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Nottingham Trent University

Founder - Deckible

Audible for Card Decks. Book, Music, Videos and Movies have all been sucessfuly digitized.

Deckible world’s premier marketplace for digital card decks

Founder

DMY Media Inc

Listly brings badly needed structure to social content by combining two interesting trends on the web - crowdsourcing and interactive social polling. 

Listly's web service and plugins allow bloggers and publishers of any size to quadruple engagement with their audience in up to 30% of their content, enabling them to derive more revenues (or reach) for their valuable content.

List.ly

Co-Founder

GiftTRAP is the hilarious new game that’s taking the gaming world by storm and putting the social back into board games.

The goal is to really get to know your friends and family.

You win by knowing your friends and choosing the right gifts, but most of all it’s just fun to play and gets you talking about things that matter.

It's won 20+ awards so far including. 80k copies sold globally.

Games Magazine Best Party Game of the Year 2008.
Spiel Des Jahres - Party Game of the Year 2009

GiftTRAP - SDJ winner 2009 the art of gift exchange.

Working on innovations, new products and evaluating developments and trends in the Business Intelligence market (query, reporting and analysis by another name). Information is my business.

For a great example of my ideas/concepts in action, check out question-centric BI and Intelligent Question at http://www.businessobjects.com/products/queryanalysis/iq.asp. A big thanks of course to a great team of talented engineers.

The concept has received many rave reviews from analysts, journalists and customers alike. It is not a natural language tool, but there are parallels. I prefer to call it structured questioning. It is far far less daunting for occasional/untrained/impatient users than expecting them to type questions into an empty text box. Bringing this innovation to market was a real fun project. Challenging, hard work, but fun.

Business Objects

VP New Markets

I ran the team that released 21 analytic modules including Customer Intelligence, Product & Service Intelligence, Supply Chain Intelligence, Workforce Intelligence and Finance Intelligence.

Also included the release of Business Objects Warehouse, Business Objects Encyclopedia, Business Objects Strategy Map Builder and Business Objects Process Tracker

VP Analytic Applications

I continued to run the AnswerSets/Set Analyzer product line as a Strategic Business Unit inside Business Objects, taking the revenue up to a run rate of $8m/annum (up from $1.5m at time of acquisition)

Director - Set Analyzer Strategic Business Unit

Created the software product AnswerSets, a unique tool designed to simplify and accelerate the process of selection and analysis. It is best categorized by three capabilities: Visual Selection, Step Wise Querying and Set Based Analysis. 

AnswerSets was frequently used for campaign audience selection and customer segmentation, but has universal applicability, for example in Category Management to track product segments. Early customers included Abbey National, Shell, Dollond & Aitchison and Component Source.

Business Objects acquired the company having initially licensed it under the Set Analyzer name.

Next Action Technology

Co Founder/ CEO

Joined F1 at an early stage. Helped develop the company to thirty people across three offices in the UK serving 1,000+ customers.

Designed and executed many successful campaigns to drive revenue in the training business. At the time we were the number one provider of training on FoxPro in the UK before and after the acquisition of Fox Software by Microsoft.

Having put much energy and focus into the Pro-ACTION contact management tool, I left to pursue a fascination for Business Intelligence and Segmentation tools.

F1 Computing Systems Limited

Marketing Director

Managing the London buying office and the sourcing of production from around the world.

By Design Plc

Group Production Controller

Managing production and shipments to customers around the world and sourcing knitwear and suppliers in India.

I wrote down F.C.U.K. thousands of times and never giggled once. Who would have known it would become such fashion phenomenon and the source of much innuendo. I'd love to have be there when some bright spark had the epiphany.

Nick Kellet