The Despatch Company

About The Despatch Company

The Despatch Company is a dynamic collective of forward-thinking brands designed to support, scale, and empower modern businesses through innovative logistics, tech, and community solutions. With a sharp focus on excellence and sustainability, we operate across three key subsidiaries, Helm, Voila, and Nuero, each addressing a unique segment of the evolving commerce landscape.

Helm is our operations and fulfillment powerhouse, delivering agile, reliable warehousing and dispatch solutions tailored to D2C and B2B brands.

Voila is our curated logistics concierge, offering same-day and next-day delivery with a premium experience, designed for brands that put customer delight first.

Nuero is our intelligence and insights engine, leveraging data and tech to optimize performance, identify growth opportunities, and drive smarter decision-making across the supply chain.

My Role: Head of Partnerships and Events

As Head of Partnerships and Events, I’m responsible for building and nurturing strategic relationships that drive growth, visibility, and impact across all three brands. I lead our efforts to create meaningful collaborations with like-minded businesses, platforms, and communities, while curating and executing events that position The Despatch Company and its subsidiaries as thought leaders and innovators in the logistics and e-commerce space. My work bridges strategy and storytelling, ensuring every partnership and event delivers value, relevance, and long-term momentum.

Head of Partnerships & Events

Digital Clubhouse

I’m the Co-Founder and Co-Host, of Digital Clubhouse, a new event series based in Leeds but firmly built for the digital community. 

The premise is simply, to fill a luxury cinema, inside a luxury co-working space, with agencies, tech partners, brands, retailers and businesses. 

Our intentions are to have events that are high in content, top tier in attendees and class in ambience. 

Mission; to bring something to the North that everyone in the South would be even proud of 💪🏻

Co-Founder & Co-Host

The Digital Facilitators

The Digital Facilitators was created because finding the right agency takes too much time. Most agencies are not proficient in all the areas you need to succeed. 

With over 50 elements to the marketing landscape, it takes too long to find the right people, at the right price to do the job well.

Alan and the team are here to make your life easier, by offering a free consultation to understand your needs and place you in front of the right agency, every time.

With zero cost to you and the benefit of saving internal resources, the team, will find the agency for you and make sure they are the perfect fit for your digital journey.

All sectors, budgets, and timelines are welcome to a free consultation.

I have also consulted for tech firms such as Revend and The Next Level, helping them both break into the UK and European markets, via partnerships and lead generation tactics.

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Mancave MKT PLC

Welcome to ManCaveMktplc – the ultimate one-stop destination for everything your ManCave (or She Shed) needs. From kitted-out gaming dens to backyard bars, we’re building the biggest and best community for personal spaces across the UK.

With a growing audience of over 650,000 enthusiasts, we’re not just a marketplace — we’re a movement. Our mission is simple: save you time by curating the coolest, most unique gear all in one place. Whether it’s furniture, tech, lighting, bar gear, or collectibles, if it belongs in a ManCave, it’ll be here.

We’re actively looking for:

Suppliers who want to get in front of a passionate, ready-to-buy audience.

TikTok Shop Live presenters with their own ManCave or She Shed to showcase products in action.

And this is just the beginning. We’ve got some exciting community groups launching soon, including one dedicated to raising money for men’s mental health and prostate cancer support.

This isn’t just a store,  it’s a movement.
Let’s build something legendary together.

Alan Pilkington, Co-Founder
ManCaveMktplc

Co-Founder

Bobble Digital LTD

Business Development Director with the aim to continue to grow Bobble Digital's client base 

Award Winning Digital Marketing Agency Bobble Digital. I support business growth online, whether your B2B or B2C we work with International, National and Local Businesses to help them reach their desired audiences to drive more sales and revenue. We have an agile approach using our own methodology which gets proven results.

The core services that we offer are Marketing Strategy, PPC (Pay-Per-Click), SEO (Search Engine Optimisation), Paid Social (Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter, Snapchat, TikTok etc), Video Advertising, Display Marketing and Analytics. 

Want to know how to maximise your online presence, then reach out to myself and team for a Free Digital Marketing Strategy. www.bobbledigital.com

Business Development Director 

Bidnamic

Bidnamic is a marketing technology platform that helps retailers unlock the full potential of Google Shopping.
 
Our platform helps retailers to outrank competitors, increasing revenue and market share – in short, it gives you an “unfair advantage” on Google Shopping. 
 
BidNamic achieves this by applying machine learning to profile every single product SKU in your catalogue, predicting its optimal bid value algorithmically. Real-time performance analysis and high-frequency bid management increase the efficiency of your ad spend, decrease costs per acquired customer, and enables the full revenue potential of every product. 

While scaling our own eCommerce store we encountered the same problems faced by all retailers of over or underbidding on Google Shopping at the individual product level, thus BidNamic was born. 

We are now working with a selected group of established leading retailers for which we are already delivering 60%+ increases in revenue and are backed and supported by notable Investors; including board advisors to Net-A-Porter, Co-Founder of Booking.com - thought leaders at Google, IBM and founders of many of today‘s fastest growing companies.

Senior Business Development Manager

Google

● I have been working for Google/Capita for over 6.5 years now as an Agency Account Manager
for the South African, Australia and UK markets.
● I deal with a portfolio of 60+ digital advertising agencies and their clients. My role is to help
them on-board new acquisitions and sustain those accounts.
● I teach, train and educate the agencies on how to pitch all of Google’s PPC products, such as
Google Search, GDN, YouTube, Mobile, GSP ads (g-mail), Google Shopping and re-
marketing products.
● I previously set up a beta test to help them pitch to groups of potential clients rather than an
individual basis so we can have a higher sign up ratio. (This is used throughout the
department) As well as delivering co-pitches to high potential acquisitions.
● Over the last few years I have not only been the top performer in my team but also one of the
top performers in my unit as a whole.
● In the last year I have shared my pitching techniques to over 25 % of my colleagues which
have yielded great results for the business.
● In 2016 I finally hit a personal goal to bring in $1M+ in new revenue.
● I am also fully Google Certified.

Business Development Manager

Regtransfers

● I went on to make the company over £250,000+ in my only year of working there.
● My job entailed inbound and outbound sales calls to generate revenue.
● Conducting negotiations between buyers and sellers
● I was targeted to make the company a minimum of £22,250 in a five week period.
● My best performance was in December 2010 when I made the company just under £42,000.

Sales Negotiator

CEO & Founder | Business Development Director | Consultant | Partnerships Manager | ex Google

With over 15 years of experience in the digital market, I have launched The Digital Facilitators, a company that connects businesses with the best digital agencies for their goals and budgets. I leverage my extensive network and expertise in digital marketing to offer a free consultation and a tailored solution for each client, saving them time and resources.

Previously, I was a Business Development Director at Bobble Digital, an award-winning digital marketing agency that provides services in marketing strategy, PPC, SEO, paid social, video advertising, display marketing, and analytics. I supported business growth online for B2B and B2C clients across various sectors and regions, using an agile approach and a proven methodology. I also have a background in fintech, e-commerce, and Google Shopping, having worked with some of the fastest-growing and largest brands in the industry. I am passionate about helping businesses succeed online and achieve their desired outcomes.

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