Summary
Benjamin Lize is an entrepreneur and technical leader with a decade of experience building scalable, user-focused digital products across e-commerce, social technology, and entertainment. He has a strong hands-on engineering background in React, React Native, Supabase, Firebase and AWS, and has repeatedly taken ideas from concept to production—most notably helping scale Elite Competitions from £100k to £12M in annual revenue and delivering over 100,000 reports for Social Media Check. As founder of Zongio and CEO of Brain Leader Company, he blends product vision with technical delivery, and currently advises CoachBridge AI while building its website, AI and backend. Known for assembling small, high-performing teams and shipping performance-critical systems like live ticketing and real-time notifications, he brings both strategic perspective as a non-exec and deep implementation chops. Based in Manchester with an engineering degree from the University of Manchester, he pairs entrepreneurial grit with practical technical leadership and a knack for turning complex requirements into measurable business outcomes. An interesting detail: beyond startups he’s also taught Android development to an international audience through a top-selling Udemy course.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) Electrical and Electronics Engineering at The University of Manchester
College International de Valbonne
English, Spanish, French, Chinese