Harry Syms

CEO & Founder @ Simply Stock

About

I founded Gelous in 2018 and scaled it across New Zealand and Australia. Running a high-volume consumer brand taught me exactly where inventory planning breaks down at scale. No tool existed that solved it intelligently for growing merchants. Spreadsheets break. Legacy enterprise software is built for companies with dedicated planning teams. The gap in the middle is where most ecommerce businesses live and struggle. So I built SimplyStock. An AI-powered demand forecasting platform that gives merchants probabilistic confidence ranges on their purchasing decisions rather than a single number they have to trust blindly. Every customer we add makes the system smarter for all customers simultaneously.

Country

New Zealand

City

Auckland

Industry

Computer Software

Skill

Consumer Goods, Software as a Service (SaaS), Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Supply Chain Management, Demand Forecasting, Inventory Management, E-Commerce, Business Operations, Business Strategy, Finance, Budgeting, Cash Flow Management, Management, Management Professional

Experience

CEO & Founder

Simply Stock

2024-3 - Present · 2 yrs 7 mos

SimplyStock is an AI-powered demand forecasting platform built for ecommerce merchants who have outgrown spreadsheets. Our forecasting engine, Thales, outputs probabilistic P10, P50, and P90 confidence ranges giving merchants a genuine understanding of demand uncertainty before they commit capital to a purchase order. Every customer we add makes the system smarter for all customers simultaneously.

Co-Founder & Managing Director

Gelous

2018-12 - Present · 7 yrs 10 mos

Auckland, New Zealand

Founded and scaled Gelous, New Zealand's leading gel nail polish brand, across New Zealand and Australia since 2018. Two consecutive North Shore Business Excellence Award wins. Responsible for all commercial strategy, operations, supply chain, and inventory management across both markets.

Founder & Managing Director

Vape Bandit

2016-3 - 2020-8 · 4 yrs 6 mos

Auckland, New Zealand

• Developing, refining and improving the business. • Developing business strategies, plans and policies. • Overseeing day-to-day business operations. • Assessing and managing financial performance, reporting, budgeting and cash-flow management. • Managing compliance, policies and procedures.