Former Managing Director of UK & Ireland for Google, Co-Founder of ClearScore, Koodoo, SalaryFinance & EnglishScore

Dan Cobley is a tech giant that is perhaps best known for his role as the former Managing Director of Google as well as being a serial investor and partner for the UK venture capital firm, Blenheim Chalcot. Cobley's role is to oversee the large FinTech portfolio and his expertise came from Google, where he served as the MD for UK & Ireland for nearly a decade. Cobley also held other positions in Google, including the role of Vice President of EMEA Marketing. One of the world's most requested and influential technology and innovation speakers, given his incredible career and diverse expertise, the former Managing Director of Google and Vice President of EMEA Marketing is available to hire for events and conferences around the world through the Champions Speakers agency.

During his time at Google, Cobley was solely responsible for an incredible five-billion dollar's worth of revenue. Dan's role saw him helping companies large and small to harness the vast suite of digital tools to delve into analytical data providing insights into the digital world and allowing companies to increase their revenue. As the search giant's VP of Marketing he was responsible for all aspects of European business and consumer marketing. Prior to joining Google, Cobley held senior marketing roles at Capital One Europe, where he helped make the company the UK's leading new card issuer, and Ask Jeeves, Pepsi and Walkers. After studying Physics at Oxford, Cobley began his career in consulting and oil exploration. More recently, Cobley has co-founded ClearScore, a company that gives you a free report on your credit score.

For his entrepreneurial talents, Cobley was recognised as a Maserati Innovator of the Year in 2018 for co-founding ClearScore. In 2019 he was named in the UK Tech Top 100 for co-founding Salary Finance, he was awarded 46th place. Since his TED speech on physics and marketing it has been watched over one million times and he has been rated as one of the most influential people by both WIRED magazine and The Evening Standard. As a speaker, Cobley explores a range of topics from innovation and digital imperative to how to be a disruptor in the industry. His experience in areas such as technology, startups and the changing nature of financial services, to name a few, makes him a fascinating and varied speaker for all occasions.

Our Content Executive, Sophie Wheeldon, was lucky enough to sit down with Dan in June 2021 and discuss all things FinTech, advanced technology and more. Read our interview with Dan Cobley or watch our exclusive interview with Dan Cobley!

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Dan Cobley's official speaking topics are listed below:

The Digital Imperative:

For organisations seeking to drive digital transformation, Dan will light a fire under the project. With rich data and memorable anecdotes, he will help engage everyone in the room in the cause and give highly practical advice on how to build a culture that can succeed on the journey.

Learning How to Fail:

For companies that are seeking a more agile, innovative organisation, learning how to fail (quickly, cheaply and in a way that drives learning) is critical. With lessons from Google and startup land, Dan will make the case for a culture change and give you the tools to make it happen.

Disruption in Financial Services:

Financial services are going through a period of dramatic change like never before, with the UK at the vanguard. Drawing on his experience with a number of leading UK fintechs, Dan will explore the drivers of change, the characteristics of winners, and the imperative for everyone in financial services that want to survive.

Second Order Impacts of Technology:

Ideally suited to a fireside chat format, Dan will answer questions on what has driven the massive technology-led disruption of the past decades and how we should have seen it coming. Then he will look ahead at future disruption (AI, autonomous vehicles, etc.) and explore what primary shifts will be and the important second order impacts.

Official Feedback from In-Person & Virtual Events

Feedback from In-Person Events:

"Everyone is talking about it today! How I found you and how interesting the hour session was. You had a tough act to follow as the 372 had been there since 10 am and was starting to flag after all the sessions, so to bring them all back into the ballroom, uplift and inspire them was a job very well done." - Deloitte

"Your own participation received one of the two highest ratings for the summit overall, together with much very favourable written and verbal feedback. On behalf of Fidelity International, I would like to thank you sincerely for your significant contribution towards making this year's summit a success." - Peter, MD Global Institutional Business, Fidelity International

"Thank you so much for your time on the Elite Programme a couple of weeks ago. I have had so many positive messages of feedback on the content and delivery and how you engaged with the questions they posed." - Chris, Elite Programme Coordinator, UK Sport

"Thank you for a brilliant, thought-provoking session. It flowed perfectly into the rest of the day too." - AB Foods

"I would like to extend my warmest thanks of appreciation for your talk at our 3rd MEA Fintech Forum. We have received exceptional and unprecedented accolades from our guests and the media." - Dr Susan, Conference Director, MEA Fintech Forum

"Dan presented at our Middle East Forums and was fantastic. He is an engaging and entertaining speaker, is deeply knowledgeable and is intuitive to his audience. He was very well received by our clients, many of whom commented on his presentation skills and content. Thank you Dan for your invaluable contribution and for helping make our first Forums a success." - Ruqaiyah, Head of Marketing, Middle East BCG

"Thank you for doing such a masterful job with the panel this morning. It's always tough to bring four disparate voices together, but your preparation, skills and knowledge shone through." - Diana, Strategy & Programmes, Pi Capital

"Everything ran smoothly. Dan was a really great panellist and it was nice how he came prepared with metrics he'd looked at and contributed so well!" - Liz

Feedback from Virtual Events:

"LOVED your talk just now at SICTIC (virtual event)! I haven't heard a speaker yet that has incorporated ALL the concepts that I have followed in my corporate and startup experiences around innovation!" - Swiss ICT Investor Club