Locationify is an award winning cloud-based, technology business providing sales & marketing solutions for leading global finance, retail and service companies. Locationify designs and builds fully customized new customer engagement technology to help business address local intent at different locations. We manage over 150,000 locations & 'locationify' some of the world's largest brands. Contact us at hello@locationify.com

FranchiseUP™ specialises in helping franchise businesses select, customise & maintain end-to-end technology systems to accelerate growth. From customer acquisition solutions, bespoke website & mobile development to loyalty programs and advanced CRM platforms, we help some of the largest franchise brands stay ahead of the competition. Contact us at hello@franchiseup.com

Advise and advocate for Big Issue Invest, the UK's first 'social merchant bank,' by social entrepreneurs, for social entrepreneurs. As a social enterprise ourselves, we understand how good businesses can achieve great things." Nigel Kershaw - Chair, The Big Issue Group

Led SaaS technology revenue growth for all digital, technology, & data divisions across Havas Media Group with €1.4b T/O, 140 countries & 17,500 employees. Based in Paris & London.Responsibilities:• Define & deliver global technology services market growth model for Havas Media across 70+ markets• Deliver a global marketing services model to combines corporate assets into a single multi-service proposition• To diversify 2.4 billion euro annual revenue and income away from traditional media approach towards a mixture of media, production, strategy & consulting services• Lead acquisition of new hybrid & in-house technology & consulting clients with spends in excess of £120m per year

Led launch of Havas Digital Services to deliver Business & Marketing Transformation for leading UK clients across Financial Services, Payments, Retail, B2B and Entertainment sectors. Based in London.Responsibilities:• Recruit & re-deploy cross disciplinary teams around 5 service propositions comprising E-commerce, Data, Technology, User Experience and Design & Build services• Oversee introduction of new consulting work practices to deliver comprehensive client capability audits, 360 client transformation strategies, agile delivery frameworks & multi stakeholder change management programmes• Responsible for all new Sales and key senior C-Level suite relationships to deliver significant income growth for the group• Manage third party commercial partnerships including HSBS, Barclays, Amazon, Adobe, Salesforce, Google, Facebook & Oracle• Identify and sell first large scale consulting projectAchievement: No.2 Fastest growing media agency 2016 (Campaign)

Lead operational strategy and revenue growth for UK Havas Digital covering €150m+ T/O, 150+ people & billings across 12 business divisions. Based in London.Responsibilities:• Full P&L, commercial & operational responsibility for UK digital teams comprising including programmatic media, data & analytics, technology, content & social services, mobile strategy and design & build services• Full responsibility for digital only new business, digital delivery & service infrastructure comprising operations, recruitment, training and PR & marketing• Led integration of M&A targets including esliaDBI, WEB NARRATIVE, SCBPARTNERS, and BRANDEDAchievement: No.1 Fastest growing media agency 2012 (Campaign)

Responsibilities:• Full P&L responsibility across all performance digital media buying & delivery• Overall delivery responsibility for implementing a data & performance first approach • New Business Development & Sales for digital only and performance clients spending £5m+/yrAchievement: No.1 Fastest growing media agency 2011 (Campaign)

Led revenue growth for ASK.com, the well known search engine, across UK & Netherlands until $1.8b acquisition. Based in Amsterdam & London.Responsibilities:• Managed £15m+ commercial partnerships & syndication for UK & Dutch Operations at Ask.com• Launched Ask.com into the Netherlands market and established all commercial partnerships• Successfully established Ask.nl (Dutch business) as a credible contender to Google• Supported acquisition of Ask.com by InterActiveCorp for $1.8b in stock. • Managed performance marketing for a number of the IAC portfolio companies including Expedia, Ticketmaster & Match.com

T/O $140m based in UK & US. Led strategy & revenue growth for the new performance marketing team managing clients such as Lastminute.com & Ask Jeeves. Responsibilities:• Oversee UK sales growth and operational delivery of Be Free • P&L responsibility for UK operations• Lead key clients and their affiliate technology growth strategies• Integration of Be Free with industry leader Commission Junction

Technology and data strategy for advanced sales & marketing solutions for leading European clients including Lastminute.com, BOL, British Airways & ebay. Based in Windsor.Responsibilities:• Implemented & managed key accounts including British Airways, Lastminute, Travelocity & ebay• Drove growth of high value clients, retained key accounts and lead product development strategy• Joined as technical support account manager and eventually led UK sales & servicing teams

Part of a PhD software development team designing CLIPS based architecture for special projects with the UK Defence Evaluation & Research Agency. Based in Nottingham & Farnborough. Epistemics Ltd was founded by Nigel Shadbolt (more info: https://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/nigel-shadbolt/)Responsibilities:• Design & build responsibility for Artificial Intelligence based EWAS for the Eurofighter project• Successful access to the MSc & PhD Artificial Intelligence programme