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What I offer

Helping professionals launch, manage and grow their portfolio careers

Helping professionals launch, manage and grow their portfolio careers

If you want to launch, focus or boost your portfolio career, consider our Catapult Course (on which I teach). In eight modules we help you work out your focus, monetisable skills, offering, differentiation, personal brand, target customers, pricing, business development approach and much more.

Building a global pool of world class mentors

Building a global pool of world class mentors

We see enormous demand from entrepreneurial leaders needing great mentors to help them solve complex problems and build amazing companies. We help TPC members with the right experience and profile become world-class, accredited mentors and find fascinating, paid mentoring, advisory and board work.

CEO support

CEO support

I help founders and CEOs understand and tackle their biggest opportunities and risks with confidence. This includes strategy, fundraising, hiring, go-to-market, international, org design, pivots and stakeholder management. I also leverage best-in-class expertise from TPC's 10,000+ global members.

Public speaking & executive education

Public speaking & executive education

I speak at events and run workshops - from big conferences to company offsites - on subjects such as 1) the future of work, 2) the merging of advertising with eCommerce, social media and the metaverse, 3) big tech & generative AI, 4) innovation, entrepreneurialism and growth.

Investor insights, deal flow & due diligence

Investor insights, deal flow & due diligence

I support investors (public markets, private equity and venture capital) understand how industries are evolving, plus find investment opportunities and screen potential investments. Industries include advertising, eCommerce, social media, the Metaverse, the future of work, education and more.

Walking meetings

Walking meetings

If you want to brainstorm your company or career strategy - on foot, at speed, whatever the weather - around the charming streets, bridges and parks of Chelsea and Battersea, give me a shout

Experiences

COO Google Europe

COO Google Europe

From 2007-2009 I 'wrote the blueprint' for how Google monetises its various audiences - Search, Display, YouTube, App Store, Maps etc. then led countless initiatives to turn Google into the money making machine that it is today.

Nurturing Security Innovation

Nurturing Security Innovation

GALLOS invests in and builds early-stage (Seed to Series B) security technology companies focused on cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, data analytics, sensors, and autonomous systems (UAVs). The Portfolio Collective is a partner of GALLOS and we help them build awesome teams and companies.

Board Member - Various

Board Member - Various

Board member/ advisor for several entrepreneurial businesses - including Yoxly, The Webinar Vet, MoneyPlus, Optimi Health and Goodsted. I also mentor several other founders. I love rolling my sleeves up and helping founders build great companies ....

Author: Marketing For CEOs - Death Or Glory In The Digital Age

Author: Marketing For CEOs - Death Or Glory In The Digital Age

With everything in and around marketing changing dramatically - overwhelming data, smartphones, social media, the Metaverse etc - I couldn't find a decent book that mapped out how it would all fit together one day, and what the core frameworks should be. So I wrote this book.

Mentor & Lecturer - Oxford University

Mentor & Lecturer - Oxford University

I support the Said Business School and other Oxford startup institutions. I teach on the future of work & education, entrepreneurship, innovation and more. I also mentor startups coming out of various Oxford innovation initiatives.

Military Engineering

Military Engineering

As a Civil Engineer and officer in the Royal Engineers, I spent a decade building things and blowing stuff up around the world. This included relieving the Siege of Sarajevo in 1995, designing various bombproof buildings in Northern Ireland and running a construction project in a Canadian winter.

Throwing the first ever private party on Alcatraz

Throwing the first ever private party on Alcatraz

As Group CEO of Adknowledge, at the peak of adtech excess, we had an IPO planned. To demonstrate our love of breaking new boundaries with investors, customers, partners and journalists, we hosted the first ever private party on Alcatraz, accompanied by former prisoners and guards. An epic evening!

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  • i.e. Marketing director
  • i.e. Mentor
  • Chief Executive Officer (CEO)
  • Venture Builder
  • Non-Executive Director
  • Mentor
  • Strategy Consultant
  • Public Speaker
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Industries (/)
  • i.e. Tech
  • i.e. Education
  • Future Of Work
  • Advertising
  • Defence
  • Education
  • Cyber Security
  • Venture Capital And Private Equity
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Career experience

31+ years

Regions
  • Europe, 
  • Africa, 
  • Middle East, 
  • North America (east coast), 
  • Caribbean
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Skills (/)
  • i.e. Research
  • i.e. Branding
  • Mentoring Entrepreneurs
  • Strategy & Business Model Development
  • Building Leadership Teams
  • Startup Fundraising
  • Networking & Connecting
  • Growth Hacking
  • Public Speaking
  • Community Building
  • International Expansion
  • Artificial Intelligence
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  • i.e. Digital nomad
  • i.e. Ex-Google
  • founder
  • mentor
  • investor
  • strategy consultant
  • board member
  • engineer
  • author
  • thought leader
  • Google
  • McKinsey
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