The Workteam Team


Simon Bates, Co-founder and CEO

Simon has a long history of founding and growing startups. He was previously co-founder and CEO of Byte Squared, provider of Office document editing apps for the iPhone and one of the earliest vendors on the Apple App Store. The company accumulated over 10 million users and was acquired by Citrix in 2013.

As part of his two decades of experience in product development and growth, Simon also co-founded and served as CEO of Softalk Ltd, a developer of collaboration software for small and medium sized businesses.

Stuart Prestedge, Co-founder and CTO

Stuart is also a serial co-founder, having worked together with Simon in a number of previous startups. His passion for architecting and implementing sophisticated software solutions have helped catapult all of his previous startups towards success and high growth.

Stuart is an expert in building information-based solutions, with an unparalleled knowledge of secure, performant and scalable systems.