Lloyd is a Technology Entrepreneur, Corporate Executive, Board Advisor and Mentor with 20+ years experience building Digital Businesses and performing Senior Management, C-Level & Co-Founder roles @ Zesty, Badoo, Kelkoo, Yahoo! UK, Yahoo! Europe, ITV & various Startups.
Lloyd co-founded, launched and scaled Zesty from an idea in 2012 into a leading UK Digital Health company 5 years later. Backed by individual investors and leading US and European investors - Mangrove Capital Partners, LBO France and Qualcomm Ventures, Zesty has attracted $12.5M+ in funding.
His operational experience covers all stages of the Business Growth Cycle from Early Stage StartUps (Zesty/Kelkoo) and High Growth ScaleUps (Badoo/Zesty) to FTSE/Nasdaq listed companies (ITV/Yahoo!) and Private Equity owned Corporate Divestitures (TSO/Kelkoo).
Lloyd has 20+ years experience building Digital Businesses within 7 Industries – Healthcare, Retail, Travel, Finance, Advertising, Dating and Social Networking.
His board advisory and mentoring experience includes the Deepbridge Capital LLP Healthcare and Life Sciences investment fund, the Coalition for a Digital Economy committee (Coadec), the Balmain Environmental Conservation Trust (BECT), the UK Digital Healthcare Council and the NHS Clinical Entrepreneurs Programme.
Lloyd was voted "1 of the 100 most influential leaders in HealthTech" 2016, nominated for the Digital Leaders Awards 2017, asked to judge the Accenture Consumer Tech Awards 2017 and invited on to the KPMG CIO panel 2017.