Dynamic, customer and people focused tech leader with strategic focus.
Relentlessly focused on the potent combination of culture, innovation & marketing to drive growth.
After 18 months running a travel tech scale-up in EMEA, I am now the President for disruptive consultancy-meets-agency-meets tech, marketing services company Control v Exposed and will be applying my scale up experience to building a new client-centric, 100% transparent, solutions focused business across Europe.
After running Havas Group in the U.K. & Ireland (950 people, £85m revenue) I became EMEA CEO for a disruptive B2B2C travel tech startup called hi Inc (formerly Tink Labs) backed by Foxconn, Sharp and Softbank, which re-imagined the customer experience for both traveller and hotelier, driving up ancillary revenue.
I was recently (May ‘19) voted Disruptive Tech & Marketing Leader of the Year by MadFest/MediaTel and also listed in the Top 100 European B2B Marketing Leaders by Hot Topics.HT (April ‘19).
I’m an advisor for a no. of disruptive startups including Measurematch (platform for accessing enterprise systems and expertise in one place) and People.io (personal data platform) plus to Symvan Capital, a VC investing in early stage tech companies and Multiple which supercharges tech company growth via brand and culture.
I am a proud feminist, included in Management Today’s 30 Male Agents of Change Power list in March 2018 and advise the Women in Marketing community.
I am a committed supporter of young people/entrepreneurs as Chair of the Big Youth Group.
A regular on the leadership & marketing conference circuit. Previously chaired Ad Tech, Media 360, MadFest London (for which I was a founding partner and ongoing advisor) and YMS (Youth Summit) events.
Published author with chapter on Social Leadership in “Social CEO” book being published by Bloomsbury Business.
