🚀 Kevin Traynor Email & Phone Number

Belfast, Gb

Bold B2B eComm Summit is brought to by the team responsible for eComm Live, which is Ireland's leading internet retail conference.Bold B2B eComm Summit will be dedicated to B2B Retailers, Suppliers, Agencies & Solution Providers. This unique 1-day summit brings together industry leaders to learn, collaborate, and grow.We expect 150+ delegates in London with announcements coming soon on world class speakers & sponsors.

My wife and I moved to Strabane (her home town) just over 1 year ago.In that time I have met some of the loveliest, funniest, most brilliant, down to earth and talented humans on the planet - all residents of this sleepy wee town in Tyrone.But the North West of the province has been forgotten by many of our politicians and business organisations.The people of Strabane deserve better.I saw a gap for a destination that would allow freelancers, remote workers, and businesses to meet, collaborate and grow.Delighted to be working with local entrepreneurs Kieran Kennedy & Mia Coyle to bring this project to life

Belfast, Gb

As part of our annual conference, we organise a range of training workshops and masterclasses for eCommerce professionals who want to learn new skills to drive growth in their business. Starting in 2024 we will be rolling out our eComm Academy training courses throughout the year in London, Dublin & Belfast. Expert-Led TrainingOur trainers aren’t academics or full-time trainers, they are industry experts with up-to-date knowledge and practical advice, who have been there and done that. Small Group Sizes & Tailored ContentOur group sizes are small to maintain a hands-on and personalised approach. This ensures that all your questions are addressed directly and the content is tailored to your needs. Great HospitalityWe look after you from start to finish. Everything is included when you book training with us – unlimited tea & coffee, breakfast, lunch, afternoon snack, stationary, and all of your training materials.Our first round of courses is taking place in London on 24th January 2024 – early booking is advised to secure your place!

Belfast, Northern Ireland, Ie

Founder eComm Live - Ireland's leading eCommerce Conference and Training event.

Belfast, Northern Ireland, Gb

Unique consultancy offering Chief Marketing Officer and Chief Digital Officer support to start-ups, scale-ups and enterprise companies.Grow Consultancy is a unique digital business consultancy based in Belfast, with clients in the UK and Ireland.Creative and commercial in equal measure, we have substantial global experience of digital delivery in e-commerce, financial services, publishing and online learning gained in blue chip and start-up environments.Our mission is to help businesses succeed through the effective use of digital channels.We mothballed our agency late in 2002 to focus on our events.

Dublin, Ie

Senior Director responsible for running multi-million pound digital business units for one of Ireland’s leading media groups. Full digital development and P&L responsibility for some of Ireland’s most popular and commercially successful digital platforms, including BelfastTelegraph.co.uk, PropertyNews.com, NIJobfinder.co.uk and NICarfinder.co.uk.• Commercial responsibility - I delivered 20% YoY growth in digital revenues across both years whilst managing costs - monthly updates to PLC board on digital initiatives, results and P&L;• Senior/C-suite stakeholder management and attending PLC board meetings and Board Digital Sub-Committee meetings;• Running digital transformation initiatives across the Group;• Recruitment and training of staff – staff appraisals and mentoring;• Prioritising and delivering often complex and interdependent projects and deliverables across multiple locations, teams and work streams.• Project management - delivering a full suite of digital products including websites, mobile sites, tablet, smart phone apps, upgrades to content management systems;• Day to day running of a suite of high traffic, commercially successful digital platforms and apps including across a range of sectors including publishing & classified news, property, jobs & cars;• Acting as a “go to” digital subject matter expert within the organisation;• Managing an in-house team of 20 staff as well as several external agencies, solutions providers, SaaS providers & web developers.

New York, Ny, Us

Director with EMEA and globalresponsibilities for delivering social media strategy.Oversaw and managed digital marketing, development and social media activity for EMEA for the world's largest asset management firm (BlackRock and iShares brands in EMEA) which has over $1 trillion under management.• Developing the strategy for (and managing the execution of) web and other digital campaigns and activities to clients & prospects across EMEA - up to c.20 variations across 13 countries in EMEA per campaign/product launch;• Being a digital evangelist for the business. Instrumental in driving the digital and social media agendas across the EMEA businesses. This includes leading and developing the strategic digital framework, working in closely with senior stakeholders in the business and delivering training to key staff;• Working with Senior Management to set strategic direction and annual activity planning with full budgetary and agency management responsibility (M&C Saatchi and MEC Global);• Recruitment and onboarding of staff; performance management and mentoring;• Building and implementing social media strategies for the BlackRock & iShares brands across EMEA. Working as part of a global delivery team and being the “go to” person and subject matter expert on digital and social media for the EMEA Businesses.• Managing staff and working with other key staff and stakeholders within the business including channel managers and specialists responsible for various digital disciplines (including SEO, web analytics, UX and design);• Working across the sales & marketing functions, maintaining agency relationships and liaising with key stakeholders throughout the BlackRock & iShares EMEA and global businesses;• Supporting the end-to-end reporting of multi-channel marketing campaigns; • Ensuring that all EMEA and global compliance and risk responsibilities were met.

New York, Ny, Us

Senior marketing role during which I oversaw and managed all digital marketing campaign activity for BlackRock and iShares across 11 countries in EMEA.Strategic responsibilities included:Liaising with key stakeholders throughout the BlackRock & iShares EMEA & global businesses;Delivering innovative campaigns & compelling content to produce sales leads; Working with Senior Management to set strategic direction, annual activity planning & reporting;Ensuring that all EMEA & global compliance & risk responsibilities are met;Speaking at industry events;Building & implementing social media strategies for the businesses;Regular contact and interaction with US headquarters and various international offices to leverage best practice, cost efficiencies & central resource;Ensuring integration with global brand messages, campaigns & themes, whilst delivering regional & local executions across EMEA to support overall business & marketing objectives;Building strong working relationship with key channels and platforms to support global marketing activity e.g. Google and LinkedIn Managing digital marketing budgets for EMEA.Key responsibilities include:Managing an extended team of digital marketers, campaign managers, channel managers and country marketing managers in a matrix structure to ensure delivery of best in class digital marketing for a complex global business;Consulting with stakeholders across the business to ensure messaging is on target and consistent with other messaging globally and across EMEA;Managing external agencies (M&C Saatchi, Ogilvy and MEC Global and various smaller agencies):Advising the businesses on best practice around all aspects of the online marketing process;Staff training and development;Project management - running multiple, complex, concurrent time sensitive projects;Measuring and optimising campaign effectiveness, and ensuring best practice across the marketing functions in EMEA and globally.

I was a digital marketing champion for the business, overseeing the delivery of digital marketing strategies and solutions for a wide range of clients. Reporting to the Commercial Director, I oversaw a team of digital marketers who delivered programmes for clients across the full range of digital marketing channels. Projects included design and delivery of multi channel digital marketing and social media campaigns for blue chip national and international clients.

I started one of the UK & Ireland’s most innovative online music technology subscription businesses from my bedroom.Responsibilities included:- strategic vision, planning and direction;- directing sales and marketing activities to attract a global audience;- developing senior executive level client relationships and partnerships with global businesses;- devising marketing, sales, operations, finance and product plans for the business.Key Achievements:- set up and oversaw the running of one of the UK and Ireland’s most innovative online digital media businesses;- built a sales and marketing focused organisation;- developed director level relationship with major global businesses relationships including some of the world’s leading technology companies including Apple and Google;- successful negotiation of numerous commercial agreements and global alliances with partner businesses;- oversaw rebranding and relaunch of a major website and major reconfiguration of business model in line with user feedback and market intelligence;- ensured website was fully optimized for conversions, sales, search engine optimization, useability, increasing basket value and other key factors which are crucial for the success of internet businesses;- formulated a marketing strategy for the business including social media, online marketing, PR and all other other online and offline marketing activity;- devised business and operational strategies and plans to support delivery of business objectives;- continuous emphasis on developing staff within the business;- consistently ensured a culture of excellence in the business including the highest standards of customer care to 40,000 registered website users from all over the world;- continuously identified and ensured business was exploiting fully industry trends and opportunities;- led the business to win the Belfast Business Awards Creative Industries Award 2008;- won Prince’s Trust Young Achiever of the Year in 2005.

New York, Ny, Us

- worked as part of a team assisting clients with financial services regulatory issues on a series of high profile clients including pensions mis-selling and money laundering;- planned and delivered departmental training programmes;- departmental recruitment and graduate mentoring.

Stratford, London, Gb

- worked as part of a team of monitoring officers who conducted high profile reviews of pensions mis-selling across the UK.

Founder member and drummer in the original line up of the band.

Llb Hons, Law & Politics

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