Grocery retail technology firm StrongPoint lands Tesco and Amazon veteran Neil McCourt as strategic advisor

StrongPoint reports that Neil McCourt has joined the company as a strategic advisor.

McCourt worked for 22 years at Tesco, ending as Retail Managing Director.

At Amazon he served as Vice President for Fulfilment in Europe, where he was instrumental in setting up its grocery operations across five markets.

He was also one of the founding members of the UK government’s Future High Street Forum and Digital Advisory Board. 

“We are thrilled to welcome Neil to the StrongPoint team. His extensive experience from both the in-store and e-commerce grocery worlds across Europe, and especially the UK, is a great fit for StrongPoint. His advice will be invaluable as we leverage our recent major successes in the UK and Spain with Sainsbury’s and Mercadona,” says Jacob Tveraabak, StrongPoint CEO.

“I am thrilled to be joining StrongPoint. I passionately believe in its vision and the role technology can play in improving peoples’ lives,” says McCourt. 

“StrongPoint has been helping grocery retailers in the Nordics overcome challenges that are ever more apparent for retailers in the UK and other European countries, from increased labour costs to finding new ways of creating safer stores and better shopping experiences”

“ I look forward to supporting them introduce more of their world leading retail technology solutions to their strategic key markets.”

Sainsbury’s

Earlier this year, we reported that StrongPoint had been selected by Sainsbury’s to supply order picking technology for online grocery orders fulfilled manually in-store. 

Sainsbury’s is the UK’s second largest grocery retailer, with Tesco holding the top spot, and has over 1,400 supermarkets and convenience stores across the country, employing more than 152,000 people.  

“StrongPoint is focused on serving the unique needs of grocery retailers and providing the very best e-commerce technologies. Our grocery e-commerce order picking solution is truly world class,” said Tveraabak.

“The fact that we now serve the UK’s second largest grocery retailer is a perfect testament to the quality of our solution.”