Slightly DifferentFounder & Managing Director
Sep. 2000 - Dec. 2012United KingdomMy leadership of this company and my ability to build a high quality sales pipeline from a standing start led to the company growing from start up to become one of the largest Internet development agencies in the South West of England, with a broad range of regional and national clients. Clients were cross-sector including the UK Government, the Liberal Democrat Party, PwC, Daily Telegraph, SSAFA, BMW, Pacific World, A&P, London Irish RFC, and the Eden Project. The company's work won numerous leading industry awards including a BIMA, a DMA Gold, and a UK Government Cybrarian Award. I was also selected to be the face of the Government's Business In You campaign to encourage other people to start their own companies, working alongside actor Mark Strong to promote the campaign. My overriding management principle was that the company should have a strong philanthropic focus and as a result we supported numerous charities and organisations on an ongoing basis. This led to my being selected from a global field to receive the inaugural award in 2012 of the United Nations' Pioneer Award for Strategic Corporate Philanthropy, and shortly afterwards I stepped down from the helm and sold the company as part of an MBO.