A technology leader with over 20 years delivering technology change, focussed on high performance, scalable and innovative online products and platforms. I build teams and create technical strategies to deliver increased revenue through focus on business value and increased efficiency in delivery execution. • Successfully founded teams and companies to create products and platforms for start-ups and successful global online businesses. • Led development within a challenging, fast-paced £350m global online internet business. • Thought leader delivering strategic change to create a new global exchange platform significantly enhancing scalability, productivity, profit and market value. • Identified as key change agent in business transformation from .com start-up to public company. • Intuitive people manager experienced in coaching, mentoring and performance management to encourage an innovative and supportive culture. • Versatile and creative leader with a collaborative yet decisive style to ensure quality working software is delivered at pace. • Founder of software development start-ups. • Developer background in mission & safety-critical and financial systems software development. • Broad experience in software development methodologies, from start-ups, to CMM military aerospace standards, to high-paced regulated internet systems, with ability to identify appropriate application. • Certified Scrum Master; pragmatic application of disciplined agile development. Specialties: Technology Leadership Technical Strategy & Architecture High Performing Agile Teams Technology Change Leader

CTO @ • Innovative leading connected homes platform and products • Technical leadership with accountability for technical quality, performance, scale, project delivery and operational excellence From August 2014 to Present (1 year 3 months) CTO @ • Founded new software development teams in London, managing delivery of innovative new online an mobile products and customer portals to revolutionise the household services market. • Rebuilt technology teams, systems and processes to enable Ovo to scale at pace • Technology leader and senior leadership team member through investment and high customer growth From February 2013 to August 2014 (1 year 7 months) Head of Software Development / Acting Software Director @ • Responsible for development and operations of the core Betting Exchange, Customer and Payments systems. • Accountable for core systems improvements, establishing multi-million pound internal investment in core technology platform. • Singled out as technology thought leader as part of company change programme. Led and evangelised a new Integrated Product Agile Delivery Model. • Identified and created teams, processes and architecture to improve business operations integration. From October 2008 to January 2013 (4 years 4 months) Senior Development Manager @ • Responsible for the development of i2’s next generation of desktop products. • Set the template for a more inclusive and collaborative agile working model between the development teams and the wider business • Following new parent company review; identified as having turned around development processes, setting the template for the company From April 2008 to October 2008 (7 months) Head of Platform Delivery/ Engineering Manager @ • Managed technical and project delivery of major Betfair projects, including the Australian Exchange, International Betting System and Sports Multiples product • Massively increased system scalability through introduction of batch betting mechanism. • Established key Platform teams bringing stability and clarity during a period of very high company growth, low churn team delivering resiliency, performance and scalability improvements required to meet increasingly high transactional demands • Pioneered introduction of major automated testing to cut QA test times by 400%. From May 2006 to May 2008 (2 years 1 month) Technical Director @ • Financial Systems Start-Up • Established agile software development teams • Co-inventor and creator of innovative online trade settlement and finance solution • Built key relationships within Microsoft to cultivate a financial services vertical market for the MS Dynamics AX product. From 2002 to 2006 (4 years) Project Manager/Section Leader @ From 1997 to 2000 (3 years)

Steve Hirst is skilled in: Technology Leadership, Agile Methodologies, Scrum, Software Development, Agile Project Management, Spring, Start-ups, REST, Architecture, Enterprise Software, Continuous Integration, Test Driven Development, Strategy, Quality Assurance, Team Leadership, Subversion, Management, Software Project..., SOA, Web Services, XML, Apache