Andrew Lowe

Co-Founder | Managing Director

I am a serial entrepreneur who gets out of bed every day to learn something new - and tries to make a difference. Although coming from 3 generations of Bricks & Mortar Retailers, I consider myself a digital pioneer – having co-founded my first tech start-up in 1994, which Australian publisher Fairfax later purchased. After riding out the dotcom crash in the US I gave tech a short break and returned to my native Sydney to explore my passion for food retail. I opened Wrapido, a new-to-Australia food concept that brought wraps and artisan roasted coffee to Sydney's North Shore. 50,000 wraps and 120,000 coffees later, I sold Wrapido and returned to tech with marketing automation industry leaders, including DoubleClick/Google, Epsilon and Omniture/Adobe. With retail in the blood and data the new oil, I founded my 4th startup and 2nd Digital business in late 2011 to help physical stores become better retailers by connecting with their customers through smartphones. In 2016, this business became PiCo; a universal digital gateway between physical retail and brands. Visit www.picoretail.co for more.