Simon Birkenhead is a chief executive with 30 years experience building businesses and driving commercial success by leveraging his operational, marketing, strategy and e-commerce leadership. He has worked in organisations from the very largest global corporations through to early stage technology start-ups.

Educated at Cambridge University and London Business School, Simon is a former global business leader at Google, where he led teams across four continents. He has also held business leadership positions at 3M, Telefónica and Gartner. Since becoming a CEO he has led a number of global businesses out of the UK, New Zealand and Australia. He is currently an independent Board director and advisor.

He is author of Managing People, a Penguin Business Experts series book.