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Sept 2023 — Present

3 years 1 month

Slide Inc.
Limited

Chairman · A dating platform built for Gen Z, combining immersive profiles with artificial intelligence matching.
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SECTOR

Mobile Applications

Dating

COVERAGE

UK

Nationwide

ROLE

Chairman

Board leadership

FOCUS

Funding & Mentoring

Finance

STATUS

● Active

Sept 2023 — Present

A dating platform built for Gen Z

Slide applies the immersive, video-led format that made TikTok successful to the problem of introducing people to one another, with artificial intelligence handling the matching. It is built for Gen Z.

The company is headquartered in Scotland and builds for the United Kingdom market across mobile.

Steve has chaired the business since September 2023. It is a founder-led company operating in a category with well-capitalised incumbents, and the appointment is principally concerned with funding, financial discipline and mentoring the founding team.

AT A GLANCE

Steve joined

September 2023

Headquartered

Scotland, United Kingdom

Model

B2C · Consumer platform

AUDIENCE

Gen Z

Coverage

UK

Chairman-led focus on funding, finance and mentoring

What Steve does here

A consumer business with first-time founders in a capital-intensive category, where the chairman’s contribution is runway, financial discipline and judgement.
Primary focus areas
  • Funding — Raising capital in a category in which incumbents are substantially better resourced.
  • Financial discipline — Cost control and financial reporting appropriate to the stage of the business.
  • Mentoring — Close support for first-time founders on structure, recruitment and investor engagement.
  • Board and governance — Establishing a governance framework early rather than retrofitting one later.

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Immersive profiles and AI matching in one platform, built for a generation raised on short-form video.

Slide Inc. Limited · Steve Tiley, Chairman

3yr

AS CHAIRMAN

Gen Z

Audience

1

UK MARKET

Other companies Steve has built, led or advised

Mapify Limited

Advisor

A visual planning platform providing logistics and asset-intensive operations with a single live view of their estate.

Sept 2023 — Present
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MDIS Services Limited

Founder & Managing Director

A multinational IT business serving the quick service restaurant, retail and hospitality sectors across Europe and North Africa, merged with Acrelec.
Dec 2007 — Dec 2013
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Vision Direct

Systems Director

Centralised the manufacturing and glazing operation of a fast-growing optical chain, using systems to reduce cost across the estate.
Oct 2006 — Dec 2007
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Acrelec

Founder & Managing Director

Overseeing operations, service and sales across a group serving McDonald’s, KFC, Starbucks, Walmart and Carrefour, and its expansion into the Middle East and the United States.
Feb 2013 — Feb 2018
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Board appointment, restructuring or international expansion in prospect?

If you are scaling a business, restructuring, or appointing to a board, Steve would be glad to hear from you.
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