We are pleased to announce the following recent appointments by our Technology Leadership Practice (CTO/CIO/VP Eng)

Renaissance led the search for a VP Eng to join this highly regarded build-your-own computer success story. Key to the search was to find a tech leader with experience spanning hardware and software as well as a background in growth stage businesses.

Mal Minhas joins from Amazon where he led the Amazon Video Distribution Software Engineering team. Mal has also held technology leadership roles at Vertu, Adobe and Apple, he has an MSc in Computer Science from Imperial College London.

Founded in 2013, Learn-to-code start-up Kano, whose products aim to turn kids into digital makers is a new kind of computer company. Their mission is to make it simple and fun for anyone, anywhere to make and play with technology. Their first kit, which broke records on Kickstarter, gives young people the chance to build and code their own computer, with simple steps, powerful projects and creative tools. Kano closed a $28M Series B last year — and has raised some $44.5M in total. Investors include Index Ventures and Breyer Capital.

Peter has a distinguished career in technology leadership in the hospitality sector and has won several awards whilst building out the technology capability at Soho House during its international expansion. Peter is ideally suited to lead all things technology related at TOG as they embark on their own international growth journey following investment from Blackstone.

TOG is home to one of the most creative, exciting and forward-thinking working communities in the UK. They have pioneered the concept of the shared workspace in Britain. In June 2017 Blackstone (a global leader in Real Estate investing) acquired a majority interest in the business, beginning a new era for TOG. As a result there is a huge amount of excitement about what the future holds in terms of opening new locations and defining innovative ways of addressing how people wish to work.

Renaissance worked with McArthurGlen on the the newly created CIO role that plays a pivotal role in the adoption of digital in the business. Phil has enjoyed success in leading largescale digital and technology transformation programmes across retail, hospitality and automotive. According to McArthur Glen’s CCO, Tom Enraght-Moony "Phil brings 20 years' diverse technology and transformation experience at B2B and B2C brands including Whitbread plc, Mercedes-Benz, Argos and Homebase”.

Real estate group McArthurGlen is Europe’s largest and fastest growing developer, owner and operator of designer outlets with 600,000m2 of retail outlet space across 24 high end shopping villages in nine different countries. It hosts 90 million customers a year shopping for luxury fashion at a saving of 30 to 70% from McArthurGlen’s network of 1,000 famous brand partners including Armani, Burberry, Dolce & Gabbana, Gucci, Marc Jacobs, Missoni, Polo Ralph Lauren, Prada, Roberto Cavalli, Saint Laurent, Valentino and Versace.

Renaissance led the search to find a high impact CTO with experience in online marketplaces. Badr brings a wealth of experience in leading high performance technology and engineering teams in established as well as early stage businesses ranging from matchesfashion.com to Marks & Spencer.

The Auction Technology Group is leading the transformation of two of the world’s last remaining industries not to have moved meaningfully online. Annually, £40-50 billion of Arts & Antiques are traded globally. With less than 10% of auctions closed online today but with the online portion growing at 15-20% annually, ATG is in an excellent position to acquire majority market share in a growing international sector.

The ability to identify great technology leaders with deep technology grounding was one of the key reasons for Buzzmove to work with Renaissance to hire their CTO. The requirement was to find a CTO with experience gained across leading edge technologies including AI and blockchain.
John brings extensive experience in leading technology functions through rapid growth and his experience also includes tech leadership roles in fintech as well as enterprise software/SaaS.

Buzzmove is a fast-growing company that spans proptech and insuretech with the impending launch of its latest business venture, Buzzvault. Operating under the Buzzmove umbrella organisation, both businesses can rightfully claim to be truly disruptive in their field. The business is built around functional and technology experts as well as customer service specialists with one goal: to make moving house easier.

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