Will Ricketts
Director And Developing New Projects at Self-employed
Portland, Oregon, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolWill Ricketts is a seasoned media and product leader with 13 years of senior management experience delivering digital transformation, new revenue models and international expansion across publishing and training businesses. He has led multiple company turnarounds, acquisitions and integrations—from Legal and Educational publishing through to Veterinary Business Development—while consistently driving cost-efficiency without sacrificing core services. Now self-employed and developing new projects from Portland, he combines commercial strategy with hands-on Elixir development and active work on Bitcoin and Lightning tooling. His background spans large incumbents (Guardian, Financial Times) and successful exits, giving him a rare blend of corporate-scale delivery and startup agility. Known for building data-driven products (including VetFile, a major veterinary database) he excels at turning specialist content into scalable digital businesses. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic change leader who pairs commercial instincts with technical curiosity.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
London Business SchoolAshridge Business SchoolUniversity of Leeds
Github Skills (101)
convolutional-neural-networks10
factories10
darknet10
rubygems9
javascript9
testing9
test-kitchen9
python9
deep-learning9
dry-rb9
cpp9
creative-commons9
test-data9
coercion9
java9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
willricketts/willricketts.github.io
Mar 2016 - Jun 2022
Contributions:13 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 3 months
willricketts/soiree-core-depr
Jan 2015 - Feb 2015
Contributions:57 commits, 42 pushes, 4 branches in 7 days
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