Rob Chapman
Co-founder & CEO at Forward Institute
Oxford, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolRob Chapman is a serial founder and product-focused CEO with 12 years of experience building and scaling mission-driven ventures, most recently selling Founders Intelligence to Accenture before launching Neya to rewire local community connections with AI. He combines strategy, product and hands-on full-stack sensibilities to turn social research into practical digital systems, drawing on board-level experience at Neighbourly Lab and trusteeship at Founders Pledge. Comfortable operating between corporate clients and startup teams, Rob has led integrations at Accenture, advised media and education startups, and co-designs civic technology that boosts social cohesion. His uncommon blend of chemistry-trained analytical rigor, teacherly patience, and founder grit helps him navigate messy human networks as product opportunities rather than just technical problems.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
King's College School WimbledonMSc Natural Sciences; Chemistry, MSc Natural Sciences; Chemistry at University of Cambridge
Github Skills (200)
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Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
creativefoundrysg/disallowed-usernames
Jul 2013 - May 2021
An open source database of disallowed usernames for software projects to prevent phishing and impersonation.
Contributions:15 commits, 7 PRs, 11 pushes in 7 years 10 months
impersonationsecuritypreventusernamesdatabase
dsignr/phoenix-troubleshooting-guide
Jan 2018 - Mar 2025
Contributions:15 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 3 months
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