John O’Connell is a high-profile London-based technology entrepreneur and investor. He co-founded, floated on the UK LSE and sold in 2004 for $200 million one of the then-leading Software companies in Staffware plc, which had achieved Unicorn status. John now chairs 2 UK businesses, ActiveNav & the ScaleUp Group ‘SUG’ which he founded 8 years ago & whose 33 entrepreneurs have raised finance for and exited from >100 companies globally, for more than £6 billion.