Simon Cole

Co-chair a board overseeing a community of 500+ companies, fostering an ecosystem connecting startups, financial institutions, and the UK government.

Leverage relationships with industry leaders to drive growth and innovation across the UK fintech sector.

Invited to open the London Stock Exchange on 13 September 2023.

Building and growing digital and brand experience across EMEA for a 12,000-employee global design and branding group, including MARKS and Collide.

Secured major new partnerships with American Express (Korea), Viagra (UK), and M&M's Global Retail, among others.

Hit pre-pandemic revenue target during the pandemic; doubled sales goal to over £1.5m the following year through a consultative, relation

Grew a US agency's EMEA footprint, scaling a small London team into a full regional new-business function.

Designed and executed a complete sales pipeline covering awareness, qualification, and closable opportunities.

Closed multiple six-figure deals and built a multi-million-dollar pipeline across automotive, telecom, and fintech sectors.

Worked as Business Development Director at Equator.

Temporary role while I obtained my US citizenship and my wife’s visa for the move back to the UK. Reworked messaging and services to focus on design thinking and human centered design methodologies. Designed and now executing a full sales funnel and go to market strategy for the agency. Founded the successful Explore and Engage new business strategy which delivered a value based approach to NB th

Centerline is a 150 person full service digital content marketing agency that specializes on B2B. As the the Executive Director of New Business I was responsible for the entire sales process. I worked closely with the marketing team to develop and execute a full sales strategy. Managed a $300,000 new business budget and successfully landed over $10,000,000 in new opportunities

THRIVE is a design and innovation consultancy that collaborates with leading brands to create new products and experiences that resonate with customers, strengthen brands and improve market share. I lead their new business initiative and successfully landed large new accounts with Pepsi, MOEN, Kimberly Clark, Burger King and McDonalds.

As the sole sales person with THINK. My goal is to expand our reach and client base to fortune 1000 companies. I sell a full service of digital channel marketing strategies including Social Media, Internet Marketing, Mobile Marketing, Emerging Media, Web Development, SEO and SEM.
I Work as part of a team to analyze and develop digital marketing strategies and opportunities to pitch to prospective

Key responsibility for sales and growth of market share within the southeast region. This includes the states, GA, NC, SC, TN, AL, AK, LA and MS. Working with new and existing clients on all online projects, including designing and organizing company data flow and planning and initiating new online marketing plans.
Responsible for increasing the number of clients, average project size and size of

Account Manager - Responsible for the Online Information customer base, the primary goal of generating maximum sales from customers. Successfully up sold many smaller accounts into six figure major accounts and taking care of customer service needs. Also selling to new and referred customers.
Project Management - Manage new projects for new and existing clients. Ensure the projects stay within bud

Developed and plotted maps of geophysical surveys. This was done on a RS6000 mainframe using a JES3 JCL on the command line.