Kay Kukoyi CSM FITOL is a software delivery specialist, tech startup mentor, speaker, lecturer, and the author of 5 books for SMEs and entrepreneurs, including the Amazon international bestseller, Don’t Hire a Software Developer Until You Read this Book.
She is the founder of the Tech Startup Academy™ incubator, and Purposeful Products, a business, technology and training consultancy that has supported startups in more than 12 countries, and provides specialist books, mentoring, and bespoke workshops and programmes for tech startup founders. The company’s services have been used by award winning startup accelerators, and initiatives funded by the European Institute of Innovation & Technology, and the Mayor of London.
Kay works with a number of startup accelerators, has a Meetup community of over 2020 entrepreneurs, technologists and investors, and is a trained life and performance coach, and a Certified Scrum Master.
Having spent more than a decade in “corporate tech”, working on multi-million pound projects for companies including Sky News and The SThree Group, Kay is on a mission to help tech founders to start and run their businesses the SMART way – helping them to navigate challenges, avoid business pitfalls, and increase their chances of success.