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United Kingdom

London

After seeing Sir Ken Robinson's No 1 TED talk on how the education system can teach creativity out of children I co-founded a non-profit initiative to give them a school day like no other by inspiring them with creativity across the STEAM subjects (Science, Technology, Engineering ARTS, and Maths).We've run it for ten years now and been in Wired, BBC.

London

A few days a week helping connect and raise the profile of this brilliant start up that is on a mission to help the 20% of children and older people who struggle with literacy and therefore may struggle in life.Their innovative approach to literacy has already helped over 100k people learn to read and out of poverty in India. An innovative online system.

London

The Team has a fantastic background as one of the UK's most effective brand and communications agencies, connecting brands and businesses as diverse as BP, RBS, Sony, ASOS and CISCO with their employee and customer audiences.They've done some stunning digital experience design work too, especially around user centred design driven responsive web and social.

London

Responsible for activity to drive incremental business from new and existing clients across this top data and digitally driven relationship marketing agency group that is in the business of making connections simple.Delighted to see the agency win numerous awards and be shortlisted for agency of the year as well as deliver a number of high profile.

Repositioned this previously well kept secret as creative strategic consultants and introduced the concept of Master Planning for Brands to the marketplace. This uses a combination of insight, innovation and strategy to co-create blue prints for brands around which all internal and external stakeholders can align.We set out to do the right thing by.

Helped raise profile of this TBWA\ digital agency working closely with other sister agencies and resulting in agency of the year win/nominations, as well as driving new business - resulting in numerous pitch opportunities and wins, the most notable being lead agency for IKEA.Also made significant impact in refocussing internal culture and staff engagement.

Sold and integrated my digital agency Arawak into Craik Jones (part of BBDO network) to establish a digital capability for them. Headed up digital, raising profile and helping them seamlessly integrate digital into their direct marketing proposition - winning business for Unilever, Diageo, Land Rover and Orange as a result.

Launched Arawak to tap into the emerging opportunites for interactive marketing. We produced the first webcasts for MSN, from the London Marathon and Edinburgh Festival in 1995 and went on to work with Microsoft as a roster agency a range of interactive projects for 8 years.Other client wins included Sony PlayStation, TBWA, Infogrames, Eidos, UUNET.

Launched as Macromedia's first independent consultancy, tapping into the opportunities presented by multimedia on PC's and the arrival of Windows 3!Established blue chip client base including Reuters, Unilever, RAF, Glaxo, Lloyds Bank, etc and later sold the business to a retail systems specialist who used it as a vehicle for developing Tesco and Dixon's.

Bracknell, Berks, UK

Consultancy work as the third European employee of Authorware Europe through the merger with Macromind to ultimately become Macromedia. This was the wild frontier and early formative days of what became known as 'digital media'. Three of us shared a laptop, actually on our lap, as we only had 2 desks.Great fun meeting and working with amazing visionary.

Business Development Manager with this pioneering agency that specialised in what was then called computer based training and involved numerous trips back and forth to the car to get the kit required to demonstrate our work to prospective clients.Won new business from companies as diverse as The RAF, Trust House Forte and Marks and Spencer. A particular.

Fast tracked on comprehensive graduate trainee programme into senior position responsible for £ multi million accounts, liaising with nationwide sales and delivery teams.Also involved in emerging technology projects, one of which was the an early deployment of interactive media in a training application. Head hunted out in the dead of night by a special.

Loughborough

Masters, Electronics

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