Rob Bowley has been working in technology for over 25 years with more than 15 years of CTO/CPTO level experience. He’s been involved in everything from early stage start-ups & scale ups to large-scale enterprise organisations and across a wide variety of industries.
Trusted by major brands like Co-op & Moneysupermarket as well as start-ups & scale-ups such as Masabi & 7digital.
He’s led teams in size from 4 to 200 engineers and has a highly successful track record in building products that scale and motivated, productive teams.
He’s a long standing practitioner and advocate for modern best practices for delivering software, which typically come under the “Agile” umbrella, often pioneering them in the UK. He created and maintains the Agile Retrospective Resource Wiki used by thousands of people across the globe every week.
Beyond his advisory work, Rob is deeply engaged in the tech community. He serves on Manchester City Council’s Digital Advisory Board, coaches founders on accelerator programmes like Baltic Ventures, and co-organises the CTO Craft Manchester mixer.
He’s also an advocate for improving career pathways into tech and providing greater opportunities for underrepresented groups in our industry.
He loves growing exceptional teams and building amazing products.
Skills
- Product & technology strategy
- Product & delivery management
- Supplier & partner management
- Building and leading high performing teams
- Leadership coaching
- Organisational design & transformation
- Recruitment
- Investment & M&A
- Tech Due diligence
- Agile/Lean methodologies
- Architecture
- Software engineering best practices
- Mobile, web & API development
- CRM & Data Platforms
- Cloud Infrastructure
- Security
- Regulation (PCI, GDPR, FCA)
Full CV available on request