Making it easier for firms to use their data in a changing world

Dave Hackett, founder and chief executive of TheInformation Lab: ‘Companies were not really harnessing the data they had. I could see an opportunity’ Fergal Phillips

Dave Hackett decided to help companies transform how they present data after 15 years of preparing financial reports the same way.

The accountant spent an “enormous amount of time” doing the same tasks every month to create the documents, even though he knew the format was only really useful to the accountants on the teams in which he worked.

The former Blackrock College student set up TheInformation Lab to change this. The business ...