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Lancaster, England, United Kingdom

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Lancaster, United Kingdom

Having known the brilliant team at Hotfoot for over a decade, it is a real pleasure to now be supporting them in their growth plans. Hotfoot is one of the leading branding, creative, digital and marketing agencies in Lancashire with clients across the UK. What makes them stand out is the desire to understand your business and bring all their expertise to help make a real difference and drive significant growth in all their client's businesses. Visit www.hotfootdesign.co.uk for… Show more Having known the brilliant team at Hotfoot for over a decade, it is a real pleasure to now be supporting them in their growth plans. Hotfoot is one of the leading branding, creative, digital and marketing agencies in Lancashire with clients across the UK. What makes them stand out is the desire to understand your business and bring all their expertise to help make a real difference and drive significant growth in all their client's businesses. Visit www.hotfootdesign.co.uk for more info or call 01524 388813 if you would like to meet us or chat about your next project. Show less

Morecambe, Lancashire

UK Bathroom Store is one of the UK's fastest growing ecommerce bathroom retailers. From its base in Morecambe, it serves the whole of the UK providing baths, taps, showers and enclosures, toilets, mirrors and a whole range of bathroom accessories and hardware to over 30,000 customers a year and growing. We provide the highest level of industry knowledge with over 100 years of combined experience at hand in our sales and customer service teams to advise our customers on the most… Show more UK Bathroom Store is one of the UK's fastest growing ecommerce bathroom retailers. From its base in Morecambe, it serves the whole of the UK providing baths, taps, showers and enclosures, toilets, mirrors and a whole range of bathroom accessories and hardware to over 30,000 customers a year and growing. We provide the highest level of industry knowledge with over 100 years of combined experience at hand in our sales and customer service teams to advise our customers on the most suitable products for their installations.My role is to help drive the next steps of the company's growth as it seeks to be one of the UK's top 3 retailers of branded bathroom goods.For more information visit www.ukbathroomstore.co.uk or call us on 01524 841087 for help and advice or a personalised quote. Show less

Lancashire

Proud to be the Founding Chair of not-for-profit membership organisation Digital Lancashire (stepped down Dec 2018) and a Director until Jan 2020.Digital Lancashire was established by a volunteer board of owners from digitally focused businesses who are passionate about improving the local landscape to enable digital businesses to grow and thrive in Lancashire.This involves providing a voice for the sector across the county and beyond; to campaign for more investment and better… Show more Proud to be the Founding Chair of not-for-profit membership organisation Digital Lancashire (stepped down Dec 2018) and a Director until Jan 2020.Digital Lancashire was established by a volunteer board of owners from digitally focused businesses who are passionate about improving the local landscape to enable digital businesses to grow and thrive in Lancashire.This involves providing a voice for the sector across the county and beyond; to campaign for more investment and better infrastructure; to find, grow and develop the skills needed to drive the industry forward from schools to the workplace; to provide great events through which to learn, network and have fun; to provide the support and collaborative tools to bring different elements of the sector together for projects; to help companies and organisations from inside and outside the county to be able to commission digital projects from Lancashire companies with confidence; to provide access to tenders and bids; and to bring together a range of benefits through membership to help companies thrive.Achievements include the establishment of Digital Advantage, a hugely successful programme working in schools across the county to help find the next wave of digital employees and apprentices; thriving clusters established in Burnley and Lancaster, with more to come; a range of events delivered; a successful free Digital Transformation programme; informing the digital skills agenda across the county; and a whole host of other actions and programmes delivered.For more details visit the website at www.digital-lancashire.org.uk. Show less

United Kingdom

Advertising M&A is a specialist global Mergers and Acquisitions consultancy exclusively for the advertising, digital, media and marketing services sectors. We advise agencies on exit strategies and put companies together that wish to buy, sell or merge. The consultancy has a presence in nine locations around the world - London, New York, Moscow, Sydney, Mumbai, Dubai, Hong Kong, Sao Paulo and Rome. Alongside my colleagues I cover the North of England and Scotland bringing industry… Show more Advertising M&A is a specialist global Mergers and Acquisitions consultancy exclusively for the advertising, digital, media and marketing services sectors. We advise agencies on exit strategies and put companies together that wish to buy, sell or merge. The consultancy has a presence in nine locations around the world - London, New York, Moscow, Sydney, Mumbai, Dubai, Hong Kong, Sao Paulo and Rome. Alongside my colleagues I cover the North of England and Scotland bringing industry knowledge and experience plus specialist insight to agencies across the region. Show less

Lancaster, United Kingdom

Over eight years I oversaw the growth of Fat Media from a small office in Lancaster to one of the largest digital and creative marketing agencies in the UK. Working with a superb team we built on Fat Media's skills in digital and regularly introduced new complimentary services and products as the market developed and matured. The business was sold in April 2014 for a seven-figure sum and another agency, Motive Technologies, rolled into it. By year end 2014 the combined business… Show more Over eight years I oversaw the growth of Fat Media from a small office in Lancaster to one of the largest digital and creative marketing agencies in the UK. Working with a superb team we built on Fat Media's skills in digital and regularly introduced new complimentary services and products as the market developed and matured. The business was sold in April 2014 for a seven-figure sum and another agency, Motive Technologies, rolled into it. By year end 2014 the combined business had a turnover well in excess of £3 million, a staff of 90 and an incredibly strong client base in the UK and overseas.Role: Leadership of company. Delivery of strategic planning and direction. Acted as FD with responsibility for finance department and acquisitions. Took role as Account Director on some key clients. Line management responsibility for Creative Communications team handling branding, graphic design, marketing programme delivery and account management. Responsible for financial and hospitality sector clients.Achievements: - Eight years of consistent growth in turnover and profitability at an average of 30% a year.- Acquisition of Red Abbey in Barrow resulting in return of over 100% in first year.- Credit score of over 96 for six years due to financial management policies- Over 30 major industry awards including Big Chip Awards, Red Rose Award (Creative Business of the Year), BIBAs (Excellence in Customer Service), Lancashire Business Awards, Web Marketing Association and many more.- Lead agency for major clients including Warburtons, Lakeland, Servisair, OCS, JD Sports, Yotel, Jessops, Lancaster University and many more.- Developed financial sector expertise in private equity, investment management and hedge funds to include clients such as Foresight Group, Downing, NIB Infrastructure Finance, Capricorn Capital, Iona Capital, Mercia Fund Management, Standard Bank and more. Show less

Lancaster, United Kingdom

Five Coats was a two strand business - government focused custom publishing and event audience generation. The business sold to Fat Media in July 2006.Custom Publishing: Clients included HM Treasury, the Department for Education and Skills and the Office of Government Commerce.Achievements: Launched the £22 billion Building Schools for the Future Programme, a programme to rebuild or refurbish every secondary school in England and Wales, from consultation through to full launch… Show more Five Coats was a two strand business - government focused custom publishing and event audience generation. The business sold to Fat Media in July 2006.Custom Publishing: Clients included HM Treasury, the Department for Education and Skills and the Office of Government Commerce.Achievements: Launched the £22 billion Building Schools for the Future Programme, a programme to rebuild or refurbish every secondary school in England and Wales, from consultation through to full launch by the Prime Minister. I worked with the Schools Capital team up to ministerial level on all aspects of launch branding, documentation design and print, photography and its showcase launch in a school in north London. I also launched the Primary Capital programme for the upgrade of the primary school estate.Event Audience Generation: Worked with Penton Media, Ithaca and Light Reading on generating visitors for their events in the UK and overseas. Achievements: Helped grow attendance at Service Management Europe by 92%. Successfully launched Penton's Triple Play events in Russia, Poland, Sweden, Ukraine, Greece, Italy, UK, France and Germany through employing native speakers from Lancaster University. Show less

London, United Kingdom

Following the acquisition of Hillgate Communications by US firm Penton Media I took on the position of Business Development Director within the Publishing Group. In that time I launched a range of titles including m-Commerce World, Internet Security Management, Windows .NET and a number of one-off publications.Achievements: Launching m-Commerce World about 10 years ahead of its time. Saw the growth in internet security market and launched titles and events for this space.

London, United Kingdom

Setup Hillgate Custom Publishing and our first major win was Penton Media, which subsequently acquired the business. Launched Internet World, then one of the UK's biggest B2B publishing success stories. Also won a variety of large publishing contracts. Achievements: Was the launch publisher of Internet World, which was profitable from launch and generated over £2 million in revenue in first year. Helped grow turnover by 420% in just 18 months from arrival to the sale to Penton. Brought… Show more Setup Hillgate Custom Publishing and our first major win was Penton Media, which subsequently acquired the business. Launched Internet World, then one of the UK's biggest B2B publishing success stories. Also won a variety of large publishing contracts. Achievements: Was the launch publisher of Internet World, which was profitable from launch and generated over £2 million in revenue in first year. Helped grow turnover by 420% in just 18 months from arrival to the sale to Penton. Brought in contracts from AIMA, Allen & Overy, Bank of Scotland and HM Treasury. Show less

London, United Kingdom

I was headhunted to return to Euromoney to work on the integration of its acquisition of Institutional Investor. I began my time by working in New York for approximately two months looking at which publications could be transferred to the UK and European markets.Achievements: Led substantial growth on existing titles such as Global Fund Manager, Global Money Manager, Derivatives Week. Launched new title Telecom Financing Week with record sponsorship and launch revenues. During my time… Show more I was headhunted to return to Euromoney to work on the integration of its acquisition of Institutional Investor. I began my time by working in New York for approximately two months looking at which publications could be transferred to the UK and European markets.Achievements: Led substantial growth on existing titles such as Global Fund Manager, Global Money Manager, Derivatives Week. Launched new title Telecom Financing Week with record sponsorship and launch revenues. During my time leading these publications I grew non-subscription revenue by over 400% and created over £1 million in revenue from new and existing titles. Show less

London, United Kingdom

Account Manager looking after advertising spend of over £5 million for clients including Chase, HSBC, Lehman Brothers, SEB, Deutsche Bank and Morgan Stanley.Achievements: Brought in HSBC as a new client. Launched largest advertising campaign in history of Kleinwort Benson, leading to eventual sale of firm to Dresdner Bank. Grew new revenue streams at SBC Warburg. Launched Credit Suisse Financial Products.

London, United Kingdom

At Euromoney I took over Corporate Finance magazine's advertising revenues, where I grew non-subscription income by over 300% in two years. Travelling around the world I generated new income streams particularly in the UK, USA, France, Germany and Japan.I also was involved in the launch of Treasury Manager and Global M&A magazines.Achievements: Grew revenues by over 300%. Launched new products. Introduced new revenue streams.

London, United Kingdom

Took over as Advertising Manager on The Treasurer magazine and increased revenues by over 120% in one year. Launched Treasury Management International magazine.

London, United Kingdom

Worked my way up from Graduate Trainee to Advertising Manager on Accountancy Age newspaper. Worked on titles such as Financial Decisions and relaunched as Financial Director. Helped launch AA Magazine and Management Consultancy. Developed new display advertising markets including banking and finance, consumer products and the newly privatised electricity industries.

Humanities, Politics, Philosophy

Activities and Societies: Glentoran Supporters Club. Philosophy Society. Politics and Philosophy

Education record

Activities and Societies: Quiz, chess and swimming teams.