CV.
Roles, results and skills from more than a decade in SEO, growth and digital products, including Mayday, VoucherCodes and companies I co-founded.
Profile
I’ve spent more than a decade working out how businesses get found, win customers and grow. Commerically minded & creative, now searching for AI focused roles where my leadership, technical & operations experience can be applied.
Skills
- AI
- Building OKF company brain, skills & policies library, automating multiple playbooks with agents, creating bespoke agents with Vercel Eve. Cursor IDE of choice for tool building.
- SEO/AEO Tools
- Screaming Frog, SEMRush, Profound, Ahrefs, Botify, SEOTesting, GTM, GA4, Adobe Analytics, Tableau, Big Query, GitHub + many more.
- Development
- Next.js speciality, Payload CMS, React Native & Expo for apps, many years with WordPress development. Built various custom internal & external tools using Next.js.
- Marketing Tools
- Meta Ads, Google Ads, CRO and split testing tools (AWO, GA4), Email marketing, Video editing (Final Cut Pro), Various CRM
- Industry influence
- Talks at global industry conferences e.g. brightonSEO, International Search Summit, Tech SEO Summit, SEOFOMO panels. Articles and interviews for Search Engine Land, Sitebulb and Advanced Web Ranking.
Experience
Mayday · May 2026 - Present
Head of Growth
Ownership of SEO, AEO, Website Development, Reporting & Paid Ads. AI has been a huge focus of the role, developing an agentic marketing ops system & OKF repo to maximise impact of a small team whilst maintaining quality. £5k MRR, 30 ANC & 100 SLQs per month across 6 months.
Very Good Digital · Aug 2024 - May 2026
Consultant
Search and paid consultancy for global brands.
- Fintech Talents: clicks up 175% and bounce down 25% for a £1.5k p/m investment.
- Pretty Polly: transactions up 86% and revenue up 25% on the same budget.
- Spendesk: reversed a downward trend through technical, GEO and SEO consultancy. Sessions up 107% and marketing-qualified leads up 21%. Featured in the brand's developer blog.
- Bio Insights: technical and on-page SEO revamp, with clicks up 30% and 1.3 million new impressions in one quarter.
- Kliq: repositioned the product toward longer, more valuable customers and added sales-led acquisition alongside self-serve. Average customer value moved from $57 over three months to $1,200 over twelve.
Torque Partnership · Jan 2024 - Dec 2024
Senior SEO Consultant (contract)
Senior consultant for global enterprise brands. Commercially focused technical work e.g. found migration issues saving one hotel brand $40k a month from a 1 day audit.
VoucherCodes · May 2022 - July 2023
SEO Director
Held the UK’s biggest discount brand above 3 million monthly organic visits and 40% market share through algorithm updates, on the company’s largest revenue stream. Rebuilt retailer-level demand reporting so sales, operations and SEO were working from the same picture.
Odhealth · Jan 2019 - May 2022
Co-founder & CPMO
Co-founded and ran a health-tech startup end to end: product, brand, marketing, fundraising and operations. Took it from a £28k bootstrapped app to an online nutritionist platform with partners including AXA and Hussle.
- Product: tested the idea with a Squarespace MVP and used the data to scope the UX and wireframes. Secured an equity-for-build deal for native iOS and Android apps.
- Pivot and rebrand: read the customer data, moved the business from personal training to nutrition, and led the rebrand to Odhealth with an anti-diet position and a new visual identity.
- Fundraising: raised £169k on CrowdCube in 9 days against a £50k target, filming and editing the pitch video ourselves. £250k raised in total at a £2.2m valuation, including a private bridge round.
- Growth: moved the platform from app to web, then reached position 1 for "Online Nutritionist" and "Book a Nutritionist" with content featuring registered nutritionists, alongside high-intent Google Ads. Search and partnerships drove 500+ consultations.
- Running the company: hired the team, ran payroll and accounts, managed shareholders, and made the call to turn down an under-target scale-up round and pivot to Strongly.
Caliber · May 2020 - May 2021
Director of Marketing & Operations
142% year-on-year traffic growth for an enterprise automotive brand, nominated for a UK Search Award. Hired a data and projects team, and won new clients directly.
Yellowball Ltd · Jun 2019 - May 2020
Head of SEO
Took client pitches from £1.7k a month to £8k, turned team morale around, leading eight people across 30+ clients.
Hirola Group · Aug 2017 - Jun 2019
Marketing Director
Built a marketing department of four and added SEO, paid search and social as an agency service worth £15k a month.
Education
Birkbeck University of London · PGDip
Marketing
University of Derby · BA (hons)
Business Management
Volunteering
Annabel’s Angels · 2014 - 2024
Trustee & Marketing Manager
Trustee and marketing lead for a volunteer-run charity supporting families in Derby and Derbyshire after a cancer diagnosis. It helped more than 600 families with grants for essentials, and the funds were later passed on so that support could continue.