Robert Atkin

Entrepreneur

Xylyx, Xyymm, Tesseras, Inner Sanxtum

I’ve worked in IT and in marketing throughout my career, qualifying as an air traffic engineer with the Civil Aviation Authority then working for Warner Bros in promotions, artist development and in product management / marketing.

I setup a mobile phone reseller business that we developed into a multi-million pound business to become one of Vodafone’s top three distributors.

Online technologies for the creative industries followed inc ecommerce systems for Sony BMG using both online and on-mobile payment services.

Created the first Knowledge Management System for Soc Gen Investment Bank allowing staff around the world, for the first time, to be able to access information and people anywhere within the global operations.

Living and working in India I was country manager for Refresh Mobile Value Added Services for mobile phones, securing contracts with some of the biggest mobile networks in the country (Tata, Reliance, Idea), with mobile phone manufacturer Nokia and with Content Publishers (Times Group, Haymarket). Also formed the Spice Box marketing agency and include every one of the world’s top ten pharmaceutical companies as clients as well as the top three Indian financial institutions (SBI, UTI and ICICI) and also Nokia.

Recently advising businesses (inc Imperial War Museum) on maximising revenue from ecommerce; on managing the implementation of new technologies and marketing techniques and have introduced Agile programming and management processes to software development companies particularly in conjunction with offshore development teams.

Recently created several financial technologies including an automated online payment distribution system, Xylyx.