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Philip McDermott
Greater Manchester
About Philip
Serial founder, Non-Executive Director, Board Advisor, Investor, and Chairman with an incredible track record for driving shareholder value in a business through dramatically scaling, monetising, and securing high value exits.
I am an experienced commercially orientated business leader, where my primary focus as an operator has been to build technology enabled managed service and SaaS businesses within the Internet of Things, Energy Management and Health & Wellness sectors.
Expert in all stages of the business life cycle, including start up, scale up, operating in a PE / VC environment, M&A, MBO's, and delivering successful trade exits in the Energy & Utilities & Telecommunications sector.
Excel when engaging with a business who have a board with an entrepreneurial mindset, have successfully commercialised an idea, and have a deep desire to accelerate growth and exit.
Having scaled a number of innovative businesses and secured 2 successful exits I am now looking to engage with likeminded entrepreneurs with a passion for growth, scaling or if an exit is on the agenda.
Key skills include:
• Energy tech, telco-tech, and healthcare & wellness tech focus
• Business scaling
• Board leadership
• NED and Chair profile
• Success mindset
• Exit planning and focus
• Well networked
• Entrepreneurial
• Route to marked
• Sales & business development
Experience operating in Europe, North America, Asia, and UAE.
Philip's Career History
WorldOV
Chairman
January 2023 - Ongoing
OV is the IoT MNO, uniquely positioned in the industry to provide you with global IoT coverage through 600+ direct roaming agreements with the flexibility of being able to directly negotiate rates and deliver solutions tailored to customer needs.
Our connectivity powers some of the world’s best known brands with over seven million IMSI’s under management and our software defined MVNO toolkit handles more than a billion data sessions each month, giving us the scale and reliability to handle any volume of project.
REVIV Global
Co-CEO
November 2022 - Ongoing
SteamaCo
Investor & Non Executive Director
August 2021 - Ongoing
VCHRGD
Founding Investor & Non Executive Director
July 2021 - Ongoing
Carrus
Founding Partner
March 2021 - Ongoing
IOTICS
Founding Investor
September 2014 - Ongoing
Arkessa
Chief Commercial Officer
January 2014 - March 2021
Iskraemeco
Managing Director
June 2013 - December 2013
Gazprom Global Energy Solutions
Managing Director
October 2009 - October 2012
Endorsements
Garrick Bruce
22/02/2021
Philip has guided and grown Arkessa to exit, his role as the Chief Commercial Officer was critical to the success of the Tech focused Cambridge business. This company was guided from 10 people to the global organisation it is today. Scale Up, International Expansion and Strategy are at the forefront of Phil's mindset. I can HIGHLY recommend Philip for all organisations from StartUp point to Medium sized as a Non Executive Director.
Andrew Orrock
22/02/2021