About Me
A brief history of my professional life – past and present.
A space to showcase my investments, projects, passions and opinions.
With 19 years experience in creating digital businesses, I actively seek founders with good ideas looking for investment, expertise, or co-founders.
Experience building teams that can scale paid search budgets to $20m and beyond. An active interest in organic search, social advertising and content marketing.
An interest in the domain name space dating back to 1995. I continue to invest in generic and premium domains with recent sales of single domains in excess of $200,000.
With 15 years experience in the development and delivery of web based software I know how to craft a specification, source the right team, and deliver a project to the highest standards.
Companies I have created, co-created, or provided capital to.
Performous.com owns and operates a portfolio of e-commerce businesses. It’s also a vehicle for making private investments in early-stage start-ups – both online and off.
iBooking.com focuses on providing online ticketing and booking solutions for transport operators of all types.
Cyclists.com was created in 2019 as an online-only retailer of cycle clothing and accessories. We design, manufacture and promote our own range of high quality cycle wear.
Agency.Click is an ad-tech business. Our people have decades of experience in both search and display advertising. The core team behind Agency.Click are pioneers of SEM/SEO having built multi-million dollar businesses from 2003 onwards.
Yalla Protein was created to capture a gap in the market; a locally based sports nutrition company focused on manufacturing and supplying high quality, affordable and customised sports nutrition products to consumers in the Middle East.
Lydia.Capital was created in 2018 as a private vehicle for helping investors enter the world of cryptocurrency investing. We also organise and host cryptocurrency events designed to educate, inform and connect investors with early-stage crypto projects.
Visit.Network owns a portfolio of premium travel domains and travel focussed web sites. We build travel content designed to add value to travellers looking to research travel options and make bookings of hotels, tours and attractions.
DineAndGift is a gift voucher solution for restaurants focussed on generating revenue through the sale of digitally-delivered dining experience vouchers.
Powerworks Garage is a British-owned automotive repair shop. Marcus provided start-up founding in 2020.
Resdiary.com is one of the world’s leading online reservation systems for restaurants. Created in Glasgow in 2006.
Clicksco was a merger between two specialists in paid web search. Marcus grew the business to $50m of annual revenue between 2008 and 2012. Clicksco grew to a portfolio of companies operating across web search, SEM agency, lead generation, and e-commerce.
It’s fair to say that I’m investing a lot of time studying the crypto markets, and moving more of my assets into the markets. I wrote an update for investors …