I am the CEO and Founder of HeadBox (www.headbox.com), the UK's first on-line marketplace for inspiring, creative and off-site spaces that links guests (corporate and SME bookers) with hosts (owners of creative, inspiring and off-site spaces) directly through our platform. This cuts out the middle-man and allows guests to search, book and pay in an easy, fast and seamless way solving a lot of the current pain points many of us face when it comes to booking a space for a work related event. So for guests whether you need an inspiring space for workshops, brainstorms, meetings, meet-ups, product and business launches, company meetings and get-togethers, stakeholder dinners, research and co-creation, training, media, production and photography shoots and other off-site business functions on a regular basis, HeadBox will have the perfect space for you, all in one place that you can book and pay for directly over the platform. And for hosts we are building the largest collection of amazing spaces in London, unlocking value from their under-utilised space as well as providing many spaces with an extra revenue stream. Already we are starting to build our ecosystem of partners from catering suppliers and florists to music & entertainment companies, concierge services and much more. Quintessentially.com, the global concierge service is one of HeadBox’s first partners. Essentially we're doing for creative, inspiring, off-site spaces what Airbnb and Uber have done to other parts of the collaborative and sharing economy. Our mission is “to bring people and spaces together to make brilliant things happen” not just in the UK but all over the world. Previously I was the CEO of Face & Pulsar a 50 strong, global research and social data analytics company with offices in London, New York, Singapore and Hong Kong that I built and sold to Cello Group Plc www.cellogroup.com in 2012.

CEO @ I am the CEO & Founder of HeadBox (www.headbox.com) the UK's first on-line marketplace for inspiring, creative and off-site spaces. From April 2015 to Present (9 months) Leadership Group @ I was one of 12 Global Managing Partners in charge of social technology and innovation. From April 2012 to March 2015 (3 years) CEO @ Together with my role as the CEO of Face, I lead the global launch and expansion of Pulsar our proprietary suite of social intelligence products that in it's first year of trading as an enterprise SAAS business generated £2.5M in software licence revenue with strong projected growth. From January 2010 to March 2015 (5 years 3 months) CEO & Founding Partner @ I was the global CEO of Face & Pulsar, the company I founded and grew to a turnover of £8M with 50+ people in offices in London, New York, Singapore and Hong Kong. From September 2002 to March 2015 (12 years 7 months) Partner @ I was one of 35 Cello Partners where my role was to help drive Cello Group Strategy. From May 2009 to March 2012 (2 years 11 months) Group Managing Partner, Cello London Hub @ As a Board Director of Tangible, one of the key divisions of Cello Group Plc, I lead and was responsible for the P&L and the 70 employess of its London Hub. The Hub consisted of four companies namely Face, Farm, Tangible and Opticomm. When I took on the role the Hub was loss making and in 2 years turned it into a major profit driving centre for the Tangible Division. From September 2009 to December 2011 (2 years 4 months) Vice President @ I was Vice President of the UK's Word of Mouth Marketing Association - WOMUK - we represented the word of mouth marketing industry in the UK with a view to expanding to cover Europe. WOMUK was the only WOM association in the UK to be officially affiliated with WOMMA in the U.S. From September 2008 to December 2010 (2 years 4 months) Co-Founder @ From January 2006 to August 2007 (1 year 8 months) Managing Director @ I set up Student Pages, a telephone directory very like Yellow Pages but for students while studying at Edinburgh University. I then grew the 200 plus page publication so that every major university town in the country had it's own version. With a print run of over 300,000 copies and a readership of 1M it became a well established part of student life in the 90's. I sold Student Pages together with Student Marketing to Hobsons (part of the Daily Mail Group then). From June 1992 to September 2002 (10 years 4 months) Consumer Director @ From September 2000 to June 2002 (1 year 10 months)

2:1 in Master of Business Administration (MBA), History and Politics @ The University of Edinburgh From 1988 to 1992 Eton College From 1982 to 1987 Andrew Needham is skilled in: Social Media, Qualitative Research, Customer Insight, Co-creation, Insight Generation, Innovation, Social Intelligence, Marketing Strategy, Online Research, Entrepreneurship