Matthew Dewstowe

Current

Managing Director & Founder at Innovantage

Past

Managing Director at Inquisit Ltd

Education

University of Nottingham

Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Staffing and Recruiting

Websites

My Company

Matthew Dewstowe’s Summary

Entrepreneur with background in software design/development, IT management, contingency/executive recruitment and strategic business development.

Passionate about technology and how it can be used to improve business processes. In particularly harnessing sector specific business intelligence from the internet.

Matthew Dewstowe’s Specialties:

Online recruitment, in particular emerging performance related business models for job advertsing.

- semantic web
- web 2.0
- data mining and business intelligence
- social networking
- vertical search

Matthew Dewstowe’s Experience

Managing Director & Founder

Innovantage

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

April 2003 — Present (6 years 8 months)

Innovantage launched in early 2007 to exploit semantic enabled search technologies to deliver actionable business intelligence harvested from the internet.

The first product, Insight, is a b2b business and market intelligence tool for the UK rcruitment industry that helps recruitment consultancies, job boards and media owners find and better understand companies with hiring needs.

The in-house technology platform aggregates nearly a million jobs each month, segmenting advertisers as agencies and direct employers, and consolidating all jobs against a central business directory of UK companies. It it is the only tool in the UK that provides real time profiling of how a company recruits online.
Managing Director

Inquisit Ltd

(Staffing and Recruiting industry)

January 2000 — January 2003 (3 years 1 month)

Inquisit focussed on servicing the IT recruitment needs of select clients throughout the South West.