Board of Directors

John Foley has served as Executive Chairman of WeShop since December 2024. Mr. Foley is a qualified Barrister and Chartered Accountant and is an experienced investor and public and private company director having served on a continuous basis on a number of UK listed public company Boards for a period of over 30 years. He was Chief Executive of two UK listed public companies between 1992 and 2006 and Chairman of three UK listed public companies between 2007 and 2022.

He has considerable experience of developing businesses into larger, successful operations which are then attractive to institutional owners. He was a co-founder and Chairman of Premier Technical Services Group Ltd which is a multinational, multi-disciplinary building compliance services provider and which has since 2022 been majority owned by Warburg Pincus and Macquarie Capital. He was Chairman of SEC Newgate Group which is a global strategic communications and advocacy services provider until 2023 when Investcorp became its majority owner. He is currently an investor in a number of private companies which are in the early stages of development.

Paul Ellerbeck has served as a director on the Board since November 2021 as well serving the business in executive capacities for numerous years as both CTO and CEO with a primary focus on the build of WeShop’s first-class innovative technology platform. Mr. Ellerbeck is a technologist with a career spanning three decades and has participated in the development of some genuine “world firsts” namely with Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou’s easyGroup incubator, the group responsible for developing the famous easyJet product amongst delivery of other easyGroup technology businesses.

Mr. Ellerbeck was CTO at DMGT’s (Daily Mail and General Trust) where he was the CTO within the leadership of which aided, oversaw and delivered the DMGT acquisition of Zoopla which ultimately led to the successful float of the newly enlarged ZPG, (Zoopla Property Group) on the LSE for £919m.

Mr. Ellerbeck’s technology career has spanned large enterprises in the PE space as well as SME and startup’s, building technology products in the Fintech, Proptech, automotive, e-Learning and digital publishing verticals. Mr. Ellerbeck was the CTO of the fastest growing UK website Fish4Jobs in 2007.

Johnny Hickling has served as a director on our Board since July 2025. From January 2024 until May 2025, Mr. Hickling was Group Head of Treasury at Sancus Lending where he managed multi-jurisdictional funding lines (£200m AUM) across the UK, Ireland, and the Channel Islands, optimized funding allocations, and supported strategic decision-making.

From April 2019 until January 2024, he served as Management Accountant at Carlton Management Services/Somerston Family Office, overseeing treasury and financial analysis for a large US real estate development and leading IT system improvements.

Earlier in his career, Mr. Hickling worked at KPMG Channel Islands as an Assistant Manager in Advisory & Audit and at Deutsche Bank as a Business Manager & Financial Analyst. Mr. Hickling is also a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants.

Paul Teasdale has served as a director on our Board since May 2025. Mr. Teasdale is the co-founder, former CEO, and current executive chairman of Premier Technical Service Group Limited (“PTSG”). PTSG is a provider of multiple specialist services to the construction and facilities management sectors that now employs more than 3,000 people across the UK and Europe. Mr. Teasdale served as the CEO of PTSG for more than 16 years until April 2023 when he began his current role as executive chairman. Mr. Teasdale led PTSG’s two major acquisitions valued at over £1bn in 2018 and 2021.

Andrew Fearon has served as a director on our Board since October 2020. Mr. Fearon is the joint CEO and founder of Titan Wealth group which he launched in July 2021. The business, which is backed by US private equity Parthenon Capital and Ares Management, offers clients all aspects of wealth management and currently manages more than £32bn of assets both in the UK and internationally.

Mr. Fearon also runs a family office with his business partner called Hyperion Equity Partners that specializes in buy and build strategies in fragmented sectors in the UK. Mr. Fearon started his career as a corporate lawyer in London and since 2000 has been involved in several business start-ups and growth capital ventures.

Oliver Egerton-Vernon has served as a director on our Board since October 2020. Since February 2017, Mr. Egerton-Vernon has also served as a director on the Board of Garfield-Bennett Trust Company (a regulated corporate services provider based in Jersey) where he has practiced since 2013.

Mr. Egerton-Vernon is a qualified English Solicitor and between 2009 and 2013 practiced with Mourant Ozannes in Jersey. Prior to this, Mr. Egerton-Vernon qualified and practiced in the City of London with Taylor Wessing. Mr. Egerton-Vernon has been involved in several significant legal cases in Jersey (including attendance at all levels up to the Privy Council) as well as in England and Wales.

Oana Crisan has served as a director on our Board since October 2020. Since March 2018, Mrs. Crisan has also served as a director on the Board of Garfield-Bennett Trust Company (a regulated corporate services provider based in Jersey). Prior to joining Garfield-Bennett Trust Company in 2016, Mrs. Crisan worked at Coutts & Co Trustees which she joined in 2010. Mrs. Crisan started her career in Brasov, Romania working for both Raiffeisen Bank and Millennium Bank before joining a public authority.