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SaaS growth marketing leadership

SaaS growth marketing leadership

Why we exist as a business, brand & culture?
What business value we deliver to customers?
How we deliver the strongest market reputation, ABM demand-generation marketing plan and operations to acquire and retain customers’ MRR, revenues & greater monetizarion?

SaaS business board leadership & investor engagement

SaaS business board leadership & investor engagement

Resulted in >400% growth in SaaS MRR to £150k pounds sterling, with 60+ customers across EMEA, USA & Asia markets.

Led fourth seed £1million sterling funding round, Q1 2021, working with major investors Blackfinch, Peter Brookes & Nexus Investments.

SaaS product development leadership

SaaS product development leadership

Structured new product dev planning and marketing strategy to target Financial Services vertical, with a ROI-based approach to prioritising new commercial requirements for EMEA, USA & Asia markets. Grew scale-up business revenues £12M to £19M. pipeline increased by 40%.

Experiences

fractional CMO, GoReport PropTech SaaS scale-up growth

fractional CMO, GoReport PropTech SaaS scale-up growth

• SaaS business offering automated surveying software to residential and commercial surveying sole traders, SMEs and Corporate clients.
• Recruited by the CEO and General Manager, Scaleup Capital PE investor, to help grow the revenues to >£10M
• To build the marketing program & vertical campaigns

interim CMO, Veremark HRTech SaaS scale-up growth

interim CMO, Veremark HRTech SaaS scale-up growth

• Built the global growth plan, brand strategy, integrated FinTech, Prof Services, Recruitment, sector campaigns
• Built the performance marketing campaigns & team = SEO web content, technical & backlink partners, SEM LinkedIn & Google Ads, Biz-Dev email sequences & calls, HubSpot, Google Analytics

interim CMO, Wejo CV SaaS, for SPAC listing

interim CMO, Wejo CV SaaS, for SPAC listing

• Optimised investor relations for November $300M 2021 SPAC listing on the NASDAQ, & with Virtuoso Partners investors. Rapid scaleup revenue growth to $750M 2025. 300+ employees.
• Collaborated with the GMs & Sales teams on automotive & new emerging sectors strategy & plans for 2022

CMO & interim Chair, Cyance, B2B behaviour intent data, MarTech SaaS

CMO & interim Chair, Cyance, B2B behaviour intent data, MarTech SaaS

• Designed and launched the Go-To-Market strategy for UK, wider European, US and Asian markets, across Tech / Telco / Scale-up SaaS through direct & partner channels. Customer business growth >300%, and CAC / LTV ration of 1:9. £2M revenues.
• Chairman interim and board member Q1 2021

CMO interim, Optunli, B2B & B2C career talent mgt HRTech SaaS

CMO interim, Optunli, B2B & B2C career talent mgt HRTech SaaS

• Built the market-based strategy plan to penetrate the UK ($1.7Bn) and wider global ($14Bn) HRTech vertical sector targeting B2B knowledge industries (Professional Services, Technology, Science, Financial Services & Healthcare) and shaping the B2C targeting & messaging.

CMO, Aventus, blockchain crypto protocol, live events SaaS

CMO, Aventus, blockchain crypto protocol, live events SaaS

• Developed the marketing strategy, hired a team, to build UK and US awareness, education, and lead-generation, and prepare for wider rollout to other European, ME, APAC and LATAM markets.
• Grew awareness and acted as the spokesperson for ‘blockchain ticketing’ across live music, sport and theatre

CMO, CPO, Red Box Voice, B2B unified comms & analytics

CMO, CPO, Red Box Voice, B2B unified comms & analytics

• Built global marketing strategy: Financial Services 'Compliance' (MiFID ii, Dodd-Frank, GDPR); Contact Centres 'Performance' for optimum customer experience and engagement (WFO); Emergency Services 'Protection'.
• Strengthened key software partnerships: Booking.com & Bloomberg

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Roles (/)
  • i.e. Marketing director
  • i.e. Mentor
  • Chief Marketing Officer (CMO)
  • Director Of Product Marketing
  • SaaS Consultant
  • Board Chair
  • Business Coach
  • Advisory Board Member
  • Business Development
  • Global Marketer
  • Business Operations
  • Customer Success Lead
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Industries (/)
  • i.e. Tech
  • i.e. Education
  • Martech
  • HRtech
  • Proptech
  • Information technology (IT)
  • Connected vehicle data
  • Retail
  • Fintech
  • Professional services
  • Talent
  • Start-ups / scale-ups
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Career experience

21-30 years

Regions
  • Europe, 
  • Africa, 
  • Middle East, 
  • Central & South Asia, 
  • Southeastern Asia, 
  • North America (west coast), 
  • North America (east coast), 
  • Caribbean, 
  • Northeastern Asia, 
  • Australia & Oceania
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Skills (/)
  • i.e. Research
  • i.e. Branding
  • Marketing Leadership
  • Product Marketing
  • Go to market strategy
  • Digital Marketing
  • C-Level Communications
  • B2B SaaS GTM - Enterprise & SMB
  • business operations & Strategy
  • Investor & Board Advisory
  • Private Equity
  • Board advisory / Board Member / NED
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Keywords (/)
  • i.e. Digital nomad
  • i.e. Ex-Google
  • scaleup board advisor
  • Digital Marketing
  • content marketing
  • cross-functional leadership
  • Board Advisor
  • b2b SaaS
  • Private Equity
  • venture capital
  • software startup coach
  • Corporate Development
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