Dine with Peter Briffett, COO of YPlan

Peter is a CEO with extensive experience in leading and growing consumer technology businesses, both nationally and globally. The companies he has built and managed have become multi-million £ brands and engaged tens of millions of consumers.

Inspirational and committed, he has a thorough understanding of the key business metrics that produce revenue and a track record of deploying and executing growth strategies that create shareholder wealth. He has led multiple technology companies through high growth phrases and investment rounds, many of which have had successful exits or become profitable entities.

With a wealth of experience in tech start ups, he understands marketplace dynamics, executing high growth strategies, recruiting world-class management teams and has 2 key assets; he never gives up. He always produce results.

Some things he's done:

Founded LivingSocial UK and took it from zero revenue to a $100 million consumer technology business with over 300 employees in the UK & IE. As LivingSocial MD, he was P&L owner and responsible for all commercial strategy and operations, including sales, mobile, web, partnerships, people and finance.

Built and Sold a company to Microsoft.
As CEO of iView, he grew global sales of the core consumer product through web, channel and partnerships, eventually selling it to Microsoft. As a Microsoft Director, he managed and motivated a successful team, with full P&L ownership, to produce the best quarterly post-acquisition metrics in Microsoft history.

Sold a company to Thomson Reuters.
Part of the management team that sold Gissing Software to Thomson Reuters.

Sold books door to door in the US.
As a University student, he recruited and trained a team of 23 students in the UK, flew them to the US to sell books door to door in Massachusetts and Indiana. They worked 14 hour days, 6 days a week. They succeeded and made a great profit.

He has also held senior positions at 3Com, USRobotics, Hayes Microcomputers and Actiontec.