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Leveraging over a decade of experience in strategic growth and acquisitions, I specialize in guiding marketing and communications agencies through complex mergers and acquisitions. My approach blends deep operational insight with a proven track record of delivering multi-million-dollar exits, drawing from my past work at Republic Publishing, Wonderscript and Highwire, where I spearheaded transformative acquisitions and business integrations.I help agencies navigate growth opportunities and maximize value. Whether it's identifying bolt-on acquisition targets, assessing fit, or shaping post-merger integration strategies, I bring a hands-on, results-oriented approach that delivers sustainable growth. Having built and sold multiple successful businesses, I understand the nuanced dynamics of the agency space and what it takes to achieve long-term success.

Support the growth and development of Early Rider in the USA. Drive sales and marketing, retail expansion, direct-to-consumer sales, communications, and marketing strategy and execution.

Co-led the digital business unit, played a key role on the executive leadership team, functional lead for digital, technology, and business development. Led organic growth strategy for digital function - 10x growth in annual digital revenue within four years. Developed a new business development strategy for the overall agency - delivered meaningful YoY increase in net new business, fewer pitches and increased average deal size. Oversaw P&L for 45-person digital team (within broader 150-person org). Sourced and completed acquisition of 15-person content marketing agency.Participated in and supported successful process to identify private equity investment partner. Organic growth• Developed and delivered cross-sell strategy to drive new services into existing client base - substantial growth in digital revenue and 12 consecutive quarters of top and bottom-line growth• Built multi-discipline digital team across social, content and creative structured to further adapt to client needs and provide career growth for team members• 2023 Digital Agency of the Year - Provoke Media Business development• Improved win rate from 30% to >50% with new business training, new pitch templates and materials and stronger lead qualification and scoring• Doubled average deal value through more robust integration of offerings at the pitch stage• Personally participated in over 20 successful pitches in the last 24 monthsInorganic growth• Sourced and acquired a 15-person B2B content marketing agency to help deepen agency expertise and expand service offering • Combined two digital teams to form a single unit - grew team from 6 to 45 in 3.5 years.Diversity in action • Led agency’s partnership with COOP Careers – training under-served graduates of inner-city universities• Developed program where over 1,200+ COOP students were trained by Highwire team members• Facilitated on-boarding of COOP as Highwire’s pro bono account

//Acquired by Highwire PR//Wonderscript is a digital communications consultancy. We help communications teams and brands use digital to get better results, faster.We create digital content, conduct data analysis and develop digital strategy.Up-skill your teams with scalable workshops, coaching sessions and guidance to get everyone thinking differently about digital.Lean on Wonderscript's expert delivery teams to get your digital projects across the line faster, and more efficiently.Partner with our business development experts to analyze your current customer base, find growth and reduce risk when adopting digital.

Retained as member of executive leadership team following sale of Republic Publishing to Text 100. Directed global organic and acquisition growth strategy, post-merger integrations, operations, technology, sales, and marketing. Identified leading-edge brand management solutions for Fortune 500 clients, integrating strategic communications and digital marketing and optimizing creative assets. Clients included Microsoft, IBM, Adobe, KPMG, Red Bull, Vodafone, Cisco, Harman, and Respond. Oversaw 40% of overall P&L and managed staff of 130.► Performance Milestone:Directed 5-year strategic plan from ideation through board approval and agency-wide roll-out that led to a double-digit increase in global revenues in less than 2 years.► Professional Highlights:Agency Rebranding- Drove post-integration strategy following acquisitions of Republic Publishing and IncrediBull.- Played key role in developing Content & Social division, realizing 35% profitability growth and Creative Technology group that doubled revenues in just one year. - Led digital transformation that enabled organization to pivot from a traditional PR/social media firm to an integrated marketing and communications leader. Technology Modernization - Implemented new technology stack that enabled capture of real-time data to drive decisions across every agency function, delivering 25% reduction in YoY operations costs. Business Development- Propelled win rate from 25% to 65% by implementing a quality-driven pitch strategy and training program.- Increased organic revenue by 10% in one year by cross-selling services.- Reversed prior year sales decline and replaced revenue within 12 months.Operations- Overhauled entire PR process and launched content analytics strategy.- Dramatically improved access to employee and client engagement data by initiating NPS to capture ongoing real-time data and replace static annual survey.

//Acquired by Next15//Bootstrapped company and led from conception through business and service offering creation, go-to-market strategy, client acquisition and retention to eventual sale to Text 100 in 2014. Specialized in branded content covering editorial, video production, social media, and website design and build. Personally involved in all client wins and projects. ► Performance Milestone:Delivered 7+ years of consistent 20%+ year-over-year growth and 20%+ net margin.► Professional Highlights:- Built comprehensive suite of digital-first content marketing services, including branded publishing platforms for global blue chip companies delivering multimillion-person monthly audiences, full video production capability, in-house design and build function, and global social media strategy and execution team.- Positioned firm as expert in consumer electronics space with clients such as Microsoft, Nokia, Cambridge Audio, and Sharp. Grew account with a leading technology firm from $50K to $2.5M in annual revenues.

Oversaw the growth and evolution of T3 from a geeky tech magazine to a broader lifestyle magazine, substantially increasing sales, subscribers and advertising revenue. I was also involved in the launch of 10 international editions, helping to grow the network of magazines from 12 to over 20. Alongside the magazine I also oversaw the development of T3.co.uk (T3.com) where the excellent Mike Cooper developed the site from being virtually non-existent to one of the biggest tech websites in the U.K.

I helped to corral a team of brilliant editors and a network of passionate sports fans, developing an audience of over 60 million monthly unique users. We were also part of the team that ABCe turned to in order to establish an accurate form of online measurement.

Launched Maximum MountainBike Magazine and Pro Cycling magazine.

Built an art department from a team of one (me) on Cycling Weekly to a team of five responsible for Cycling Weekly, Cycle Sport and Mountain Bike Rider (MBR). Delivered and oversaw multiple redesigns across all magazines and was heavily involved in the launch of MBR.