Uniquely placed, Calum Brannan is a young technology entrepreneur concentrating on cross-platform social media, SAAS (Software as a service) and delivering traditional services with the right balance of emerging and/or proven tech, ultimately to solve age old business challenges.
Background & Experience
- Created www.PPLparty.com at the age of 15. PPLparty experienced massive growth and popularity. Calum grew the user base on a marketing budget of £0 to way over 400,000 users and successfully exited in 2007. [In fact, he morphed it into youmeo, but that's another story!]
- Calum then shaped the social networking functionality at Trutap (Started by Doug Richard, famed for his appearances in BBC2’s Dragon’s Den). At Trutap Calum was the 2nd team member into the London office after the CTO. [And, it was here that he met Carl Uminski]
[He still names Carl Uminski of Trutap as his mentor. I couldn't make the link to the Trutap website work, so not sure if he's put the business into receivership, or something.....but I've been told that Carl has no issues with using other people's money to start businesses and walking away, although I've been unable to independently validate this allegation - but it's certainly a recurring theme in Calum's short history!]
From the pioneering early days of consumer social networking, Calum founded Inormas in 2009; a business focused on providing social tools and communities for charities, corporate firms and global brands. [with someone else's money bailing him out from the insolvency of youmeo/Red Brick Labs (more later)]
Calum [claims that he] and his team have the inside angle on the evolution & future of social media/networking. His clients include house-hold names, ‘AAA’ PLCs, charities and government organisations.
He is regularly involved in roundtable discussions and consultancy with leading CTO’s, marketing directors, CLO’s and CEO’s from a range of companies including Vodafone, BT, eBay, Bebo, Simon & Schuster, AGA, Lighterlife, Christian Vision, Yahoo, Oliver Rothschild Corporate Advisors and Glam Media to name but a few.
[Note - it's not as "regular" as he would like to have you believe - some of these names were just one brief meeting and no sale!]
Recognition and Publicity [which he LOVES!]
Recognition and awards include being named by the IOD’s Director magazine as their youngest ever “Director of the month”. Revolution Magazine also crowned Calum as a trailblazer for his first company PPLparty.com.
His ventures have achieved full pages in major publications such as the Financial Times, The Guardian, The Observer, The Sunday Times, The Times, New Media Age, Revolution Magazine, City AM and the Birmingham Post.
When Calum isn’t working he loves traveling, spending time with his friends and family and even the odd cider on a sunny afternoon.
Availability
Calum is availiable for consultancy, speaking, drinks and writing. [But clearly not spell-checking!]
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