Starkhorn

Directing large-scale PE backed IT integration projects across multiple countries, standardising operations, streamlining processes, and managing complex IT infrastructures to achieve significant cost savings and efficiency gains.

Collaborated with C-suite executives on IT due diligence, post-merger integration, and the creation of scalable operating models, delivering measurable synergies and enhanced portfolio value.

Developed and executed bespoke IT strategies for private equity clients, ensuring alignment with business goals, operational scalability, and long-term growth through innovative technology solutions.

Offering consultancy, fractional support, and expertise in M&A, Divestments, Outsourcing and Private Equity.

Founder

Age UK

Non Executive IT Director - Digital and Technology

Jardine Motors Group trading as Lancaster

Spearheaded IT due diligence for a £300m transaction, enabling the seamless sale of Jardine Motors to Lithia & Driveway.

Supported the £400m acquisition of Pendragon PLC, integrating IT systems to establish Lithia UK, driving operational synergies.

Achieved £1m+ annual savings by centralising telephony systems, enhancing customer service.

Designed and executed a cybersecurity framework, achieving a NIST CSF maturity score of 29.

Chief Information Officer

Mothercare

As Head of IT Service Delivery & Infrastructure, I led seamless IT service delivery across 150 UK stores, franchises, head office, e-commerce, and warehouses. Aligning IT with business objectives, I enhanced efficiency and drove innovation.

Head of IT Service Delivery & Infrastructure

IT Service Delivery Manager

IT Technical Services Manager

IT Technical Support Manager

VisitBritain

Technical Support/Infrastructure Analyst

2nd Line Engineer at VisitBritain

Fractional CIO | IT Strategy for High-Stakes M&A | Faster M&A, Smoother Exits | De-risking IT & unlocking value | Author

If IT isn’t creating enterprise value, it’s destroying it. Most firms still treat IT as a cost centre. Growth-focused companies can’t afford that mistake. I help CEOs, CFOs, boards, and investors turn IT into a value-creation engine — accelerating deals, de-risking operations, and boosting EBITDA.

Proven Results

✓ £1.6m in savings within 18 months across 10+ countries
✓ Seamless IT integrations in £300m+ and £400m+ transactions
✓ 40% fewer outages across 150+ retail locations
✓ Cybersecurity resilience with NIST maturity scores above industry benchmarks

Why Clients Choose Me

✓ Fractional CIO flexibility — strategic leadership without full-time overhead
✓ Interim CIO firepower — execution in high-stakes transformations
✓ Board-level insight — translating IT complexity into clear business impact

Whether you’re scaling a mid-sized firm or leading a multi-country enterprise, IT should fuel growth, protect assets, and support scale. If it isn’t, it’s silently eroding value.

I am currently accepting 2 more clients in 2025 (Fractional, Interim, or Advisory).
DM me or book a call to explore how IT can become your competitive edge.

Daniel J. Jacobs

Word Up!

✍️ Cracking Copy | Typography & Digital A/Ws
📢 Company or Personal Pages Management Service
✍️ Write for you or coach you to success
📢 PLUS - ‘fight the fear and make meaningful connections’ short course coming soon! 👊

Chief Creative Clown & Pot Washer 

Koris365

Company Page copywriter/manager and sign-poster to their experts - https://www.linkedin.com/company/koris365/mycompany/?viewAsMember=true
Fab three years working with some lovely people but my itch for independent working needed to be scratched so have moved on to start my own copywriting and company page management services.

Sales / Marketing Exec / Copywriter 

Edgard & Cooper

Conducting effective in-store demos and on stand activity at events to increase awareness of the E&C 
mission and products with a view to making on the day sales that lead to long term transitioning by 
customers of their pets to the products.

Brand Activator - my side hustle and I loved it - #DOGS

Slimming World Baldock

This was my next move after selling the pub - still in 'bringing up a family mode' and work needed to fit. Weirdly in this role not only did I benefit from some of the best and most consistent training in supporting people (both customers and later my team management role) that stands me in great stead today but also I was yet again able to lean heavily on my advertising and marketing experience which spanned two decades.

I absolutely loved coaching my new consultants to have the confidence to be themselves in front of a room full of people - and also to put themselves authentically out there on social media, boldly sharing their knowledge and inviting their prospective customers to venture into their groups.

Slimming World Consultant & Team Developer

Waggon & Horses Pub and Restaurant

- Marketing
- Managing and employing staff 
- Payroll and accounts
- Menu planning, food preparation and service 
- Event organisation
- Customer liaison & entertainment ;-)

Proprietor / Head Chef

247i Ltd

With a successful career as an advertising creative and display print production specialist behind me it was time to help the husband out for a couple of years #workingmum

- Telemarketing and email marketing activities. 
- Account management (desk based) 
- Seminar and event organisation, representation and management. 
- Marketing material, design and production.

Sales / Marketing Assistant #workingforhubby

Harari Page Ltd

Above and below the line advertising creative & production for a range of blue-chip clients. Including awarding winning work for Harvey Nichols & London Zoo (others include Bravo Sat TV, Citizen Watches, ST Dupont, Moctezuma Imports (Sol lager) and many more)
- Quality control of in house and out-sourced finished artwork
- Digital artwork production (QuarkXPress & Adobe suite) 
- Copy writing 
- Buyer for outsourced art and reprographic services 
- Internal systems management - initiated and rolled out ethernet and email to all staff

Digital Artworker / Studio & Systems Manager

Asset Graphics

- Digital Artwork production (Adobe/Aldus/Quark)
- Typesetter Lino 300
- Mac Operator 
- Management of Desktop Publishing Bureau team and work flow
- Quality control / proof reading & checking

Wonderbra/Harrods/BT Piper Corp ID change/ Oracle/Bradford & Bingly and many more like this!

Typesetter/Digital Artworker & DTP Bureau Manager

On leaving school I trained at a local printing company using the typesetting methods and equipment of the time. I was then self-employed for 2 years having gained my own magazine production clients until joining Asset Graphics as a Linotronic 300 operator in 1987.

Typesetter

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