Mark Chidlow

Highly qualified software developer, architect, tech entrepreneur and CTO with over 25 years experience delivering business critical applications for start-ups, SMEs, and enterprise customers - primarily in travel, ground transport and mobility. Expertise in architecting and implementing sophisticated cloud-native SaaS platforms including on Microsoft Azure. Significant start-up/early stage company experience - from proof-of-concepts through MVP and into fully featured web and mobile products - to IP/company sale. Built and managed multiple highly-productive agile teams applying development best-practices and employing latest cloud service architectures, tools and libraries. Comfortable with investor presentations, successfully securing seed investments and taken a driver app product through to IP sale (to iCabbi). Customers have included Direct Ferries, BBC, O2, plus all major UK taxi, private-hire and airport transfer fleets - ComCab (ComfortDelgro), Radio Taxis, Addison Lee, One Transport(Gett).