Nick Ferris

Hi, I'm Nick.

I have a huge passion for technology, entrepreneurship and the arts.

I started my career working in a book warehouse as a teenager and going door to door selling books. I started my own mail order catalogue business (before the internet) and had an army of students distributing the catalogue at universities in the UK when I was 21.

London beckoned and I moved to the bright lights and landed a job as marketing director for a small venture capital firm. It was a crazy ride. I launched the first B2B Irish Newspaper, a magazine for the Ukrainian railways, launched themed restaurants, bought and sold land/property and even ran a gym in Southampton.

I then became a publisher for Euromoney Institutional Investor. I spent over 13 years in London and New York running many businesses in the B2B space from directories, to newsletters to conferences to running international marketing. I loved my time there - we launched the first B2B social network for business before Facebook was even a thing, as well as the world's first vertical search engine.

I then moved to Bloomberg where I spent nearly five years growing a small product into the world's largest newsletter business with over 500,000 subscribers across 130 countries and 50+ annual titles. We won many awards for the editorial excellence and marketing including Marketer of the Year in 2015.

More recently I was COO of a training company in Texas where I oversaw a huge corporate restructure which included a 30% turnaround of staff, new IT systems and structures to help put in back on a rapid growth track.

Over my career of 23+ years I have launched dozens of products, many of which are still going strong today. I love to develop cutting edge products that use the latest technologies and marketing strategies to gain market share.

For fun I have written TV theme tunes, recorded music with bands and even had a few art exhibitions. I'm not the next Picasso but as long as you believe in what you do, no one can tell you otherwise.