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United Kingdom

Berlin, De

Munich, Bavaria, De

Advisor to businesses in spaces being disrupted / enabled by technology (eg ecommerce, advertising, recruitment and marketplaces)

London, Gb

I joined the Up Group Board working with the founder and the PE investors to help shape and deliver the business's ambitious growth strategy. Resulting in the successful acquisition of business by Alexander Mann Solutions.The Up Group builds outstanding leadership teams for the world's most innovative companies. It leverages a global talent network unique in its quality, diversity and breadth; deep digital expertise and comprehensive industry knowledge; extensive experience in helping companies scale and transform; and the smartest team in the industry.

Munich, Bavaria, De

Berlin, Berlin, De

Advisor to the Hello Fresh UK Leadership team

Austin, Tx, Us

Leading the the core commercial team with responsibility for top line revenue for the UK business. Consistently exceeding aggressive top line growth and sales targets across all verticals in a challenging market. Proven success at influencing at senior levels with major UK retailers. Championing customer led innovation and winning the 2017 PMA best retail campaign award.

Austin, Tx, Us

Managing the UK sales team responsible for driving a major proportion of RetailMeNot UK’s revenue, consistently exceeding targets. Developing joint product and sales strategies to sell omni channel advertising solutions to the UK’s major fashion and multi category retailers.As the business development lead working across all company strategic initiatives, Identifying key partners, working closely with the EU legal team negotiating favourable commercial agreements, driving cost efficiencies of up to 25%.

Austin, Tx, Us

Secured and managed multiple business development agreements that provided innovative technical and content partnership deals. Including: digital rebates, in-store point of sales, personalisation and content. Doubled restaurant offer content and secured a paid trial with a major retailer in Q1 2016. Subsequently became head of product , managing the product, project management and design teams during a period of rapid change. Responsible for the delivery of Q3 and Q4 strategic initiatives across the site and app. Delivered 4x the number of strategic initiatives vs. Q1 2015

Tesco PLC UK: Delivering board paper to Tesco Group Multichannel Director, analysing strategic decision-making processes when investing in South East Asian E-commerce provider (Lazada).T-Mobile Germany: Design thinking workshop to rapidly prototype a new service to engage a hard to reach demographic. Winning vendor solution of choice, expanding customer smartphone and data usage for 20% of the population.

Amsterdam, Nl

Used industry insight and analysis to identify winning business models and new technologies for professional investors.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Developed Amazon’s international expansion strategy in Europe and Japan working in a team of three, Including marketing strategy, country and product launch priority.Leading the business launch of the DVD and Video business in the UK. Managed the international multi-disciplined team responsible for building a business from scratch. Worked with HR, logistics, product, engineering, legal, marketing and PR.Growing Amazon’s DVD business after launch exceeding targets, improving margins, product availability. .

New York, Ny, Us

Corporate development, leading evaluation of mobile and broadband technologies and creating the strategy for AOL Europe for VP AOL international.Evaluated new and disruptive free Internet subscriber businesses. Provided market insight to the UK Marketing Director, including competitor analysis and campaign performance.

Santa Clara, California, Us

Working closely with heads of EU marketing and manufacturing to maximise revenue. Presented weekly updates to the VP of Europe on account allocation and revenue forecast.Led relocation of marketing operations team from the UK to Munich, included managing local staff during the transition, training and process improvement. Driving more efficient allocation of product to major manufacturers and OEMs.Developing a faster and more reliable method of running the intel inside coop marketing program for European distributers. Delivered Increased partner satisfaction of 30% and program participation.

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Specialisation In Strategy And Entrepreneurship

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), International Business And Innovation

First Year Of A Phd, Satellite Remote Sensing

Bsc Hons, Geophysical Science