David Mantle

Stashbee

Stashbee is the simplest, smartest, most sustainable way for anyone to share and fill storage space. Whatever your situation or ambition, we have spaces of all sizes for people at all stages.

CEO & Co-Founder

CCO & Co-Founder

Co-CEO & Co-Founder

ICE List

ICE is a global network of high-growth founders who wish to support and accelerate tech entrepreneurs at every stage of their journey.

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Oddbox

Investor

BearingPoint

Manager in the UK Digital Customer Management team at BearingPoint. He has many years of experience in multiple industries, functions and geographies. 

Experience:

- Market Delivery Project Manager responsible for the launch of Connected Car Services (InControl) into BENELUX for Jaguar Land Rover. Responsibilities include but are not limited to; End to End Market Launch Readiness and Project Planning, Dealer Network Training and Readiness, Supplier Training and Readiness, Key Stakeholder Management and Communications, Operations set-up  and product accreditation. 

- Programme Planning Manager for the launch feature set for Connected Car at Jaguar Land Rover. Managed and developed the central project plan and critical path for the whole solution from technical development to market delivery across multiple workstreams launching into 5 markets simultaneously. Lead, Failure Modes analysis, product localization and new market scoping.

- Supported the divestment of BP's assets across 5 African countries worth $500m. Carried out resource planning, managed the development and subsequent monitoring of milestone plans, with 10,000+ line items, across 14 complex cross boarder workstreams.

- Identified customer and product growth opportunities and analysed Group company financials for a financial services company. Establish 5 year growth plans and a coordinated approach to customer targeting and new product development

- Developed market entry business case for a new entity in South Africa including roadmap, regulatory compliance and market analysis.

Worked in:
USA, Russia, South Africa, France, Italy, Spain, Germany, Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Sweden, 

Experience areas:
Connected Car, M&A, project management, organisational change, business optimisation, strategy, risk management, communications, spanning a number of industries such as automotive, oil & gas, and financial services.

Manager

Private Equity International

Account Manager

Citigroup

Implemented business continuity planning and methodology for sector business lines including Smith Barney, Citi Private Bank and Citi Investment Research. Helped develop business recovery plans and conducted 60% of all quality reviews of business recovery plans &amp; business impact analyses for global business groups. Assisted business units in meeting audit and compliance requirements (both external and internal).

Business Continuity Management Analyst

Cushman & Wakefield

Worked for the commercial and industrial investments department focusing on portfolio investments. Assisted viewings of portfolio properties and developed a database of previous investment sales. Also spent a week in the finance department assisting on property development financing options.

Sumer Intern

I'm super passionate about innovation, technology, and startups. 

I Co-Founded Stashbee which is a Marketplace for Storage & Parking. We have over 75,000 registered users with over 2.4 million sq ft of space on the platform making us the 4th largest storage provider in the UK. 

If you ever want to chat about new ideas or need some help please give me a shout.

Biztech Lawyers

Launching the UK Office of Biztech Lawyers - a global law firm.

Head of UK (Lawyer)

Stephenson Law

Lawyer/Solicitor - Director and Head of Technology Law and Data Protection

Waterfront Solicitors LLP

I joined Waterfront as a trainee solicitor, became a partner in 2008 and took over as head of the Technology and Commercial Law Team in 2015.

Partner (Lawyer) - Head of Technology and Commercial Law

Macrovision

I supported the sole in-house lawyer for EMEA and worked closely with the US legal team.

Commercial Paralegal

Universal Music Publishing

Negotiating fees and drafting contracts for the use of music in commercials,  films, TV, computer games and occasionally (although only grudgingly) "the Web".

Saw a lot of live music. 

I loved this job. If they'd ever paid me more than £20k per year, I'd probably still be there.

Licensing Assistant

Freelance book-keeper for music and entertainment industry clients in 1990s Camden - including the Barfly Club, Food Records, Bluedog Records and Pacific Edge Events.

Went through carrier bags of receipts and rubbish and loaded the details (of the receipts, not the rubbish) into a computer system with a black and green screen.

Hung out with britpop and indie bands in the Good Mixer and the Barfly Club when I should have been studying.

Bookkeeper

Tuxedo Junction Restaurant

Served food in a Tex Mex restaurant/ cocktail bar.

Left when I discovered the manager stealing our tips.

Waitress

Pacific Communications Sciences, Inc.

Looked after an office of 20+ engineers.  Answered the phones, occasional filing, made sure we had the right amount of milk.

I wasn't very busy, and I had access to the Internet for the first time.  It was amazing,  even though there was no real search engine, and most of the stuff on the Internet was absolute nonsense.

Office Administrator

ALLIED DUNBAR ASSURANCE PLC

Checking life insurance application forms while listening to colleagues gossip. 

Laughing at how much more life insurance costs smokers, while chain smoking in an office owned by British American Tobacco. 

Some days I thought I might actually die of boredom.

Client Services Administrator

Tudor Tea Rooms

Served tea and toasted teacakes to bus-loads of tourists. They were frequently rude.  

My first introduction to workplace politics.

🚀Tech Sector Leaders🚀

Are you responsible for “legals” in a tech sector business?   
Do you need no-nonsense, pragmatic and commercial legal advice to help you get deals over the line and other legal matters sorted?  
If so, you've come to the right place!


📃Some of the contractual challenges you might be facing 📃

Are you unsure about which contract terms are worth arguing over?
Or signing up to warranties you’re unsure you comply with?
Are you worried about missing important points?
Or about what level of liability is “normal”?


🔒 Or maybe data protection and privacy is the thorn in your side 🔒

Does the phrase “GDPR compliant” make you queasy?
Do you worry about whether you need consent?
Have you received a confusing DPA?
Or been asked for a DPIA?


🧑🏻‍⚖️ Perhaps you already have lawyers, but:
- they struggle to understand what your product does and how it works
- they reel off lists of risks, without suggesting solutions.  
- they don’t help you get the deals done…


If any of the above is you - I CAN HELP!  I have spent 20 years helping hundreds of tech businesses:

📃 Negotiate complicated contracts faster 
🔏 Navigate the data protection maze.
🌎 Expand to the UK/EU


Hundreds of clients in every corner of the technology sector
Hundreds of millions of pounds worth of successfully negotiated deals.


So... what makes me different from the other lawyers you’ve come across?


🤖 I ‘get’ tech
- you won’t need to spend time explaining the environment that your technology works in.  
- In the unlikely event that I’ve never come across anything like what you’re doing before, I’ll make it my mission to learn all about it (on my own time).

🧑🏻‍💼  Sometimes it’s your customers legal team that you need to persuade… I can help you win them around by:
- helping them understand your offering
- reassuring them that you’re on top of your data processing and other legal obligations

🤝 I understand that there are times when your biggest risk is failing to seal the deal.  
- I’ll focus on genuine risks
- we won’t spend time arguing points that don’t matter. 

🔏I’m pragmatic about data protection and privacy.
- Yes, all businesses should comply with the law
- But there’s plenty of scope for reasonableness and a pragmatic, risk based approach


If you need help with any of the above, please don't hesitate to book a free, no-obligation call with me using the link above.

Specialties: Commercial Contracts, Technology Law, Intellectual Property Rights, Digital Media Law, Internet Law, E-Commerce Law, Consumer Law, Data Protection Law and Privacy Law.

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