Amul Batra, Co-Founder & Chief Partnerships Officer - Northcoders
Amul Batra is Co-Founder & Chief Partnerships Officer at Northcoders Group PLC and also the Managing Director of Counter.
Before Northcoders and Counter, Amul spent 20 years in the music industry, running a record label and managing a number of successful artists and bands. He left music to set up a tech-startup and a chance meeting with Northcoders CEO ended up with him learning to code himself on Northcoders' first ever cohort. There, he saw first-hand how valuable a skill coding was becoming whilst at the same time fell in love with the values and ambition of Northcoders: diversity, community, excellence and helping to change lives through securing rewarding, fulfilling careers in tech.
He became an early investor in Northcoders and a key member of the leadership team. Northcoders has now graduated over 4500 new software, data and cloud engineers in the last 9 years and has helped guide over 90% of them into their first roles at over 600 businesses across the country.
Northcoders successfully listed on London Stock Market's AIM Market in 2021 and acquired Tech Returners in 2023.
Northcoders launched Counter in May 2024 as a challenger brand in the tech consultancy space. Counter provides clients with teams of highly skilled UK based technical problems solvers cherry picked from Northcoders and Tech Returners highly sought after talent pools.
Northcoders has gone on to win many awards including Business Of The Year at the Chamber Business Awards in 2018, Digital & Tech Company Of The Year 2019 at the City Of Manchester Downtown In Business Awards and Rapid Growth Award at the Prolific North Tech Awards 2021.
Amul sits on a number of Advisory Boards including Innovate Her, WiLD, GMCA Cyber and the Leeds Digital Steering Board.
He also regularly speaks at events on the subjects of diversity, inclusion, tech skills and the tech talent pipeline.
Amul Batra is Co-Founder & Chief Partnerships Officer at Northcoders Group PLC and also the Managing Director of Counter.
Before Northcoders and Counter, Amul spent 20 years in the music industry, running a record label and managing a number of successful artists and bands. He left music to set up a tech-startup and a chance meeting with Northcoders CEO ended up with him learning to code himself on Northcoders' first ever cohort. There, he saw first-hand how valuable a skill coding was becoming whilst at the same time fell in love with the values and ambition of Northcoders: diversity, community, excellence and helping to change lives through securing rewarding, fulfilling careers in tech.
He became an early investor in Northcoders and a key member of the leadership team. Northcoders has now graduated over 4500 new software, data and cloud engineers in the last 9 years and has helped guide over 90% of them into their first roles at over 600 businesses across the country.
Northcoders successfully listed on London Stock Market's AIM Market in 2021 and acquired Tech Returners in 2023.
Northcoders launched Counter in May 2024 as a challenger brand in the tech consultancy space. Counter provides clients with teams of highly skilled UK based technical problems solvers cherry picked from Northcoders and Tech Returners highly sought after talent pools.
Northcoders has gone on to win many awards including Business Of The Year at the Chamber Business Awards in 2018, Digital & Tech Company Of The Year 2019 at the City Of Manchester Downtown In Business Awards and Rapid Growth Award at the Prolific North Tech Awards 2021.
Amul sits on a number of Advisory Boards including Innovate Her, WiLD, GMCA Cyber and the Leeds Digital Steering Board.
He also regularly speaks at events on the subjects of diversity, inclusion, tech skills and the tech talent pipeline.