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Consultant and non-exec adviser/investor offering strategic advice, business transformation, and project leadership to media, marketing and tech companies. Specialist in creating multi-platform content and business strategies based on deep audience/customer insight. Clients range from media owners and events businesses to digital pure plays, mobile app and software developers, business intelligence, and marketing agencies.I help them to transform their businesses and to grow – whether they need to adapt their business model, structure or brand positioning; monetise content; make the transition from print to digital; create integrated content solutions, improve audience engagement and data; or develop profitable new service offerings.

Bristol, England, United Kingdom

Sift is a premium digital publisher reaching over 1.5 million+ professionals across the globe in accounting, HR and training, customer experience and marketing through digital media, insight and events. Its digital and content marketing agency division PracticeWeb helps accountancy firms to build their brands, become data driven, and grow their businesses.

London, England, United Kingdom

Nostradamus is a B2B data analytics and insight consultancy that enables businesses to make faster, better business decisions by delivering 'always on' intelligence on key stakeholder groups and their views about the issues affecting specific business sectors and companies. Strategy and corporate affairs directors can use the service to track their company's reputation and performance versus their competitors and gain valuable insight into emerging trends that will affect them in the future.

London, United Kingdom

Advising on strategy and business development for this video and digital marketing agency operating in the healthcare sector.

GYDA (Grow Your Digital Agency) is a business consultancy that works with the leaders of digital agencies to help them improve performance and grow. I offer agency leaders one-to-one coaching, mentoring and consultancy support to solve specific problems and uncover new and better ways of doing things - and/or act as a 'virtual' NED to the wider business.

Poole, England, United Kingdom

Family-owned commercial landlord in Dorset (Romany Works Business Park) with circa 50 tenants in mixed workshop, office, industrial and storage units. Tenants range from professional services and charities to engineering, logistics, tech and construction.

Led both the Corporate and Pharma practices within this $1bn WPP Group research and brandintelligence company. Focused on developing MB's specialist B2B/corporate reputation research and consultancy offer.

Worked with incoming CEO to transition the business to a new market-led structure, led the strategy development programme and set up a new centralised marketing and insight function.

Led the largest and fastest-growing division within Haymarket Business Media, with 20 brands across 7 vertical sectors. Brand activities included: print, online, directories, live events, information services, customer publishing. Appointed to main board of Haymarket Media Group in March 2003.Key achievements in this role:- Grew UK division fourfold, consistently exceeding annual targets and delivering 50% of the entire group's profit growth from 2001 to 2007. Given responsibility for two further sectors in 2008/9, increasing divisional revenue to £40m+. - Diversified the business into 3 new industry sectors and 6 new product types.- Transformed magazine portfolio from controlled circulation to fully paid, increasing subscription revenue to £6m (second largest revenue source).- Established German subsidiary and oversaw growth from the initial acquisition of a single brand to become a significant profit generator for the group. - Oversaw a series of successful acquisitions and launches (UK and international). - Led a strategic business review, mapping out HBM strategy on paid content and assessing investment potential across all market sectors and brands.- Led communications initiative for Haymarket Media Group, setting out company vision and values statement.

Led all Haymarket's worldwide activities serving the public relations sector, with operations in the UK; Acquired the German title PRReport in 1999. Launched PRWeek Worldwire in 2000, a daily e-mail news service. PRWeek (US) became the biggest selling PR title in the US, and topped the 2000 Harris poll as the preferred read for PR practitioners, beating Advertising Age. In Feb 2000, its inaugural Awards attracted 800 entries and over 1,000 guests. In Nov 2000, it was voted Magazine of the Year in the Folio Awards for Editorial Excellence.

Took on P&L responsibility for three market-leading brands: PRWeek (UK); PRWeek (US); and PrintWeek (UK). In 1998 I developed a business plan to launch PRWeek in the US, and spent four months in New York establishing the business there and leading the launch team. PrintWeek was twice shortlisted for the PPA Business Magazine of the Year award (1998 and 1999) and overtook its main rival Printing World to become the no.1 title preferred by 67% of readers (NOP research 1998

Took responsibility for the market-leading monthly Conference & Incentive Travel, in addition to PRWeek. Joined HBM editorial board, and given responsibility for PR and media training.

Re-launched the magazine with a new design, extra sections and columnists. Devised conference themes; and planned the PRWeek Awards (the PR industry's largest event with 1,400 guests). Launched Contact, the press and PR directory, in 1995. Regular media commentator on communications issues (BBC, Sky, Channel 4, national press

Joined as News Editor, running team of three reporters, and responsible for commissioning external contributors. Promoted to Deputy Editor in 1991.

Assignments included: features; motoring column; diary stories and sketches; news and subbing; editorial consultancy; advertisement and brochure writing.

Senior journalist on award-winning business magazine for GPs, rising from trainee journalist to assistant editor.