Scaled founder Simon Penson’s journey and rich and varied business career makes him uniquely qualified to help. Whilst starting his career as a journalist it was in the early days of the internet where he found his first success, launching and selling a series of advice websites focused on high value niches before it was an established market.

Since those days in the very early 2000s he has gone on to build, merge and sell one of the world’s foremost digital marketing agencies; a business which was sold into NYSE-listed agency group Interpublic (IPG) in an eight-figure deal.

After a brief pause he has become an active angel investor and partner at top tier early-stage venture capital firm Haatch Ventures, where he leads investments into cutting edge digital businesses and supports their fundraising, strategy, and growth. Many of these businesses are already well on their path to 10x growth.

Senior Partner Richard Marriott has over two decades of experience running sales, marketing and commercial teams. Having worked client and agency side gives him great perspective on what it’s like on both sides of the table.

Richard previously worked alongside Simon growing his digital marketing agency and took the reins after Simons exit. Following this he led the business through a significant period of integration and change management as it amalgamated with the rest of the group to form a multi-million dollar agency with over 450 people in the UK alone. 

Most recently Richard has been building a sales and marketing strategy from the ground up in a Chief Growth Officer role for one of the fastest growing creative content and branding agencies in the UK before joining the Scaled team.