hydramind helps businesses grow by making the best use of digital. From data insight, marketing strategy, tech strategy, search engine visibility and paid advertising to social media, systems integration, technical build and more. All of these aspects of digital need to work in harmony in order for businesses to grow with the maximum efficiency and return on investment. I'm currently helping businesses do this in B2B, B2C, e-commerce, SaaS and not-for-profit.

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Prophecy Unlimited was formed from the merger of The Real Adventure Unlimited and EMO Unlimited to form the largest customer journey agency in the South West. Its clients included Danone, Costa Coffee, Asda, Lloyds Black Horse, BMW, Toyota, Barratt Homes and HM Government. As Chief Technology Officer, I was responsible for the delivery of all aspects of technical output for our clients as well as the overall strategic technical direction of the agency. This included websites, data management and email delivery for Danone's mum & baby programs, national and international dealer websites for BMW and Toyota and delivery of the Costa Coffee club.During my time as CTO, I led the pitch to retain one of the agency's largest clients - taking an approach founded in a strong technical delivery. Our techology offering covered a range of platforms including proprietary systems, commercial content management and email systems and integrated suites such as the Adobe Marketing Cloud for which I led the up-skill of the agency, gaining partnership status.Under my leadership, my direct reports managed project delivery, tech solutions, data solutions, dev ops and data protection. I also worked at Unlimited Group level, co-authoring the group's IT strategy.

The Real Adventure Unlimited, a specialist CRM entity within the Unlimited Group, was an Econsultancy Top 100 digital agency, with 120 staff. Its clients included Danone, Costa Coffee, Asda, Lloyds Black Horse and HM Government. Its expertise in data-driven customer journeys and engaging brand content encompassed web, mobile, email, social media, apps, video and DM.I was responsible for all technical aspects of our client delivery. This included website and CRM tech for Danone's mum & baby programs (a client I'd helped win in 2001), email delivery for the Costa Coffee club and marketing technology thought leadership for ASDA. During my time leading the technology direction of the agency I drove innovation in many areas including the ongoing development of our proprietary multi-channel CRM and marketing automation platform, voice assistants and automated, multi-channel conversational interfaces. I also supported Danone in their move to their globally-adopted Adobe Marketing Cloud.I was jointly responsible for growing the agency’s turnover to £9m and profit to £1.3m by 2016/17, its most successful financial year. I also jointly headed up an agency leadership team which got consistently high ratings in the Group’s annual staff feedback survey. The agency also received Best Company one star status.

Parent company of The Real Adventure

Software developer of bond & equity trading systems

Software development in transport industry. Projects included satellite control systems, channel tunnel, air traffic command & control