Founder & CEO

Tom caught the startup bug in his teens and has never recovered.  His first tech venture attempted to put location based captive video advertising into NYC cabs back in 2002.  Tom moved to London in 2002 working as a broker at a startup shipping firm. In 2003 Tom founded eCourier.co.uk, the online courier company with the purple vans after a particularly frustrating experience with his local courier firm.  Tom served as eCourier’s CEO from inception until 2008, overseeing the company’s growth to over 250 staff &  couriers.  In 2007, Tom was named “Top Gun” by Growing Business magazine and eCourier “London’s Most Inspirational Business” by the Evening Standard.  In 2009 eCourier reached 6 on Deloitte’s list of UK’s fastest growing technology businesses with 5291% growth since 2004.  With a professional management team in place, Tom left eCourier in 2008 to found Shutl.  Tom assists a number of early-stage start-ups and serves on the advisory boards of YumShare and BookingBug. Tom is a founding trustee of FoundationStone, a charitable trust that invests in start-up charities, and is a keen poker player and skier.

Steve Romney

CTO

Steve has spent his last 8 years architecting, implementing, and deploying mission critical applications in both the financial services and retail sectors.  Prior to Shutl, Steve worked at Provenir where he was Senior Platform Architect and at The Home Depot, where he was responsible for managing the Data Services team for homedepot.com.  Steve has a Bachelor’s degree in Economics with Computer Science minor from Dartmouth College, a Masters of Software Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin, and a Masters of Business Administration from the McCombs School of Business.

Guy Westlake

Head of Marketing

Guy’s previous experience spans various B2B product marketing roles within the software industry, having having held several positions at both Vignette (now Open Text) and Canon prior to joining Shutl. He’s successfully created and developed complex value propositions within the retail space that have been adopted at both SME and enterprise level, giving him a broad understanding of technology and the challenges faced by businesses of all sizes.  Guy has a joint honours BA in Spanish and Italian from the University of Bristol and a Masters in European Business from ESCP-EAP in Paris.

Steven Kemp

Head of Service

Steven has 20+ years experience building and managing world class, motivated teams that are focused on delivering the highest possible level of  customer service across a range of industries.  Steven has worked for the likes of Aviva, Royal & SunAlliance, AIG & MMC running large B2C & B2B operations that deliver first class outsourced services on behalf of many FTSE 100  businesses and their customers.  Steven has also worked with Tom at eCourier.co.uk, where as  ’Head of Happiness’ he built from scratch the business’s client relationship and customer service functions.  Steven joined Shutl from First Advantage where he was Head of Service Delivery.

Rupert Greenhill

Business Development

Rupert has spent the first three years of his working life with the Toronto Dominion Bank, specialising in the emerging and non-core dollar capital markets.  Keen to get involved in a start-up, Rupert recognised the potential in Shutl and thankfully joined us as an intern in the summer of 2009.  He has a BA in International History and Politics from the University of Leeds and a Post-Graduate Diploma in Law from Nottingham Law School.