| Website | shutl.co.uk |
| Blog | twitter.com/shutl |
| @tomall | |
| Birthdate | 1980 |
| Dartmouth College, BA | 2002 |
| Sociology |
Tom Allason is a London based entrepreneur who was founder & CEO of eCourier.co.uk before founding Shutl where he currently serves as CEO.
Allason attended Eton College before reading sociology at Dartmouth College in USA.
In 2003, Tom founded eCourier.co.uk, the online SDC, with Jay Bregman after a particularly painful experience with his local courier company. Tom saw an opportunity to transform a market whose business model had not changed in 20 years by improving quality of service, scalability and profitability. Tom served as eCourier’s CEO from 2004 until 2008, overseeing the company’s growth to £7.5m turnover and over 250 staff including couriers and raising $16m angel & vc funding.
With a professional management team in place, Tom left eCourier in 2008 to found Shutl. In 2007, Tom was named “Top Gun” by Growing Business magazine and eCourier was named “London’s Most Inspirational Business” by the Evening Standard. Tom assists a number of early-stage start-ups.
Outside of business, Tom is a founding trustee of FoundationStone, a charitable trust that invests in startup charities, and in his spare time he is a keen poker player and skier.
Awards- • Growing Business: Top Gun, 2007 • Evening Standard: London’s Most Inspirational Business, 2007 • British Computing Society: Business Achievement Flagship, 2006 • CNET Networks: Mobile Product or Initiative of the Year, 2006 • Effective IT Awards: Most Innovative Use of IT, 2006 • Effective IT Awards: Most Effective Use of Communications Technologies, 2006 • Effective IT Awards: Most Effective Use of IT in Mfg and Logistics, 2006 • Growing Business: Essence of the Entrepreneur, 2006 • National Customer Service Awards: eCommerce Award, 2005 • Department of Trade and Industry: Innovator’s Award for Transport, 2005 • Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport: Excellence in Information Management, 2005 • NatWest Startups Awards: Best Use of Technology, 2005 • British Computer Society: President’s Award for Mobile Computing, 2005 • O2 / Real Business, Top 50 to Watch in Mobile, 2005
| Company | Date | Round | Size | Participants |
| Shutl | 2008 | Seed | £110k | 6 |
