Mark Fones Email & Phone Number

Birmingham, West Midlands, Gb

Inside every brand, there’s hidden value with the power to level up business performance. But first, it must be created. Switched on. Supercharged. And this is what we do. In a post-digital world fusing virtual and physical, we are a B2B agency blending brand strategy and business consultancy with audience-first activation, for visionary leaders in specialist sectors. We spearhead global expansion. We deliver differentiation. We drive digitalisation. And we accelerate value creation like never before.Specialist sector expertise: - Industrials: machinery, construction, fabrication, manufacturing, precision engineering, infrastructure, transportation, logistics, aerospace, defence, marine and rail- Materials: mining, refining, chemical, water management, forestry and raw materials discovery/development- Technology: green tech, electronics manufacturers, software developers and information technology specialists- Energy: oil and gas exploration and production, integrated power, refineries, renewables- Business Transformation/M&A: private equity, corporate finance and buy-side/sell-side transaction consultancyAward wins, nominations and rankings: B2B Campaign of the Year, Best Use of Content and Integrated Communications Campaign of the Year at PRMoment Awards, Best Branding and Positioning at Construction Marketing Awards, Best Long Term Campaign at CIPR Excellence Awards, B2B Award at PRCA Dare Awards, Best Content Marketing at The Drum AwardsB2B Marketing Top 40PRWeek B2B Agency Top 25 PRWeek Outside London Top 15PRWeek ESG Consultancy Top 10The Drum Top 15 Independent Agencies (<50 staff)

Birmingham, West Midlands, Gb

My role quickly evolved to include a wider remit: to dissolve boundaries between our teams to create a seamlessly integrated offer, develop our 1° West international partner network and evolve a high-value/high-margin creative agency business model.Award wins and rankings: RAR Top 100, CIPR Outstanding Agency of the Year, The Drum Midlands Marketing Business of the Year, B2B Marketing Top 5 PR/Top 25 Marketing/Top 30 Global Agency, PR Week Top 50 Digital Agency.

Birmingham, West Midlands, Gb

Joining Wyatt International in 2010, my role initially focused on diversifying our offer, improving strategic capabilities and increasing the quality of creativity across our B2B focused client portfolio…Award wins and nominations: Agency of the Year, Best Marketing Campaign, Corporate Identity, Animation/CGI/Film Idents, Integrated Campaign and Product Launch categories at CIPR, EIA, Cream, B2B Marketing and CIM events.

Supporting LCT’s mission to provide a formidable education, within the classroom and beyond, to inspire the next generation of global citizens and to help them realise their vision to develop compassionate, resilient and inspirational young people who can thrive within an ever-changing global community.Part of a Local Governing Body that exists to ensure everything the school does is aligned to its vision, that all resources are appropriately managed and leaders are supported strategically.I'm proud to be playing my part in shaping education, experiences and employability opportunities for the next generation.

Wolverhampton, West Midlands, Gb

Supporting the BA (Hons) Visual Communication academic team based at the School of Art and Design in developing, mentoring and inspiring the region's best future creative talent. Find out more about the programme, the teaching staff and what the University of Wolverhampton has to offer here: https://www.wlv.ac.uk/about-us/our-schools-and-institutes/faculty-of-arts/wolverhampton-school-of-art/undergraduate-courses/ba-hons-visual-communication/

Birmingham, West Midlands, Gb

Supporting the post graduate Marketing focused academic team at the Business School in developing, mentoring and inspiring the region's best strategic communications talent. Sponsoring the MSc Marketing Communications programme, delivering seminars, providing practical 'real world' projects and challenging student teams through workshop based briefing sessions.Find out more about the programme, the teaching staff and what the University of Birmingham Business School has to offer here: http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/postgraduate/courses/taught/business/marketing-communications.aspx#CourseOverviewTab

The Digital Creative Network was launched by Mark Fones in February 2009. It is the group for innovative Creative, Marketing, PR and Media professionals who specialise in all types of inspirational digital project work and online channel activity. Share, debate and network with like-minded people who are leading and shaping the ever changing world of marketing communications. Find out more by searching for 'Digital Creative' in LinkedIn Groups or join the conversation here: http://bit.ly/thedigitalcreativenetwork

London, Gb

This role was focused on inspiring, shaping and leading TMP's creative offering within the UK with real emphasis being on branding, strategy, digital and integrated communications across the regional business. In early 2005, I restructured the national creative team (+45 staff) in order to deliver quality and efficiency gains for both our business and clients alike. Post MBO in May 2006, I led TMP’s re-brand. Working closely with a large multi-site project team, I successfully created and deployed the 'We're all yours' platform that enabled TMP to share renewed cultural values, deliver enhanced customer experiences and grow a stronger reputation from the inside out. In February 2009, I originated, developed and launched a unique brand based business offering that has been available and successfully promoted to clients/prospects throughout the economic downturn. 'Employer Bonding' takes the principles of research-led branding and Web 2.0 technologies (the driving force behind social networks) and refocuses them on employee engagement - widely recognised as a major factor in helping the best companies retain key talent, increase productivity, recover performance and increase brand value as they emerge from a recession. Partnered by Google in July 2009, I presented this new offer to a selection of Marketing, Communications and HR leaders at 'online branding' workshops aimed at high profile private and public sector organisations. Since the mid noughties, the overarching theme of my work was to migrate creative services, agency thinking and key account activity towards the use of integrated solutions, emerging technologies and new digital channels. This approach led to the delivery of many UK marketing firsts, over 60 industry awards and demonstrable results for my clients. During the same period, I also ensured a pitch win ratio of 2:3 and the addition of significant levels of new business billings to the UK operation.

New York, Ny, Us

Working within the UK division of one of the world's largest advertising and communications agencies, I successfully led an award-winning, full service creative team towards a set of quality focused and commercially biased objectives. During my time in this post and beyond, clients included: Land Rover, Jaguar, Lloyds TSB, RBS, Bank of America, E.ON, RWE, npower, National Grid, Vision Express, Barratt Developments, GCHQ, HMRC, Office for National Statistics, Wolverine Worldwide, Kraft Foods, Manchester Metropolitan University, University of Wolverhampton, IBM, Intel, BMI and Yell Group.

New York, Ny, Us

Head of art direction, design and artwork. This role partnered the Creative Director in owning and improving quality across all aspects of creative output whilst helping to reshape team structure, workflow and commercial processes.

London, Gb

Forming part of a 20 strong full service creative team in a Campaign Top 10 agency, this semi-conceptual role was focused on delivering high quality, brand-led marcomms solutions to blue chip clients operating in technology, financial, gaming and leisure markets. Pan-European marketing collateral and Playstation promotional campaigns (for games such as Star Wars I - The Phantom Menace and Euro 2000) were key highlights. This was a non-managerial post (except when supporting the Creative Director in his absence) with some client development responsibilities. Clients included: Apple Computers, Lotus Software, Unisys, Dell, Nortel Networks, Storagetek, SAP, Electronic Arts, Rage Software, Lucas Arts, Nationwide and Cendant.

Kinver, West Midlands, Gb

Working within a small but well-established design agency, this role was responsible for producing creative design work from concept through to print ready artwork for reputable clients in FMCG, commercial property, fashion/retail and leisure markets. Output mainly focused on promotional campaign material, brand development, brochures, signage and advertising. The role also featured some client facing opportunity. Clients included: Cadbury, Miss Selfridge, Bass Taverns (New Line Bars), Punch Taverns and London Cambridge Properties.

Making Your Organisation Innovative, Business Administration And Management, General

Small Business Leadership Programme (Sblp), Business Administration And Management, General

1St Class - Ba Hons, Design Studies