Glenn Elliott
| Glenn Elliott | |
|---|---|
 Glenn Elliott, 2015.jpg | |
| Born | September 29, 1972 South Shields, England |
| 🏡 Residence | Boston, USA |
| 🏳️ Nationality | British |
| 🏫 Education | South Bank University |
| 💼 Occupation | |
| 👔 Employer | Reward Gateway |
| Known for | CEO of Reward Gateway |
| 🌐 Website | www |
Glenn Elliott (born 29 September 1972) is a British software entrepreneur and founder of Reward Gateway a SaaS employee engagement product used to by corporate HR departments to attract, engage and retain their talent.[1]
Life and career[edit]
Early life and career[edit]
Elliott was born in South Shields, England.[2] He moved to London in 1992 to study Computer Science at South Bank University.[3] Following graduation he worked for Schlumberger Technical Services Inc and then BT Group for approximately nine years.[4] In 2001 Elliott founded N1 Digital Media and served as its Managing Director.[5] In 2005, the firm won the Small Business of the Year category at the ITV London / Evening Standard London Business Awards[6] and had grown to be the 76th largest design agency in the UK.[7] In 2006 the company was the 56th largest design agency overall and the fourth fastest growing small agency.[5] In 2006 the Web Marketing Association awarded an environmental advertisement for Ben & Jerry's developed by N1 its award for outstanding achievement in internet advertising.[8] In 2006 Elliott sold his interest in N1 to a management buy-in team and used the money to start Asperity Employees Benefits.[9]
Reward Gateway[edit]
In 2006 Elliott founded Reward Gateway, an HR Software company focussed on employee engagement technology. In 2010, he sold a majority stake in the company to Inflexion Private Equity for £25.5m, whilst remaining as CEO with 25% of the business[10] That year Elliott was named as one of Ernst & Young's Entrepreneurs of the Year.[11]
Under Elliott the company's turnover grew three hundred percent between 2010 and 2011, with headquarters in London, New York, and Sydney. In 2011 Asperity was named the NatWest Fast Growth Business of the Year.[9] In 2015 Elliott led a secondary MBO selling Inflexion's stake to US investor Great Hill Partners for £140m,[12] generating £35m personally through the transaction.[13]
Other ventures[edit]
Elliott is an angel investor in technology startups and became a founder investor in UK grocery discount startup Checkout Smart in 2014[14]
He is a regular blogger and started a monthly series on Changeboard, the global HR community site in 2015. He has also written for Forbes Magazine, writing about employee engagement, private equity and entrepreneurship.
Personal life[edit]
He lives between London and Boston with his partner, Danish property developer Kristian Sibast. He is known to support the visual arts and has been a producer of a number of films.[15] He is a trustee of the UK charity Trees for Cities and a Friend of the Terrence Higgins Trust.
References[edit]
- ↑ Reward Gateway on Crunchbase.com
- ↑ "What I wish I'd known when I started". Business XL Magazine. July 2010. p. 49.
|access-date=requires|url=(help) - ↑ "Alumnus of the month - October 2015" South Bank University
- ↑ "Final Say - Glenn Elliott". Business XL Magazine. August 2010.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 David Tiltman (July 26, 2006). "Marketing league table: Design - Design leagues". Brand Republic. Retrieved February 11, 2013.
- ↑ "London Business Awards". 2005. Retrieved February 11, 2013.
- ↑ Marketing Magazine Design Leagues Top 90 - 29 June 2005 Haymarket Publishing
- ↑ "Internet Advertising Competition". 2006. Retrieved February 11, 2013.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 "NatWest Fast Growth Business of the Year, Asperity Employee Benefits Ltd". Fast Growth. Retrieved February 11, 2013.
- ↑ "Inflexion in £25.5m buyout of Asperity". City AM. City AM. Retrieved 22 March 2012.
- ↑ "Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award 2010". Retrieved February 11, 2013.
- ↑ INFLEXION SELLS REWARD GATEWAY IN £140M DEAL
- ↑ South Shields businessman nets £35m from sale of company he founded South Shields Gazette, Johnstone Publishing Ltd
- ↑ London Startup CheckoutSmart, A Grocery Cashback App Similar To Groupon’s Snap, Scores £1.5M Funding TechCrunch, AOL inc
- ↑ IMDB "IMDB Reference". Retrieved June 11, 2013.
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