Mention Me Leadership Team & Executives

Andy Cockburn

CEO

Andy co-founded Mention Me with Tim Boughton in 2013 to enable brands to realise the potential of the referral marketing channel. They bootstrapped the business and spent the first two years proving out the model. Between 2015 and 2018 they have grown from a team of two with 20 clients to a profitable, fast growing business of thirty five peoplewith more than 250 clients. Andy was previously UK Managing Director of HomeAway where he managed the UK team of 120 employees running the HomeAway.co.uk and OwnersDirect.co.uk businesses as part of HomeAway Inc. through the successful IPO on the NASDAQ in 2011. HomeAway launched in 2005 and raised over $400M in Venture funding in order to acquire 14 leading holiday lettings companies across the world. It was one of the Wall Street Journal's top three venture-funded companies in 2010 before successfully floating on the Nasdaq in the summer of 2011 for a valuation of over $3B. Prior to this he founded an internet start-up, Wigadoo, in the online travel & leisure and financial services sector, pioneering the Social Purchasing space. He is a graduate of Cambridge University and has an MBA from INSEAD Business School in France.