Team.
Dedication. Expertise. Passion.
Exceptional business practitioners whose talent and ability have driven powerful performances for world's leading technology start-up, scale-up and enterprise brands.
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Professor Robert E.Morgan
Robert Morgan is the Sir Julian Hodge Chair and Professor of Marketing & Strategy at Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University, UK. He holds a PhD in global market entry strategy from Cardiff University and received post-doctoral training at INSEAD and the Rock Center for Entrepreneurship, Harvard Business School. His research focuses on firm capabilities and innovation from a strategic marketing perspective. He has published over 200 company cases, white papers, management articles, and scholarly papers.
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Annette Forster MBA
Annette is an experienced, commercial CMO with C-Suite experience, a passion for sustainable leadership with an impressive track record of success. She operates at the intersection of business strategy development, marketing and sustainability. Experienced in all things marketing including building winning teams, brand evolution, demand generation, improving customer experience, value proposition creation and implementing ESG and driving sustainable growth.
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Dr Gopal Kutwaroo
Gopal is a global marketing, partnerships, business development professional (VP/CMO/Director) at SAGE, MICROSOFT, DELL, LEGO, SIEMENS, NOKIA, NCR, BT. Advisor on B2B SaaS/Cloud ERP, HCM and E-Commerce software market to various private equity, venture capital, investment banks, management consultancies. During Gopal's career, he has led training and transformational consulting projects across the world for leading technology and manufacturing businesses driving relevance and excitement to customers.
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Cathie Donaldson MBA
Cathie is a business growth, strategic change, and leadership development specialist. Her work helps organisations increase profitability by transforming leadership and business development practices and creating high performing and inclusive cultures.
Before starting her independent consultancy career in 2009, Cathie worked for a number of years in strategic sales, marketing and leadership roles for Siemens and Cable and Wireless. She combines this extensive commercial background with her passion for people development to deliver transformation and growth.
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Gordon Donkin
Gordon possesses more than 30 years of experience in international business, intelligence-led consulting, and marketing capability, acquired in the UK, Europe, and the United States. Currently, he provides support to the leadership teams of some of the world's largest and most innovative companies, collaborating with true pioneers in market and strategic insights.
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Duygu Cevik
Duygu is an energetic, motivated and highly versatile Marketing and Communications Professional with proven journalism expertise, multi-media prowess, and an exemplary track record driving brand strategy and marketing campaigns for global clients across a broad range of highly competitive business sectors.
An astute and incisive media professional, who originates, develops and implements innovative communications, marketing and PR strategies to penetrate new markets, drive corporate growth and enhance media relations.
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David Cuddihy
With over 10 years of experience, David is a commercially driven marketing leader skilled in driving marketing processes from inception to campaign implementation. David excels in strategic coordination and execution across traditional and digital mediums, identifying new marketing opportunities and generating maximum returns. Achievements include successfully launching new products, reducing customer churn rates, and spearheading innovative initiatives at Virgin Media, Royal Mint and Legal & General.
Consultant
Imran Choudhry FCA FCCA BFP
Imran is a versatile, passionate and commercially astute executive with over 25 years' experience in leading, organising and advising high growth entrepreneurial businesses. Experienced in all aspects of finance and operations with a particular focus on long-term strategy, operational efficiency, management information, cost control, financing and investor relations. Skilled negotiator with proven deal capabilities.
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Dr Simon Kelly
Simon is a highly versatile, passionate and commercially astute executive with over 25 years' experience in leading, organising and advising high growth entrepreneurial businesses. Experienced in all aspects of finance and operations with a particular focus on long-term strategy, operational efficiency, management information, cost control, financing and investor relations. Skilled negotiator with proven deal capabilitiesA 'pracademic' Simon has over 30 years' experience in the ICT industry in Customer Service, Sales, and Marketing. He was Marketing Director for BT's Major Business Division where he was responsible for marketing to BT's top 2000 Business customers.
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Richard Strudwick
Richard helps individuals and teams do more of what they’re good at, build effective relationships and carve out their own successful approach to leadership.
I'm a passionate coach, facilitator and trainer working on projects in leadership, personal development, CSR and effective team behaviours for both multi-national organisations and growing SMEs.Richard has delivered leadership and development training for Maersk, Vodafone, MOD, Barclays, Sky, NPower, Tata, Channel 4, British Council, Nationwide, Herbert Smith Freehills LLP, Cardiff University, over 500 schools and 100's of colleges and universities.
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Stacey Danheiser
Stacey is a a former Fortune 500 marketing leader and strategist with over 20 years of experience, Stacey specialises in helping scaling and established B2B organizations build and deliver sophisticated strategies that align customer needs with company priorities and growth goals. Stacey's focuses on intentional marketing and clients have achieved record growth using her proven systems and guidance, including:
*118% YoY revenue growth
*multi-millions in closed sales across telecom, tech, financial services, and professional services.
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Mike Cockburn
Mike has over 25 years’ experience in coaching, leadership and organisational development, recruitment, career development and psychometric assessment. Most recently this has focused on working with senior management teams in the UK and MENA region to embed a coaching based leadership approach to resolve performance improvement, culture change and behavioural change challenges. Mike has worked with clients in the technology, higher education, arts and government sectors including Nokia, Fujitsu, Net a Porter and The Egyptian Banking Institute.
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Steve Connell
Steve is a professional sales and retail consultant specialising in business strategy, people and business development. Steve has a strong sales, service and marketing background with significant experience of the Corporate and Consumer markets as well as the Retail, Hospitality, Financial Services and Leisure verticals at BT Group.
Having created, managed and sold two highly successful and profitable independent retail businesses, Steve also specialises in providing retail consultancy to independent retail businesses across the country.
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Niall Watters
Niall is a business executive with extensive international experience across finance, e-commerce, project management and commercial strategy. Both as a founder and a consultant, he has a strong track record in helping companies to scale at pace internationally, leveraging the skills he has obtained whilst designing leadership development and high-performance team programmes for some of the world's biggest companies. He has held a number of leadership positions within start-up and scale up businesses, and has acute expertise in understanding how to mobilise and commercialise IP, right through from being just an idea or concept.