Here I am

I'm Ben Levy, an experienced product and technology leader, keen on innovation and very comfortable with uncertainty. I have a background as a software engineer, and have also immersed myself in product design and data science. You can find me on LinkedIn here.

In March 2025 I co-founded 80/20 Health, a proactive health tech startup. We're helping people uncover the paths to their healthiest lives, giving them a complete picture of their health, with actionable and impactful steps, and ongoing support to reach their goals.

From February 2023 I worked at Manual, in London, in a role that covered leading both Product and Technology, helping to improve lives through better access to health and wellness solutions that solve real problems for men and women. One of the major draws to join Manual was to help build a digital therapeutic that would accompany GLP-1 medications for weightloss. We launched Voy in September 2023 and it was incredibly successful, propelling Manual to further incredible growth. Just before I left Manual I had the pleasure of working on and launching Menopause Care an HRT clinic, another greatly needed proposition for women's health.

Between April 2014 and January 2023 I worked at Elvie (parent company Chiaro), in London and Bristol, as one of the founding team, creating extraordinary health and wellness products that help improve women's lives. As the CTO at Elvie I led the software engineering, data science and digital product design teams in the development of our ground breaking connected products, Elvie Trainer, Elvie Pump and Elvie Stride. All the products won many awards. Amongst those awards I'm most proud of Elvie Trainer being exhibited at the Design Museum in London in 2015, of Elvie Pump being included in TIME Magazine 100 Best Inventions in 2019, and also being exhibited at the Design Museum in London in that same year. But even more than that, I am proud of the teams we built and the culture of those teams.

Prior to 2014 I worked in different roles, as a software engineer and leading the engineering team at Byte9, a digital agency in London. Guns for hire, we built bespoke web applications. This was a great introduction to the world of product development, leading projects for a for a broad range of customers, like art book publishers Phaidon, through Linesearch, a utility asset mapping system, to Get The Gloss, a modern content producer and publisher in the world of health and beauty.

In 2004 I moved to Germany and have spent the time since then travelling between London and that area of Germany near Trier, right on the border with Luxembourg and France, called the Three Corners of Europe. Most of the time I have been in London at least once per month, thought ther was also a period of just over 4 years where I was based in London full time.

I moved into software during the wild west of the first internet boom and worked on my first web application as a software engineer in 1999. I've always liked making things and I discovered that making virtual things is just as rewarding as making physical things.

Before my working life began, I studied Philosophy and Psychology (PPP) at New College, Oxford. Though not directly related to software engineering, my degree introduced me to pure logic in philosophy, and my experimental psychology course brought me to the coal face of statistics and even neural network programming. That turned out to be very useful :) And that was way back between 1994 and 1997.