Jordan Poulton

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Oundle

University of Oxford

London, England, United Kingdom

A 6 week strategic marketing consultancy.

Coinrule is a meta trading platform that allows you to set up rules-based crypto currency trading across multiple crypto exchanges. Simple and with no coding skills required.

Coinrule

Growth Consultant

UpSkilling Workforces for the Digital Age

Future Builders

Founder & CEO

Makers Academy is a highly-selective, super-intensive, full-time course in web development, aimed at taking you from being a total n00b to an entry-level developer in only 12 weeks. We also support you in finding your first job in the industry - offering a full-service, vocational path into the tech industry.

I'm one of the senior leaders at the company, responsible for the entire Sales & Marketing function, from 'the first time someone hears about Makers' right down to 'bums on seats'. This involves a wide range of marketing activities, such as organic search marketing and SEO, content marketing across a plethora of channels and media formats (creation and distribution), display advertising (on and offline), PPC across multiple platforms, direct sales, event management, affiliate partnerships, brand partnerships, guerilla marketing, social media outreach & more.

Stats:
-  Long term company NPS as of 1.1.18 = 79. Anyone actively measuring this in their company will know the scale of this achievement.
-  Took company from large monthly losses to profitability in ~6 months
-  1 year into the role, Cost per Acquisition was 16% of what it was the day I started.
-  Managed a sales/marketing team of 8 FTEs
-  Went from average class sizes of ~7 to waiting lists for classes of 25 in ~12 months, with no increase in marketing spend. Current classes = >35 people onsite & 30+ Remote students.
-  Personally brought 'MA Remote' to market - the world's *FIRST* online, full time, synchronous, instructor led coding bootcamp, spawning a new market niche
-  Part of the team that launched MA Apprenticeships, another key business line
-  Maintained profitability since month 9, currently supporting 32 employees (and growing!)

P.S> Just in case anyone is confused... I was on the first ever Makers Academy Course. I had such a great time, got on so well with the founders and believed in the mission so much that I decided to join them and help the company become the success it deserves to be.

Makers Academy

Director of Sales & Marketing (Founding Member)

10 Week, intensive course in Web Development - Learned to work with the following:

Ruby
Ruby on Rails
Git
Sinatra
Heroku
PostGres
Test Driven Development
Twitter Bootstrap

Various examples of my work can be found in the blog linked below

Makers Academy Graduate

Responsible for:

-  Strategy
-  Deal flow
-  Deal Analysis
-  Management of due diligence (technical, legal)
-  Portfolio Management.

Telefonica Ventures

Senior Programme Lead

Part of a small team that launched O2 Wifi - a Public Wifi company that aims to disrupt the market by offering free public wifi to everyone in the UK. We are running a Beta in March 2011 and rolling out across the country in Spring, with the aim of 3000 hotspots by Christmas and 14,000 in 3 years. I am personally responsible for the consumer side of the business - propositions design, management of the delivery of our various access channels and portals and website, as well as taking charge of our promotional campaigns, our app and creating and delivering a customer service model.

In general, if you are interested, my role as a graduate on the European Graduate Programme with Telefonica O2, working in New Business Development, involves:

- Analysis of new business propositions and various presentations to board members
- Project management/implementation of new business concepts for O2 Telefónica UK
- Management of various teams to deliver projects in marketing, promotion, online delivery, app development, systems development, customer services, market research etc

Telefonica Europe plc

B2C Marketing Executive

Oxford Entrepreneurs is the largest student-entrepreneur organisation in the world, boasting more than 5,600 members and 4 core lines of programming - Idea Idol, Changemaker Speaker Series, Ideas to Market and the Oxprentice.

This year will focus on the creation of the world's first student-run incubation centre, improving the societies internal infrastructure and information management systems, connections with undergraduates and alumni, the introduction of a new line of programming - the Oxprentice, and an 'Architects of Tomorrow' speaker series focusing on innovative business models, disruptive technologies, clean-tech, green enterprise and socially minded businesses.

Oxford Entrepreneurs

President

Our mission is to encourage and support student entrepreneurship by providing inspiration, education, networking and the chance to learn the skills needed to succeed in business and start entrepreneurial ventures.

What we do

-  Guest Speakers – Ge inspired by the world’s top entrepreneurs and innovators
-  Practical workshops – Hone your skills through workshops led by leading practitioners
-  Networking events – Meet like-minded students and be part of a dynamic community of entrepreneurs
-  Idea Idol Competition – Win up to £10,000 in our flagship ideas competition
-  Ideas2Market Programme –Learn by doing by starting a company whilst in University

VP & Director, Idea Idol

CrewDating is an extremely popular tradition at Oxford and Cambridge University, and comes from an old rowing tradition in which two boat crews (usually one male and one female) would arrange to go out for dinner in a bid to broaden their social circle and boost morale. Our website makes organising CrewDates much easier, and also makes them a possibility for those who, for one reason or another, may not have had the chance to go on a CrewDate themselves.

We also offer some great group-based reductions at venues, and are continuosly working to improve our offering.

CrewDates Ltd

President, Products

- Designed realtime arbitrage mechanisms and market comparison tools, comparing the newly launched Eurex indices against a basket of options available at Euronex
-  Discovered there to be room for tightening spreads without losing competitive edge, thus saving the company a large amount of money (the exact figure was not calculated), found Eurex Indices to offer better value than a basket of shares bought individually through their main competitor
-  Learned:
-  Advanced Excel skills (eg realtime updates from live data feed)
-  Analysis of complex financial instruments
-  Communication of findings to senior management and   recommendation of value adding improvements