Jamie Reynolds
Startup Mentor at Tenity
London, England
Overview
Work Experience
Product Coach
2015 - Current
Hey, I’m Jamie 👋 👨🦰 I run workshops for startups at incubators, accelerators, corporates, NGOs & tech communities - teaching early-stage founders how to: ✅ Validate their idea and get early adopters ✅ Build the right product ✅ Find clear paths to PMF and growth You can find out more about me on my website: www.theproductcoach.co
Founder
2024
Startup in stealth mode.
Advisor
2024
In January 2024 I stepped back from my operational role to support the business from the sidelines as Martin Ruzika was brought in as our CTO.
Co-Founder & CPO
2022 - 2024
P.S. Bridal is a seed stage consumer marketplace building the circular economy for the $44BN bridal industry. I joined the business in 2022 with co-founders Ella Gaskell & Zoe Graham. During 2022 we launched 4 x no-code prototypes to validate our market with 5,000 brides and identify the right business model. In April 2023 we launched our rental marketplace and have been revenue generating since day one. In September 2023 we were accepted into Techstars London Accelerator program.
Head of Product
2019 - 2021
NPL Markets is a capital markets Fintech platform to help institutional investors, banks & brokers to manage €2TN in illiquid credit portfolios. We raised an initial £500k in pre-seed funding by signing Letters of Intent with 60 hedge funds using a non-functional design prototype. This funding enabled us to hire a lean 10 person team to build, launch & sell the first version of our marketplace to banks, brokers & institutional investors. After developing additional data, portfolio analytics & reporting modules into our platform & acquiring 150+ customers - we raised a further £2.5M seed round to scale the business. I built our product organisation and led product vision, strategy & execution to deliver a portfolio of complex data-driven products.
Rally Driver
2017 - 2017
From London to Mongolia, the Mongol Rally thunders across the mountains, desert and steppe of Europe and Asia each summer. There’s no backup, no support and no set route - just three rules: 1. Your car must cost no more than £1,000. 2. Your car must have less than a 1.2 litre engine. 3. You must raise money for charity. I participated in this endurance race solo, and when I reached the finish line I decided to drive (rather than fly) back in my tiny little car across Russia and Europe. In total I covered more than 25,000+ miles (40,000 KM) - equivalent to the circumference of the Earth at its widest latitude - and raised more than £2,500 for the MS Society. My mind, body and soul were challenged in dangerous and frequently humorous situations. I grew significantly as a human being during this wonderful experience.
Commercial Director
2013 - 2015
Bondcube was a capital markets Fintech platform, creating the first all-to-all bond trading platform to address declining sell-side liquidity after the financial crisis of 2009. We secured Series A and subsequently Series B funding from corporate VCs, growing Bondcube to a total of thirty-five FTEs in the EU & US with FCA, FINRA & SEC regulatory oversight. I led the go-to-market activities in Europe & built our global sales, marketing & product organisation. We built a 250-strong customer base of buy-side (institutional investors) and sell-side (banks), contributing liquidity of over $50bn in multi-currency corporate bonds, HY & distressed securities. After achieving initial success, we failed to deliver the platform that we needed to meet the scale of the business opportunity we uncovered. Our investors decided to liquidate the business.
Education
24 Week Full Stack Coding Bootcamp
2019 - 2020
History
2010 - 2013