Hamish Lawson Email & Phone Number

Portugal

London, United Kingdom

Delivering data mesh at scale. Working with large organisations to get more value from data, modernising data architectures and decentralising the way people work with data.

London, England, United Kingdom

Spent almost a decade focused on a variety of entrepreneurial endeavours: -A series of short to long term roles, contracts and projects focused on sales and growth:billigence.comcolony.iocitypantry.com (acquired by Just Eat)eporta.com (acquired by Shopify)netsolutions.com-Invested in over 20 startups including:revolut.com (series A)howbout.com (seed)wrisk.co (seed)nanusens.com (seed)finisterre.com (seed)mintos.com (series B)getdizzie.com (seed)pawprint.eco (seed)-Completed a masters in technology entrepreneurship at UCL.-Contributed to a DAO.-Launched a successful Kickstarter project.-Invested more in crypto than one probably should.

Lisbon, Portugal

I joined Colony to bring their DAO framework to market, developed a growth framework to efficiently onboard web3 projects. Attended various events and scheduled meetings with over 50 web3 projects, feeding insights back into the product development process.

London, United Kingdom

MVF is a fast growing marketing technology company focused on online customer acquisition. I worked on three roles from senior account manager to launching and building their education vertical to heading up the B2B sales team in the UK. I liaised with internal teams across software development, public relations, social media, paid marketing and affiliates to build customer acquisition marketing campaigns for clients across various sectors.I worked with media agencies, technology companies and universities to build campaigns to achieve the specific acquisition goals of each client. It was a consultative process to understand what they were trying to achieve, what metrics to focus on and then optimising each campaign over time to improve ROI and the efficiency of each campaign.In my final role, I worked to build a scalable sales process that could be implemented consistently as we opened new offices across the world. From integrating the sales funnel with stages within Salesforce, creating a lead scoring system and building a recruitment matrix to better understand what we were hiring for and improve consistency in the hiring process.- Grew the education vertical to monthly revenue of £100k.- Worked with large enterprise and technology clients with monthly spend of £50k+.- Created and implemented a scalable sales and recruitment process.

London, United Kingdom

I built an online underwear brand creating comfortable mens underwear, produced ethically and made from sustainable fabrics. I took our product from concept through design, sourcing, sampling and production and managing inventory over time. I worked with developers to build and iterate our platform and grow traffic. I managed marketing campaigns across paid marketing, search marketing, public relations and partnerships.I made every mistake in the book over the years and learnt what it takes to bootstrap an online business to growth. From scrupulously managing the cash flow, focusing on the metrics that will have the biggest impact on growth, learning how to acquire and retain customers online to automating those tasks that cost time and money.- Completed one of the first successful Kickstarter campaigns in the UK.- Featured in FHM, The Sunday Times, Fast Company and City AM.- Negotiated a ‘joint venture’ with a $1bn manufacturer in Sri Lanka.After years of highs and low, it was time to raise investment and scale or put it to experience, I chose the latter.

Usa / Bulgaria / Uk

Southwestern is an American conglomerate who run the challenging Southwestern Advantage program for university students and graduates from around the world. Over 3000 students run their own sales business selling educational products door-to-door across the USA each summer. Usually working over eighty hours a week, the profit you generate is determined by the number of sales you make so a great way to learn how to work hard, motivate yourself and hit your goals.I was a top salesperson in each of my summers, culminating in a top summer revenue of $104k in twelve weeks making me the number one salesperson from Europe and number eight globally. I also ran sales organisations during each summer where I recruited, trained and managed up to 50 students to run their own sales business each summer.- Number 1 salesperson from Europe and number 8 globally from 3000 dealers.- Recruited, trained and led sales organisation of 50 dealers with 10 managers.- Recruited and trained multiple personal teams that won awards for high production.I also helped to launch 9Dots, a B2B communications consultancy, which was a subsidiary at the time. My role involved business development, new routes to market, relationship management and improving performance for our clients. After having the fastest increase in revenue, I was promoted to lead the sales team, where I ran the training academy, set incentives and ran monthly appraisals.- Gained valuable B2B sales experience with business owners and C level executives.- Won awards for revenue increases, deal consistency and work ethic.- Managed team of eight experienced sales people.

Master Of Science (Msc), Technology Entrepreneurship, Merit

Master Of Arts (M.A.), Business Management With Marketing, 2:1