Dan Macklin
Education
Aston University
2:1, Electronic Engineering and Computer Science 1994-01-01 - 1998-01-01Work Experience
Skyral
Current
Skyral
Improbable
2022-01-01 - 2023-10-01
Improbable
Huler
2020-03-01 - 2021-12-01
Huler
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
2018-10-01 - 2020-03-01
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Lloyds Banking Group
2017-08-01 - 2018-10-01
Lloyds Banking Group
bet365
2010-11-01 - 2017-08-01
bet365
TransVisual Media Ltd
2004-01-01 - 2010-11-01
TransVisual Media Ltd
Fount Solutions
2000-01-01 - 2003-01-01
Fount Solutions
Workthing.com
2000-01-01 - 2000-08-01
Workthing.com
Oracle
1998-09-01 - 2000-01-01
Oracle
Skills
Summary
Throughout my career I’ve been lucky enough to be confronted by problems I don’t know how to solve. From my experience I can tell you that facing these challenges is simultaneously liberating and scary. Why? because when confronted with the unknown I get to break my rules. I am forced to challenge my thinking, unlearn what I know, pick up new skills and rewire my understanding. To me this process is the ultimate expression of freedom. It allows me to understand who I am, challenge my beliefs and renew my thinking. However, I don’t find this process easy. To forge new ground I have to be prepared to try many things and throw away much that I hold dear. This involves living through a lot of failure, which is uncomfortable. Failure is scary and few people (me included) like to be scared. However, I find that the successful solutions to challenging problems are almost always built on top of the lessons of failure, and the teams brave enough to embrace the unknown. I have worked with some brilliant teams at some incredibly forward thinking businesses. I was a member of the UK Innovation team at Amazon Web Services. Before that I was Head of Applied Technology Innovation at Lloyds Banking Group, and worked for more than 6 years at bet365 ending up as head of R&D globally. For the first ten years of my career I was an entrepreneur founding two companies in the collaboration and homeland security spaces. I have successfully raised capital and exited a business via a trade sale.
