1/2 Day Strategy Session

James is a CMO, Co-founder, Investor, Mentor and advisor & husband and father 4 children. based in the UK.

James has close to 25 years experience in building, scaling and managing consumer facing global tech businesses.

James is incredibly passionate about growing business and developing people.

James is an innovative, hands-on and target driven CMO, GM & T-shaped Marketer with a diverse set of skills, from strategic planning through to tactical implementation.

James is also an active advisor to a number of community based online businesses in the Entertainment vertical as well as being an active coach and Mentor with over 50 5 Star reviews on Growth Mentor.

Some of James’s career highlights include:

Being Employee #8 of Udate.com which he helped grow into world’s 2nd largest Dating platform with over 15 million members leading to the acquisition of the business by IAC Corp in 2003

Leading Online Marketing for Match.com in 43 Markets outside of the US, Helping to build the #1 Dating platform & dominant brand globally w/ annual revenues in excess of $75m & Y-O-Y growth of 60%+

Employee Number 1 of Seatwave - Leading Marketing, Growth & Content for Europe’s largest & leading Ticket Exchange who Raised $53MM in VC from Accel, Atlas, Fidelity & Mangrove.
Growing to 11 Markets, Selling over 1.5 Million + Tickets w/ 2.1 Million MAUs. The Seatwave business was acquired by Ticketmaster/ Live Nation in 2014.

European MD of TaskRabbit, Building a community of over 1500 active Taskers across 40 Categories & growing Int Biz 300%+ during tenure making London TaskRabbit's fastest growing & 3rd largest city globally.
Launched & scaled a IKEA Partnership across 5 UK stores which Led to Acquisition by IKEA in 2017

Led all Marketing & Growth at Executive level for TrustedHousesitters in both a pre & post pandemic world. Drove double digit revenue growth on a quarterly basis following 5 negative quarters