (2 years 5 months)

DMC runs several leading travel websites, most notably DealChecker.co.uk - exited to EasyVoyage in Feb 2011. I assisted the board with financial, strategic and governance matters.

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non-executive Chairman

iAnnounce

Jun 2008 - Jul 2010 (2 years 2 months)

iAnnounce provides e-commerce solutions for newspapers, particularly for online notices (Births, Deaths, Marriages).

Non-exec Chair

graze

Apr 2008 - May 2015 (7 years 2 months)

Graze.com pioneered a healthier form of snack, via mail order. I served as Chair for 7 years, helping management and shareholders achieve a 10x return in their exit to Carlyle Group.

non-exec Director

Zoopla

Oct 2007 - May 2012 (4 years 8 months)

I was involved as an investor and non-Exec with my former business partner's new company - Zoopla! - free valuations and a lot more besides for UK property buyers/sellers. By early 2012, the business had become number 2 in the UK. I exited in May 2012 when Zoopla merged with Digital Property Group to contest market leadership with Rightmove.

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Chairman

True Knowledge Ltd

Jun 2007 - May 2011 (4 years)

True Knowledge is one of a select band of internet businesses working on ways to dramatically improve how we all use the internet to find answers to useful questions, such as 'What is the address of the Golden Curry restaurant in Cambridge, UK?', 'What time is it at Google's headquarters?', and 'How old is Britney Spears?'

Founder & COO

LOVEFiLM

Apr 2006 - May 2008 (2 years 2 months)

ScreenSelect/Video Island merged with LOVEFiLM in Apr 06, cementing its position as the European leader in online home entertainment, and took the LOVEFiLM brand name; 18 months later it acquired Amazon's European DVD rental business too. I became the COO of the combined group, with particular responsibility for the technology and business across all European markets including UK, Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Germany.

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President & COO

Video Island

Nov 2004 - Apr 2006 (1 year 6 months)

After Video Island's merger with ScreenSelect in Sep 04, I was responsible for all internal aspects of running the UK business and its 5 DVD rental brands (ScreenSelect, MSN DVD Rental, Tesco DVD Rental, ITV Movieclub and Easy Cinema DVD Rental). I was also acting CFO for the group, which includes Brafilm - the leading Scandinavian online DVD rental business.

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Managing Director

ScreenSelect Ltd

Apr 2003 - Oct 2004 (1 year 7 months)

Co-founded ScreenSelect.co.uk in Apr 03. We launched in Sep 03 and over the next twelve months we became the UK's leading online DVD rental brand. We raised money from three leading VCs by merging with Video Island in Sep 04.

Group Director (Data Products)

Forrester

Nov 1999 - Jan 2002 (2 years 3 months)

Ran the largest technology consumer research programme in Europe, Technographics Europe, as well as other data products such as Internet AdWatch (sold to LemonAd in 2001).

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Founder

Fletcher Research

Jun 1997 - Nov 1999 (2 years 6 months)

Business Analyst

McKinsey Company

Sep 1995 - Jun 1997 (1 year 10 months)

OR Group Analyst

NatWest Bank

Jul 1994 - Dec 1994 (6 months)

I worked on a six month 'sandwich' placement for the internal consulting team at Natwest Group. My project looked at the bank's ATM (cash machine) network in the UK.

IT Summer Student

Marks and Spencer

Jun 1992 - Sep 1992 (4 months)

I worked on an R&D project for M&S IT Department, investing the applicability of neural networks to their food business' forecasting systems

Pre-University Employee

IBM

Sep 1990 - Sep 1992 (2 years 1 month)

A year-off role in Southbank (working mostly on retail POS systems), followed by summer tutor positions at Chiswick and Hursley

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summer student

SJ Research

Jan 1987 - Dec 1988 (2 years)

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