Leadership Team

Ian Smith CEO & Founder

Ian is an entrepreneur and a vastly experienced enterprise technology executive, having worked in various consulting and in-house roles within the sector over the last 20 years.
Before founding Gospel Technology in 2016, Ian was the founder and CTO of Butterfly Software, a data analytics and migration software company acquired by IBM in September 2012. After which he took on a worldwide Vice President of Product Management role for IBM.
Prior to Butterfly, Ian was involved in solving some of the largest and most complex infrastructure and data problems in enterprise business. He built HSBC’s enterprise infrastructure and worked for the likes of Dell, Deutsche Bank and Lloyds TSB Group.
While gaining a wealth of experience working in enterprise business, Ian noticed a clear disconnect between how enterprise businesses use their data and how they collaborate. He founded Gospel Technology to help solve this issue and enforce the fundamentals of ethics in business through the ethical use of data.

Ian holds a BSc Geology from University of Sheffield

Twitter handle: @iantsmith
LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ian-smith-a803701/

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Malcolm Hopping Chief of Staff

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Malcolm Hopping Chief of Staff

Malcolm is a highly seasoned information technology executive, whose career spans over 50 years in the IT industry covering a wide range of operational, technical and management roles.
Malcolm spent 25 years of his career successfully working for large US global corporations, with a particular focus on the high-speed networking and data storage sectors, including Hitachi Data Systems, Network Systems Corp. and Storagetek. In these roles, he excelled at managing large teams, as well as providing integrated hardware, software and networked business solutions to blue chip accounts, through both direct and indirect sales channels throughout Europe.
His roles have included sales and marketing management, managing director, general manager and corporate officer.
Malcolm previously worked closely with Ian Smith building Butterfly Software before it was acquired by IBM in 2012.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/malcolm-hopping-640b15/

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Reuben Thompson VP Technology

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Reuben Thompson VP Technology

Reuben has 15 years’ experience in web and software development, having occupied multiple technical roles since 2003.
Reuben joined Gospel from Experian Marketing Services, where he was most recently responsible for the software development and product management functions for the Alchemy Social, Promote and Intelligent Audiences product lines. Prior to that, he worked for a VAR, where he was in charge of e-commerce and internal line of business applications.
Across these roles, Reuben gained extensive experience of managing large-scale software projects, scalable, distributed, service-oriented software architectures, and how to satisfy complex and divergent compliance requirements (FCA, PCI, etc).
As Vice President for Technology at Gospel, Reuben is responsible for all platform and product development activities.

Twitter handle: @libellous
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/reuben-thompson/

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Kevin Bailey Director GTM Strategy

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Kevin Bailey Director GTM Strategy

Kevin is responsible for the Go-To-Market Strategy at Gospel, where he works alongside the senior management team to ensure that the Gospel purpose aligns with wider market requirements.
With over 25 years’ experience in the IT industry, Kevin has worked for leading corporates such as StorageTek, Symantec, IDC and BAE Systems Applied Intelligence, as well as successfully launching and repositioning other innovative technology vendors.
Kevin is now using his strong commercial acumen and ability to interpret both technical and executive objectives, along with the ability to validate planning and strategy into operational excellence to coordinate a consistent and client-centric approach to Gospel’s engagements.

Kevin holds an MSc Marketing (Distinction) from University of South Wales and a postgraduate diploma (DipM) from Chartered Institute of Marketing

Twitter handle: @BaileyK62
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevin-bailey-20a902/

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Rob Anderson Head of Field Operations

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Rob Anderson Head of Field Operations

Rob has over 20 years of experience across multiple continents, in accelerating growth and building first-class global teams for startups.
As Head of Field Operations at Gospel Technology, Rob is focused on maximising customer success through the functions of delivery and presales. Previously Rob ran global sales engineering at MapR, one of the top Big Data vendors, doubling growth every year through his four years of tenure. Prior to MapR, Rob was EMEA CTO for the Isilon division of EMC, a global leader in enabling information technology as a service (ITaaS). In his thirteen years at EMC/Isilon, Rob was promoted through a series of technical, commercial and leadership roles, taking the company to IPO and eventually a $2.5b acquisition by EMC.

Rob holds an M.Sc. from the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington in Seattle, USA, and a B.Eng. in Computer Engineering from McGill University in Montreal, Canada, and holds eleven patents.

Twitter handle: @robsbytes
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rjanderson/

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Matt Taylor Head of Sales

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Matt Taylor Head of Sales

Matt has extensive experience in building, leading and scaling new technology businesses into European and Global markets, around complex enterprise software solutions. Grounded in all aspects of a start-up business from initial market entry strategy, VC fund raising, partnership and team building through to scaling a business into a significant global entity.

For the past 9 years he’s experienced the journey of being the 1st sales person and 8th employee within a North American start-up through to leading and scaling the commercial side of the business globally, resulting in customers and presence in all the major business hubs.

Beyond this experience his earlier career started with a degree in Computer Science and 8 years working as a programmer, consultant and PM, across numerous industries including Telco, Utilities, Oil & Gas and Insurance including experience of living and working across Europe and Asia Pacific.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/matt-taylor-528869/

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Natasha Grinstrit Head of Talent

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Natasha Grinstrit Head of Talent

Natasha is responsible for overall Talent Acquisition Strategy and employer branding for Gospel Technology. Natasha has over 10 years’ experience in Talent Acquisition with a strong expertise in technology domain. Her overall goal is to translate business requirements into a TA strategy, with a strong focus on metrics and deliverables.
Prior to joining Gospel, she has worked for IBM as a Talent Acquisition Partner dedicated to Blockchain and Automation practices, and Sabre Corporation as well as Autotask Corporation (acq. by Datto) in Talent Acquisition space.
Natasha is certified an Agile TA, Design Thinking and Blockchain Consultancy Foundation from IBM Academy, apart from holding other relevant certifications and badges.
She holds BSc and MSc degree in International Economics from Moscow University of Management. She also speaks fluent Russian and German.

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Gospel Technology Board

Ian Smith CEO & Chairman of Board

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Ian Smith CEO & Chairman of Board

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Roger Ehrenberg Board Director

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Roger Ehrenberg Board Director

Roger Ehrenberg is the founder and Managing Partner of IA Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm based in New York City. IA is managing $315M across three funds and is currently investing out of its $160M third fund. Roger previously was an active angel investor through IA Capital Partners, a seed-stage investment firm focused on digital media and financial technology. Earlier in his career, Roger served as President and CEO of DB Advisors, was Global co-head of Deutsche Bank’s Strategic Equity Transactions Group, and was an investment banker at Citibank in derivatives, capital structuring and Mergers & Acquisitions.

Roger currently sits on the Boards of Gospel Technology, Mighty, Octane Lending and TransferWise, and until recently was lead investor in and Board Member of The Trade Desk (NASDAQ: TTD). He is also a Board observer of Debtsy, InfoSum, MemSQL, PlaceIQ, Robin Healthcare, Sight Machine, Signifyd and TellusLabs. Formerly, he served on the boards of Buddy Media (sold to Salesforce), Global Bay Mobile Technologies (sold to VeriFone) and Simple (sold to BBVA). Roger sits on the External Advisory Boards of both the Ross School of Business and the School of Information at the University of Michigan, as well as serving as a member of the Data & Society Council of the Data Science Institute at Columbia University.

Roger holds an MBA in Finance, Accounting and Management from Columbia Business School and a BBA in Finance, Economics and Organizational Psychology from the University of Michigan.

Roger blogs at https://medium.com/@infoarbitrage and tweets at @infoarbitrage.

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Investors

IA Ventures Contact: Roger Ehrenberg

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IA Ventures Contact: Roger Ehrenberg

IA Ventures is an early stage venture firm based in NYC but with investments in LA, SF, Toronto and the UK. We love getting involved very early, often seeding companies before a dollar of revenue has been generated. The three partners, Roger, Brad and Jesse, each do their own work, eschewing the notion of leverage from junior staff. We are small, hands-on and deeply engaged.

http://www.iaventures.com/

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Salesforce Ventures Contact: Alex Kayyal

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Salesforce Ventures Contact: Alex Kayyal

Salesforce is the fastest growing top five enterprise software company and the #1 CRM provider globally. Salesforce Ventures—the company’s corporate investment group—invests in the next generation of enterprise technology that extends the power of the Salesforce Customer Success Platform, helping companies connect with their customers in entirely new ways. Portfolio companies receive funding as well as access to the world’s largest cloud ecosystem and the guidance of Salesforce’s innovators and executives. With Salesforce Ventures, portfolio companies can also leverage Salesforce's expertise in corporate philanthropy by joining Pledge 1% to make giving back part of their business model. Salesforce Ventures has invested in more than 275 enterprise cloud startups in 17 different countries since 2009.

www.salesforce.com/ventures.

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LocalGlobe Contact: Remus Brett

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LocalGlobe Contact: Remus Brett

We've seeded impactful London founders since 1999 at places like Citymapper, Improbable, Lovefilm, Moo, Transferwise and Zoopla.

https://localglobe.vc/

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The New Data Culture is here
(and it isn’t waiting for anybody)

That’s where we come in…

We’re excited to be part of the new
data culture, and we want you to discover where your data can take you.

The Gospel Technology Team

Leadership Team

Gospel Technology Board

Investors

The New Data Culture is here (and it isn’t waiting for anybody)

That’s where we come in…

We’re excited to be part of the new data culture, and we want you to discover where your data can take you.

The Gospel Technology Team

Leadership Team

Gospel Technology Board

Investors

The New Data Culture is here
(and it isn’t waiting for anybody)

We’re excited to be part of the new
data culture, and we want you to discover where your data can take you.