Datarich

Enrich leads, uncover actionable signals, and leverage live data for personalization at scale.

Check out ➡️ getdatarich.com

Builder

Mutiny

Investment holding with a fast growing portfolio of off-market assets.

Captain

Kamea Labs.

Board Member (Exited)

Building self-custody and tokenization infrastructure for asset managers and off-market companies.

One of the first Digital Asset Service Providers (DASP) in Europe, backed by 50 Partners, Cedar Mundi, Sharpstone Capital...

Co-founder

Incubateur HEC Paris

Ran office hours on GTM and fundraising, reviewed sales playbooks, data rooms, decks...

Mentor

SHARPSTONE

Identified ICPs, built multi‑channel outbound campaigns, led full sales cycles with tailored proposals, coordinated delivery and success, tracked metrics to spot bottlenecks and improve closing rates.

Account Executive (Full Stack)

Axeleo Capital

Analyst and operator: scouted SaaS/Proptech/Web3 startups across Europe, led due diligence and worked with portfolio CEOs on GTM, ops, marketing, HR... to secure series A metrics.

VC & Portfolio Support

ACCIÓ

Helped a research lab productize a new patented technology: scoped the tech, sized markets, engaged with potential buyers and partners, built a step-by-step launch strategy.

Business Consultant

Groupe Eyrolles

Worked hand in hand with the CEO, to operate a newly launched startup incubator: member onboarding, events, partner outreach, and trend scouting.

Startup Lead

TotalEnergies

Assisted negotiations with governments and non-state actors during the Syrian conflict, to protect company assets, operations continuity, and employee safety across the region.

Right Hand to the Head of Public Relations EMEA

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⚒️ Actionnable tips on how to scale software companies. 
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 👀 A front-row seat to my building process.

Théo Canale

EU: « It's very important to underline that DSA is having nothing to do with censorship ».

Also EU:

Go for Growth Business Hub

I am leading a team of Specialist providers are running in-depth workshops for small groups, on a wide range of topics (sales and marketing, branding and design, finance and funding, People and organisational culture, technology and digitisation, innovation, and exporting) plus follow-up one to one advice. 
If you run a small business on the Isle of Wight, we can help your business grow... oh and it's fully funded so FREE! 

Go for Growth! 

https://go-for-growth-business-hub.mn.co/

Program Lead

Digital Islands

Digital Islands is a consultancy that provides business development and strategic insights. 

Initially focused on helping small and medium sized companies from Ireland looking to grow their business in the UK, we now work with larger organisations and networks from across the public and private sector providing a wider range of business support and consulting services.

Founder Director

UK Business Advisors Limited

Business Advisors working with UKBA have a wide-range of skills, knowledge and experience in working with owners and managing directors to build successful businesses. UKBA is a network of business advisors. 

All our Advisors share the achievement of having run profitable businesses and can therefore contribute tangible and practical benefits for your business.

We help you achieve your business goals.

Business Advisor

Boardy

Letting people know about the AI connector that is Boardy

Connector

Big Ambitions and Ready to Grow

Ready to Grow, Big Ambitions and Big Ambitions Essentials across East Sussex finished March 2025

Programme Lead for Big Ambitions and Ready to Grow

Kinetic Cubed

Digital Islands and Kinetic Cubed have joined forces to provide companies with an in-depth market intelligence service, enabling the business to accelerate their export led growth by identifying and then focusing on genuine opportunities.

Senior Associate

SEBB Business Support 

Project Lead

IBDG

IBDG (International Business Development Group) is a specialist business development consultancy operating in Europe, the United States and Middle East. Working in partnership with Economic Development Agencies worldwide to grow business and employment through the formulation of operational and institutional strategy, foreign direct investment and trade development initiatives, ranging from strategy formulation to implementation.

Trade Consultant

Scale Up East Sussex, Newhaven

Digital Islands has been appointed to run one of three pilot projects by East Sussex County Council and I will be leading the work in identifying the companies we will be working with in the Newhaven area. Once the companies have been recruited to work with us on this project, we will be running workshops and facilitation sessions to understand the challenges the different businesses have, and then collaboratively developing a plan of action to overcome those challenges. 
In parallel with this stream of work I will be working with business in the local area during 2019 to run a Peer to Peer networking group for the senior management teams of the companies on this programme. 
Companies will each be allocated an experienced mentor who will work with them to support their decisions as the company works on implementing their growth plan. 
Find out more at www.scaleupeastsussex.co.uk

Hove College

Part time Business tutor, introducing a new module in September 2018 on World Market  Economics. I also teach modules on Economics, Business Statistics and Introduction to Finance.

Business Tutor

I specialise in helping Small and Medium Sized companies to grow by supporting and enabling the developing and implementation of a growth plan. I have 25 years experience working in sales, marketing and international business development across a multitude of sectors for companies both UK and Ireland.  

I have a wide network of contacts across different sectors to help ensure I can bring the right domain expertise to support your business. 

The post-pandemic world is going to be challenging for many companies, especially when combined with our changing trade relationships with world following our departure from the EU. That means having a really clear strategy supported by a strong value proposition, and a great team to help drive the business forwards. 

We are running business support programmes in East and West Sussex, along with the High Streets of Winchester Business Support club. 

Please do connect and we can discuss the best way to help you and your business grow.

Gavin McWhirter

What would you do with 60 extra minutes every working day
without hiring a single new pair of hands?

Right now many Isle of Wight business owners start and end the day
inside the same loop of invoices, emails and social posts.
The to-do list grows, evenings disappear,
and growth plans stay on the whiteboard (or buried inside your head).
Repetitive admin turns into a silent tax
that steals five precious hours every week.

There is a cleaner way.
On Wednesday 3 December, Gemma Pybus is walking you through
Automation and Productivity Tools for Small Business Owners.
Gemma runs Digital Groundwork Ltd., lectures on digital strategy at the University of West London,
and designs AI courses for MMC Learning.
During one focused afternoon you pick, test and adapt tools
that cut the busywork and hand you back at least one hour a day.
You leave with:
• a personal action plan you can switch on the same week
• real case studies from businesses like yours
• a complimentary copy of Gemma’s book “Unlocking Search Intent – Your Key to Online Relevance”.

Secure your place now.

➡️ Register here: https://lnkd.in/eEJfcG5W

Time is the one resource you cannot reorder.
Claim an hour back before another week slips by.

Building 41 by Innovation Wight Tash Rebuck Matt Greg Ella Clapham Gemma Pybus Effie M. Alison Colley Kathy Chillistone MCIPD Paul Bellchambers Daniel Carley Alistair Dickinson Julie Jones-Evans Lisa Beaney Amber Beard Isle of Wight Chamber Sam Cattee Georgia Iona Newman Creative Island Kirsty Wood Debby McKenna Helen Cunningham

Leading teams of business specialists to provide help, advice and support to owners of independent businesses across Southern England

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Do you believe in magic? When a business is doing well, is it because they have a magic touch... and their customers just 'show up'?

Or perhaps it's about actually understanding your customers, and giving them a kind of map that helps them find what they are looking for.

And once they find it, you are right there to help them complete that purchase.

I see business owners 'get' this every time Tash runs one of her sales workshops.

Small business owners walk in thinking "I don't really know what's not working."
They’ve poured money into ads.
Chased trends.
Spent HOURS creating Insta posts.
But no one’s buying.

Then she draws the first question on the whiteboard:
𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘴 𝘢𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘤𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘬𝘴 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘢𝘥 𝘰𝘳 𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘵?

Silence.

Because they’ve never asked themselves this.
They’ve built castles in the air instead of paths to the door.

You see it in their eyes when Tash walks them through their first funnel.
First comes the “aha” – realising sales isn’t one conversation, but six.
Then the panic – 𝘸𝘢𝘪𝘵, 𝘐 𝘯𝘦𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘥𝘰𝘤𝘶𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴?
Finally, the grin – when they realise they can finally measure what works.

One woman spent 2 hours mapping her follow-up emails.
Another redesigned her website mid-workshop.
(Yes, she pulled out her laptop and did it.)

Most thought sales was about being “pushy.”
Now they’re tracking touch-points.

Tash doesn’t teach tricks.
She shows them how to build a bridge, from stranger to customer. One they can cross again and again.

I’ve watched Tash do this several times.
Her passion isn’t in the closing line.
It’s in the moment someone realises they can control their own success.

The workshop ends with quiet confidence.
Not hype.
Not empty promises.
Just 15 business owners walking out with a roadmap.
And the sudden belief that maybe… just maybe… they’ve been holding the wrong end of the stick all along.

Because sales isn’t magic.
It’s a journey.
And a damn good story.

Tash Rebuck Matt Greg Ella Clapham Effie M. Andrew Nordbruch Alison Colley Kathy Chillistone MCIPD Paul Bellchambers Daniel Carley Alistair Dickinson Building 41 by Innovation Wight John Elford Julie Jones-Evans Lisa Beaney Amber Beard Isle of Wight Chamber Sam Cattee Georgia Iona Newman Creative Island Kirsty Wood Debby McKenna

What's the point of Marketing?
👇👇👇

A business owner in Ventnor calls me.
She’s frustrated.
Her ads aren’t converting.
Her emails aren’t opened.
She’s drowning in generic advice about “branding” and “engagement.”
She just wants more sales.

We start with a question:
Who is your ideal customer, and where are they 𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘯𝘰𝘸?

We map their journey.
From the moment they feel a problem,
to the moment they hand you money.
We find gaps.

Are you shouting about features?
Or are you helping the customers who are thinking:
“Why does this matter to 𝗺𝗲?”

You have to be clear about how you solve a problem.
Your messaging needs to speak to a fear.
Content that answers questions they didn’t know they had.
Automated follow-ups that guide them, step by step.

Six months later,
her inbox is full of messages like:
“I’ve been waiting for someone like you.”
Her revenue doubled.
Not because we made her “visible.”
Because she stopped chasing everyone.
And started solving problems.

Here’s what I’ve learned:
Marketing isn’t about shouting louder.
It isn't about screaming into a void.
It’s about listening harder.

The moment you stop talking at people,
and start walking with them,
from confusion to clarity,
that’s when sales happen.

And that’s the twist:
The best marketing doesn’t feel like marketing.
It feels like help.

So if you’re asking,
“What’s the point of Marketing?”
Here’s your answer:
To make selling unnecessary.
Because when you understand your customer’s journey,
they’ll come to you.

And that’s how you grow.

My dog Hamilton knows about growth
7 months old and nearly 30 Kg

Nicole Ayton ⚡️Emma Pearce Adas Goldshtein Julia Johnson Cale Sinfield Alexandra Hughes Mark Vaesen Ella Clapham Tash Rebuck Building 41 by Innovation Wight

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