Stephen Mmccu
CEO & CTO at UK Society for Co-operative Studies (UKSCS)
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolStephen Mmccu is a cooperative-focused technology leader with over 30 years’ experience building and steering software businesses for the co-op sector, currently serving as CEO & CTO of Coop Exchange and founder-CEO of VME Coop. He led VME through a management buyout and later transformed it into a worker cooperative, blending hands-on product leadership with cooperative governance and purpose-driven entrepreneurship. Stephen created Coop Exchange to solve capital access for co-ops without sacrificing their values, demonstrating an unusual mix of financial innovation and technical stewardship. His governance roles across Co-operatives UK, Cooperatives Europe and UKSCS underline his influence in the movement beyond engineering. A Pobihuschy Medal recipient with a Master’s in Cooperative Management, he pairs deep sector knowledge with practical experience shipping retail and co-op technology since the 1990s. Based in London and active across the UK and Malta, he’s a long-time advocate who translates cooperative principles into sustainable tech and funding models.
11 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Management, Co-operatives and Credit Unions, Master's degree, Management, Co-operatives and Credit Unions at St. Mary's UniversityPortobello High School
Github Skills (46)
stream8
cqrs7
full-stack7
laravel7
php7
fluent-interface6
database6
payment6
adapter6
paypal6
stripe6
eventstore6
event-sourcing6
bundle5
saas5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
CoopExchange/pest-plugin-bdd
Aug 2023 - May 2024
Contributions:6 releases, 1 PR, 17 pushes in 9 months
stevergill/stevergill.github.io
Jan 2015 - Apr 2015
Contributions:23 pushes, 1 issue in 2 months
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