Founded 2020
Founders Ian Monk, CEO Nick Shaw, CCO

Spotted Zebra builds a unified skills taxonomy and maps employee capabilities across roles. Its analytics recommend training, match talent to projects, and forecast future skill gaps—helping enterprises optimize workforce planning.


Founders

Ian
Monk

CEO

Ian is a serial tech entrepreneur who has covered both CEO and CTO roles in his career. Previous to Spotted Zebra, Ian successfully founded Bathrooms.com, a VC backed technology, data and digital marketing led e-commerce business, which was sold to Travis Perkins in 2018.

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Nick
Shaw

CCO

Nick is a qualified occupational psychologist and one of the UK’s leading authorities on psychometric testing and talent management. He has previously held senior leadership positions at SHL and 10x Psychology.

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