Richard Stables

Current

• CEO at Kelkoo

Past

• Director, CTO at uSwitch.com
• VP at Stamps.com
• Management Consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers

• Application developer and QA at SPSS

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Education

• University of Warwick
• University of Warwick
• University of Exeter

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Connections

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Industry

Computer Software

Richard Stables’s Summary

Experience:
Over 10 years of technical and commercial experience in eCommerce companies.


Continue to work in the internet space.

- Deliver value and revenue growth
- Create highly performing motivated teams
- Champion agile development methodology
- Optimize search (both SEM & SEO)

Richard Stables’s Specialties:

Management of internet teams. Search - SEM and SEO; commercial negotiations and purchasing; empowering and motivating teams, web product development and delivery, agile software development, running IT Operations in high-transactional eCommerce environments and overall problem solving.

Richard Stables’s Experience

• CEO

  Kelkoo

  (Privately Held; Internet industry)

  February 2009 — Present (11 months)

• Director, CTO

  uSwitch.com

  (Privately Held; Internet industry)

  June 2006 — February 2009 (2 years 9 months)

  Director responsible for all of delivery at uSwitch (including development, QA, IT Operations and PM. Also Commercial Director for uSwitch responsible for all of Search (SEM & SEO), and Datawarehousing project. Introduced and championed agile (scrum with XP) to uSwitch. Created an environment that ennabled the creation of highly performing delivery and commercial teams.

• VP

  Stamps.com

  (Public Company; STMP; Internet industry)

  May 2000 — December 2005 (5 years 8 months)

  Responsible for running operations, website development, application development, datawarehousing and improving commercial revenue collection.
  
  Key milestones included:
  - Increased revenue collection by improving the billing and collections process via credit card payment improvements.
  - Built and developed Photostamps - the commercially successful and popular product www.photostamps.com.
  - Increased website conversion through website redesign
  - Negotiated a number of large contracts (impacting the bottom line)
  - Architected a number of cost saving/cutting improvements and activities across the business

• Management Consultant

  PricewaterhouseCoopers

  (Partnership; Accounting industry)

  January 1999 — May 2000 (1 year 5 months)

  Worked on Strategy, process improvements and application development for internet companies on the West Coast of the USA.

• Application developer and QA

  SPSS

  (Public Company; SPSS; Computer Software industry)

  1996 — 1998 (2 years )

  Worked on various statistical software packages including SPSS, Systat and allCLEAR.

Richard Stables’s Education

• University of Warwick

  Phd , International Relations , 1992 — 1995

• University of Warwick

  MA , Politics and International Relations , 1991 — 1992

• University of Exeter

  BA , History , 1988 — 1991

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