Summary
Andy Sutton is an entrepreneur and engineer who blends Cambridge-trained aeronautical expertise with commercial leadership across tech, finance and consumer goods. A former NASA design engineer and decade-long top-performing salesman at IBM and Oracle—where he became Oracle UK’s youngest VP—he has founded and scaled multiple businesses, including a wealth management firm and the e-commerce pioneer BagThat. Since 2016 he has focused on Catipilla, applying engineering-led product design to create luxury cat furniture sold in 16–18 countries and stocked by Pets at Home. Andy also advises fast-growth tech and education ventures, taking interim CEO/COO and board roles to shape strategy, operations and sales. He pairs product-first engineering instincts with proven go-to-market know-how and a knack for turning personal passion (he’s a committed cat advocate) into internationally distributed, design-driven products.
9 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc, Aeronautical Engineering, B.Sc, Aeronautical Engineering at Loughborough University
MSc, Aeronautical Engineering, MSc, Aeronautical Engineering at University of Cambridge