Ed Ralph

Helping AbOliGo scale their way to leadership in the antibody-oligo conjugate space.

Created an app for the Salesforce ecosystem and built a business and customer-base around it. Sold the business in July 24 and currently helping them with the transition so they can turn it into an even bigger success.

Quartix is one of Europe’s leading suppliers of subscription-based vehicle tracking systems, software and services. Established in 2001, the company now has more than 10,000 fleet clients with over 90,000 vehicles under subscription, and has more than 2,500 fleet customers in France and the US. Quartix has also provided 200,000+ tracking systems used in the telematics-based policies operated by 10 major UK motor insurance companies. Quartix Holdings plc has been quoted on the AIM list of the London Stock Exchange since November 2014 (LON:QTX)

Axol is in the exciting field of human cells and regenerative medicine - they produce and sell critical tools and reagents for researchers studying diseases such as Alzheimer's and Huntington's. September 2015 - April 2017: Non Exec Director November 2014 - August 2015: Chief Marketing Officer April 2014 - October 2014: Non Exec Director

Spent a few months working part time with Congenica, a great company developing tools and services for processing and interpreting genomic data (huge datasets!). They help clinicians diagnose rare genetic disease faster than ever before. I helped them to introduce agile working practices to help their expanding team deliver these important tools more effectively.

I was responsible for Abcam's digital channels and driving the adoption of marketing technology to develop relevant, useful and personalised experiences for our consumers. Specific skillsets in my (rather good) team include Brand, PR, Events, UX, SEM, PPC, Content Management/Marketing, Email Marketing, Digital Design and Analytics. This team was the combination of several marketing teams, one of which was the eCommerce department I formed back in 2006. Although I formally left as an employee in October 2014 I continued in this role as a consultant until Feb 2015.

Responsible for IT and eCommerce (digital marketing) departments. Developing great people and capabilities that leverage the best of Agile and Lean methodologies in an environment of operational efficiency, software development excellence and clever pragmatism to consistently deliver brilliant software systems for growing revenue and smooth operation of a £billion+ Abcam.

Ran Abcam's IT function which consisted of a significant software development and infrastructure team. Software development focused on building and integrating internal business systems and the public facing eCommerce website www.abcam.com. During this time I formed an online marketing function responsible for Abcam's main website and digital marketing including SEO, PPC & targeted email.

Built Abcam's first CRM and inventory management systems and several iterations of Abcam's eCommerce website. Recruited a team of web developers to rapidly build out the software platform Abcam required on the run-up to IPO in 2005. Enabled addition of high numbers of products onto web platform, with SEO applied by default. Products were numbering in the thousands by this point and a big driving force behind Abcam's success was getting most of these products to #1 on Google.

Responsible for content and development of new features; improving the on-site search, improving search engine visibility and product pages. Personally developed the shopping cart / online checkout facility and various back-end systems.

Red Gate build tools for DBAs and software developers, primarily focusing on SQL Server. They also offer tools for .NET developers and for other database platforms like Oracle and MySQL. The council of advisors consisted of 5 external exec-level individuals who provided a sounding board for their management team and take part in helping to develop Red Gate's strategy and organisation.

Had a lot of fun evaporating gold onto biosensor slides and trying to detect protein-protein interactions and forming lipid bilayers on solid surfaces. Once blagged a bag of stale blood for my research from Addenbrookes - not sure they'd allow that anymore! In my spare time I developed a new website for the department.