A newly created group role to drive the go to market strategy and fuel growth across multiple agencies within Havas Media Network.

I lead our Growth function - Business Development and Marketing teams working hand-in-hand to collaborate and form strategic relationships across our community of marketing leaders. My remit is to create and implement a multi-channel strategy (events, partnerships, online, website, outreach, partner programme) which positions us as Strategic Growth Partners with leading organisations across the UK and the US.We are proud to be part of Havas Media Network. The group’s expertise in large-scale media experiences enhances our own performance marketing and data science specialisms to create an offering that spans the whole customer journey for our clients.Driven by evidence and led by transparency, we search for the truth in data. Search Laboratory is a team of digital marketers and data scientists dedicated to growth generation. Combining data science with intricate digital strategies, Search Laboratory identifies the questions that bring data to life, allowing them to make decisions that drive profitable growth for its clients. Search Laboratory is one of only a handful of Google Marketing Platform Sales Partners trusted to offer expert implementation, training and ongoing support for the platform's advanced suite of tools.

Building strategic partnerships with digital leaders, the PE and investor community, cross-border SAAS and agency partners.We offer consulting in analytics and data science plus international expansion, as well as delivering leading edge acquisition performance improvement through fully integrated digital services. Leading the SL Digital DD proposition within the investor and PE community, delivering portfolio optimisation and highlighting both risk and growth potential in proposed assets.

I supply consultants and senior interims into the travel and travel technology sectors. I partner with leadership teams, exec and non-exec boards, chairmen, consultants and PE firms to ensure they have the dedicated resource to achieve their immediate business objectives.

Launched in 2012, Michael Page Digital is one of our youngest UK disciplines. We have five offices across the UK and 27 operational Consultants. I was tasked with adding strong leadership to our regional offices in Leeds, Manchester In 2017 the Birmingham business was the highest performing team in MP Digital, Leeds & Manchester were essentially start-ups.This was presented as a landing role for me to get back into our UK business.

I ran three businesses from our Toronto office; Sales & Marketing, Technology, Banking & Financial Services. • Inherited a loss making, leaderless business. • Six months into my tenure the directive changed from headcount growth to profit growth.• 2014 was another loss making year yet despite only joining in Q2 I managed to drive growth on 2013 revenue.• In January 2015 I executed structural changes and replaced underperformers. An 82% turnover in headcount was necessary but the 2015 results were increased revenue and a $0.5m swing in profit, the businesses first profitable year.• Rationalised the sectors we service, allocating more resource to our bigger opportunities and removing the risk associated with being spread too thin.• Implemented stringent sales processes, vertical segmentation, incentive plans and drove home a strong sales culture.• During 2015 I led from the front with personal revenue of $240k across multiple sectors and achieved Presidents Club (weekend in Turks and Caicos) for being number one in North America for solution selling.• In a traditionally permanent business I grew contract margin from $50/hr to over $650/hr which is a hugely profitable, and sustainable, revenue stream.• Successfully developed and promoted four recruits from Consultant through to Manager and developed one Associate Director.• 2016 was up on both revenue and profit compared to 2015. The culture was a strong and positive one with attrition being held to 20%.• Successfully pitched for and won significant business opportunities across all sectors including Banking, Consulting, Consumer, FinTech, Start-up, Media, Business / Professional Services, Technology, Industrial.• With no Internal Recruitment presence in Canada all new recruits have had to be self-generated.

• Reporting into the MD I ran core Sales teams in Leeds, Manchester and in 2013 I headhunted a Manager from our competition and opened Newcastle. I also continued to run the Technical Sales team.• I had a team of 18 and in a UK business which averaged 8-10% growth YOY since the 2008 crash my business consistently outshone this and grew to £3m in revenue. • Thanks to the quality of the business we grew and the people we retained the North was then and still is a stronghold in MPS. • Throughout my time in the UK I was a leading solution sales performer with over 80% of my own work being self-generated, retained and at the Director level.

Running Sales teams in Leeds and Manchester. To add to our specialism I set up a Technical Sales business in the North which was dedicated to most industrial markets such as Property and Construction, Oil & Gas, Process, Aerospace, Special Metals, Industrial Automation. This business grew over 235% from 2010 to 2014 when I left the UK

As a new Manager I took our team to number one in Michael Page Sales, surpassing all of the other 10 offices in revenue. During the 2008 crash I learned a great deal about restructuring and rebuilding and the importance of maintaining a strong vision and culture. Rebuilt from 2009 to 2014 increasing revenue by 169%.

£275,000 billed in my first calendar year which put me #2 of 57 on the national league table. My market was FMCG Sales and a high proportion of my business was net new. After a short time I then hired and trained Consultant (still in the business!) to take over this market and took on the challenge of being Manager for the Leeds business.

Founder and Business Development Director for an FMCG Engineering Recruitment firm. At our peak we employed 10 people and had a strong reputation across the North.

Recruitment Consultant sourcing specialist Engineers for the FMCG sector.