Irish gig economy marketplace app Gigable has announced Janet Brennan-Gray as its new chief revenue officer with responsibility for leading sales, revenue and performance strategy.
Brennan-Gray joins the company at a time of expansion, with Gigable having launched London, Newcastle, Liverpool, Manchester, and Nottingham over the past eight months, and her appointment is expected to accelerate the launch of its product into further locations.
Prior to joining Gigable, she served as head of sales and head of brand at UK deal platforms Wowcher and Livingsocial.
Gigable has raised €3m to date and built a network of 34,000 gig workers in Ireland and the UK. Workers can accept jobs posted by businesses, post invoices and receive payment through the app.
The company has partnered with high-profile employers such as The Press Up Group, Bombay Pantry, Subway, Tribal Burger, Pizzabaker, John Dory and Go Puff.
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Gigable takes commissions from both business and freelance users per transaction -- 10% on top of what the business pays the freelancer and 5% of the freelancer's payment. The app integrates payments solutions from both Stripe and Revolut.
"Gigable offers a truly unique solution to an ever-growing problem in the world of last-mile delivery, with a strong ethos of fairness, it enables gig workers to be given an identity, to show them value and transparency, whilst offering merchants a reliable one-stop-shop solution for their delivery needs, giving them access to a large network of drivers and all the tools they need to schedule, track and pay them instantly," Brennan-Gray said.
"With my experience of taking solutions to market, I aim to bring more recognition to what Gigable is solving and drive further growth across the UK and Ireland. I am super excited to be working with a great team of people here at Gigable and I am sure together we will make a huge difference in the gig economy."
Launched with a €25,000 equity investment by Kerryman John Ryan in 2018, Gigable now has offices in Durham and Dog Patch Labs in the Dublin docklands. Linked Finance founder Peter O'Mahony joined as a director in August 2019.
The company has also received funding of €250,000 from Enterprise Ireland, and its inaugural accounts filing for the year ending December 2019 discloses total equity investment of €350,000 and Loan Notes funding of €400,000.
Photo: Janet Brennan-Gray.
