B2B & SAAS On-DemandStaffing Platform, Matching People and Businesses SPEAKER PROFILE KEY COMPANY FACTS • Viktor Calabròis the founder and CEO of Coople, Key Corporate Facts Key Operating KPIs Europe’s largest on-demand staffing platform Headquarters Zurich, Switzerland Workers on the Platform 310k • Viktor began his career as a process optimiser in the IT sector, working at UBS and Trivadis. With a desire to Founded 2009 Companies on the Platform 14k realise his entrepreneurial dreams he founded an event agency called La Folie. This experience gave Viktor the Employees 100-1,000 idea to revolutionise the staffing market by founding Coople • Viktor coined the term ‘just-in-time staff management’ and Active Markets International co-edited the book ‘Flexible workforce – fit for the challenges of the modern world of work?’. In October 2018 Ownership Private – VCs Viktor Calabrò Viktor Calabròwas listed by the Staffing Industry Analysts (SIA) in the “2018 European Staffing 100” most influential Funding $45m Founder & individuals in the staffing industry. A regular keynote speaker, Viktor gave a Ted Talk in 2017 on ‘The freedom Goldman Sachs, One Peak Executive Key Investors Partners, Harbert European to work in your life’. Viktor has also taken part in ‘The Chairman Growth Future: Mobile 2016’, an International conference in California and was awarded ‘Entrepreneur of the Year’ by Website coople.com Ernst and Young in 2014 COMPANY PROFILE COOPLE @ NOAH • Since launching in Switzerland in 2009, Coople has been the front-runner in disrupting the $400+ billion Doing Business @ NOAH Main Presentation Topics staffing industry, building a unique platform and algorithm that matches workers looking for flexible jobs based on their experience, star-rating, location and availability with companies looking for staff on short Service Provider Interest 1. The future of work notice, to manage their peaks in demand. Coople’s platform also provides end-to-end automation of the 2. On-staffing market opportunity value chain, from planning, recruiting, on-boarding and hiring, to workforce management, payroll Communications processing and payments, allowing companies to dramatically reduce the amount of time and cost spent Marketing 3. How Coople is disrupting the traditional on HR administration tasks staffing industry • Coople has over 310,000 registered workers and over 14,000 registered company accounts, and currently Digital Services operates in both Switzerland, where it has a leading market position, and in the UK, where it has been operating for two years delivering high-triple digit compounded annual growth rates. Coople works with large blue-chip clients including Deliveroo, ZfV, Inditex, Intercontinental Hotels, Four Seasons Hotels & Resorts, the Royal Automobile Club, and provides workers for the Silverstone Formula 1 Grand Prix, the Attendees @NOAH BBC Proms, Coldplay concerts, NFL matches at Wembley stadium and many more high-profile events • Coople won a number of prestigious awards, including Venture Lab’s “Most Successful Young Enterprise” Viktor Calabrò, Founder & Executive Chairman award (2012). It was named a “Top 3 Internet Startup” by the Top 100 Startups (2013), one of the “10 of Sacha Bielawski, CFO the Best Businesses at London Technology Week” by Forbes in 2016 and the only Swiss tech business in Disrupt 100 (2016) Rinaldo Olivari, CEO • In 2014, Viktor Calabrò won the “EY Entrepreneur of the Year” award and was subsequently included in the “EY Entrepreneur of the Year” Hall of Fame. Calabrò is also the co-author, with the sociologists Martina Zolch and Marcel Oertig, of “Flexible Workforce” 31
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