About
I'm Guy Bentley, an engineering leader with a track record of turning global, multi-country engineering functions into high-performing teams that ship. I'm currently scaling a 45-person engineering organisation spanning software, data, AI, and DevOps, having grown headcount 2.5x while delivering an AI strategy from concept to launch in 7 months.
I'm skilled at translating technical strategy into business outcomes — cost efficiencies, revenue growth, faster time-to-market — and at communicating that strategy clearly to executive stakeholders.
Key achievements
Team transformation
Re-structured engineering function, significantly increasing productivity, strategic alignment, and team morale whilst reducing cost — the business went on to exceed revenue targets.
Revenue-generating systems
Directed development and deployment of complex, client-facing systems for globally recognised brands including Volkswagen Group, John Lewis, and Arcadia Group.
Rapid market entry
Formed a new leadership team with collective ownership of business missions, achieving go-to-market in a new region within 12 weeks, versus over a year for previous launches.
0 to 1 product delivery
Taken products from 0 to 1 across multiple industries — FMCG, aviation, defense, subsea, and retail.
Cost & efficiency
Implemented engineering changes that reduced production issues by over 50% and cut departmental spending by £300,000 without impacting productivity.
Experience
Senior Vice President of Engineering
RedCloud Technology (NASDAQ: RCT)
Leading engineering for a SaaS-based supply chain decision intelligence platform serving the FMCG market globally, using AI to power decisions for FMCG distributors and brands worldwide.
- Global leadership: Direct a multi-squad, multi-country engineering function across 8 teams aligned to business verticals. Scaled the team from 18 to 45 engineers in 3 months, spanning DevOps, data, AI, data science, and software engineering.
- Strategic impact: Set long-term vision and strategy aligned to business goals, contributing to RedCloud exceeding 2025 revenue targets. Provided strategic and financial leadership across engineering, finance, budget, and product.
- AI strategy: Owned the long-term strategy of turning data into predictions using ML and agentic operations in the RedAI platform, and increased engineering productivity through AI-assisted SDLC.
- Delivery excellence: Delivered the RedAI strategy from 0 to 1 in 7 months.
- Culture building: Built a vibrant, innovative engineering culture that shipped new applications within months through team empowerment and strategic hiring.
Senior Engineering Manager
Collins Aerospace (RTX Group)
Led cloud-based software solutions for the aviation and defense industries, delivering products to airlines globally.
- Product delivery: Delivered OpsCore flight tracking to market with several customers.
- Multi-site team management: Led a global team of engineers, solution architects, testers, product owners, and scrum masters across multiple locations.
- Budget & cost control: Achieved a 30% budget reduction on one program and cut overall cloud spending by 20%.
- Executive collaboration: Acted as liaison between engineering, IT infrastructure, and senior business leadership to secure alignment on strategic initiatives.
Head of Development
Sonardyne International
Provided hardware and software for subsea navigation and communication to the oil & gas, military, and energy sectors.
- Product delivery: Took DiveTrack from inception to market in under 6 months with military customers.
- Departmental & portfolio leadership: Led an engineering function of 30 people, managing managers and overseeing the full lifecycle of customer-facing software products across a complex, multi-sector organisation.
- Innovation & standards: Owned the architecture group and set front-end/UX standards company-wide, ensuring best practice in scalable system design.
Software Development Manager
Sonardyne International
- Agile & DevOps implementation: Established a new CI/CD platform and transitioned the organisation to a product-led culture focused on continuous business and customer value.
- Cost savings & efficiency: Introduced structural changes that increased team productivity and realised departmental savings of £300,000.
Software Product Development Manager
M-Netics
Software provider to major retailers including John Lewis, Gap, and Next.
- Product delivery: Took Click and Collect, Stock Count, and Fulfil from Store products from 0 to 1 with customers in 6 months or less.
- Multi-team leadership: Managed two interdisciplinary teams delivering in-store and digital systems for retail clients including Arcadia Group and John Lewis.
- Modernisation: Pioneered migration from TFS to Git and built a new CI/CD platform, improving productivity and reducing operational costs.
- Executive contribution: Sat on the management board, providing agile planning and architecture insight to strategic decision-making.
Earlier career
- Development Manager, CNL Software — Aug 2014 – Mar 2015
- IT Lead, Maritz Research — Sep 2010 – Aug 2014
- Application Developer Level 3, Robert Half International — Aug 2006 – Sep 2010
Education
BSc Software Engineering
Kingston University, 2001 — achieved 99% in the C++ module.
A Levels
Mathematics (C), Physics (C), Chemistry (C) — 1997
Professional development