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Jonty Knox

Founder of CustomerOS

London, England

Overview 

Jonty Knox is the Founder of CustomerOS (YC S22), a company focused on developing a GTM copilot. He has a diverse background in the oil & gas industry, product management, and leadership roles, with notable experience at companies like Voxbone (now Bandwidth) and Huawei Technologies. Knox has successfully founded CustomerOS and secured investment for companies like WeKall (Pre Seed), showcasing his entrepreneurial skills and ability to drive business growth through strategic partnerships and product development.

Work Experience 

  • Co-Founder and CPO

    2022 - Current

    Building the only customer centric, full-lifecycle CRM at customeros.ai We replace Apollo, Hubspot, Salesforce, Zendesk, Intercom and every other Prospecting/CRM/CSP/CS platform out there.

  • Venture Partner

    2024

  • Advisor

    2021

  • Advisor

    2021

  • Product

    2021 - 2022

    Democratising access to great financial health. Backed by Sequoia Arc, Global Founders Capital and Flash Ventures

  • Head of Product

    2019 - 2021

    • Sold Voxbone to Bandwidth, Inc. for $519.4 million in Oct 2020 • Lead a growing team of highly performing Product Managers • Responsible for Voxbone's software strategy 2021 Most Innovative Product Winner - UC Awards 2020 Best VoIP Innovation Award Winner - ITSPA Awards 2019 Best Voice Service Innovation - Mature Market Award Winner - Global Carrier Awards

  • Lead Product Owner

    2019 - 2019

    • Increased responsibility taking on a Lead Product Owner role at Voxbone • Lead and grew a team of highly performing Product Managers • Responsible for Voxbone's mid-term product backlog management and execution • Built strong process and made technical architectural decisions to maximise business value creation and increase delivery velocity • Focussed on execution improvement and go-to-market support • Delivered a bespoke billing overhaul project covering all major Voxbone Product lines, simplifying price management

  • Platform Product Manager

    2018 - 2019

    • Joined Voxbone as a Product Manager responsible for Platform and Network at Voxbone • Led a successful all-encompassing business transformation project enabling Voxbone as a leading global SIP trunk wholesaler to offer the same enterprise-grade security, best-in-class network and highly flexible connectivity to our growing Enterprise customer base • Fully responsible for the product lifecycle (design to deployment to operations to end-of-life) to fulfil business requirements within my domain • Worked to improve Voxbone's flavour of agile workflow (experience in Scrum, Kanban and XP) • Key Technologies: SIP, CaaS, API, Postman, ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana), Kafka, RabbitMQ, Microservice Architecture, Cassandra, MariaDB, Homer, HEPIC, Event Driven Architecture

  • Product Manager

    2017 - 2018

    • Solution Manager on the BT Account responsible for Copper and Fibre products into Openreach • Success in two $100M+ RFP wins for hardware and services into Openreach • Responsible for full product lifecycle (design to deployment to end-of-life) to fulfil customer requirements cost-effectively • Technical, customer facing role requiring communication and strong relationships with senior management and CxOs • Experience in analytics, modelling and bid management resulting in effective presales activities and innovative ITT/RFP responses • Key Technologies: GPON, XGSPON, NGPON2, VDSL, G.fast, Copper Vectoring, P2P Ethernet, 10GE, 100GE, Huawei NCE/CloudFAN, SDN, Access Virtualisation, 5G, MG.fast

  • Graduate Project Manager

    2015 - 2017

    • Project Manager on the BT Account for Openreach • Independently managed a successful exchange hardware installation and commissioning project, responsible for 1000+ sites/year and multiple engineering teams. • Worked as part of a team as deployment lead rolling out a trial of FTTP/FTTH to a small area, utilising a variety of innovative technological advances and deployment methods to overcome economic constraints.

  • Intern

    2013 - 2013

    • Worked in Geophysics team on the collation and correction of historical capillary pressure data, followed by integrating data to a database and building reporting functionalities

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