Brett Wigdortz OBECo Founder

United Kingdom - Barnet, England

In 2018, I co-founded Tiney.co with Edd Read and John Newbold in order to improve childcare for parents, practitioners and children. We raised our most recent round from Index Ventures, LocalGlobe and JamJar and, with a team of 35 great individuals are now working to grow the business and unlock the potential of every child.

I have also been non-executive chair of NCS Trust (National Citizen Service), the largest youth engagement programme in the UK, since the Trust was created on 1 December 2018.

Previously I founded and led Teach First (which turned into a 15 year journey to build and run a $100 million turnover company with 600 employees that was the largest graduate recruiter in the UK changed education in Britain) and co-founded and had various leadership roles with Teach For All, the global network for 12 years. I stepped down as CEO of Teach First in October 2017.

Successful entrepreneur, business builder, and CEO with a proven ability to build innovative and disruptive organisations at national and international scale.

Experience in founding, fundraising, growing/scaling, and hiring and motivating (from millennials to CxO).

Extensive public speaking and evangelism to audiences in business, government, non-profit, and education sectors both in the UK and globally.