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The real people behind 250+ brands.

From the data scientists building our own technology to your account strategists, we work together to help ecommerce retailers turn purchase intent into profitable sales.

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Who we are and our culture

We’re a team of data scientists, engineers and strategists, with our office in Leeds and colleagues across the UK. We spend time with our clients in person, at their head offices and in their stores, because knowing a brand well is how we grow it. And twice a year the team comes together for our summer and Christmas parties.

Twelve of the Bidnamic team with their bags in an airport arrivals hall, setting off on a trip together
Liam Patterson, centre in a striped top, in a meeting around a table at Boden's head office, from the Boden x Bidnamic film
Liam Patterson, in the foreground in a beige jacket, talking around a table in a Rab store, from the Rab x Bidnamic film
The Bidnamic team laughing together at their desks in the office
A one-to-one over a laptop at Boden's head office, from the Boden x Bidnamic film

Meet our leadership team

Liam Patterson
CEO and Co-Founder
  • First business at 14
  • Co-founded EcoMarket
  • On BBC, The Drum, The Grocer
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Liam started his first business at 14, buying and selling promotional goods with a school friend. He went on to co-found EcoMarket, the online marketplace TechCrunch called the “Etsy for Eco”, which grew to more than 2,000 artisan producers, and then ran Dizinga, a print-on-demand platform used by thousands of artists. Scaling that store on Google Shopping is where Bidnamic began: bidding right on every individual product was a problem nobody had solved, so he and Ingvar built the technology to do it. Today he’s a regular commentator on BBC News, The Drum and The Grocer.

Dr Ingvar Kraatz
COO and Co-Founder
  • PhD in Physical Chemistry, Leeds
  • 7 years at Bayer
  • Co-founded Dizinga & Bidnamic
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Ingvar is a scientist by training. He began as a technical apprentice at Schering in Berlin and spent 7 years in Bayer’s chemical laboratories before moving to Leeds for a degree in Mathematics and Chemistry and a PhD in Physical Chemistry. He co-founded Dizinga with Liam, then Bidnamic, where he runs the business day to day and publishes our analysis of Google’s changes, such as a study of 4,200 campaigns after the August 2026 bidding update.

Nik Hood
CFO
  • Chartered accountant (FCA)
  • Ex-PwC, Tenzing, Pemberton
  • At Bidnamic since 2022
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Nik is a chartered accountant (FCA) who has specialised in alternative assets for most of his career. His roles include Head of Alternative Investment Management at PwC in Zurich, CFO of Tenzing, and Finance Director and then Partner at Pemberton Asset Management. He sat on the BVCA’s Legal & Technical Committee, lobbying government and the FRC on industry matters, and has tutored the EVCA’s technical courses. He joined Bidnamic as Chief Financial Officer in 2022, and holds an Economics degree from the University of York.

Oliver Mountain
CRO
  • 4+ years working with Google
  • Board member since 2023
  • Owns sales, marketing & success
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Oliver spent more than 4 years working with Google, first as an account strategist and then as an agency development manager supporting some of the fastest-growing agencies in the UK. Before that he ran UK and Ireland sales for Vishay, a $3bn semiconductor group, and commercial truck sales for Mercedes-Benz. He joined Bidnamic in 2019, led business development, and since 2023 has sat on the board as Chief Revenue Officer, responsible for sales, marketing and client success.

Robin Edwards
CTO
  • At Bidnamic since 2018
  • Ex-Memrise, NET-A-PORTER
  • MSc, King’s College London
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Robin has built Bidnamic’s technology since 2018, rising from senior software engineer to engineering lead, principal architect and, in 2024, Chief Technology Officer. Before Bidnamic he led the platform team at Memrise, was technical lead at Migreat, and engineered at NET-A-PORTER. He holds an MSc in Advanced Software Engineering from King’s College London (Distinction) and a first-class degree in Computing.

As seen on

  • BBC News
  • The Drum
  • The Grocer
  • Econsultancy

Meet our senior team

Dr German Leonov
Data Science Product Manager
Henry Stocks-Fryer
Head of Client Success
Matthew Molloy
Head of Demand Generation
Tom Stephenson
Head of Revenue Operations

Our story so far

  1. Bidnamic is founded

    Liam and Ingvar started Bidnamic with a team of six, after outgrowing manual Shopping campaigns at their print-on-demand store, Dizinga.

  2. On stage at Search Leeds

    We ran a panel on winning market share in a crowded online market.

  3. Our first US event

    Four of the team flew to eTail West in Palm Springs to meet American retailers.

  4. An Ecommerce Trailblazer

    BusinessCloud named Bidnamic one of its 100 Ecommerce Trailblazers.

  5. Revenue doubles

    Turnover grew 100% year on year, and we opened a second Leeds office across the road.

  6. IRX and Retail Week

    We exhibited at IRX in Birmingham, and Ingvar pitched in Retail Week’s startup zone.

  7. £4m Series A

    Gresham House Ventures led our first institutional investment.

  8. Bidnamic opens in the US

    Bidnamic LLC was incorporated, with a base at Capital Factory in Austin, Texas.

  9. A new leadership team

    Oliver Mountain joined the board as CRO in 2023, and Robin Edwards became CTO in 2024.

  10. Visibility Tracker launches

    Our free tool shows which competitors are winning share of voice on your Google Shopping search terms.

  11. Our Shopify app launches

    We fund Shopify stores’ Google ad spend up front, and take a share only of the sales Shopify verifies.

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