Giants & Crowns

John Furneaux is the CEO and co-founder of Hive. John’s obsession with workplace collaboration led him naturally to found Hive as the long-awaited solution to drive business productivity forward. Before fulfilling the dream of using his lessons learned to power smarter teams with the Hive platform, John started out as a strategy consultant to Fortune 500 companies and drove the national implementation of Sharepoint for the UK’s Department of Education. He left the consulting world to join Huddle, and rose to lead Global Customer Success, growing the company through its Series D to become Europe’s largest collaboration platform. Spotting a huge gap in the team productivity space for a tool users loved and leaders needed, John taught himself to code to build the first prototype of Hive. John received his MA in Mathematics and Law from the University of Cambridge.