Phlok
Making social media easier & more profitable for local business by utilising their customers' social networks. A patentable solution.
- Stage Full Product Ready
- Industry Internet / Web Services
- Location Pilates Dublin . ie, Dublin, Ireland
- Currency EUR
- Founded July 2011
- Employees 4
- Website phlok.me
Company Summary
Small/local retailers struggle to create a community of followers/likes on social media. Phlok removes this need by providing an incentive based customer engagement platform for retailers. Customers earn points for broadcasting activities (checkin, follow or purchase) to friends. Points are earned with a retailer on Phlok can be spent at any store on Phlok. Proximity alerts & private targeted messaging to followers aids in future/repeat sales.
Team
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Paul GrahamFounder/CEO
Founded Clarity Telecom in Y2K to £4m T/O (3,000+ business customers)
Founded a JV with Barclay Communications (mobile distributor) called Barclay Telecom 2008 T/O £150k per month Sales execs in NI, RoI and GBClarity peaked at 60 employees and launched VoIP services by building their own exchanges, Belfast, Dublin, London
Background in Telecom sales:
Highest performing sales professional in NTL & Nevada Telecom before Clarity launch -
Kelvin McKayHead Engineer
Re-wrote Gumtree database & website when EBay acquired it
Key role in 3 man team developing the online betting site boylesports.com
Expert in Javascript, PHP, Mongo DB, MySQL, .NET, XML and othersBuilt Phlok API, Phlok Business website, Phlok consumer social platform and internal admin portal
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Donal BrennanHead of Finance
Expert with high volume micro billing, Operations mgt and Credit Control
Multi currency and multi P&L management experience with Clarity Telecom
Commercially astute qualified accountant -
Stephen ThompsoniOS & Android Development
Senior developer in British Telecom new projects team
Expert in Objective C, Javascript, Java, HTML, CSS
Advisors
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Scott Kennedy, Cleaver Fulton Rankin, BelfastLawyerUnconfirmedJohn MacMahon & Co Accountants, NewryAccountantUnconfirmed
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