Capital healthtech company Care Sourcer goes for growth with key hiring

0 Ilana Munckton becomes the company’s director of growth Scottish healthtech startup Care Sourcer has hired a former senior director of Skyscanner as it sets its sights on scaling up the business. Ilana Munckton, who becomes director of growth at Edinburgh-based Care Sourcer, oversaw a period of rapid expansion at the global travel search site that was acquired by China’s Ctrip for £1.4 billion in 2016.

Care Sourcer develops technology that is tackling the UK’S care crisis via the first comparison and matching site targeted at older people.

Co-founded by Andrew Mcginley and Andrew Parfery in 2016, the firm has contracts in place with a number of NHS trusts and secured an £8.5 million investment round led by Legal & General and ADV last year.

Mcginley, who is Care Sourcer’s chief executive, said: “We are building a world-class team at Care Sourcer and are excited to get someone as talented and with so much scaleup experience as Ilana joining us.

“We’re planning to reach 100 employees by 2020 and are looking for more start-up and scale-up experts to join our talented team – from Scotland and beyond.

“This isn’t just a key year for Care Sourcer – it’s also expected to be a transformative year for social care with the release of a social care green paper that will help to steer how care is funded in this country in the future.

“Our care-matching technology is proven to make a significant impact on the challenges in social care, and we anticipate increasing attention and investment in what is such a critical societal issue.”

Munckton added: “Care Sourcer is one of the most highly-rated tech companies in the UK, has an amazing team and is building incredible tech that is helping the lives of thousands of people.”