Steve Tucker

With offices in Bergen, Puerto Varas and San Francisco, Aquabyte is one of a handful of companies in the world that successfully leverages artificial intelligence and machine learning to feed the planet through sustainable fish production. Analysing millions of live images of farm raised fish, our goal is to be the leading partner for global aquaculture as it makes critical data-driven decisions about fish welfare, productivity and sustainability. Aquabyte’s culture combines the foremost expertise from the global aquaculture industry in Norway and Chile, with the very best engineering talent in Silicon Valley. In 2024 Aquabyte delivered the growth and profitability to be recognised as a Dagens Næringsliv 'Gaselle', a prestigious award presented to the fastest growing companies in Norway. See more, know more, manage better.

I am responsible for leading the overall vision and strategy of Aquabyte, supporting my colleagues to ensure that we achieve our organizational goals and provide real value to our customers.

In this role I drove operational efficiency, accelerated revenue growth and lead cultural realignment for Aquabyte.

I was employed by Sanoma Oyj to lead the restructure and integration of itslearning following the acquisition of this global EdTech platform from EQT. Headquartered in Bergen, Norway, itslearning is Europe’s largest learning management system. With offices in eight countries and 4.5 million users, their mission is to deliver data and insight that ensures students reach their fullest potential.

In this post I was responsible for leading the accelerated growth at Xenomorph, a venture capital backed business that transforms how many of the world’s leading institutions manage and understand their data. During 2019 Xenomorph achieved considerable revenue growth and successfully secured Series B funding.

In this short term role I was responsible for all commercial activities at this then private equity owned provider of of trading, treasury and accounting solutions for global finance. Working closely with the interim CEO I completely reorganised the commercial operating model and supported the business refocus. As a result, during my tenure revenues increased significantly.

ICIS is the world's largest provider of data and insight from the petrochemical industry to global corporates and the financial markets. In this role, I was tasked with accelerating revenue at ICIS, a business division of the RELX group. Under my commercial leadership the business achieved strong double-digit revenue growth, improved margins, reduced costs and re-established itself as the market leader .

Based in both London and New York, I was responsible for commercial operations for Enterprise Data and Real-Time Solutions at S&P Capital IQ, a $400M business division of Standard and Poors. I drove significant new revenue whilst providing vital market data, insight and real-time connectivity for institutions around the globe.

In this position I was tasked with re-establishing the global transaction and data processing division of Thomson Reuters. Under my leadership revenues grew exponentially, resulting in the business becoming the cornerstone of Thomson Reuters’ wealth management business.

My consultancy provided interim support to executive teams and their Boards. With a focus on organisational structure, go-to-market planning and operational efficiency I achieved accelerated revenue growth and success for both corporate and startup clients alike.

When FFastfilI aquired Future Dynamics I became responsible for the joint global business, significantly increasing revenue and customers at this AIM listed provider of SaaS applications to financial markets. (ION Trading acquired FFastFill in 2013)

In 2001 I relocated to Chicago in order drive the growth of our North American operation. In this role I planned and implemented a new business strategy that lead to the USA out-selling the European business within 12 months.

I was responsible for the rapid revenue growth at Future Dynamics, a FinTech startup, providing SaaS trading solutions that drove the digitalisation of the financial futures markets.