Chris Boud

SuperSeed is a London based venture capital fund investing in seed stage enterprise software (SaaS, AI and Data) start-ups and helping them achieve their first £million in revenue.

• Leading commercial diligence for new investment companies.
• Building Product-market fit and Go-to-market playbook for seed companies.
• Fundraising for our venture funds.
• Sourcing and vetting new startup investment opportunities.
• Currently acting as Head of Sales & Marketing for ThingTrax in order to define their Go-to-Market playbook and build commercial team.
• Advisor to the CEO and Head of Sales of Scribeless (portfolio company).
• Acting as Interim MD of PublishCheck (see below)

PublishCheck is a publishing analytics platform tailored for editorial and audience development teams. Clients include the Times, Evening Standard, GQ, Vogue, the Sun and the Independent.

• Doubled revenue from GQ, Vogue, ESI Media & the Sun.
• Ensured the Times, Express & Daily Star all resigned contracts.
• Initially acting as Head of Sales, then taking over the full day-to-day running of operations including:
• All sales, account management and client on-boarding, managing the dev team, including running tri-weekly stand-ups, product management and development of the product roadmap, recruitment, managing outsourced resources and marketing.

Taskeater provide operational outsourcing to tech companies and startups.

• Selling mainly to CEO’s, COO’s as well as other senior managers with Operations.
• Responsible for strategy, sales and account management for the UK US, IE & Continental Europe.
• Achieved 200% of target (6 clients signed against a target of 3) in my first month.
• First person to successfully win a client who was currently working with Taskeater’s main competitor.
• Signed Taskeater’s biggest ever client, with a one-off deal size of £300k.

Medicash are one of the leading providers of corporate health cash plans in the UK.

• Typically selling into HR departments (HR Director, Reward Director, Compensation & Benefits Manager, etc.) but also other stakeholders such as CEO’s and FD’s.
• Working prominently with large corporates and MME’s, with deal sizes ranging from £5k to in excess of £1million, including several hotel chains, investment banks, law firms and media groups.
• Left due to redundancy.

Global taxi on-demand and ride sharing app, operating in the US, UK, Russia and Israel.

• As BDM my role was to acquire new corporate clients and grow the volume of business rides, particularly targeting financial services, law firms, media groups and professional services.
• Signed some of Gett UK's biggest clients, including a many well-known brands in advertising (WPP – deal size, £80k per annum), media (the guardian - £72k), real estate (Savills - £40k) and management consultancy (A.T. Kearney - £300k).
• Reporting to the International Head of B2B Marketing, as UK B2B Marketing Manager I was responsible for all areas of marketing Gett for Business.
• This included planning and executing email, digital and direct marketing campaigns, event planning, content creation for both online and print, social selling, and growth hacking.

Temp position at a Brighton based lead generation marketing agency.

• Sold Identity & Access Management, Core Financial, Procurement and Performance Management Software, over the phone, to corporate and public sector clients both in the UK and the US.
• In my first full month with Radar One I achieved 150% of my target and continued to meet or exceed my target every month since then.
• Made more calls per month, every month, than every other member of staff, setting and breaking call records in the process.

Spent almost five years teaching English as a foreign language in various parts of China.

• Taught all levels from kindergarten age to business classes offsite at company premises.
• Extra responsibilities as Deputy Head included interviewing perspective teachers, training teachers, developing the curriculum, organising and taking part in extracurricular activities, evaluating students’ English levels and the day to day management of the team and centre.

In just over 6 years I worked my way up from reception in Baker Street branch to Associate Director, Sales in Global Transaction Banking.

• Focused on delivering regulated payments and cash management solutions, primarily to the UK biggest insurance companies and fund managers.
• Built relationships with the treasury and finance departments within these companies and identifying areas where we could help their business run smarter and save on costs, primarily through HSBC’s online payment and management portal HSBCnet.
• Prior to joining Global Transaction Banking I worked in retail branch banking in 3 busy West End branches.
• I achieved my initial annual target within my first month with HSBC and was promoted within a matter of months.

Starting as a sale assistant and eventually becoming the youngest manager in the company at 19.