TEMPLE CYCLES LTD

Working with a great team to build a sustainable, profitable and timeless bike brand.

Finance & Business Manager

Open House Community Church

Managing Finances & Operations | Join the Community 👉🏽 openhousecc.com

Built financial process from the ground up. 
Manage bookkeeping, payment runs, cashflow, gift aid claims, event & facilities management.

Treasurer

Good Fruit Ventures

Free discipleship resources for young Christians & church leaders, with a primary focus on financial education.

Company Director

Cut hedges, mowed lawns, painted houses, renovated bathrooms.
Paid the bills whilst (attempting) to build an e-commerce business.

Painter, Gardener, Labourer

Little Kids Room UK

It was a good learning experience building this first online business from scratch. 
Failed a bunch, learned more than 4 years study a business degree.

Built an ecommerce retail business selling children's bedroom furniture to parents based in the UK. 
Built a Shopify store, negotiated contracts with product suppliers, built out organic & paid marketing channels (Google & Meta Ads, Social Media Pages, SEO, Content Creation) and the customer service experience.

Co-Founder

Crowdcube

Helped entrepreneurs with great ideas fundraise investment from retail investors.
Scripted, Directed and Produced a series of Founder Interviews.

Equity Fundraising Advisor

Equity Campaigns Manager

Equity Campaigns Executive

Investor Operations Executive

Completion Operations Executive

Arrowtown Drinks

Supporting founder friends with their start-up drinks company.

Sales and Events Support

Business Manager within Regulatory Management, for a team spread across UK, Europe, Asia & Americas.

Asset Management Industrial Placement

Hollister Co.

Retail Associate

Carwow

Intern

Building a Church & a Startup Business | 🧵 Sharing Stories about the Process

I am a business operator and I enjoy bringing order & systems to startup businesses and churches.

Currently working with an awesome team to grow Temple Cycles into a sustainable, profitable and timeless bike brand.

I also help run Open House Community Church, in Bristol, UK.

If not at my desk, probably gone surfing.

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P.S.

I also create free video content for young Christians & church leaders on money management.

See more -> https://www.goodfruitfinance.com

Henry Baines

Nathan Levi

Popsa

Popsa is an award winning AI-powered photo app, making photo curation a thing of the past.

Crowdcube is the largest equity crowdfunding in the world. They are on a mission to create millions of shareholders in Europe and to give everyone a share in business.

I joined Crowdcube to build the marketing discipline from the ground up, help launch the business across Europe, grow the brand and increase funnel metrics across both sides of the marketplace. 

Key activities: B2B Marketing, Sales enablement, B2C Marketing, eCRM, brand strategy, PR & Comms, campaign development and execution, social media, event marketing

TotallyMoney

TotallyMoney creates financial momentum for the 24 million people in the UK who want to move their finances forward. They have almost 5 million customers and are the highest rated credit report service on TrustPilot.

I was promoted to the role of CMO to lead the marketing discipline and launch the free credit report service in the UK. In my time as CMO we acquired over 4 million new customers and doubled brand awareness. I also worked with the management team to lead us through two successful rounds of funding.

Key activities: Brand strategy, paid acquisition, SEO, app marketing, CRM, creative strategy and production, DRTV, ATL, product marketing, PR & comms, copywriting, fundraising, campaign strategy and execution

I joined TotallyMoney before we transitioned the business into a free credit report service with millions of customers, to focus on paid and organic traffic acquisition.  

Key activities: paid media acquisition, SEO, social media marketing, digital creative development, CRO, TV creative production, copywriting

Head of Performance Marketing

BerryClever

BerryClever was a completely new start up venture. Its mission was to connect parent shoppers with similar interests.

I joined as the first and only employee, to build and launch the product to market. It turned out to be a leap in the dark and whilst the business eventually closed after I left, I learnt a lot about building and scaling a product from scratch.  The beta product achieved 10,000 new members and 100,000 site visits each month.

Key activities, product development, UX and web development, CRM, paid media acquisition, PR

VCCP Media

VCCP is a leading creative and marketing agency in the UK. 

I joined VCCP to launch VCCP Media with Paul Mead, to provide the agency with a full service creative and media offering. In my time there I helped win a significant amount new business and build our our digital marketing services.

Key activities: paid media acquisition, SEO, display media buying, sales, new business development

Head of Media

Razorfish

Razorfish (DNA when I joined) was a leading digital marketing agency in the UK. It is now part of Sapient-Nitro, having been acquired first by aQuantive, then Microsoft, and finally by Publicis. 

I joined Razorfish as the third member of their media team. I started out as a campaign manager and was promoted to head of search and then to media director. In my time as media director I scaled the team to 50, won significant business and drove the most profitable arm of the company.

Media Director

Head of Search

24/7 Real Media

Client Services Manager

I fell into advertising 22 years ago because I wanted to get into TV. I was a naïve young man who knew nothing about the world of work. Like many graduates I had a degree but had no idea what to do with it. I’m a forever student of marketing and after more than two decades of successes, and some failures, I’ve learnt some hard but valuable lessons. Here goes:

Not spending time understanding your customers is a slow death in any marketing role. Thinking marketing is an exact science will lead you into all sorts of trouble. The answer is hard to find and often unexpected, so don’t just look in all the obvious places. Standard display advertising is and always has been useless. Digital ads aren’t good at driving awareness, don’t be fooled by fake impression stats, they are almost always meaningless. 

The power of TV advertising is great if you’re measuring it correctly but it is becoming a dying channel, especially for the youngsters. Attribution modelling is so often a waste of time and energy. Building useful marketing funnels is much harder than you might think. Invest in your own PR from a young age, I wish I had. Some companies think marketing is a tap you switch on and off, avoid working for them. Proving the value of brand building to a CFO is the hardest job in the world. Get out of ‘digital marketing’ early and learn your craft at a big brand, I wish I had. Take that interview with Google when you’re young, it will open doors at any company, I wish I had. 

Get comfortable with opacity, marketing isn’t a straight line. Accept you’re not good at every marketing skill and hire in people who aren’t like you. Keep learning your craft, never stop. Always wait to hire good people no matter how difficult things get. Building a small or new brand is 10 times harder than managing an established one. Work for a company with a mission you believe in, I have. 

I could go on and on but if you’ve got to this point why not follow or connect with me :)

I also live with my partner Terry in London and we have very recently had a baby as a co-parent. I enjoy reading, cooking, working out and eating out, a lot. I started meditating 2 years ago and I recommend it to everyone. I have 96 things on my bucket list, I ticked off 6 last year and am planning to do the same this year.

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