Ben Wynn
Ben kick started his entrepreneurial career as a 14 year old teenager during the skateboard craze of the 80s. As a haphazard northerner with a tendency for breaking bones he did not see the long term benefits of learning to 'fakey-grab-360'. Leaving the half pipe trickery to his friends he set up a design and manufacturing business producing custom skateboards with distribution through his peer group.
He learnt a valuable marketing lesson at an early age when working for the family business. His first proactive, structured marketing campaign centred around a local village fair. At the end of the day, with not one customer to shout about and down about five quid from the store holder’s fee (back then, as now, a lot of money!) he learnt a very valuable lesson in identifying the target audience.
Ben graduated as a Civil Engineer from Aston University taking with him the most valuable skills of knowing just enough about a lot of topics but understanding when to bring in the experts. His ability to understand the technical details of any project and explain them at board level has stood him in good stead throughout his career.
Prior to founding Roxxor, Ben was CEO of Now Search Ltd a UK based online affiliate marketing company with annual turnover in excess of £2M. Before that Ben worked for Yahoo! Search Marketing (formerly Overture) as a technical product manager for their European content distribution partners.
Ben has always been passionate about technology and innovation and when he is not delivering top notch client projects Ben is active on two fronts.
• Vent – a social gathering of like minded entrepreneurs
• Give – a charitable foundation focused on event organisation
You can find out more about ben on facebook, check out his profile on linked in and read what he has to say at blog.roxxor.co.uk
