Executive Team

John Cooper – Chairman

John Cooper, specializes in the development of early stage businesses. Since the early 90s, he has worked with strong operational management teams, investing personal funds into a variety of start-up businesses, including A-Gas International plc (Gas Distribution), Interactive Investor International plc (Internet Financial Portal), and CoreProcess International plc. John is a Chartered Accountant graduate of Harvard Business School, former Regional Managing Partner of Arthur Young (now Ernst & Young) and Chief Executive of Chesterton International plc.

Scott Ellis – Chief Executive Officer

Scott has worked in sales, marketing and business development for over 10 years across the hospitality, sports and leisure markets. Scott was previously Sales & Marketing Director for Goodform Ltd a specialist sales, marketing and crm consultancy focused on the sports and leisure markets. Prior to that, Scott was Marketing Director for London at Hilton Hotels Corporation where he gained extensive knowledge of the digital and channel marketing space, including email marketing and search engine marketing.

Rob Love – Chief Product Officer

Rob has accumulated over thirteen years experience in consulting and business development mainly to Financial Services and Telecommunications clients in Southern Africa, formerly with Accenture. He has gained extensive experience with project management, technology, people, process and strategy issues, particularly in the definition of new business opportunities, with both existing companies and new start-ups.

Mitchell Talisman – Chief Technology Officer

Mitchell has spent over 25 years in the fields of software development and technology consulting. He holds degrees from Columbia University in engineering and applied physics. Mitchell oversaw the development of derivatives pricing systems for several Wall St. analytics firms, and created a mobile social networking application for cellphone-based introductions. Prior to joining Rocketseed, Mitchell was VP Engineering at Liberty Travel, where he oversaw all custom software development in use by thousands of travel agents. He is a lifetime resident of New York City.