Passionate about the convergence of creativity, data, tech and innovation to stimulate and deliver growth, I help stuck founders and companies, unlock, articulate and bring to life their ideas.
A high impact marketing leader with over 20 years experience delivering brand and business development solutions, advising start-ups to scale-ups and creating winning, high performance teams and cultures.
What I offer
Winning Touch
Whether you have a new idea you want to nurture, an important presentation you need to nail, a concept you are struggling to bring to life, a new client you want to attract or a product you are looking to bring to market, I can help you move from thought to bought.
Director of Venture Consulting @ The Portfolio Collective
Having been an active member and advocate of The Portfolio Collective community since launch, I was invited to be a Fractional Director of Venture Consulting. In this role, my focus has been on helping businesses grow by identifying key challenges they face and leveraging our community to help.
Lead consultant for allpoints, advising agencies on everything from business development to growth initiatives. Leveraging my agency leadership experience in addition to my experience helping start ups and scale ups to grow, has proven to be a powerful and effective combination.
I am a regular lecturer and presenter for students at one of the world's most established institutions for creativity, media, design and marketing. These lectures typically consist of keynotes, insight sessions and active workshops.
Helping this innovative events & retail tech business open up new routes to market, build their industry profile, secure new clients and help them as they scale. In addition have introduced a number of business development initiatives. To date, have secured over £2m incremental revenue.
As a founding member of Elevate (mentoring platform for the marketing sector), I have been fortunate to mentor a number of people and companies over the last 5 years. Recently I have been helping Warm Street through a differentiated offering and advising them on talent and business development.
I have worked with Diageo for a number of years both in the form of agency and individual roles. Most recently I created and presented a proposal to win the pouring rights for The Venue Group (owned by Ben Lovett of Mumford & Sons). The £5m deal for 3 years pouring rights was awarded to Diageo.
I have been advising Taymouth Marina on their offering and helping them to attract guests for a number of years. Most recently I have worked with them to reposition themselves as an environmentally and sustainable luxury destination.
With changing habits, an ever increasing focus on sustainability, the rise of electric and autonomous vehicles, Shell need to transform their retail model with a focus on convenience and experience. Partnering with them have developed the strategy and concepts for a the Forecourt of the Future.
Developed and created successful trade engagement experiences for Huawei across a range of high profile events, including IFA, Mobile World Congress and CES.
Partnered with Amazon to achieve highly ambitious signs ups for Amazon Prime Student across the EMEA region. An innovative digital/social first programme created a sense of scarcity and drove huge numbers of sign ups tapping into student FOMO.
Partnered with Shell to explore and identify new opportunities within the mobility retail sector. With an increasing decline in fossil fuel sales, creating clear space and a compelling offering for convenience retail is essential for sustained growth.
As with any major product, not only onboarding but motivating and educating trade partners is essential in a successful launch. I created a highly engaging trade engagement programme to support the over the counter launch for Viagra Connect for the likes of Boots, Superior, Tescos & Lloyds Pharmacy.
A pioneering CBD brand with an impressive line up of innovation led, medicinal & wellbeing products. An Israel based, US backed business, they are about to launch in the UK & Germany with a focus on eCommerce as their prime channel. I am providing retail, digital & social strategy.
Working with the founding team to refine their core offering and positioning, identifying new routes to market and opening up business development opportunities. In addition to have developed a network of expert partners to extend our footprint and open up new revenue sources.