Team Category: Board and Advisors

Michael Dent is a tech entrepreneur and the founder of PropertyData, the leading analytics platform helping property investors and developers make more intelligent decisions through data. He is also a co-founder of what3words, the global addressing system backed by investors including Mercedes, Intel, and Sony. Alongside this, Michael advises the team at BuildPartner, guiding them through data management, scale and usability questions to help bring price transparency to the construction industry. With a background spanning SaaS, data analytics, and geolocation, he has a wealth of insights appropriate for the task. Michael lives in Oxfordshire with his wife and three young children, in a 400-year-old farmhouse they are renovating.

Rupert is passionate about working with inspiring SaaS, fintech, and edtech startups, so it was with great enthusiasm that he became the chairman of BuildPartner. He is currently invested in 20 startups and is acting as an adviser to BoughtByMany, one of the UK’s leading unicorns. Rupert also founded the largest independent Asian equity brokerage which became the first-ever UK company to get a primary stock market listing in Japan. When he needs a break from work, you can find him yacht racing and distance running.

Jason is a technical entrepreneur with extensive experience in both computer science and board level IT innovation. He has been a technical director of several software businesses and managed complex enterprise projects with successful exits. Jason’s professional specialties include innovation, training, technical sales, software agile project management, and strategic and operational planning. During his spare time Jason enjoys spending quality time with his family, cycling, teaching and partaking in sailing, and enthusiastically cheering for Fulham FC.

Hugo is a lifelong entrepreneur who has started businesses in a variety of sectors with a focus in technology and property. He loves his work and enjoys helping others to achieve their goals. He is particularly interested in experimenting with organisational structures. For example, finding out whether recent technological advances will enable efficient growth without the previously required concentration of resources and responsibility. His ‘free’ time is spent reading or listening to as much as possible, from the seemingly trivial to the somewhat meaningful.