Vantage Consulting

As the Managing Director of Vantage Consulting, I lead a dynamic team in one of the world's premier multi-brand recruitment specialists. Our focus is on delivering top-tier talent in niche, growth, and scarce resource STEM markets, catering to a global client base at mid to executive levels.

At Vantage Consulting, we are more than a recruitment agency; we are trusted partners to some of the world's leading brands and the most exciting startups. Our mission is to provide comprehensive talent solutions that empower businesses to achieve their full potential. By bridging the gap between the digital and industrial revolutions, we have cultivated the most integrated business and candidate network globally.

Our approach is centered on building enduring relationships, discovering innovative ways of working, and surpassing expectations to deliver unmatched customer excellence. With an impressive portfolio of clients across the UK, Europe, and the US, we don't simply fill positions – we craft careers and foster business growth by aligning the right talent with the right opportunities.

Join us in revolutionizing the recruitment landscape and driving forward the next wave of industry transformation.

Managing Director

PSR Group

As Group COO, my primary function is to promote company culture, drive the values and vision of the business whilst supporting the business leaders and CEO.

Group Portfolio; Novello Technologies, Build a Career, SYK Healthcare, PSR Solutions and the latest addition, PCN. 

Duties include;

• Design and implement business strategies, plans and procedures
• Assist CEO in delivering the Vision 2.0
• Support Hiring 
• Set comprehensive goals for performance and growth
• Establish policies that promote company culture and vision (Environmental, social, and corporate governance strategy.)
• Oversee daily operations of the company and the work of executives (IT, Marketing, Sales, Finance etc.)
• Lead employees to encourage maximum performance and dedication
• Evaluate performance by analyzing and interpreting data and metrics
• Write and submit reports to the CEO in all matters of importance
• Participate in expansion activities (investments, acquisitions, corporate alliances etc.)
• Oversee Executive Committee 
• Manage relationships with partners/vendors

Chief Operating Officer

PSR Solutions

My role at PSR covers all businesses within the Group. Novello, Build a Career, SYK Healthcare and the core UK construction business, PSR Solutions. 

Working alongside the Managing Director, Business & Growth Strategy is at the forefront of my responsibility at PSR. The areas below form my day to day duties;

•	Overall responsibility for clients 
•	Brand, Marketing & Social Media
•	Maintain the PSR Culture throughout the group.
•	Partnerships
•	Growth into new sectors and geographical locations 
•	Business Acquisition   
•	Client Strategy & Candidate Generation Strategy
•	Researching Innovation to create efficiencies 
•	Staff Acquisition

Group Development Director

My role as Client Relationship Director at PSR is wide-ranging, and diversify allowing me to focus on the strategic development of all brands in the PSR Group.

Overall responsibility for;
Marketing of PSR Solutions, Contract Solutions, Trades, and International. 
Social Media Planning 
Ensuring high standards to PSR preferred supplier status clients.
Establishing new operational geographical areas.
Partnerships 
Candidate Generation and Client Strategies
Also supporting staff in London, Birmingham, Stafford, and Sheffield with regular office visits.

The remaining time is focused on the direct growth and net profitability of PSR Group. Working alongside the Managing Director looking wide and far for opportunities to develop the PSR Group.

Client Relationship Director

I have been working within the Infrastructure division at PSR since 2012, developing a talented pool of candidates from both a commercial and operational background.

Since March 2014 I also head up the Civils and Infrastructure team, which services clients across the whole of the UK.  The team has grown and developed an in-depth industry knowledge and applies a unique professional approach to client relationships.  We source talent for various projects from residential and commercial groundworks, industrial structures and buildings, rail and electrification schemes through to general civil engineering, Flood alleviation and a range of utilities projects.

I supply candidates into a number of market leading Construction clients and am their primary point of contact for their Civil and Infrastructure recruitment. I have extensive industry knowledge and am able to match skill sets to the right roles through providing a true consultancy service based on research, competitor analysis and industry and project specific knowledge.  I place great emphasis on excellent communication, acting with honesty and managing relationships through listening and understanding client and candidate requirements.

Team Leader - Civil Engineering

My role at PSR Group covers all businesses within the Group. Novello Technologies, Build a Career, SYK Healthcare, PSR Solutions and the latest addition to the portfolio, PCN. 

Working alongside the Managing Director, Business & Growth Strategy is at the forefront of my responsibility at PSR. The areas below form my day to day duties;

• Overall responsibility for clients 
• Brand, Marketing & Social Media
• Maintain the PSR Culture throughout the group.
• Partnerships
• Growth into new sectors and geographical locations 
• Business Acquisition 
• Client Strategy & Candidate Generation Strategy
• Researching Innovation to create efficiencies 
• Staff Acquisition

Development Director 

Cosmedic Beauty

Cosmedic Beauty offer Facial Aesthetics & Beauty services.

Led by experienced Nurse, Rachael Berks. Rachael has 15 years experience working in healthcare services and is an independent nurse prescriber.

​Trained by a Harley Street award winning aesthetic surgeon, Rachael is qualified in Botox® and Dermal Filler treatments.

​At Cosmedic Beauty, our aim is to deliver 100% customer satisfaction by providing high-quality professional services.

Co-Owner

GameChanger Performance

Co-Founded GCP with my business partner Jake Keeling with the aim of making performance specialists accessible to all athletes from grassroots to elite programs.

GCP are one of UK’s leading sports performance company’s. Based at the National Football Centre, St George’s Park, GCP are partners to the FA and PFA. Our aim is to bring elite-level sports performance to a wider audience in the UK.

The team at GCP have been delivering to a diverse range of customers including schools, colleges, universities, teams, athletes and businesses.

Co-Founder

The Stone Group

My position as the supply chain client director is to manage existing business relationships whilst targeting strategic accounts that could grow the business without impacting on current partnership agreements.  The business division was created in 2010 and has quickly become an established sales market at Stone group delivering stable revenue streams in excess of £6 million. 

I also have commitments to manage the largest account in the business a charity supplying 6500 devices per year, contract worth £9 Million.  

Stone Group’s recycled and refurbished product is also managed by my team with projects to help bridge the digital divide the main revenue stream.

Supply Chain Client Director

During a 2 year period as Stone Group special projects sales manager I was directly involved in government initiatives such Computers for Pupils, Home Access for Targeted user Groups and Home Access.  My role involved working with Local Authorities to scope, promote, and deliver large scale projects. During this period I completed projects totalling circa 18K notebooks. Leeds City Council’s Computers for Pupils scheme was the 2 nd largest in the county, 7.5K mobile devices with connectivity were delivered to children.

Special Projects Vertical Manager - Education

During my time as an account manager at Stone I developed my skills as an internal telephone executive before moving to a external role within the schools and  local authority vertical market. I was also utilised in Higher Education and Further Education towards the end of this role working on the National framework for contracts for both Notebooks and Desktop Computers.

Sales Account Manager

Aston Villa Football Club

Professional Footballer

With over 25 years of experience in sales and leadership, I bring a wealth of expertise to my role as Managing Director at Vantage Consulting. My career has been dedicated to driving business growth, leading organisational transformation, and fostering high-performance teams.

Previously, as Chief Operating Officer of PSR Group, I supported the CEO in realising Vision 2.0 and managed daily operations. Key achievements included expanding the team from 20 to over 200, establishing 12 offices across 3 countries, completing 2 strategic acquisitions, and launching a technology start-up. I also led the company to attain the Investor in People Platinum award.

I am committed to continual self-improvement and am currently pursuing postgraduate studies in global football business management. My leadership philosophy is based on maximising potential and treating everyone with respect and courtesy.

David Berks

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Handprint

Advised on Marketing and Growth strategies.

Advisor

Connectd

Advisor to Founders and CEOs of tech Start-Ups on Brand, Growth, and Reputation.

Volt.io

• Developed and implemented a full funnel Marketing Strategy, with a proprietary model to accurately measure Marketing ROI and attribute effectiveness to specific campaigns, tactics, channels, and content.

• Delivered an ABM Playbook that set the rules for Marketing/SDR/AE quarterly plays.

• Built a content marketing engine to serve different departments aimed at efficient and predictable growth.

• Onboarded a Demand Gen agency, brought in and implemented all our MarTech, and built the function from scratch.

VP Growth Marketing

Standard Chartered Bank

• Created a Global Digital Channels and Integrated Marketing Strategy for 2023.

• Rolled out the bank’s first integrated Demand Gen and Lead Gen programme (Global to Hyperlocal).

• Assembled and managed a Global Digital Content and Social Media Team. • Managed a £3m Annual Paid Media Budget (PPC, Paid Social, Display,
Programmatic).

• Delivered a Re-Org structure for Corporate Affairs, Brand, and Marketing.

• Redesigned Processes, Governance Controls, and Workflows across different Corporate Affairs and Marketing Teams (Global/Hyper-Local).

• Managed Marketing and Corporate Reputation Campaigns for COP27 and WEF23. 

• Built an Employee Advocacy Strategy, on-boarded a new EA Tool.

• Delivered workshops to Senior Management on building 'Brand to Demand', full-funnel Customer Journeys across Paid, Owned, and Earned.

• Delivered a new Community Management Playbook and Strategy.

Global Head of Omnichannel Marketing and Social Media

Coca-Cola HBC

• Delivered a global Social Media and Community Strategy.

• Introduced a global content calendar to serve 29 markets.

• Managed global crisis communications and was advisor to Senior Leadership during #BoycottCocaCola.

• Managed Social and Paid Media Budgets.

• On-boarded new agencies.

Group Head of Social Media (Contract)

Philip Morris International

In just over 2 years, I helped grow our organic follower base on LinkedIn by 79%, Twitter 40% and Facebook 133%. 

During my tenure, I helped turn social sentiment around Philip Morris International from 18% to 80% positive and the organic engagement rate across social media channels.

I successfully lobbied senior stakeholders on the importance of social media in building brand, reputation and lead generation. 

I also personally activated the social media profiles of PMI’s top executives and worked across teams as an omnichannel project manager, delivering communication campaigns for paid, earned, and owned.

Deputy Head of Global Social Media

For a year, I led a team of 10+ producers and designers working across Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Snapchat, Instagram and YouTube.

I was directly responsible for the success of a $25m content deal with Uber and Orbit, led the social media launch of Sky's trailblazer Who's Who coverage of the Royal Wedding and the live social media coverage of Sky News' Behind the Scenes on the 30th anniversary, which featured an exclusive live stream of every corner of the newsroom throughout the day.

I streamlined video content production for social media and built an agile workflow between the social and the digital teams.

Senior Manager, Social Media

Owned the Entertainment beat, wrote opinion pieces, movie reviews, exclusive scoops of abuse of power in Hollywood and the entertainment world.

Streamlined content production for the website and social media.

Acted as the digital editor for the Entertainment page on the Sky News website and app.

Digital Editor

Reuters News Agency

Helped build Reuters' first D2C video mobile app from the ground up, acting as a digital producer, editor, writer and on-screen reporter.

Was Reuters TV's official on the ground and on-screen reporter for the Cannes Film Festival, the Berlinale, the Venice Film Festival and the Rio Olympics.

Digital Producer

Assistant Producer

Internship

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Intern

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Duarte Garrido

Interesting pattern at #WebSummit this year:

🤯 Every Marketer we've talked to has 8-12 marketing tools. 
🫠 None of them talk to each other. 
😶‍🌫️ All of them claim to be "AI-powered." 
😵‍💫 Not one of them actually unifies the intelligence.

Yesterday, we showed a different approach at Pavilion 1. 

A Marketing OS that actually connects your data with AI agents that work together - not just AI features bolted onto old software.

The line that got them cueing: "One system with all your marketing data. One tool to act on it."

Luke Costley-White is here until tomorrow if you want to check it out.

#DOJOAI

Founder at DOJO AI 🌊The Only Tool You Need To Grow Your Brand

The people are the thing that gets us to the thing.

As we prepare to turn yet another page in our story, I'm reminded that we should never lose sight of who we are.

Thank you André Menezes, João Neves, Cristiana Neves, João Tiago Almeida, Rui Santos, Luke Costley-White and, of course, my other DOJO AI half, thank you to my co-founder Antonio Alegria. 

Let's keep growing on all fronts. This 🌊 is unstoppable. #DOJOAI

We just kicked off agency partnerships at DOJO AI with the best Performance Marketing Agency in the 🇺🇲.

Not because agencies need another tool to resell. They don't. They need a way to stop drowning in client dashboards and increase their margins.

Most agencies run 10-30 client accounts across the same platforms - Meta, Google, LinkedIn, GA4, SEMrush, HubSpot. Each client gets separate logins, separate reports, separate analysis workflows.

It's inefficient. But worse... it's strategically blind.

What if an agency could see patterns across their entire client portfolio in one view?

🖼️ Which creative formats are working across fintech clients this quarter?
🌱 How are AI search rankings trending across climate tech companies?
📉 Where are mid-market SaaS brands wasting budget on the same underperforming keywords?

*That's* competitive intelligence at scale.

The data is already there - it's just trapped in separate silos.

📒 Portfolio-level intelligence - Not just client A's dashboard + client B's dashboard. Real pattern recognition across accounts.
🏎️ Faster client onboarding - Connect a new client's stack in 24 hours, not 2 weeks of integration hell.
🛸 AI that works across accounts - One agent analyzing SEO for 20 clients beats 20 separate audits.

The agencies that get this will deliver better results while spending less time on busywork. The ones that don't will keep juggling tabs and billing hours for manual reporting.

If you're running an agency and this resonates - let's talk. 

(More details on the partnership soon)

#DOJOAI #Marketing #MarketingAgency

🔊 Calling all CMOs and Senior Marketers at the #WebSummit next week!

​Juice and DOJO AI want to hear from the community we both serve, and what better way to connect than over a shared meal to kick off Web Summit?

If you want to hang out with cool 🥷  in a cool 🌉, eating cool 🍜, let me know.

#DOJOAI #GetMeJuice

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