Ben Kaye

SURREAL

Gimme a sec to settle into the role, and then I'll tell you what I've been up to!

Category & Commercial Manager

Spin Tennis App

• Drew up an events plan to add an additional USP and revenue stream for Spin Tennis App
• Creating and hosting events to further engagement within the Spin Tennis Community
• Sourcing venues to deliver an enjoyable experience for Spin members
• Initial events in 2025 have had 100+ attendees with a positive experience and demand for further events

Event Manager

2 Sisters Food Group

Category Manager within the Poultry division, working across a variety of retail customers:
• Responsible for analysis of all protein space & sales performance for a large convenience retailer, helping deliver "the best presentation across the supply base" (retail buyer), resulting in 20% incremental space and additional SKUs worth £m of pounds to the business
• Led and delivered the development of best-in-class insights reporting website, delivering the team’s category insight, in-store reports and data analysis all in one centralised place for customers
• Produced comprehensive consumer insight report to assist retailers in understanding Christmas purchase decisions
• Used data and analytics skills to redesign and rebuild the Co-op Sales Reporting process to give more profound and more powerful insights to the commercial team, resulting in the award of Employee of the Month
• Led the delivery of category insights for BBQ Season 2024, featuring new image-based market maps

Category Manager

Well Fruited

Co-founder of a drinks brand that used product innovation and fun to address the fact that only 28% of adults consume 5 portions of fruit & veg a day.

Some key accomplishments:
• Co-created the first fruit drink made using all of the fruit, designed to maximise fibre and nutrient content, whilst limiting sugar impact
• Bootstrapped the business through initial product testing phases by using self-taught skills such as web design, branding, financial modelling & prototyping
• Sold over 5,000 bottles as part of initial testing phase, through various channels such as D2C, B2B and live events
• 7m video views across TikTok, YouTube & Instagram
•Charted the growth of the brand alongside my insights into what makes a consumer-business stand out

Co-Founder & CEO

Unrest

Participated in the programme to help strengthen the foundations of the business and fuel the growth of the Well Fruited brand.

As part of the programme:
- Refined our Pitch Deck & proposition
-Built out Financial Projections & models
- Refined brand strategy
- Engaged in the wider Unrest community

Entrepreneur at Unrest (London)

Year Here

Working on solutions to societal problems to deliver positive impact and social change.

Mar - August 2021: Population Health Team, Bromley-by-Bow Health Partnership. Projects included:
• Project Best Start: analysing data to build a profile of young people within Tower Hamlets and help inform decisions on how to give every child the best start in life
• Project Ways of Working: delivered a report that assessed ways of working across the Health Partnership, with recommendations on how to improve ways of working across areas such as meetings, project management and document sharing
• Project Talking Food: organised and facilitated sessions around nutrition and healthy diet for local community members to help improve wellbeing, which results in some "life-changing" results

Sep - Oct 2021: Consultant on a project for Guy's & St Thomas' Foundation around equitable and representative employment for the local area

Social Innovation Fellow

Bakkavor

Working across UK & Ireland on one of the UK's largest retailers on multiple fresh prepared food categories.

Role included delivering first-to-market innovation, long-term strategic planning, stakeholder management, building customer relationships and commercial analysis.

Key accomplishments:
• Shortlisted for Bakkavor Group Innovation Awards for work on Post-Launch Review Process
• Led the introduction of a new software tool to deliver faster, more accurate and in-depth sales reporting on a weekly basis to transform the way the sales teams reported on performance, whilst saving countless hours of data collection
• Worked on a bespoke strategy for Tesco Ireland to adapt offerings to fit the market need, resulting in cutting wastage by 20%
• Launched new product ranges across multiple retailers, cuisines and tiers, worth over £10m in annual sales revenue

Testimonials:
• Attention to detail is fantastic and it’s been a great support

Commercial Manager

Managing key retailer accounts across a variety of Fresh Prepared Foods categories to deliver first to market innovation and profitable business growth.

Responsible for Category Strategy, Promotional Planning and International Projects, achieved through cross-functional working and a commitment to innovative and new working practices.

Key accomplishments:
• Improved forecasting accuracy by c.15%pt through the creation and implementation of an analysis tool
• Established a clear set of category information documentation that enabled the team to become category pioneers through easy-to-access information on product & promotional performance
• Grew an e-commerce account 28% YOY, ahead of the growth trajectory for the retailer overall
• Improve margin performance of at-risk lines through Product Development work to recover of £50k p/a

Testimonials:
Ben is a self-starter and is constantly looking at avenues and ways to add value to the business. 
He has proactively volunteered for add on projects and has been working with grit and determination on PLR (Post Launch Review) project which has been identified as a big opportunity.

Account Manager

Part of the Commercial Team, working directly with two of the UK's largest retailers and a wide range of various stakeholders.

Worked across a variety of Fresh Prepared Foods categories on both projects with retailers and supplier-related projects. This has included forecasting, promotional activity, category management and using specific data sources and systems.

Key achievements:
• Winner of Graduate's Graduate Award (2018) for contribution to the business and experience of graduates on the programme
• Won monthly innovation award for leading a project to save M&S over £1m in food waste on their Italian ready meal category

Testimonials:
Ben has made an impressive start to his career at Bakkavor and is a pleasure to have on the team. His approach is humble, respectful, resilient and committed.

Commercial Graduate

Tesco

Primarily working on promotional strategy and ranging across the Plant-Based ranges within Fresh & Frozen. Helping to deliver double-digit growth in one of the emerging areas within the food industry.

Additionally assisted in the delivery of the 2019 Christmas Party Food Range.

Key accomplishments:
• Ranging recommendations delivered possible incremental sale of £31m and £14m margin for Tesco across chilled & frozen ranges
• Ensured timely launch of Christmas Party Food ranges to ensure all lines were correctly executed in-store

Product Analyst

The Holiday Place

Working in the Product Department which involves:
• Dealing with contracts with suppliers
• Content writing for the website
• Using the dedicated software to manage hotel and flight details

Administration Assistant

XpressionFM

I was:
• Head of Marketing at Xpression FM (www.xpression.fm)
• Xpression FM Saturday Sport Show pundit (www.facebook.com/xpressionsportshow)
• Producer of Highly A-Newsing (www.facebook.com/highlyanewsing)

Head of Marketing

💥 MY BACKGROUND
👨🏻‍💻 I work in Category Management across multiple customers, covering insights, sales analysis and consumer trends
🛒 I've worked with some of the UK's largest retailers on their own label ranges, launching over 100 products
📈 Focusing on sales growth, product assortment and category strategy
🍲 Seconded to work for the UK's largest food retailer in supporting the launch of two new brands
🍊Co-founder of Well Fruited; developing first-to-market innovation; a drink with half the sugar of a juice/smoothie, with 4k+ units sold and over 7m times across TikTok, Instagram & YouTube!
🎾 I once won the Junior Tennis Tournament at my local tennis club, so am always up for a game

💥 TESTIMONIALS
▶️ "The guys who created and make the product [Well Fruited] are extraordinary, they fully deserve the success coming their way!"
▶️ "Your ability to spot the smallest details in a giant spreadsheet of numbers is unreal"
▶️ "A deserved winner of Employee of the Month for going above and beyond in helping the team"

Feel free to connect with me to chat...or for a game of tennis 🤝

Co-Founder

Co-founder of a Food & drink brand using product innovation and fun to address the fact that only 28% of adults consume 5 portions of fruit & veg a day.

Some key accomplishments:
• Co-created the first fruit drink made using all of the fruit, designed to maximise fibre and nutrient content, whilst limiting sugar impact
• Bootstrapped the business through initial product testing phases by using self-taught skills such as web design, branding, financial modelling & prototyping
• 6m video views across TikTok, YouTube & Instagram
•Charting the growth of the brand alongside my insights into what makes a consumer-business stand out

🎥 Gabriel Isserlis

SuperScout

Upgrade your private location database!

Our software helps you: 
- manage and search through your personal locations database with a map or keywords
- share beautiful shortlists with clients and colleagues
- never do the same research twice! 

Prettier than Dropbox; More secure than SmugMug. More functional than both. 

Built from the ground up for location scouts, managers, and production companies.

Founder & CEO

Boardwave

The Boardwave network is a powerful community of Founders, CEOs, Chairs, Independent NEDs & Investors from across Europe, representing companies at every stage of development in the tech industry.The Boardwave network is a powerful community of Founders, CEOs, Chairs, Independent NEDs & Investors from across Europe, representing companies at every stage of development in the tech industry.

Boardwave member

Tutti

Tutti is building technology to give creatives more time to create.

Today, we are a SaaS enabled marketplace for amazing creative venues - places for film/photo shoots, rehearsals, live-streams, concerts, and more. Traditionally it can take days or weeks to find and book these places, but on Tutti, creators find and message 1000+ spaces in minutes.
Simultaneously, our software helps amazing, unusual venues automate their booking processes and save countless hours on admin.

Learn more: https://www.tutti.space

Tutti was launched at the Founder Institute, London (www.fi.co) in 2018.
Supported by the Rattle Collective 2019-2021 (now closed).
Supported by the CultTech Accelerator in 2023. 

Funding: 
Self funded: 2018 - 2022
Raised £295k from 356 people (crowd) in 2022.

Techstars

Mentor

Founder Institute

Successfully graduated as a member of the London Winter 2018 cohort of the Founder Institute - the world’s premier idea-stage accelerator and startup launch program.

Top 3% Graduate & Mentor

Marketplace Risk

Today, the Marketplace Risk platform is the most comprehensive source of education, networking and information sharing for marketplace, sharing, gig, peer-to-peer and collaborative economy startups to learn risk management, trust & safety, compliance and legal strategy necessary to launch, grow and exit successfully. From our blog, e-newsletter, Platform Podcast, Slack Forum and Live Event & Webinar Series, to our conferences and summits, Marketplace Risk is the first and only dedicated resource for startups to take their businesses to the next level.

Advisory Board Member

Founders Pledge

As a member of the Founders Pledge community I’m committed to leveraging my success for good. Founders Pledge enables entrepreneurs and investors to give back, give more, and give effectively, by pledging a portion of future exit proceeds to charity. They provide charity research, organise events with thought leaders in social impact, and handle the administrative burden of donating to globally.

Pledger

OPUS

OPUS is a community that provides opportunities for emerging leaders who recognize the value of peer-to-peer relationships as a powerful catalyst for positive change in the world.

Member

Home Grown Club

A members' club for entrepreneurs, investors, performance business leaders and the change makers of tomorrow. Happy to refer new members - DM me for details

Founding Member

Culttech Accelerator

Graduate

Unlocking space for creativity: Founder/CEO of Tutti

My expertise lies at the intersection of creativity and technology, which has inspired 
1. Tutti: "AirBnB for creative spaces" 
2. SuperScout: "Your personal database of locations, supercharged with AI" 

(Side note: I won't accept connection requests unless you give me a compelling reason, or I've met you in person)

With degrees in film making and software development, as well as a decade of work in music, theatre, and photography, and years building tech startups, I have a unique set of insights. 

These have inspired creative technical solutions to problems I have experienced first hand in the creative industries, one of the fastest growing sectors that is already worth more than $3tr to humanity. 

Follow Tutti & SuperScout to see those ideas become a reality

www.tutti.space - www.superscout.ai

Follow me here to get honest stories, insights, and thoughts about the highs, lows, and in-betweens of building a startup: 

- It's not an easy or quick journey, but it's a bloody rewarding one. 

- You can't do it alone. If you think you can, you're kidding yourself. 

- You don't know what you don't know - you'll always be learning things you never knew you needed to know.

- Everything is about relationships. Start building them early and often. You never know who might be able to help you. 


Lastly, this is me behind the companies and experience: 
I love to: 
- Invent solutions
- Design product (UX - I'm great at functional, not so good at pretty)
- Support other founders (it's a bloody difficult journey)
- Inspire others
- Dream up & build the future!

SuperScout received another brilliant testimonial yesterday! 

SuperScout is everything we’ve been looking for in a location platform and we can’t recommend them enough. Their team have really set the bar when it comes to customer support and are always listening to the needs of the industry.

The location platform provides a clean and simple design that is easy to navigate and offers a customisable design to suit your branding. Uploading new locations is quick and easy, whether it’s from a laptop or while on the go from your phone. It’s also hassle-free for location owners to use when uploading their own locations, which makes the whole process much easier and quicker. No stress.

The AI function is a key feature of SuperScout. We often get very specific location briefs from productions, and the AI generated keywords are a really helpful tool for narrowingdown the search. Not only does this save us and industry a lot of time, it also helps to increase the presence of our locations and hopefully generate further interest. 

SuperScout has been a game-changer for us and we’re excited to see how the platform evolves in the future.

Thank you Vicki & Surrey Film Office. 
Thrilled to be working with you! 

#locations #filmoffice #testimonials

Empowering filmmakers with radically better software (SuperScout); Dad, Founder, Mentor, Cat Dad

SuperScout also received a wonderful review from our first US film office, who have seen literal hours of time saved every time they scout a new location! 

"SuperScout combines many elements of our locations workflow into one attractive tool, streamlining our processes. 

Last week, we toured a terrific location for the first time. Within moments of leaving the location, our photos were uploaded to SuperScout and shareable; they were tagged and searchable and had our contact info attached. 

With our previous workflow, we would have had at least six manual steps to complete in order to share the photos in a useful way, including uploading and downloading and re-uploading the photos. 

SuperScout realistically reduced the time we have to dedicate to managing new location photos from hours to minutes. 

SuperScout is a vital tool in our ongoing mission to highlight our region and both differentiate ourselves from and compete with national production hubs. 

Gabriel and the team at SuperScout are incredibly responsive, always ready to help us maximize the elements of SuperScout that we use most, and keeping us up to date on new features and enhancements that are being added regularly."

Thank you Tim Banach & Nora Brown. It's wonderful to be working with you! 

#customerlove #filmlocations #startup

We received another glowing review this week, courtesy of Richard Williams-Bulkeley:  

"For a couple of years I have been looking for a way to manage my locations and their associated images to then communicate them to the Film and Media Industry. I investigated building a website, SmugMug and other image related options but nothing gave me what I wanted. My requirements were:

 - Easy to use
 - Flexible
 - Function rich
 - Slick
 - Fast
 - Professional looking
 - Mapping fully integrated, including Google Maps and W3W
 - Reasonably priced

At last I have found what I have been searching for and more! 

SuperScout met all my requirements. After 2 short sessions I have got to grips with the functionality (and I am a 57 year old location owner!) and am seeing the benefits every time I use the system. It really is fantastic, so simple and intuitive but bursting with really great features for location owners, location managers and scouts alike. It has exceeded my expectations in every way.

In addition they have provided superb support and added some great functionality I hadn't expected, for example the Past Productions Page. The speed of their development is brilliant and their team really understand the Film and TV locations world, its needs and challenges. 

SuperScout is a joy to use!" 


Here's an early version of Richard's new site, powered by SuperScout: 
https://lnkd.in/eV3JAviu

It's fantastic to have you on board Richard! 

#customerlove #filmlocations #product

These last 2 days I was absolutely blown away by our customers and their support for SuperScout

We spent the last 2 days at FOCUS meet the makers and while I had no official schedule, I didn't have a moment to rest. 

I was running around constantly, talking to existing and potential customers (I would have loved a 3rd day - didn't get a chance to talk to everyone I needed to) 

The most incredible thing was the number of people I spoke to who said "I've heard amazing things from ___" 

As a startup, my goal has always been to solve problems for my customers. 

Throughout my startup journey I have been solving various problems for various customers, but it's with SuperScout that I've truly found the magic intersection of:
💙  wonderful customers who I love talking to
❤️  within an industry that's incredibly near and dear to my heart
💚  who have problems my team and I are perfectly suited to solve. 

I can't wait to see what we build together in the coming year: Gary Kinch Erica Gilson Pippa Cawdron Cherise Fairman Ruth Bryant James Patrick Thorpe Vicki Brown Gar O'Brien-Collins Anna, Tom, Hana Lowe Hana Kabashi Joseph Ferreira Campos 

To everyone who said hi and we're not working together yet - I look forward to continuing our conversations! 

(Sorry if I forgot to tag anyone - it's been a bit insane) 

#customerlove #support #startup

This week we had a brilliant time at FOCUS meet the makers! 

We met loads of our Film Office customers (some for the first time in person): 
- Gary Kinch Erica Gilson - Essex Film Office
- Ruth Bryant James Patrick Thorpe - Buckinghamshire Film Office
- Pippa Cawdron Cherise Fairman - Hertfordshire Film Office
- Vicki Brown - Surrey Film Office
- Gar O'Brien-Collins - WRAP
- Anna Macakova - Central Bohemia Film Office
- Hana Kabashi - South Bohemia Film Office

As well as many a bunch of location scout & manager customers & supporters: 
Joseph Ferreira Campos Hana Lowe Tom Howard Megan Foerster 

And we got the chance to show just how far our technology has come in a year to many people we met last year at the same event. 

We're still buzzing off the brilliant energy we had. Can't wait to the follow up conversations! 

Thank you to everyone for sharing the SuperScout love. Particularly Gary Kinch Gar O'Brien-Collins Alan Jay Hana Lowe

#superscout #customerlove #filmlocations

In what would normally be most people's downtime from their startup, I'm running around Europe working as "Dad" and occasional videographer. 

My wife is a professional violinist, and the quartet she started 10 years ago with 3 friends at university (which is much like a startup) has become one of the leading groups in Europe in recent years. 

They won ARD, the most prestigious competition for quartets in Europe, 2 years ago, and now have agents in multiple countries. (It'd be like getting A-Tier VC funding after years of bootstrapping.)

So when I'm not running SuperScout, I'm busy helping her however I can, making her dreams a reality. 

Most of the time that means taking care of our little one while she's in rehearsals (which allows me to do a surprising amount of work) or on stage.

But she's recently given me another job: videographer. Using my little one as a counterbalance ("steadicam weight") I spend a lot of time filming behind the scenes of the amazing places they travel. Because she's now set herself a goal: to create a short daily vlog of her travels, because they really are fascinating. 

So I thought I'd share one (with almost entirely my camera work): 

IF you like this and want to see more of her travels / work, you can find her on
❤️  YouTube: https://lnkd.in/eRDGvmtP
💜  Instagram: https://lnkd.in/ewPZ2pQe
💙  TikTok: https://lnkd.in/evddT8My

(This also explains why I've entirely stopped going to startup events in London...) 

#contentcreator #dadlife #founderlife

We have some amazing evangelists helping share our product! 

Last week alone, I had 3 amazing experiences of this.  

❤️ Someone I reached out to (I thought cold) had seen one of our customers using SuperScout on set, and wondered what it was! Apparently that customer then showed the whole team a quick demo! 

💙 Another person I contacted is in an association with a bunch of our customers and have consistently heard good things from multiple people over the past 10 months. She really wants a demo now. 

🥰 Last year I gave a demo to a room of industry people, and someone who had been in that audience has been following our journey. He heard some of his former colleagues were considering buying from one of our competitors, and he told them to consider ours, and reached out to me on the company whatsapp, to connect us. He did not have to! At all! But he went out of his way to try and help us, which is amazing! 

In fact none of these customers sharing our product have to. At the moment our network capabilities are limited, so it doesn't benefit (also doesn't hurt) our customers to have others using it. 

But people are going out of their way to help share the value of SuperScout, which is incredible!

Thank you to everyone talking about SuperScout and sharing it with colleagues. It's time for there to be a new standard in software for the locations industry. 

Time to Ditch Dropbox & Scrap SmugMug. They're not build for this industry, SuperScout is! 

#customerlove #filmlocations #locationscouts

🌊 This lighthouse pioneered the first failed toilet in maritime history—but the views are incredible.

Trwyn Du Lighthouse sits on Black Point at Anglesey's eastern tip (North Wales):
⚫ 29m tower with distinctive three black bands
🌊 Sea-washed stepped base designed for wave management
🏝️ Views across to Puffin Island and the Menai Strait
🚗 Small toll road access with nearby parking

What makes it work: Built in 1838 as a prototype for larger sea-washed towers, this is coastal drama with proper maritime architecture. The stepped base and rocky shoreline give you natural texture, and the contrast between the striped tower and surrounding seascape delivers strong composition options.

Previously shot here: House of the Dragon Season 3 (coming soon)

Get in touch with Richard (link in comments) to learn more.

Quick demo: Uploading locations to SuperScout 🎬

Whether you're managing a single location or thousands, here's how easy it is to get your files in to your database:

→ Drag and drop your files (photos, videos, PDFs)
→ Set addresses with autocomplete
→ Add private notes and details only your team sees
→ Set default public info—hide exact addresses, use a radius, control what gets shared

Built for location managers, scouts, production companies, and film offices who need to organise locations fast without the headache.

#locationscout #locationmanager #filmlocations

That awkward moment when your zoom view is disrupted by family! 

I did my best to hide the fact that I was working from my bed, because I'm currently on tour with my wife & son, and there's no available desk in the house. 

But then my wife unexpectedly asked me to take my son during the middle of the meeting. So I had to crawl to the edge of the bed (barriers on both sides for son), mid-meeting, and there's no hiding that... 

Then I had to hold my son on the call (pretty standard at this point - so that was fine) but I suddenly saw that the covers, my pyjamas, and the pillows and headboard were all in view... Oh dear!

Fortunately I don't think my potential clients are going to hold it against me - they're excited about our software, not worrying about where I have to hold meetings! But still, not what I'd intended. 



#dadlife 
#founderlife 
#customercalls

🏠 An upside-down house where gravity-defying scenes come naturally—and IKEA furnished the whole thing.

The Lakeside Upside Down House offers instant visual impact for contemporary productions:
🎨 Red wine-colored exterior with high-gloss finish
🛋️ IKEA-designed interiors with furniture mounted on ceilings
📍 Located in Lakeside Shopping Centre car park (easy crew access)
🔄 Mind-bending perspective shifts for unique shot composition

What makes it work: This isn't set dressing—it's a fully realized inverted environment where production can achieve impossible-looking shots in-camera. The compact footprint means fast setups, while the shopping center location provides nearby amenities for extended shoots. Perfect for commercials, music videos, or any production needing surreal visual hooks.

Get in touch with Gary Kinch at Essex Film Office to learn more about shooting here! (link in comments)

#FilmLocation #LocationScouting #UKFilming

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