BigDish Plc
DISH:LN
Overview
Company Profile
The company owns an online restaurant reservation platform and mobile application operating under the BigDish brand. The Existing Group provides a yield management solution for restaurants by offering varying discounts to diners depending on preferred dining time. The Existing Group currently operates in the Philippines, Indonesia and Hong Kong and from Admission the Enlarged Group will also operate in the UK following completion of the acquisition of Pouncer (the operator of Tablepouncer.com, a UK restaurant reservation platform). The Enlarged Group’s business model is to derive revenue from a booking fee from restaurants per diner seated who have booked through the BigDish App or website. The Company also recently acquired the assets relating to a Philippines restaurant discovery platform which included the looloo.com website, a mobile app and the data of the associated users.
Classification
Financials
Corporate
Board of Directors
Aidan Bishop
Founder & Executive Chairman
Aidan has a number of years of experience in start-up businesses that he has founded in various sectors. Aidan founded a mining company that was admitted to the London Stock Exchange in April 2016. Previously, Aidan started a cocoa trading and development company in the Philippines and in 2017 became a founding shareholder and director in Islands Cacao & Chocolate, a UK premium chocolate manufacturer that sources super premium cocoa beans from island origins mostly in South East Asia.
Joost Boer
Co-Founder
Joost joined the Company in October 2014 and has following this time acted as the Chief Executive Officer of BigDish. Joost joined CompareAsiaGroup, the world’s largest financial comparison platform (backed by Goldman Sachs), as one of its first employees in September 2013 and became Operations Manager the following month. He subsequently led the expansion into the Philippines in December 2013 and later spearheaded a product overhaul for the entire region.
John Dometita
CTO
John has worked with a number of start-ups to develop web and mobile apps. He is one of the pioneers of mobile app development in the Philippines and ran a corporate giveaway business at college before fully focusing on web and mobile development. John is a full-stack developer being well-versed in frontend mobile and web development, backend development and server management.
Simon Perrée
Non-Executive Director
Simon co-founded online retailer Play.com in 1998. After selling Play.com in 2011, Simon founded venture capital company NetCap, and has since invested in several online businesses. With over 14 years’ experience in e- commerce, he has an in-depth knowledge of internet technology, operations and online marketing. Simon served as non-executive director of Stanley Gibbons Group plc from May 2013 to July 2016, a retail company listed on the London Stock Exchange where he served on the remuneration, audit and nomination committees.
Jonathan Morley-Kirk
Non-Executive Director
Jonathan is a chartered accountant with many years of public company experience. He is currently a non-executive director of Sarossa Capital Plc and has served as Chairman of Fox-Davies Capital from 2003 to 2008 and, previously, he also served as a director of SG Warburg Securities and Samuel Montagu & Co. He is currently a non-executive director of East Siberian Plc (formerly PetroKamchatka), which is listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange and non-executive chairman of Bluebird Merchant Ventures, listed on the London Stock Exchange.
Sanj Naha
CEO
Sanj is an experienced executive who has held senior roles at such companies as TripAdvisor and Bookatable. At TripAdvisor Sanj started out as Country Manager for the United Kingdon, after which he took on a regional role in which he grew TripAdvisor’s restaurant base from 11,000 to 36,000 in just under two years. Furthermore, he has worked as a consultant for large restaurant groups in the UK. He has also sat on the Board of four technology startups, which were successfully bought out.