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THE PEOPLE BEHIND THE PROGRESS

Darren Edmund

Co-founder and CEO

Cobi

Professional background, founding roles and the companies behind the work.

Professional profile

PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND

About Darren Edmund.

Darren Edmund co-founded Cobi and leads the company as CEO. Cobi's announcement describes earlier digital-transformation work at Deloitte and a Chief Business Officer role at dropp.[1][2]

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THE PROFESSIONAL JOURNEY

How the story unfolds.

Turning customer signals into decisions

Darren Edmund describes Cobi’s starting point as a gap between the customer information businesses collect and the decisions their teams can make from it. In an Inc. Arabia interview, he explains that disconnected tools and processes made it difficult to recognise changing behaviour continuously. As co-founder and CEO, he focuses the company on helping product, growth and customer-experience teams act on those signals.[2]

COMPANY CONNECTIONS