Leadership team

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Nick Brackenbury
Co-Founder & CEO

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Max Kreijn
Co-Founder & CRO

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Andreea Gheorghe
Head of Product

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Thomas Schoffelen
Head of Engineering

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Meral Ince
Customer Success Lead

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Alastair Grant
Head of Sales

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Joshua Burrows
Partnerships Lead

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Tom Butcher
Head of Business Operations


Advisory board

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Paula Nickolds
Nickolds is advisory board chair at NearSt and CEO of The White Company. Previously, she was managing and executive director of Department store chain John Lewis, senior advisor at McKinsey & Co, and general manager commercial merchandise at Sainsbury’s. Retail runs through her veins.

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Karishma Shah
Previously holding senior strategic, innovation and M&A positions at Alphabet, Uber and Cisco. Shah is currently Vice President at Times Internet, India's largest digital products company. Shah was the youngest hire at Alphabet's Google [x], Google's so-called "moonshot factory", where the search giant comes up with far-out technologies that can be applied to the world's biggest problems. 

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Sarah Drinkwater
Former Head of Google for Entrepreneurs. In her role as a Solo General Partner (Solo GP), Sarah is charting a new course in the world of venture capital. With over 35 angel investments to her name and a repeat membership in Atomico's angel program, Sarah's investment prowess is second to none.

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Richard Hammond
Author of mutiple best-selling business books on retail, including Smart Retail, Modern Retail Management and Friction/Reward. Hammond is Founder and CEO of Uncrowd, a leading analytics platform to help retailers understand and improve customer experience (CX). Using AI and machine learning to provide unique insights into shopper behavior. 

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Ian Mair
Mair is non-executive Director of the board at NearSt. Held multiple Finance positions at Tesco, before moving to Grosvenor Group, one of the largest property owners in the UK, where he held roles including CFO and COO across the Asia region, and latterly Group Services Director overseeing the development of innovation and technology. Mair is founding partner of innovation consultancy Bothy.

Investors

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True Capital
The retail specialist venture firm investing both Venture Capital and Private Equity across Consumer (Product, Tech & Services), Retail Tech & Supply Chain. VC fund invests Pre-Seed to Series A up to £2m initially, and PE fund investing up to £100m.

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Grosvenor Group
Grosvenor is a leading international organisation whose activities include urban property development. They develop, manage and invest in a growing portfolio to improve property and places across many of the world’s leading cities.

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Stonebridge Capital
Stonebridge is a private investment firm backed by family office capital. Empowering visionary entrepreneurs with Growth capital investment and a world-class network to build the global leaders of tomorrow.

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