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New Entrepreneurs Foundation

University of Birmingham

Head Of Brand Marketing at Founders Factory, Marketing Academy Scholar

Clothes Doctor

CMO (Part-time/Consultant)

Part-time senior marking leader and advisor. My role is to provide strategic direction, build and steer the team and when required, roll up my sleeves and execute. I only take on projects that address a social mission, and founding teams that care about people and planet. I predominantly work with startup founders or industry leaders looking to make big change.

Currently supporting:
MPowder
Clothes Doctor
DabbaDrop
Out N About

Also the founder of a business in the kids space, in pre-launch.

Self-employed

Marketing Consultant

MPowder

Brand & Marketing (Part-time/Consultant)

DabbaDrop

Maternity Leave

Hammock

Founders Factory

Helping the portfolio to leverage their brands to drive growth, with a d2c/consumer focus, whilst leading all initiatives for the Founders Factory brand as we scale internationally.

Head Of Brand Marketing

Highly selective leadership development programme for 30 emerging leaders from Marketing, Media, Communications and Advertising.

The Marketing Academy

Scholar (Class of 2020)

A non-profit initiative helping people find their local shops delivering during the COVID-19 pandemic, across London, Birmingham and Manchester with a team of 12 volunteers.

The Lord Lieutenant of Greater London, the Queen’s personal representative, sent me a letter to recognise my impact.

On Instagram as @shop_local_london @shop_local_manchester and @shop_local_birmingham

High Street Heroes | Shop Local

Founder

A free, community driven service matching charities and hospitals with suppliers that have fairly priced or free PPE, to help tackle the Covid-19 pandemic.

900k+ items of fairly priced or free PPE delivered to 250+ organisations and charities

SOS supplies

Co-Founder

Helping to shape the brand and marketing strategy for start-ups across the portfolio, specializing in consumer brands.

Brand Marketing Lead - Growth

Bringing a start-up mindset to help disrupt a category at Unilever

Unilever

Global Assistant Brand Manager - Disruptive Innovation

Ille De Cocos is an everyday luxury women's wear brand founded by Deola Charles, who's career has seen her work for iconic British brands including Selfridges, Hobbs and The White Company.

Ille De Cocos

Non Executive Director

One of the founding team responsible for defining MORI's DNA & and leading the brand and team to become one of the most loved and recognised babywear brands in the UK.

MORI

Highlights:
• I built my own website and with zero marketing or PR budget, built a loved and aspirational lifestyle brand in the UK, selling internationally across Europe, US, China and Australia, with MOM online sales growth, following and engagement. I still receive customer enquiries today.
• Seen in majority of national press on multiple occasions (The Times, The Daily Mail, The Independent), as well as influential fashion press (You magazine, Stylist, Harper’s Bazaar, Vantage). The result of persistent telephone calls, letters and emails.
• Developed blogger partnerships with VIP influencers including Lily Pebbles & The Londoner.
• Product was bought by Emma Thompson in one of our wholesale stores.
• Shortlisted for Great British Fashion Entrepreneur of the Year 2015 as part of the Great British Entrepreneur Awards.
• Invited to showcase our products at Multiplex, a pop-up department store run by Selfridges.
• Invited by Stylist Magazine to run a successful four-day pop-up at Stylist Live in London.
• Approached by the likes of Fortnum & Mason and Anthropologie US to discuss wholesale opportunities.
• Won the David Pearl Pitch Prize for my business pitch at The New Entrepreneurs Foundation
• Received investment to develop the product further from retail veteran Jeff Cooper from Stirling Cooper fame

Olive Cooper

- Overall responsibility for full CRM plan, data segmentation, end-to-end customer communication strategy and execution.
- Development and pre-launch of new brand & mobile app (Timbre) including developing customer on boarding journey, in app journey, retention, marketing and PR strategy.

Seatwave

CRM and Social Manager

- One of 30 out of over 1000 applicants selected to join the programme. 
- The New Entrepreneurs Foundation gives up to 30 of the UK’s brightest, entrepreneurially minded young people the opportunity to work for a year with some of the country’s leading entrepreneurs. 
- Fast-track MBA. Intensive, immersive and interactive 10-month learning and development program with workshops from corporate sponsors such as Deloitte, McKinsey and Tesco. 
- Masterclasses from business schools such as UCL and the Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning at Cambridge Judge Business School. 
- 12-month placement within a new and dynamic company.
- Includes executive coaching and mentoring, and speaker events from, as well as the opportunity to network with, the UK’s top business leaders.

Monthly Speaker & Networking Events featured established business leaders and inspirational entrepreneurs such as Brent Hoberman (co-founder lastminute.com), Sir Charles Dunstone (co-founder The Carphone Warehouse), Sherry Coutu (Angel investor and CEO), Joe Cohen (founder Seatwave), Lord Young of Graffham (enterprise advisor to the Prime Minister), to name a few.

Leadership of the NEF includes Oliver Pawle, Lord Davies of Abersoch CBE and Sir Nigel Rudd DL with entrepreneur supporters including Charles Dunstone (Carphone Warehouse & TalkTalk), Luke Johnson (Pizza Express & Channel 4), Edward Wray (Betfair), Brent Hoberman (Lastminute.com) and many more. Corporate supporters of the NEF include Tesco, Land Securities, Deloitte, Virgin, McKinsey, 3i, Diageo, HGCapital, Santander and more.

- It was during the NEF programme that I was awarded the David Pearl Pitch Prize for my business pitch at the end of the programme.

Class of 2014

- One-off project carrying out detailed research behind the Psychology of Colour, and how the colour used in packaging has the potential to influence buying decisions.

Olivia Martyn