Jay Bregman : Full Biography : SPEAKERS for BUSINESS

Jay Bregman

Founder of eCourier.co.uk, the online courier company with the purple vans

Full Biography

Jay is the Founder & CTO of eCourier.co.uk, the online courier company with the purple vans. Jay turned a personal frustration with same day couriers into a £6m business in four years, recently ranked 53 on the Sunday Times Microsoft Tech Track 100 and 6 on the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 rankings of the fastest-growing and most innovative technology companies in the country. In 2007, eCourier was chosen as London’s Most Inspirational Business by the Evening Standard.

The innovation at the heart of eCourier is a real-time optimisation algorithm called 'Larry' which assigns orders to eCouriers and building routes in real time balancing client happiness, courier happiness, and fleet efficiency. This solves the problem of human dispatchers issuing work to couriers via radio causing low efficiency, high overheads, and diseconomies of scale.

In 2009 Jay was named an ‘Enterprising Young Brit’ by Make Your Mark, despite hailing from New York City. He was a member of the Office of Fair Trading’s Futures Advisory Board, advising the regulator on new trends in the relationship between markets and government.

Using the story of eCourier Jay speaks informatively on technology, entrepreneurship, marketing, building a brand and the challenges of running a high growth company through a recession.