Founder & partner at RESOLVE - resolveagency.com - we help business owners, private equity and investors grow engineering and manufacturing companies through strategic marketing, brand development and systems.RESOLVE also provides a plugin virtual marketing department service. Working at a strategic and operational level, you get a plugin CMO backed with full service agency outputs. Clients love having a full service marketing team on tap, scalable, flexible and at less cost than having an in-house team.I have 25+ years experience working with blue chip, SMEs and startups - providing marketing & sales consultancy, strategic counsel, brand development, digital marketing, internal & external comms. I am passionate about engineering and manufacturing in the UK and how that drives innovation. Currently working on a number of I4.0 projects across Digital Twinning, Simulation and IIoT.I ran global marketing and comms for one of the UK's oldest engineering companies, Hayward Tyler Group PLC. Working directly with the CEO and turnaround team, doubling business size and winning of numerous industry awards including SMART Factory & The Queen's Award. Developed new marketing systems, collateral, sales tools and redefined the customer experience, value-stream mapping and implementing technologies to streamline processes, supporting global operations.After reinvigorating the 200 year old brand, rolled out full global marcomms operations. This included the opening of the Centre of Excellence, the largest single investment in the company's history, as well as 2 royal visits. When Hayward Tyler Group acquired another British heritage brand, Peter Brotherhood from Dresser Rand (now Siemens), I was heavily involved in the integration. The entire group was sold to Avingtrans PLC.Advisor to a number of tech start-ups.I am passionate about education and as a side project headed up marketing and technology for 11 years at Chalke Festival - chalkefestival.com, helping grow to 30,000 visitors and 2,500 school children each year.My specialties: digital transformation, marketing strategy, brand strategy, corporate comms, marketing, creative problem solving, design solutions.
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