Tom Shrive

A Pi Labs VC backed company. AskPorter is an AI communications platform that automates property and facilities management, saving money, reducing admin and ensuring happy customers. Roles and responsibilities included:

• Leading, in conjunction with the Board, the development of the Company’s strategy
• day-to-day management decisions and implementing the Company’s long and short term plans
• leading the development and execution of the Company’s long term strategy with a view to creating shareholder value
• ensuring the Company is appropriately organised and staffed and to have the authority to hire and terminate staff as necessary to enable it to achieve the approved strategy.
• ensuring that expenditures of the Company are within the authorised annual budget of the Company
• assessing the principal opportunities and risks of the Company and ensuring that these risks are being monitored and managed.
• content writing, e.g: https://futureproptech.co.uk/2018/02/19/why-artificial-intelligence-machine-learning-deep-learning-and-cats-should-matter-to-your-property-business-by-askporter/

A Technology consultancy focused on developing and bringing to market innovative hardware and software products. Roles and responsibilities included:

• Ideation, project planning, and scope definition and executing on a go-to-market strategy
• setting a product vision and strategy using full suite of design thinking tools
• Advocate of agile project management, with sprints and standups and adept at using using tools such as trello, Jira and confluence
• managing the budget and stakeholder reporting
• clients included: Intel, ARM holdings

I worked directly with senior partners in managing projects and formulating strategies that enable companies to effectively leverage their brands to drive business performance. Roles and responsibilities included:

• Developing, planning and executing brand strategy across multiple channels
• managing the end-to-end campaign process both online and offline
• reporting directly to the CEO
• clients included: KPMG, Vodafone, The AA, L'Occitane

This campaign aimed to recognise Her Majesty the Queen’s 60 years of public service by encouraging people to undertake at least 60 minutes of volunteering, or an act of goodwill.

• Designing and applying appropriate project management standards
• managing the production of the required deliverables
• assuring the overall direction and integrity of the project maintaining an awareness of potential interdependencies
• conducting regular project evaluation reviews to assess how well the project was managed

Vorboss has been providing flexible cloud services since before they were called “cloud”. Vorboss provides high-reliability cloud hosting with end-to-end support and flexible, resource-based pricing, allowing customers to scale up or scale back as required. Roles and responsibilities included:

• Managing all marketing for the company
• developing the marketing strategy for the company in line with company objectives
• co-ordinating marketing campaigns with sales activities and overseeing the company’s marketing budget
• creation and publication of all marketing material in line with marketing plans

Pitch Perfect brings unity and relevance to the journalist and PR relationship. Instead of facilitating mass mailers, automated messaging, and intense spam, Pitch Perfect resolves the often exasperating road to coverage using targeted, relevant mailing and placing more control in the hands of journalists.

Patented and prototyped the worlds first haptic band for audio and visual free navigation. The project was funded by Intel.

Created, designed and manufactured the worlds only wristband selfie stick - compatible with all mobile handsets.