Leonard Picardo

Development Board

2024 - Current

Non Executive Director

2024

Advisor to Founder & Chief Executive Officer

2021

Advisor

2021

Advisor to Board / CEO / Founders

2015

7Bridges || Bricklane || Cala || HeliosX || Huel || Kellys/Spaceways || Rise & Fall || The Collecting Group || Uncommon I go deep with people, fundraising, growth and strategy matters

Investor

2013

Investor in >80 companies in areas I like, a few of which are: Climate: Life Supplies, Maeving, Shellworks, UNDO Carbon, Upway... Finance: Gilion, Hokodo, Ophelos, Payflows, PensionBee... Food: Cala, Hedgehog, Huel, Julienne Bruno, Sessions... Future of Work: Anterior, Code First Girls, Flown, Patch, Tangent... Health: Apian, Heights, Stitch, The Lowdown... Infrastructure/SaaS: Elliptic, Existent, Floodflash, Fonoa, Medusa Commerce, Opply... Other funky things: Gama (Space)

Coach

2021 - 2023

Global Director of People Strategy & Development

2019 - 2020

Employee Engagement | Company Values | Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging | Learning & Development >3,000 employees in 15 different countries

Global Marketing Director

2017 - 2019

Accountable for marketing in all 12 countries and global consumer partnerships || £100m budget

Shared Parental Leave

2018 - 2018

Helped craft the Shared Parental Leave policy at Deliveroo and then spent 8 months looking after my new daughter.

Director of International Marketing

2015 - 2017

Launched Deliveroo in 11 countries outside UK in 6 months and grew them fast

Director of Marketing & Corporate Business

2014 - 2015

Started and grew the Marketing function | Grew and managed the corporate customer base in London

Fundraising, Sales, Ops, Product, Customer Service

2013 - 2014

2nd employee at Deliveroo, helped build the company from £0.5M GMV to £6Bn GMV

Board Observer

2012 - 2013

Investor

2011 - 2013

Deals: Zendesk, Socialbakers and Cambridge Satchel Company

Management Consultant

2007 - 2011

Aerodynamics Engineer

2003 - 2004