Oxford Brookes University

Founder at Helves

Block Dojo's mission is to educate, train and elevate start-up entrepreneurs to the highest standards, by providing best-in-class mentors, and teaching with the latest tech tools.

Through the 12-week programme entrepreneurs and tech-teams moving as quickly as possible on the BSV blockchain with support from mentors such as myself.

Block Dojo

Mentor

Medical Hardware

Advisor

Launched to £0.4m turnover importer/ exporter focused on ambient foods.
Lead digital strategy.
Developed supplier relationships with leading supermarkets.

Food Penguin Limited

Chief Operating Officer

Launched DTC brand Helves.
Turned over £310k & developed brand, marcoms strategy
Featured in Traveller, Guardian, Sun and Daily Mail.
 ➡️    https://www.helves.co

Helves

Founder

The Coronavirus Tech Handbook provides a space for technologists, specialists, civic organisations and public & private institutions to collaborate on a rapid and sophisticated response to the coronavirus outbreak. It is an active and evolving resource with thousands of expert contributors.
https://coronavirustechhandbook.com/

CoronaVirusTechHandbook

Funding Director 

Victoria and Albert Museum

Entrepreneur in Residence

As an entrepreneur part time role advising early-stage businesses and help them secure a Start Up Loan.
Virgin Start up provide government-backed Start-Up Loans and one-to-one business advice to entrepreneurs launching or growing a business in England and Scotland.
● Initial assessment and viability of the business idea & plan 
● Assess the applicants’ business plan & coach them to further develop it until they are ‘loan ready’

Virgin StartUp

Business Advisor

Management consulting in digital, marketing, service and sales leading interim assignments in FTSE and dynamic SME firms.
Working with a range of customers delivering technology, entrepreneurial innovation solution. 
-Victoria & Albert Museum commissioned by the Head of the Commercial Department to develop 40 innovative business models for them to deploy to improve revenues. Presented at Board level and a number deployed.
- Education platform for Mary Myatt. I was commissioned to work with an Educational thought leader.  Determined the user / platform / business need. Developed the platform landscape and managed the build. Now with 50,000 educational subscribers.

Help! We Need

Developed the first annual live entertainment insurance product and developing a blockchain ticket technology.

Insure My Tickets

Digital Director

Guided the strategy of the Outdoor Swimming Society to improve access to water across the UK and global for this 120k membership Non for Profit.  Attended the APPG's as spokesperson for the OSS and advised on digital strategy as well as helped to organise the swim events of up to 3000 people.

THE OUTDOOR SWIMMING SOCIETY LIMITED

Non Executive Director

Established this Cafe in Manor Park. Designed the cafe, Managed the fit out. Developed the menu offering and managed the staffing of the cafe.

Park Social Cafe

Pocket App is a multi-platform application company designing and developing apps and mobile sites for mobile devices. As part of the launch team of four we built the company to a team of 80. The innovative products that we developed were for a wide range of customers but included Argos, Coca Cola, Queen Elizabeth Park, The Commonwealth Grave Commission and many more.

Pocket App Ltd

Co-Founder & Business Development Director

Developing relationships and partnerships for Last Second Tickets who has partnered with promoters, theatres and live event venues to capture the unsold tickets within the final days and hours before that event goes live. This allows us to offer excellent value tickets for many events throughout the UK with discounts up to 50%. Established a relationship with EE which resulted in the business being acquired by them.

Last Second Tickets

Business Development

•	Identifying new clients and successfully converting them to become customers of Brainstorm
•	Advised a range of diverse companies on their mobile strategy, from Media owners such as MTV &the BBC to multiple smaller partners  
	•	Educating clients and managing campaigns on the platform to deliver compelling products
•	Closed a sales pipeline of The Telegraph, Virgin, Vodafone, LastMinute.com & TalkSport

Brainstorm

Business Development Manager

Urbanskills is a team of handypersons on scooters who are paid by the 1/2 hourly time period undertaking small domestic and commercial tasks. Smart, speedy and prompt - they solve dripping taps to larger tasks.

Urban Skills

Founder and Director

Raised £.3m to launch this NMA award winning company which developed Health and Medical products that are featured on Vodafone, Orange, O2 and T-Mobile. 

Pocketgroup has now extended its business into providing a wide range of mobile content that is used on operators in the UK and throughout Asia.

Pocketgroup has now been successfully sold to WIN Plc

Oliver Pitt