Simon Hill shortlisted for 2020 Tech Leader of the Year Award

This capability and network will be integrated with Wazoku’s technology to create the world’s most comprehensive and powerful innovation platform and community, allowing the crowdsourcing of solutions to the most pressing of challenges. Furthermore, the partnership gives Wazoku an additional springboard in the US market, and delivers a true one-stop shop for innovation to the marketplace.

Founded in 2011, Simon intends for Wazoku to become the world’s most prominent innovation firm, having grown the business over 50% (in terms of both revenue and headcount) each year since inception. Wazoku  employs approximately 60 people, across its London HQ and other offices in Bristol and Copenhagen. In 2014 Simon was recognised by the Guardian as the Small Business Leader of the Year.  Wazoku has won a number of awards since its founding including the Smarta 100, Everline Future 50 and other prestigious awards. Wazoku’s customers have also been recognised over the years, frequently winning awards. In 2019/20 many customers including Waitrose & Partners, The West Midlands Academic Health Science Network, The NCFE and others all won awards for their work with and around the Wazoku platform.

When thinking about leadership, Simon likes to develop talent from within and gives a lot of autonomy to his teams. He believes that leadership is all about creating the structures, space and opportunities for people to excel. The Wazoku culture is very entrepreneurial and (of course) ideas are welcome from anywhere and everywhere. We thrive on ideas and behind every idea is a creative person who came up with it. We try to encourage ideas and experimentation wherever we can.

To be innovative has never been as highly prized in business than it is now, while collaboration has never been so important to the future of work. Wazoku’s technology is central to all of this, driving innovation and collaboration for its customers. That’s why Simon Hill would be a worthy ‘Tech Leader of the Year’.

Further details:

TechXLR8, the flagship event of London Tech Week, holds the annual awards to recognise “individual executives, whose outstanding leadership has resulted in the implementation and success of technology in their businesses and beyond”.

Further details of the 2020 finalists and opportunity to vote can be found here.

Voting will close on Friday 28 August 2020 and the winner announced on Wednesday 2 September 2020.