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United Kingdom

D4 Consulting helps early stage founders and leadership teams to shape and grow their business on a fixed contract or fractional basis. Selected projects include:

With applications across the defence, emergency and humanitarian sectors, the founders needed to restructure their business for scale and pivot into new markets after raising seed funding.I advised on product development & org design and led on cross sector customer research, compliance & regulatory assessment and certification efforts. These inputs.

I was brought in shortly after seed funding to help scale their commercial function and successfully target larger operating groups. I hired and trained their sales & marketing team, redesigned their value proposition & defined their new go to market strategy. Accelerating their move up market and increasing market penetration, the team and approach I.

Working with in house clinical and technical teams I undertook a market assessment and product development project engaging stakeholders across medicine, policy making, technology & public health. As a result, we reset their product roadmap and commercial strategy, securing a marquee partnership with a global pharmaceutical leader and embarking on critical.

I took the summer out to spend time with my family and set up my own fractional consulting business.

London, England, GB

Paddle provides merchant of record and payment services to software companies. I grew and ran our business development operation as we grew from a small UK based team to a global commercial function with a footprint in both the U.S and APAC. We scaled the business through Series C and D rounds, culminating in a $1.4bn valuation and the $200m acquisition of.

Boston, MA, US

Bullhorn is the global market leader for cloud based client & candidate management software serving the recruitment industry My team partnered with UK recruitment industry leaders to help them better understand, manage and grow their business using the Bullhorn's suite of platforms and marketplace partners.

Sunnyvale, CA, US

LinkedIn is the worlds largest professional network.My team supported a small cohort of the UK's largest employers to attract, hire and retain top talent at scale. We helped People & Talent teams to engage and leverage their hiring mangers, marketers and leadership to amplify their employer brand and improve hiring practices.

Cambridge, MA, US

Forrester is a research based advisory and consulting firm specialising in digital transformation and customer experience.My team supported Technology, Strategy & Customer Experience leaders at major UK organisations to develop and execute strategies to win, serve and retain their customers.

Arlington, VA, US

Prior to their acquisition in 2017, CEB was a global, best practice based research and advisory firm, My team worked with FTSE 500 leader to translate global best practice in to organisational performance, providing C-level Sales, Marketing & Communication leaders with actionable insights, analytic tools and advisory support.

London, GB

Following their acquisition of a back office software development house, I helped the BPO division of Baker Tilly productise and launch RSM InTime, their payroll and time management platform, in the UK.

Seattle, Washington, US

In addition to my UK GM role I oversaw our international commercial operations in Germany, France & Australia. I was responsible for international commercial strategy and revenue growth. I led on several cross functional projects to launch our first to market subscription offerings and new licensing models.

Seattle, Washington, US

I ran the Jupiterimages UK operation (acquired by Getty in 2009), reporting into our US leadership team. As part of my commercial remit, I supported the roll out of duplicate sales functions in Australia, Germany and France as we acquired international operations.