Ian Monk

Co-Founder & CEO

Spotted Zebra

Jun 2020 - Current (6 years 1 month)

I'm proud to lead the Spotted Zebra dazzle, where we're redefining recruitment through our award-winning Interview Intelligence and Assessment platform. At Spotted Zebra, we're tackling one of today's biggest business challenges: with 77% of companies facing a widening skills crisis and AI flooding recruiters' inboxes with automated applications, finding the right skilled people has never been more difficult. Our solution uniquely combines skills science with AI to empower talent teams to make more confident, data-informed hiring decisions at scale. I'm passionate about helping forward-thinking enterprise organisations build high-performing teams through technology that enhances human decision-making rather than replacing it. If your o

EF LD14 Cohort Member

Entrepreneurs First

Apr 2020 - Jun 2020 (3 months)

Entrepreneur First brings together extraordinary people to build startups from scratch in London, Singapore, Berlin, Hong Kong, Paris and Bangalore. EF funds individuals and help build co-founding teams, develop ideas, and accelerate through fundraising from the world's best investors. EF have built over 150 companies, have over 1000 alumni worldwide, and our portfolio has a valuation of over $1.5 billion. EF's major exits to date include Magic Pony, led by Rob Bishop and Zehan Wang, which was acquired by Twitter for a reported $150 million only 18 months after the founders met on the EF programme.

Consultant

SportPursuit

Jan 2018 - Dec 2018 (1 year)

Consulting and operational execution primarily focused on (i) The set up an offshore IT development centre in Russia and (ii) Assisting the IT team in re-platforming for their next phase of growth to £100m+ revenue.

Mentor (Barclays Techstars '17)

Techstars

Feb 2017 - Aug 2017 (7 months)

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CEO, CTO & Founder

Bathroomscom Travis Perkins Group

Nov 2007 - Jan 2018 (10 years 3 months)

A VC backed technology, data and digital marketing led e-commerce business. It designs and sources bathroom products from the Far East to sell and distribute directly to the UK end consumer. The business was seed funded directly by myself, growing to £3m in revenue by 2010. After achieving strong organic and profitable growth, it raised a £3m Series A from Dawn Capital before raising a £5m Series B from Augmentum Capital (RIT) in 2012. All deals were structured, negotiated and managed by myself. With a turnover of almost £9m, the business was successfully sold to Travis Perkins, a FTSE 100 company. Technology and data sat at the heart of the business with the key strategy of using tech to allow it to have a lower cost to serve than

Financial System Analyst (FX)

UBS

Jan 1997 - Dec 2001 (5 years)

I worked on data, integration and systems engineering within the Foreign Exchange department. A key focus was e-enabling their internal systems to allow clients to directly access and manage their portfolios through web based front-ends.

CEO & Co-founder

Texuna Technologies Database Management Solutions

Jan 2001 - Nov 2007 (6 years 11 months)

A software development company delivering solutions in data, integration and analytics. I established a subsidiary in Moscow with 20+ developers and delivered business analysis, project management and UX design from the UK.

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