A business as market making and revolutionary as B2 Group requires a rare
blend of skills and knowledge. The executive management team comprises
some of the most experienced and successful players in the UK marketing
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Jeremy Whitaker – Group Chief Executive
Jeremy has vast experience of the direct marketing and data
industry, having been European Managing Director of the
world’s largest marketing services business, Brann Worldwide,
and the Chief Executive of DLG, the largest consumer data
business in the UK. Jeremy, who is personally an investor in
the business, joined the B2 team in September 2009. |
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Andrew Colwell - Marketing Director
A B2B marketing data specialist, over the past 15 years
Andrew has held senior marketing roles at the Bank of
Scotland, Trinity News Group, and Energis plc. He was
Marketing Director at data provider LBM until September
2008 when he joined the B2 Group. |
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John Robinson - Chief Information Officer
John, a founding investor in the B2 Group, has spent much
of the past two decades building marketing databases.
In the late 1980s he created the first home moving and gonaway databases
in the UK. He then went on to create marketing
databases for Nationwide Building Society and Lloyds TSB.
At the time the Lloyds TSB database was the largest
marketing database in Europe.
John then created a database marketing business, CDMS
Data Services, where he used his own proprietary technology
to develop the HMRC national citizen identification and
tracking service. He is, in brief, the UK’s leading expert in
matching technology on B2C marketing databases. He is
now applying that expertise to the B2B world. |
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Stephen Arnison - Sales Director
Having joined from Dun & Bradstreet, Stephen sat on their
main leadership board where he was responsible
for all large corporate sales in the UK. With a strong
background in B2B sales & marketing, Stephen heads up the
sales programme to key accounts in the UK.. |
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industry with a track record of exceptional delivery and implementation of
lead generation and business development solutions across a range of blue
chip organisations.
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Phil Foster - Operations Director
Phil joined B2 Group in June 2009 from LBM, where he spent
ten years growing the contact centre from just 13 seats to
2,250. As Call Centre Director he was responsible for the
delivery of all major accounts including O2, Vodafone, BSkyB
and British Gas. |
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Ciaran Hamilton - Chief Technical Officer
Ciaran began his career with Sema Group PLC (now Atos
Origin) where he redeveloped Wessex Water’s IT systems.
He moved to be IT Director at a major telecoms reseller, and
then he set up his own solutions development company. In
September 2009 he agreed to bring his IT development
expertise to the B2 Group. |
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Roger Lingard - Commercial Director
When he joined the team in April 2008, Roger brought vital
accountancy skills. The holder of a CIMA qualification, he has
worked in financial roles at Proctor & Gamble and pan-
European financial services group Freedom Finance plc. |
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Dave Craft - CSMO
Dave has a wealth of experience of business development and lead generation expertise within the corporate environment. Previously Dave was Sales Director at Data Locator Group and prior to that, he held the position of Managing Director at marketing specialist EHS Brann Discovery. With unrivalled experience in data, Dave will be able to ensure that our sector clients will maximise their lead generation and customer acquisition programmes. |
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Dave Sumner Smith - Programme Director, SME Hub
David has extensive experience of the small and mid‐sized
business sector through his management of The Sunday
Times Enterprise Network and the Telegraph Business Club
over the past 14 years. Having established the Home
Business Network, David is a highly‐regarded speaker at
business conferences. |
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