Jamie Hershon Email & Phone Number

London, Gb

London Area, United Kingdom

Powerverse is a smart energy technology company. With solar power, EV charging, battery storage, heat pumps, sunshine forecasts, and an everchanging list of tariffs and energy providers, today’s energy system is complicated. The Powerverse AI-powered platform integrates, optimises and simplifies all of this, saving customers money, carbon and time.My role includes- Developing relationships with energy retailers to enable smart propositions and energy flexibility- Building partnerships with a major software & AI vendor and global technology and professional services firm- Developing the Powerverse value propositions- Supporting company and product strategy development

London, United Kingdom

CONSULTING & SOFTWARE. 3D helps ambitious sustainability sector technology businesses to thrive. We provide growth strategy consulting and value based sales training & coaching supported with a value proposition software platform to power up commercial teams to compete and win on value. Value being positive impact in terms that are meaningful to the customer and as far as possible quantified. Our customers are B2B energy transition, climate and nature technology companies with data-centric business models.

London, Uk

STRATEGIC CREATIVE AGENCY. Eleven is a hybrid between a strategic consultancy and a creative agency. Eleven is ‘human centric’, focusing on the emotional connection between businesses and their customers. My role was to lead client service delivery, develop the methodology to integrate strategy and creative execution and to develop key account relationships. I joined in 2013 as a director and shareholder as a result of Eleven buying Growth Cubed. I exited in 2016.

Wellington

SPORTS CHARITY. Sport Wellington is a Regional Sports Trust that promotes, develops and supports sport and recreation. My role on the Board was to provide strategic direction and governance. I led the subcommittee responsible for developing the new 2014-2020 strategic direction, a piece of work that was nominated for an innovation award.

Wellington

START-UP ACCELERATOR. Lightning Lab is a combination seed investment fund and intensive startup accelerator programme - putting world-class mentoring into elite teams of New Zealand tech startup entrepreneurs and pushing them to make their business idea fly within three months. I was a mentor on the first tranche of the programme which culminated in Demo Day in May 13, and investment in many of the start-up teams.

Wellington

GROWTH CONSULTANCY. Growth Cubed was a growth consultancy, providing specialist advice and support to companies in New Zealand and overseas who were looking to grow and innovate. In 2013, Growth Cubed was acquired by Eleven.

London, United Kingdom, And Wellington, New Zealand

IoT, SMART ENERGY, SMART HOME. Onzo is a global leader in big data and analytics for utilities. Onzo delivers valuable insight from the analysis of energy use and other data, transforming customer relationships, improving energy efficiency, shifting peak demand, offering new energy services and reducing operational costs. As Chief Sales Officer, I led a global sales and business development team covering UK & Europe, North America and Australia/NZ. Together with the CEO and CFO, I supported a successful capital fundraise, as well as the eventual sale of a division of the business.

MANAGEMENT CONSULTANCY. Together with two partners I co-founded Igniter, a management consultancy working in NZ and Australia. Starting from nothing, we grew to 25 employees and secured high profile clients and projects throughout the region. I took on various roles from Head of Consulting through to Chairman. During this time, I won and led many corporate strategy and transformation programmes for major New Zealand and Australian brands. I realised an exit in 2009.

VENTURE BUILDER. In 2007, I co-led the formation of WebFund as a ‘spin-off’ to Igniter. WebFund provided pre-seed investment and venture building mentorship for web start-ups to become scaleable businesses. As Executive Director, I helped find and assess potential new investments and provide strategy and business development help to existing investees to progress towards their growth potential. I also secured an additional external investor into the fund. I remain a minority shareholder.

Cambridge, Ma, Usa

SOFTWARE. Celarix was a web based supply chain visibility software vendor (early SaaS). Founded by two classmates whilst completing our MBAs at Kellogg, I helped them start the company in 1998, building the initial business plan and raising seed and Series A funding. Over the next 4 years Celarix grew to over 200 people. In 2000, I became European Business Development Director focusing on building strategic partnerships for software sales in the UK and Europe. I exited around the time that Celarix was sold to GE Global Exchange Services (GXS).

Uk & Melbourne, Plus Projects In New York & Netherlands

MANAGEMENT CONSULTANCY. Arthur Andersen Business Consulting was a top tier global management consultancy. I started as a graduate Analyst and participated in Andersen’s rigorous training programme. I became Manager and lead consultant on a wide range of strategic consulting assignments working with clients such as Shell, Deutsche Bank/ Bankers Trust, Halifax, B&Q, British Telecom.

Mba, One Year Programme, Business

Kellogg is consistently rated as one of the top 5 Business Schools in the world, and it was a great experience to complete my full time.

Management Science, Business, 1St Class Honours

I completed my undergraduate degree at Warwick Business School, and achieved 1st prize for the highest degree mark in my year of over 100.