# Will Saville

> Will Saville is the British co-founder, board member and former CEO of Unily. With Richard Paterson, he built the business behind an employee experience platform from its BrightStarr consultancy roots. He remains involved in technology and product direction and chairs Squash Squared, a charity combining squash with academic tutoring.

- **Role:** Co-founder and board member at Unily
- **Organizations:** Unily, BrightStarr, Saville Consulting, Squash Squared, Oxshott Squash Club, Sandown Sports
- **Nationality:** British
- **Education:** Degree in hospitality (self-described; exact qualification title unverified)
- **Known for:** Co-founded the business that became Unily with Richard Paterson., Recognised in the 2009 Growing Business Young Guns class., Helped turn BrightStarr’s digital workplace consulting experience into the Unily product launched in 2014.

## Career timeline

- **Before Unily** — Served as Chief Technology Officer at Saville Consulting; previously studied hospitality and worked as a chef.
- **2005** — Unily dates its BrightStarr origins to 2005; co-founders were Will Saville and Richard Paterson.
- **2009** — Saville and Paterson appeared in the Growing Business Young Guns class for BrightStarr.
- **2014** — BrightStarr launched Unily as a cloud intranet product; Saville spoke at the September launch at the Soho Hotel.
- **2018** — BrightStarr rebranded as Unily after the product passed one million global users.
- **2019** — Unily secured a $68 million growth investment from Silversmith Capital Partners and Farview Equity Partners.
- **2021-2022** — CVC Growth majority investment announced in December 2021 and followed in 2022.
- **2023** — Chris Ciauri succeeded Saville as CEO on June 20; Saville remained a board director involved in product vision.
- **2025** — Appeared with Lokdeep Singh and Sam Hassani in the Unite 25 Unily Futures keynote.
- **2026** — Discussed AI-native product design and multi-format knowledge in The EX Conversation; a separate company interview identifies him as running Unily’s labs team.

## Achievements

- Co-founded the business that became Unily with Richard Paterson.
- Recognised in the 2009 Growing Business Young Guns class.
- Helped turn BrightStarr’s digital workplace consulting experience into the Unily product launched in 2014.
- Led Unily as CEO before its June 2023 leadership transition.
- Chairs Squash Squared.

## Latest updates

- **2026-04** — Unily published an April 15 recap of his EX Conversation interview on AI-native employee experience and multi-format content.

## Links

- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/william-saville-bb69b41/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/sharepointux

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Last updated: 2026-10-22