Board Of Directors

Board Of Directors

Executive Directors

Richard Anson, CEO and co-founder

Richard is passionate about the power of real-world reviews. Prior to founding Reevoo, Richard was a senior strategy consultant at KPMG covering the technology space, was previously interim Head of Group Planning at Orange, covering 22 countries, and was on the small deals team managing investments of up to £5 million at 3i. He has a PhD and MBA from the Cranfield School of Management.

Luke Errington, Chief Operating Officer

Luke joined the Reevoo team in July 2006. Prior to that he was responsible for the promotion and development of hotel reservation websites Active Hotels and Priceline.co.uk. In 2004 Luke launched the customer review programme for Active Hotels, the first of its kind in Europe, collecting over 20,000 guest reviews per month. Previously Luke worked on key strategic issues for blue chip clients as a management consultant with global strategy consultancy Bain & Co.

Kyle McGinn, Chief Technology Officer

Kyle joined in September 2007 from the Siemens/BBC partnership, where he was Head of Internet Technology and responsible for the design and build of the infrastructure for several high profile web sites, including BBC.co.uk and BBC iPlayer. Kyle previously served as Head of Technology at Opodo, the pan-European online travel agency, where he led the design of Opodo’s software platform and built up the Technology and Engineering part of the business.

Non-executive Directors and advisors

Roger Graham OBE, Chairman

Roger Graham has been involved with the IT, Communications and Marketing Services industries for over forty years, recently as a Director of Close Brothers Corporate Finance Ltd. For 24 years, as Chairman and CEO, he built the BIS Group from start-up to a firm of 1800 employees operating globally. For the past 14 years he has been an active business angel, investing in some sixteen early stage enterprises involving technology and e-commerce. He has exited 9 of these investments and has secured a substantial growth in the value of shareholders’ investments through close working and encouragement of the companies’ top management teams.

David Gilbert, Advisor

David has an outstanding track record within the electrical retail industry. His career commenced with Boots, and was followed by 22 years with the Dixons Group. From 2002, David was Group Chief Operating Officer, responsible for the Dixons and Link Chains, Airport Stores, Irish Businesses, IS programmes, Dixons Group Business Services and Dixons Group Marketing Services. He was a member of the Group Executive Committee and also Chairman of the Link Stores Ltd. David is currently Chairman of Warehouse Express (owned by Barclays Ventures), Chairman of German drugstore Ihr Platz (owned by Goldman Sachs Private Equity) and is a Director of three separate Arts organisations.

Philippe Herbert, Director

Philippe is a Partner of Banexi Venture Partners, in charge of investments in the Internet and Mobile sectors. He brings 12 years of European investments as well as extensive international and business development experience. Philippe started his career in a start-up, Dassault Systemes, the current worldwide CAD/CAM/PDM software leader. From 1982 to 1996, he held executive positions, including three years as International Operations Director and four years as Business Development Director. In 1996, he relaunched the French operations of Partech International, a US Venture Capitalist Firm. He was during almost eight years General Partner, in charge of IT software investments such as JobPartners, I-Progress, Mediapps and In-Fusio. In 2004, he became Partner of Banexi Ventures Partners, a leading European venture capitalist (Kelkoo, AdenClassifieds, Soitec …), and currently serves at the Board of Kewego, Violet, Tedemis, Mobibase and Reevoo. He has a MSc. in aeronautical Engineering from ESTACA and an executive degree from HEC.

Andrew Phillipps, Director

Andy Phillipps was co-founder and CEO of Active Hotels, which he helped to grow to become the largest on-line hotel booking company in Europe. The company was recognised as the fastest growing technology company in the UK by Deloitte, was a Sunday Times best employer and Andy won Emerging Entrepreneur of the Year. He sold the business to Priceline.com for $161 million in 2004 and was retained by Priceline.com to run their international operations. He resigned as CEO in Q4 2005 following record profits for the international operations and was retained as a non-exec until Q2 2006. He has subsequently helped found, expand and/or invest in a number of start-ups, including Reevoo, I2O, Toptable and Moyses-Stevens and is Entrepreneur in residence at INSEAD business school. Andy has a PhD from Cambridge and an MBA from INSEAD.

Ben Tompkins, Director

Ben is a partner with Eden Ventures, a leading European early stage investor. Ben has 20 years’ experience advising and investing in privately-owned and venture capital-backed business in Europe and North America. He spent the first 18 years of his career in corporate finance, advising on over 75 transactions and specializing in the software and digital media sectors.

Ben worked in London and New York before joining Broadview International (now Jefferies Broadview) in 1993. At Broadview, Ben was a Managing Director in the European office, was Co-head of the software, services and media global market group and led the development of the global digital media group. He has advised on transactions involving Yahoo!, IAC, Vivendi, News Corp, Microsoft, Openwave, Lagardere, British Telecom, Cendant, E*trade and Experian.

Ben joined Eden in September 2006 and brings exceptional fund-raising and exit experience to the team. Ben focuses on the digital media, internet, mobile and e-commerce sectors and is responsible for Eden’s investments in Reevoo, SmithBayes and Pixsta.