Phillip Chambers
CEO of Orbex
Phillip Chambers
CEO of Orbex
Islington, England
Overview
Work Experience
Chief Executive Officer
2024 - Current
Non-Exec Board Member
2022
Member of the board at Heartcore.
Angel Investor
2010
Supporting European startups, I've invested in: Adzuna, Charge Fairy, Blast, Humaans, Spill, Lightdash, Diametos, Liveflow, Manara, Breakroom, Sama, the Electric Car Scheme, Bucket, Voco, Crew, BeMakers, Vira Health, Yonder, Screenloop, Flox, All Gravy, Prologue, Meander, Alrik, Jorgen House, Zavvy, Mayday, Natter, Salesdesk, Humble AI, Pandektes ApS, Collabkit, Trezy, Beams, Digitail, Filigran, Finlegal, Sust, Subsets, Elona Health, Qatalog, Orbex, Forecast, Payslip, Demodesk, TestGorill, Cobee, Commsor, Tonsser, Flip, Enoda and Brill Power amongst others.
GM, Peakon Employee Voice
2021 - 2023
CEO & co-founder
2015 - 2021
Be More: http://peakon.com
Product Line Director - Communications Products
2014 - 2015
P&L responsibility for GoToMeeting, our freemium offering GoToMeeting Free, and I run our emerging products such as Convoi, Talkboard, Sightboard and hu.tt
CTO - Podio
2010 - 2014
Building the product and technology organisation to change the way the world works.
CTO
2007 - 2010
Buit the product, infrastructure and technology organisation to grow from 5 people to Europe's leading local review site. Took the business from one language and 700k UU to 10 markets, 9 languages and 18M UU/mo. Launched API, along with iPhone, Android and Nokia Ovi apps.
Non Exec Director
2008 - 2010
Board member and investor in the winners of Best Travel Startup 2009. Zoombu was acquired by Skyscanner.
Head of Technology
2006 - 2007
Head of Technology during Gumtree's rapid growth phase, from a top 100 to top 20 site in the UK and South Africa. International expansion to Australia, Poland. Responsible for all: Product Development Product Management Site Operations Tech Arch Infrastructure
NHS - Technical Architect
2004 - 2006
Education
BSc
2001 - 2004