Jules Coleman (CTO)

Jules Coleman is an Irish entrepreneur. In November 2011 she co-founded Hassle.com, a domestic cleaning services platform and company, together with Alex DePledge, and Tom Nimmo. In 2015 the company was acquired by Helpling for $37 million.[1] She co-founded in December 2016 Resi, formerly BuildPath, the first online residential architectural platform in the UK.[2] On the platform, she and her team produce design concepts, support planning applications, and connect consumers with professionals.

When interviewed by The Irish Times in May 2018, she declared “If starting a business is likely to jeopardise everything, you might want to think long and hard as to whether to do it or not. But if you can make things relatively safe and feel like you’ll always regret it if you don’t give it a try, then you really should go for it.”[2]

She has participated in media broadcasting programs like "Girls Can Code" on BBC3 and The Bottom Line on BBC Radio 4.

Education

Coleman was born in the Republic of Ireland. She graduated from the University College Dublin in 2006 with a Bachelor of Science in Economics and Finance. The CTO taught herself to code from a book in 2012.[3]

Early career

She started her career in management consulting at IBM (Ireland) in may 2005 as a analyst in the finance department where she spent 9 months. She started to work as an analyst in Accenture's Finance and Performance Management team in 2006. From March 2008 to April 2010 she was a consultant within Accenture where she supported a global oil company in the redesign of their Order to Cash process in conjunction with the roll-out of SAP. During that same period she worked with a Pharmaceutical company to devise a method to realise a world-wide multi-million pound Working capital savings. She then started working at PWC in London from April 2010 to December 2011 where she started as a manager and ended as a Senior Manager.

Awards

She belongs to The World's and Europe's Top 50 Women in Tech 2018 Forbes list.[4]

  • Internet Hero, The Spiders - The Digital Technology Awards (2016)[5][6]
  • TechWomen 50 Award (2017)[7]
  • Women in Tech Award (2018)[8]

References
  1. "Helpling acquires UK-based Hassle.com for €32 million". Tech.eu. Retrieved 2019-01-30.
  2. Taylor, Charlie (May 2018). "Irish co-founder of Hassle.com comes clean on making it in business". The Irish Times. Retrieved 2019-01-31.
  3. "Jules Coleman - Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer @ Hassle.com". Crunchbase. Retrieved 2019-01-29.
  4. "Jules Coleman". Forbes. Retrieved 2019-01-30.
  5. "2016 Winners". The Spiders - The Digital Technology Awards. spidersxtech.com. 2016. Retrieved 2019-01-30.
  6. O'Brien, Ciara. "Tenderscout scoops top prize in Eir Spider awards". The Irish Times. Retrieved 2019-01-30.
  7. "Awards 2017 Winners | TechWomen50 Awards | WeAreTechWomen". WeAreTechWomen - Conference and Awards. Retrieved 2019-01-30.
  8. "Judges". Women in Tech Awards. Retrieved 2019-01-30.
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