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Owslebury, GB

London, England, GB

Digital community architect for Saudi Arabian Smart Cities. Building vibrant, connected, and self-sustaining communities that foster engagement, loyalty, and a shared commitment to the city's culture, goals, and prosperity.

I founded the business to support entrepreneurial tech companies through board-level advisory roles, targeted workshops, and strategic training.I’ve authored a how-to guide for UK start-ups and provide mentorship and 'masterclass' training for incubators including Techstars and AI Forge.

Cloud KB specialised in reducing the cost and increasing the value of data in the energy market, using leading-edge cloud services to support innovation and agility in this fast-changing sector.As a company director working closely with the CEO, I helped transform the company from a single-customer consultancy into multi-customer SaaS business which.

I was appointed as an independent director to join the board of this national governing body for group exercise in the UK and to help deliver its mission of improving public health through exercise.I chaired the Commercial Income Committee with the goal of reducing reliance upon public funding by developing additional revenue streams, facilitating.

London, England, GB

Yourkeys was an award-winning tech start-up that provides a digital platform to streamline house-buying: linking developers, conveyancers and estate agents.I helped prepare Yourkeys for SEIS and EIS investment, identifying and mitigating commercial risks and guiding investors through due diligence activities. In addition, I led on key contract negotiations.

Prior to the 'Startup Doctor', my consultancy work was focused on improving customer engagement, loyalty and value through the use of data, omni-channel experiences and emerging technology across sectors including insurance, entertainment, financial services, retail, communications and hospitality. As part of this work, I was invited by industry governing.

I co-founded Sparkle to address the gap between innovation in retail digital marketing versus in-store experiences with legacy point of sale systems. We attracted international investment, including from Silicon Valley, and I invented and patented two software algorithms. We were pioneers in Agile techniques, which saw our team recognised as runners-up for.

The renowned high-diving club, which has trained Olympic medallists, required refocusing following UK Sport’s consolidation of diving centres of excellence.During my tenure, I guided the development of new strategic plans as part of a refresh of SDA’s five-year strategy and secured governing body support in the recommendations. I contributed to raising the.

This UK tech start-up delivered targeted mobile marketing to sell tickets to live events in the final two weeks before the show. I joined as the first investor, supporting the founder to buy out assets from previously liquidated company, and I assisted through further investment rounds, representing minority investors on the Board.I helped the CEO refine.

Healthy Incentives was a UK start-up created by the Young Foundation and Birmingham East & North Primary Care Trust to experiment with the effect of loyalty programmes in preventative healthcare. I established the Board, appointing directors from BEN PCT and NESTA, and secured initial funding against a business plan. I also recruited the team. I chaired.

Having delivered the technical infrastructure for Nectar, I was asked to form a new team responsible for exploring and selling opportunities to create major multi-company customer loyalty programmes with responsibilities including: prospect approach; business case preparation and presentation; contract negotiations; requirement analysis; delivery team.

I was responsible for the sales and marketing activities for a new subsidiary venture of the Loyalty Management Group providing IT, marketing and data insight services related to customer loyalty programmes.

I was the original CTO for the Nectar loyalty program from launch, responsible for all aspects of the design, development and support of the bespoke loyalty platform, website and data warehouse as well as connectivity to over 6000 retail outlets.

At Evolution, I founded the Managed Services Group and introduced ITIL practices into the organisation in order to provide a professional support practice for our financial clients.I also directly managed major projects, including a new trading platform.

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As a PM in the dot com boom, I was responsible for full end-to-end startup project management including branding, technical development, launch and onward support for clients in the retail and insurance sectors, including Europe's first WAP-enabled auction website.

Working in the defence sector, I provided expertise in encryption and secure databases with projects including global asset tracking systems and classified operational systems. I received two company awards during this time.

Phd, Mathematics & Engineering

Bsc Ist Class, Electrical & Electronic Engineering