Ben Kaye

SURREAL

Gimme a sec to settle into the role, and then I'll tell you what I've been up to!

Category & Commercial Manager

Spin Tennis App

• Drew up an events plan to add an additional USP and revenue stream for Spin Tennis App
• Creating and hosting events to further engagement within the Spin Tennis Community
• Sourcing venues to deliver an enjoyable experience for Spin members
• Initial events in 2025 have had 100+ attendees with a positive experience and demand for further events

Event Manager

2 Sisters Food Group

Category Manager within the Poultry division, working across a variety of retail customers:
• Responsible for analysis of all protein space & sales performance for a large convenience retailer, helping deliver "the best presentation across the supply base" (retail buyer), resulting in 20% incremental space and additional SKUs worth £m of pounds to the business
• Led and delivered the development of best-in-class insights reporting website, delivering the team’s category insight, in-store reports and data analysis all in one centralised place for customers
• Produced comprehensive consumer insight report to assist retailers in understanding Christmas purchase decisions
• Used data and analytics skills to redesign and rebuild the Co-op Sales Reporting process to give more profound and more powerful insights to the commercial team, resulting in the award of Employee of the Month
• Led the delivery of category insights for BBQ Season 2024, featuring new image-based market maps

Category Manager

Well Fruited

Co-founder of a drinks brand that used product innovation and fun to address the fact that only 28% of adults consume 5 portions of fruit & veg a day.

Some key accomplishments:
• Co-created the first fruit drink made using all of the fruit, designed to maximise fibre and nutrient content, whilst limiting sugar impact
• Bootstrapped the business through initial product testing phases by using self-taught skills such as web design, branding, financial modelling & prototyping
• Sold over 5,000 bottles as part of initial testing phase, through various channels such as D2C, B2B and live events
• 7m video views across TikTok, YouTube & Instagram
•Charted the growth of the brand alongside my insights into what makes a consumer-business stand out

Co-Founder & CEO

Unrest

Participated in the programme to help strengthen the foundations of the business and fuel the growth of the Well Fruited brand.

As part of the programme:
- Refined our Pitch Deck & proposition
-Built out Financial Projections & models
- Refined brand strategy
- Engaged in the wider Unrest community

Entrepreneur at Unrest (London)

Year Here

Working on solutions to societal problems to deliver positive impact and social change.

Mar - August 2021: Population Health Team, Bromley-by-Bow Health Partnership. Projects included:
• Project Best Start: analysing data to build a profile of young people within Tower Hamlets and help inform decisions on how to give every child the best start in life
• Project Ways of Working: delivered a report that assessed ways of working across the Health Partnership, with recommendations on how to improve ways of working across areas such as meetings, project management and document sharing
• Project Talking Food: organised and facilitated sessions around nutrition and healthy diet for local community members to help improve wellbeing, which results in some "life-changing" results

Sep - Oct 2021: Consultant on a project for Guy's & St Thomas' Foundation around equitable and representative employment for the local area

Social Innovation Fellow

Bakkavor

Working across UK & Ireland on one of the UK's largest retailers on multiple fresh prepared food categories.

Role included delivering first-to-market innovation, long-term strategic planning, stakeholder management, building customer relationships and commercial analysis.

Key accomplishments:
• Shortlisted for Bakkavor Group Innovation Awards for work on Post-Launch Review Process
• Led the introduction of a new software tool to deliver faster, more accurate and in-depth sales reporting on a weekly basis to transform the way the sales teams reported on performance, whilst saving countless hours of data collection
• Worked on a bespoke strategy for Tesco Ireland to adapt offerings to fit the market need, resulting in cutting wastage by 20%
• Launched new product ranges across multiple retailers, cuisines and tiers, worth over £10m in annual sales revenue

Testimonials:
• Attention to detail is fantastic and it’s been a great support

Commercial Manager

Managing key retailer accounts across a variety of Fresh Prepared Foods categories to deliver first to market innovation and profitable business growth.

Responsible for Category Strategy, Promotional Planning and International Projects, achieved through cross-functional working and a commitment to innovative and new working practices.

Key accomplishments:
• Improved forecasting accuracy by c.15%pt through the creation and implementation of an analysis tool
• Established a clear set of category information documentation that enabled the team to become category pioneers through easy-to-access information on product & promotional performance
• Grew an e-commerce account 28% YOY, ahead of the growth trajectory for the retailer overall
• Improve margin performance of at-risk lines through Product Development work to recover of £50k p/a

Testimonials:
Ben is a self-starter and is constantly looking at avenues and ways to add value to the business. 
He has proactively volunteered for add on projects and has been working with grit and determination on PLR (Post Launch Review) project which has been identified as a big opportunity.

Account Manager

Part of the Commercial Team, working directly with two of the UK's largest retailers and a wide range of various stakeholders.

Worked across a variety of Fresh Prepared Foods categories on both projects with retailers and supplier-related projects. This has included forecasting, promotional activity, category management and using specific data sources and systems.

Key achievements:
• Winner of Graduate's Graduate Award (2018) for contribution to the business and experience of graduates on the programme
• Won monthly innovation award for leading a project to save M&S over £1m in food waste on their Italian ready meal category

Testimonials:
Ben has made an impressive start to his career at Bakkavor and is a pleasure to have on the team. His approach is humble, respectful, resilient and committed.

Commercial Graduate

Tesco

Primarily working on promotional strategy and ranging across the Plant-Based ranges within Fresh & Frozen. Helping to deliver double-digit growth in one of the emerging areas within the food industry.

Additionally assisted in the delivery of the 2019 Christmas Party Food Range.

Key accomplishments:
• Ranging recommendations delivered possible incremental sale of £31m and £14m margin for Tesco across chilled & frozen ranges
• Ensured timely launch of Christmas Party Food ranges to ensure all lines were correctly executed in-store

Product Analyst

The Holiday Place

Working in the Product Department which involves:
• Dealing with contracts with suppliers
• Content writing for the website
• Using the dedicated software to manage hotel and flight details

Administration Assistant

XpressionFM

I was:
• Head of Marketing at Xpression FM (www.xpression.fm)
• Xpression FM Saturday Sport Show pundit (www.facebook.com/xpressionsportshow)
• Producer of Highly A-Newsing (www.facebook.com/highlyanewsing)

Head of Marketing

💥 MY BACKGROUND
👨🏻‍💻 I work in Category Management across multiple customers, covering insights, sales analysis and consumer trends
🛒 I've worked with some of the UK's largest retailers on their own label ranges, launching over 100 products
📈 Focusing on sales growth, product assortment and category strategy
🍲 Seconded to work for the UK's largest food retailer in supporting the launch of two new brands
🍊Co-founder of Well Fruited; developing first-to-market innovation; a drink with half the sugar of a juice/smoothie, with 4k+ units sold and over 7m times across TikTok, Instagram & YouTube!
🎾 I once won the Junior Tennis Tournament at my local tennis club, so am always up for a game

💥 TESTIMONIALS
▶️ "The guys who created and make the product [Well Fruited] are extraordinary, they fully deserve the success coming their way!"
▶️ "Your ability to spot the smallest details in a giant spreadsheet of numbers is unreal"
▶️ "A deserved winner of Employee of the Month for going above and beyond in helping the team"

Feel free to connect with me to chat...or for a game of tennis 🤝

Co-Founder

Co-founder of a Food & drink brand using product innovation and fun to address the fact that only 28% of adults consume 5 portions of fruit & veg a day.

Some key accomplishments:
• Co-created the first fruit drink made using all of the fruit, designed to maximise fibre and nutrient content, whilst limiting sugar impact
• Bootstrapped the business through initial product testing phases by using self-taught skills such as web design, branding, financial modelling & prototyping
• 6m video views across TikTok, YouTube & Instagram
•Charting the growth of the brand alongside my insights into what makes a consumer-business stand out

The Audit Toolbar

The Audit Toolbar is a proven timesaving and productivity tool for use by Auditors working in Microsoft Excel on client audits.  Our 1600+ users regularly gain an average of over 40 hours of their time back, per audit, that is normally spent on mundane and repetitive tasks when performing an audit.  We are proud to have an active and growing client base of over 1600 users in more than 180 accounting firms.

Every auditor needs to work with client data, select samples, execute audit analytics tests, test the quality of information provided by their clients, test journal entries, and much more. These activities take place on every audit and even for the highly experienced Excel user getting through the above often takes days and involves crunching through volumes of often unstructured data and from disparate sources.  

The Audit Toolbar replaces and automates many of the data and analytics functions required in an audit with just a few clicks.  Coupled with the speed, accuracy, and quality that an auditor expects, The Audit Toolbar performs in such a way that every auditor can save hours of time and improve the quality of every client audit….guaranteed!

Co-Founder and CRO

MyCarbon

MyCarbon is a platform for individuals and businesses to calculate their carbon footprint and learn about their own impact on the environment. MyCarbon provides businesses and individuals with carbon footprint management, environmental consulting, and software development to accelerate the global move to carbon neutrality and environmental sustainability.

I am working with the founders to drive growth and scale the business on their mission to enable businesses and individuals to reduce or offset 10 million tonnes of CO2e by 2025.

A truly fantastic business and one I am proud to be a part of.

Non Executive Director

Monatrix Limited

Monatrix is a leading UK electronic security integrator specialising in the design, delivery and support of integrated security solutions for UK businesses.

Operating on a nationwide basis, we provide turnkey electronic security solutions that delivers a layered approach to the protection of people, assets and property for companies.  Our solution suite includes the latest network-based technologies from mainstream vendors and partners in IP CCTV, network-based security systems, enterprise access control and intruder detection systems.

Pierso - The Entrepreneurs Coach

Pierso is The Entrepreneurs Coach. I support and help individuals and teams on their journeys. Using decades of my own experiences as an entrepreneur, I capture the essence of what being an entrepreneur means and empower that same meaning in my clients. I know what it takes and I help you find that same passion, desire and intent to drive yourself forwards. My coaching work has 3 primary actions areas: 1. Being Authentic 2. Creating inevitable goals 3. Making small changes to create big impact.

Share your passion with me and let me support you on your journey.

www.pierso.co.uk 

Call me, Meet me, Text me, Email me, Social Me……I look forward to hearing from you.

Owner

TechCXO

I am focussing on the expansion of TechCXO's international business in London, aimed at helping UK and USA businesses expand the cross-border expansion opportunities and build the UK's On Demand director and executive practice.

TechCXO is a professional services firm that provides On Demand experienced, C-Suite professionals to deliver strategic and functional consulting services for technology companies. We answer your critical issues around obtaining capital, increasing revenue, entering new markets and improving margins. TechCXO's 100+ partners combine practical experience, comprehensive resources and best practices to deliver objective, high-value results.

https://www.techcxo.com/

UK Managing Partner

The Business Box

The Business Box is the result of me being in business for 30 years and brings together a comprehensive range of tools that every business owner and entrepreneur needs.  I have been involved in numerous entrepreneurial ventures over the years and have distilled my experiences into an easy-to-use toolkit that has all of the documents, plans, guides, hints, tips and templates that anyone starting or building a business will need.

Founder

Venator Consulting International Ltd

Venator consults and advises in 2 areas.  Firstly our core work is Business Advisory and Coaching for Entrepreneurs and Business Leaders in growing companies and secondly, a service company that supports the delivery of Non-Executive and Interim Work.  In addition to being a board advisor and personal coach to multiple clients, recent Assignments include:

1 - an 8 month project in Chicago to restructure and reposition a nationwide IT services company for growth opportunities.  Workflows included; on-shoring new finance department, restructuring operations, HR process review, client management and service delivery, re-forecasting sales, business planning and financial modeling. www.imagit.com
2 - a 4 month project to reposition and commercialize a global digital signage company manufacturing and delivering digital advertising panels on London buses. www.motionledtechnology.com 
3 - a 6 month assignment to create and launch a new start up private tuition business in London for a major PE backed recruitment firm - www.intuitionclubs.com 
4 - non-executive directorship for Vindex Systems.  Working with the leadership team to assist with growth, direction, planning and business management.  www.vindexsystems.co.uk

Managing Partner

Comtec Translations

At Comtec we support businesses to reach new markets and new customers worldwide through translation and localisation. We’re not just a translation agency – we’re a translation partner.

✍️ Our translation and localisation services:

Internal communications translations
HR translations
Marketing translations
Transcreations (creative translations)
Elearning and training translations
Technical, medical and legal translations

As Board Advisor, I work with the senior management team delivering strategic advice and support on a range of business initiatives across the whole company to ensure that their objectives are met

Board Advisor

Rakatu

Rakatu is a leading Aftersales Consulting business in the Cybersecurity industry, specializing in handling the delivery and support of global multi-site implementations.

Our approach is based on a community-driven model, where we work with the vendor and customer to blend resources, saving time and effort in the process.

Our assigned consultants working with customer implementations are never left to deal with issues on their own, we ensure they receive the right level of support when needed. Our in-house, senior back-office consultants and Architects are available at the end of the phone and we have strong relationships in a wider network of Professionals (in/out of the Vendors organization).

Our ethos and our service and support are second to none and driven by a continued passion to deliver and perform for our clients, every single day.

Recognised by the Cybersecurity industry as the go-to aftersales partner, guaranteeing IMPRESSIVE and INTEGRITY based results.

Commercial Director and Board Advisor

RTB Technologies, LLC

RTB is a best in class managed managed  IT services provider.  The team are ex USA forces and carry a lifetime of military grade Cyber & Technology expertise and experience in  delivering IT solutions management and outsourced support for businesses in Colorado.

I'm a curious explorer and passionate about the things I get involved.  I'm open, honest, very authentic and live by a code of....... work hard, be nice and have fun!!  Your life really should be that simple, so make it so!!!

Professionally, I am involved in 3 main things right now.  Executive Coaching, Business Advisory and Co-Founding a new start up.....I love what I do!

In addition to coaching entrepreneurs and advising companies on growth through my consulting role at TechCXO, the leading fractional and On-Demand Director and C-Suite support business. I am also the Co-Founder of Crunch Technologies and we have launched The Audit Toolbar, an incredible time-saving and productivity tool for accounting and audit professionals.  The Audit Toolbar is an amazing software tool designed to revolutionise the way auditors work. Our aim is to empower you to focus on the aspects of auditing that you find most rewarding while significantly reducing time spent on routine tasks.

In terms of the professional blurb........ I am commercially astute and naturally curious with experience across multiple sectors including Technology, Marketing, Retail and General Commerce. I have a proven track record of performance and growth within established and ground-breaking organisations.

I am an inspirational leader and outstanding team player, who collaborates with a common sense and practical approach to translate visions into achievements.  I use innovation, focus and lateral thinking to overcome market, organisational and real-world challenges and am an instinctive, self-aware and decisive operator.

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