Chris McCullough

Chris McCullough is the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Rotageek, a SaaS workforce management platform which helps some of the UK’s leading companies find more efficient, flexible and more productive staff work patterns.

Born in Barnet, North London and educated at Hitchin Boys School, he moved to Edinburgh for his university years to pursue a career in medicine. He has a number of qualifications from the University of Edinburgh, including a Bachelor of Medicine, a Bachelor of Surgery as well as Bachelor of Science in Molecular Pathology and a PhD in cancer genetics.

Chris started his post-graduate medical training in Edinburgh, before finding his passion in Emergency Medicine-first at University College Hospital, London and at St Mary’s Hospital, one of the largest trauma centres in the UK.

It was this tenure in medicine that prompted Chris to found Rotageek, alongside business partners Professor Roy Pounder and Nick Mann in 2009. Struggling with the outdated processes around staff scheduling within hospitals, and the impending implementation of the European Working Time Directive (EWTD) for junior doctors, he saw an opportunity to use technology to help solve the problems in his A&E department.

Chris focused Rotageek’s initial proposition on the healthcare sector, based on his experience, but later explored the retail and leisure industries, as opportunities for the solution to solve particularly difficult challenges within those sectors.

Chris currently lives in Guildford and is a father to three boys. He is an avid Formula 1 fan and a long-suffering Tottenham Hotspur supporter.