Work
I have worked with many purpose driven brands and started several businesses…
I joined Vattenfall IDNO as its fifth UK employee and led marketing and lead generation as the start-up grew to 30+ people, supporting a commercial pipeline exceeding £20m before the business was sold to Eclipse Power.
I provide marketing consultancy for Footprint Zero and designed their lead-generating website, helping businesses access fully or self-financed solar PV and reduce UK carbon emissions.
I provide marketing consultancy for Ineco Energy, helping develop their B2B marketing strategy and providing Digital Marketing Essentials training to strengthen their in-house marketing capabilities.
I supported Highlands Rewilding with SEO, web development and marketing for their crowdfunding campaign which raised more than £1.2 million for rewilding in Scotland.
I worked on brand development for Nattergal who are making nature an investible asset class by becoming a world-leading nature restoration company.
Working alongside colleagues at Solarcentury I helped set up Solar Aid to deliver solar light and power in rural Africa. Several years later I returned as Marketing Manager.
testimonials
“Oli initiated one of our first partnership campaigns. The resulting promotion turned into our most successful marketing activity in terms of exposure and revenue.”
Rob Reason, Founder of HiddenCity
“I have worked in the energy industry for nearly 40 years and have collaborated with many marketing teams and individuals. I can honestly say that Oliver is by far the best marketing professional I have worked with. He just gets it! His no-nonsense, forthright approach and sharp thinking gets the job done quickly and efficiently. Oliver’s expertise and dedication make him an invaluable asset to any business needing marketing services.”
Andy Vickers, Powersystems UK
“Oli is a brilliant all-round marketeer with top-of-class digital media skills”
Jeremy Leggett, CEO Highlands Rewilding
“The environmental debate needs more people like you with your considerable chutzpah!”
Jonathan Porritt, co-founder Forum for the Future
“I have had the pleasure of knowing Oli since the very early days of SolarAid and worked alongside Oli many years larer. Throughout, Oli has shown exceptional commitment to sustainable development. Oli is also very accomplished comms and marketing professional, who led that area at SolarAid efficiently and effectively.”
John Keane, CEO SolarAid
“Oliver listened to our needs and quickly and diligently built our internet presence using his excellent SEO skills. We soon featured more highly in natural search than we ever did before, achieving the #1 spot on google.co.uk in under three months and our leads more than doubled.
We also employed Oli to develop a growth strategy to increase revenue. Oli helped us identify a new customer segment, ran an outreach program and helped us hook a whale! That single deal generated £350k in revenue which was about 50% more than our total annual revenue at the time.
James Young, Business Development Manager
Some of my own projects
I co-founded The Open Co-op in 2004 to help create a collaborative, regenerative economy. I organised the 2017 - 2020 conferences continue to steward the 1500+ community and develop ideas for PLANET, an co-operating system for the regenerative economy.
I founded and built Smart Home Energy, a digital energy service combining tariff data, household characteristics and smart-meter consumption to help consumers understand the financial opportunity from flexible energy technologies and time-of-use tariffs.
In 2016 I came up with an idea to help make data interoperable across networks, which evolved into Murmurations. The project provides a protocol and a suite of open source tools, including two WordPress Plugins, to help people share data and create collaborative maps.
Economic Rebellion is an awareness raising project highlighting the work of Fuller and E. C. Riegel to promote our most powerful tool for change, money... Because the current economy, in which banks create money as interest bearing debt, is the root cause of the climate crisis.
In 2018 I co-founded The Open Credit Network, a UK network and open source directory, matching and notification system for mutual credit payments. We developed some highly flexible open source software to enable others to set up and run their own local mutual credit groups.
I set up Open Web Systems to provide ethical web hosting, web development & collaborative tools, powered by renewable energy, as an alternative to the corporate provides that run spy-ware and abuse users' data. We host several charities and ethical businesses' websites.
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Oli is by far the best marketing professional I have worked with. He just gets it!
Andy Vickers, Powersystems UK
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Other brands I've worked for
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Oli is a very accomplished comms and marketing professional
John Keane, CEO SolarAid
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Logos I've designed
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Oli listened to our needs and quickly built our internet presence achieving the #1 spot on Google in under three months and our leads more than doubled.
James Young, Business Development Manager