Scullion was just 21 when he sold his first business, an IT consultancy that did well during the Millennium Bug scare. He launched Matillion with Ed Thompson in 2011. This Salford-based tech firm allows clients including Cisco, Slack and Sony to clean up data from legacy IT platforms, analyse their information more effectively and automate processes using machine learning. More than 2,000 organisations have used its services so far. A fundraising in 2021 delivered unicorn status and since then Matillion’s annual sales have climbed to £72.7m.