United Kingdom

Andy Allison

VP Product

EnergySys provides energy companies with a cloud-native platform that lets them easily configure and extend complex applications, like hydrocarbon accounting, pipeline management, and emissions reporting, specific to the users needs.

Combining advanced data science and machine learning across hundreds of markets, we provide insight and clarity in opaque and noisy energy markets.

We are on a mission to empower fuel retailers to make better decisions informed by data.

Together with my wife, an Italian patisserie chef, we started an Italian pop-up restaurant in the heart of Covent Garden around the corner from the Royal Opera House. We ran the restaurant on Saturday evenings as an 'Italian family dining concept' selling tickets in advance to those who seek a different dining experience to your typical restaurant. Diners ate the same 5-course set menu over an entire evening sharing the food, very much as an Italian family would do at home. 

We negotiated with businesses in the local area, that were otherwise closed at the weekends, to use their premises for an agreed rent. I ran a team of 5 staff including a designer who helped create menu designs, webpage designs and advertising campaigns. A content developer who created copy for the website, email marketing campaigns and paid for advertisements, a web developer to maintain and improve our online presence and e-commerce functionality and 2 front of house staff to assist on the night.

The business proved very successful with a margin of just over 65% (high given we operated a BYOB restaurant) and demand growing to a point where we had to start offering a waiting list for tickets. The reason we closed down the business was due to a change in personal circumstances.

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