Who's behind Zygo?
Zygo was set up by a team with complementary experience in mobile, media, marketing and technology. This, combined with a shared passion for creating simple, useful and elegant services, has fuelled Zygo's ambition of helping groups of people stay in touch with one another as easily as staying in touch one-to-one.
The founders have spent several years researching, building, testing and trialling their launch service, which is covered by a patent (granted in August 2007). In November 2007, the company closed a substantial second round of financing from a consortium of angel investors.
Vision
Across the globe, people are communicating with one another more and more, using technologies that in many cases didn't exist twenty years ago: email, text messaging, social networking sites, instant messaging. We meet new people, get their email addresses or mobile numbers. One to one communication couldn't be easier. But in our busy, mobile lives, keeping in touch with the groups of people that really matter to us is still a chore.
Our path to realising that vision starts with mobile, because, after all, everyone has a mobile, and mobile communication is instant and immediate. Mobile will always be at the heart of what we do, but, over time, we'll develop the service to include email, instant messaging and all the other services we rely on every day.
Management Team
Richard Brennan (Chairman)
Richard Brennan is a seasoned Senior Executive in the Telecommunications industry with significant strengths in Global Marketing and Branding, He has worked around the globe with innovative, energetic, and fast moving companies. He joined Hutchison Whampoa in 1993 in the UK as part of the Founding Executive Management Team for Orange plc. He has held Board positions with Mobistar, GSMA CEO Board, and was Chairman of the Board for Wildfire, Inc.
Jeremy Krantz (CEO)
Jeremy Krantz (CEO) has over 15 years commercial experience within the mobile and media industries. Most recently he spent four years at Orange leading a business development team primarily responsible for identifying, evaluating and delivering new commercial opportunities. Prior to this he spent nine years leading media strategy and negotiation for key blue chip clients in 3 of London's top advertising agencies.
Nigel Shardlow (CPO)
Nigel Shardlow (Chief Product Officer) has 13 years' commercial experience leading innovation initiatives within and for blue-chip businesses latterly heading up New Media then Innovation departments at Orange. He was also responsible for launching search and advertising platforms simultaneously in the UK/US for Yell.com.
Ben Suffolk (CTO)
Ben Suffolk (CTO) has 13 years' experience of developing innovative applications in the mobile and internet environment. Whilst at Orange he developed the world's first web to SMS service. He also created and led Orange Lab, a rapid development and prototyping team that built the original prototype of the ZygoHub.
Tobias Keuneke (CFO)
Tobias Keuneke (CFO) is a Chartered Accountant with over 19 years' of wide ranging financial experience. Tobias joins Zygo after 10 years at Orange from his role as Commercial Finance Director for the Global Brand, Consumer Marketing and Product Development Group. This role followed on from a corporate finance role at Orange Group with significant involvement in the 2001 OrangeFT flotation.