SCALING YOUR START-UP ISN'T EASY

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IPSO FACTO

ABOUT US

Ipso-Facto advises fast-growth start-ups and scale-ups on strategy, leadership and organisation design. We are consultants with decades of hands-on experience of working at senior levels within leading Internet Economy companies. We have an outstanding record of success in helping businesses navigate growing pains, build world-class teams and adopt global best practice.

WHERE WE CAN HELP YOU

STRATEGY

Formulating a strategy

Market growth strategy

Ensuring strong

strategy execution

Strategy Troubleshooting

STRUCTURE

Preparing for and managing growth

Organisational Troubleshooting

Highly collaborative team structures

PROCESS

Implementing global best-practice

Adopting Silicon Valley productivity models

Process Design and Optimisation

Process Troubleshooting

PEOPLE

Leadership Training

Executive Coaching

Management

Best Practice

THE TEAM

MARK LOGAN OBE FRSE
Consultant

mark@ipso-facto.biz

Mark is the Chief Entrepreneurial Advisor to the Scottish Government, a Professor of Computing Science at the University of Glasgow, and a Senior Enterprise Fellow at the University of Strathclyde. He has 30 years of senior leadership experience in the tech and start-up sector, including as COO of Skyscanner, one of Europe's most successful technology companies, where he was responsible for the general management of the business during the company’s high-growth phase, culminating in the sale of the business for £1.45B in 2016.

In 2014, the Institute of Directors named him Director of the Year and in 2016 he won the UK Digital Masters award for Excellence in General Management. He was conferred the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Science by the University of Glasgow and Doctor of Business Administration by Robert Gordon University. In 2022, he was admitted as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh for his contribution to Scotland’s technology industry. He was awarded an OBE in the 2023 New Year’s honours for his contribution to the economy.

Mark is the author of the Scottish Technology Ecosystem Review and co-author of the Pathways: A new approach for women in Entrepreneurship review which, together, form the foundations of the Scottish Government’s policy strategy for entrepreneurial ecosystem development.

GAELLE CIRIEGO,
IPSO-FACTO Founder

gaelle@ipso-facto.biz

After a career spent working in senior HR roles within scale-up tech businesses, Gaelle founded Ipso Facto in 2009, and has since supported the growth and development of over 100 start-ups and scale-ups in the UK and globally.

For example, Gaelle created the People function within Skyscanner, and supported the company's growth from 50 employees to over 900.

Gaelle’s expertise encompasses all aspects of the People function of scaling organisations (organisation design, strategy development, leadership, learning and development, strategic HR, compliance and policies and company culture). She is also highly experienced in general process optimization within scaling organisations.

As CEO of Ipso-Facto, Gaelle current focus is on start-up/scale-up advisory work, investment and also holds various non-executive director positions.