Will Hanschell
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Co-Founder & CEO
United Kingdom
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Co-Founder & CEOPencilFeb 2018 - Current (8 years 8 months)We believe that AI will be as fundamental to creativity in the future as the pencil was in the past - and that AI must be a tool for creative people and not a replacement.- FellowEntrepreneurs FirstFeb 2018 - Jul 2018 (6 months)Fellow of EF's 3rd cohort in Singapore. EF is the world's leading company builder, backed by Reid Hoffman (founder of LinkedIn), Greylock Partners, Mosaic Ventures, Founders Fund, Lakestar and some of the world's best entrepreneurs.
- PartnerIrisFeb 2015 - Jan 2018 (3 years)Co-founded & owned the Singapore P&L for Concise, the management consulting & data business of creative agency Iris Worldwide. Grew the team organically to 15+ people and several $M in ARR over 3 years, eventually becoming one of the most profitable offices in the global network.
Full responsibility for proposition, relationships & team in South East Asia. As a commercial & data consultancy that's part of a creative agency, we aimed to come together to do transformative work for clients.
Focused on generation of real-time insight, new ways of understanding consumers, designing omni-channel customer experiences, uncovering & addressing operational inefficiencies, commercialising & productising latent datasets, turning d - Senior ManagerIrisApr 2011 - Feb 2015 (3 years 11 months)Co-founded and managed Iris' social & content analytics function, including shadow P&L. Grew the team to 5+ people and over a dozen clients. Oversaw productisation and expansion of operations into the agency's APAC network.
Led key relationships with Philips, Samsung & IHG and contributed to MINI, Adidas & BAT.
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- BA, MEng, MA, Engineering (Information & Systems)University of CambridgeJan 2006 - Jan 2010 (4 years 1 month)