Guy Bucknall Email & Phone Number

Belfast, Gb

Monaco

Investor Committee MemberWhite Castle Partners Investor Ecosystem is comprised of over a thousand institutional and private investors, including Family Offices, UHNWIs, VC/PE’s and Sovereign Wealth funds. Our engagement options can be individually tailored depending on the industry, maturity level and fundraising needs.

London / Belfast, United Kingdom

Private Client Services including strategic marketing advice, planning and implementation and interim executive director roles.

Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

EiR on Catalyst's Springboard programme.Assessment and preparation of early stage businesses as both 1-2-1 entrepreneur mentor and panel member.

Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

Formed a team on the Catalyst Co-Founders programme and launched Bizmerang Ltd. We took an existing Facebook Group and commercialised it. Then developed the strategy for enabling other owners of Social Media based communities to monetise their own considerable efforts.

• Obtained WSI franchise primarily for the formal training in developing online strategies.• Developed commercial strategy for ground breaking tech development in ‘Big Data’ area.• Developed Sales and Marketing Strategy for RepKnight Ltd (they won and delivered the Social Media monitoring, analysis and interaction tools used by the Home Office / Metropolitan Police for London 2012 Olympics).

• Practical self training in Online Marketing and Web 2.0 tactics• Acted as an independent business consultant to SMEs.• Areas serviced vary enormously but include marketing assessments and researching, planning and delivering marketing and business plans. Financial assessments of existing firms and their business modelling for stress testing purposes.• Mentoring young entrepreneurs in ‘Start Ups’.• Client areas include – online Art Trading business, bespoke furniture manufacturers, legal practices, online flooring sales operation, fashion label start up, copywriting agency, local authors, media services businesses – and more.

Manchester Area, United Kingdom

• Merged existing business (see below) in slow time with Gym TV. • In 2007 conducted a dual MD role with particular responsibility for Operations and New Business. Won David Lloyd contract. Guy and his team had a £950k budget to design, build, install and operate more than 500 Digital Signage channels (and their required UGC portals) plus 300 audio channels (non core) in 287 sites. This was done on time and at 97% of budget.• In January 2008, assumed sole MD role and set about ‘rounding out’ the business as a whole. This included drastically increasing the advertising sales turnover and building a production and admin department to deal with it. • During my time at Gym TV we increased the turnover five fold.

Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

Established a digital signage business specialising in the development of Captive Audience Networks in a number of vertical markets. Conducted trials in airports, retailers and health and fitness clubs including the winning, installing and operating of Virgin Active TV and Total Fitness TV.

Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

Established Screen Media Sales Ltd providing an advertising sales facility for new Digital Signage media in Ireland. Wins included RCI TV (travel call centres), The Saville Inquiry (Bloody Sunday) and five major shopping centres.

Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

Responsible for the selection of marketing personnel for various client types as well as the overall strategic marketing of the company.

London Area, United Kingdom

British Airways - Responsible for the agency side of launching new routes out of Gatwick and the launch and opening of 17 British Airways Travel Shops throughout the UK.

London Area, United Kingdom

Gestetner Holdings Plc - Managed Gestetner, Rex-Rotary and Nashuatec’s world-wide integrated communications programs, specifically up to 50 new product launches per year. Pharmaton SA - Swiss based natural health products. Managed integrated communications in their brand positioning move from Prescription to OTC world-wide.Panasonic Business Systems UK - Managed most of Panasonic’s Business to Business ‘below the line’ activity in the UK. Forte Leisure Breaks - Managed major consumer mailing campaigns which generated 14% of Leisure Breaks annual bookings.

Lemgo, Germany

Battalion Training Officer, Company Second in Command, Platoon Commander