Andy Honess

Andy is a seed investor and advisor to the software industry. In his 30 year career, he has held UK and international senior sales and Managing Director positions in the enterprise software space, including IBM and Siebel Systems and helped take QLIK from start-up to a NASDAQ IPO for $749m in 2010. He specializes in guiding tech start-ups to high-speed growth and is a mentor and Entrepreneur-in-Residence for over ten incubation and accelerator programs across the UK. He reviews and mentors over 200 companies a year.

Andy has built the Business Alignment Management™ methodology designed specifically for start-up and scale-up businesses, with value selling principles at its core. Andy holds an honours degree in Business Information Systems.