Having arrived in the US a few months ago one thing that has taken me time to adjust to is the scale (and sometimes excess) surrounding pretty much everything. Having worked in London for around 7 years and having spent a fair amount of time working from cities such as…

Shortly after I joined Skyscanner we did a review of job titles and discovered that we had around 97 different job titles for around 140 people. For those of you in start-ups that have grown quickly, you may be familiar with this. You find people referred to as Head of…

I love observing multi-sided networks. I’ll explain what multi-sided networks are and then I’m going to share my observations of a network that I believe is having a profound in-direct impact on society. Multi-sided networks are sometimes simplified to multi-sided markets or simply marketplaces. For those unfamiliar with these, the…

As I recently outlined in this article, my family and I have relocated to Miami from Scotland and I thought it might be interesting to share some anecdotes and experiences with anyone who might be interested. I should start off by saying “so far so great”. We’re loving the move…

Since joining Skyscanner as CFO in early 2014 I have enjoyed being part of a company that has scaled from a little over 100 people and 2 offices to more than 800 people across 10 global offices. During that time we acquired 4 businesses, created a joint venture with the…