I lead the charge in revolutionizing the marketing capabilities for businesses within the Tempting Ventures portfolio. We’re committed to building strategies that ensure the long-term commercial success of your business whilst building brand loyalty (which is critical in competitive markets). We do this by growing and nurturing specialist Talent Pools, adding huge value to our client base, and strategic deployment of our cutting-edge tech stack. All the while staying aligned with your business objectives.How I Can Help You:Tap into my extensive network of best-in-class freelancers and agencies, ensuring your marketing solutions are executed by the finest talents in the industry.Benefit from my branding expertise, honed through the creation of some of the most recognized brands in recruitment. I work hand-in-hand with CEOs to position niche recruitment companies within specific verticals by defining the brand, taking it to market consistently, and making you famous within your niche.Our entire content strategy is focused on adding unique value to customers that they can’t get anywhere else. We work closely with the sales team to transfer valuable industry insights into channels where our ideal customers want to consume content and have conversations.

Tempting Ventures invests in high growth recruitment businesses in exciting sectors across the globe.We offer our partners much more than capital. We offer access to best in class talent, tech stack, marketing, mentoring and back office functions.Our team are passionate about investing in and scaling businesses; working alongside driven, high-performance management teams in a supportive relationship that allows both the businesses and the individuals to achieve their potential.At the core of everything we do are the principles of fairness, integrity and fun. Having been both investees and investors, Tempting Ventures understand what it is to walk in a management team's shoes and we believe this allows us the empathy to be better investors and business partners.

As a Digital Art Director I was responsible for a digital design team producing a wide range of projects for brands including Voss, Nickelodeon, Remington and Goodwood.A large part of my role was mentoring the design team, providing feedback and support to clients, pitching new business and co-ordinating with other departments to enhance our creative and business offerings.Highlights include:- Developing a new style of competition page for Nickelodeon to support their movie partnerships -Leading the team that designed a series of innovative online video games for Nickelodeon- Designed and built Voss Water's business intranet system- Designed social campaigns for multiple lines of Remington products including the Remington iLight- Designed the new Addiction Worldwide website- Managed the design and delivery of an account winning pitch to develop Goodwood’s online presence

Seesaw was one of the first UK internet television services attracting up to 2 million users per month offering free and paid for series such as Doctor Who, Peep Show and Doc MartinIn this lead designer role I was responsible for taking Seesaw’s brand to the next level by engaging new audiences, transferring to new technologies and designing pitches for new channel partnerships.- Developed Flash driven programme pages for popular shows such as Peep Show and Skins that offered series catch ups, exclusive content and character bios.- Created a new series of competitions in which 3 premium shows were pitched together and Facebook Likes were used to submit votes with the winning show made available for free. This generated huge engagement across our Facebook pages and across channel specific forums

Utilising both my design and front end development skills I worked as part of a small digital team supporting channel marketing initiatives across EMEA. I was involved with the creative concepting of marketing stunts with on-air marketing teams and developing multi-terriotory sites through HTML, Flash AS3 and XML.My biggest achievement was planning, designing and building a game portal in which users entered an immersive environment and selected a door that transported them to a new set of online games each week. Supported by on air idents and adverts this drove a large uplift in traffic to DisneyXD throughout the campaign.

Working on a range of game franchises such as Need for Speed, Dragon Age, FIFA and The Sims I was responsible for the design of digital assets, emails and conversion/purchase pages for EA Store.Projects- Flash banner campaigns- Email campaigns- Highly engaging landing and purchase pages- Franchise web pages- Site takeovers- EA Store brand guidelinesSoftware- Adobe Creative Suite- Final Cut Pro- HTML/CSS- Actionscript 2/3My advanced design role in a highly competitive market meant I took on responsibility to meet revenue targets whilst working under large amounts of pressure which I thrive on. Often working on multiple EA titles and campaigns at once this role required me to work with different creative styles whilst adhering to and developing the EA Store brand which was a challenge I enjoyed.

Managing my own time and clients I have sourced work and delivered great design and advertising projects within tight schedules. Clients included Spencer Ogden, Snapfin, Pathway, Harbor International and pfj at Confex 2009.

As the lead creative designer I was responsible for brand development and the design of multi-platform ad campaigns. My digital responsibilities included regular updating of websites and intranet, creating animated web campaigns and e-marketing promotions.My print responsibilities focussed on weekly ad creation for trade magazines and national press. Internal branding and documentation was also integral to the role along with large scale biannual exhibition design for industry shows.