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I am the Chief Marketing Officer at Enterprise Nation

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Enterprise Nation is the UK’s most active small business community.

I am responsible for brand engagement and acquisition across a variety of marketing channels to attract and retain start-up and small business members.

In 2024, Enterprise Nation has scaled to support 850,000+ small businesses. In 2025, our mission is to support one million early-stage founders.

Prior, I was Head of Marketing at Escape The City

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… which is a community of 500,000+ career changers.

Escape the City provides people with access to hundreds of exciting job listings, life-changing courses, and inspiration to doing work that matters.

Championing women in business

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Within my time at Enterprise Nation, I have led the campaign management and marketing of Facebook's She Means Business programme.

The campaign involved implementing an offline & online events training programme for 10,000-plus female founders.

Hosting a Facebook ‘She Means Business’ event with female founders at Crowdfunder’s offices in Newquay.

Hosting Facebook ‘She Means Business’ events across the UK - including this one with female founders at Crowdfunder’s offices in Newquay.

A roundtable discussion at No10 Downing St to discuss policy changes to support women in business.

Roundtable discussion at 10 Downing St to discuss policy changes surrounding women in business and access to start-up support.

Facilitated the keynote speaker stage at Bread and Jam festival for hundreds of entrepreneurs at the IoD.

Facilitated the keynote speaker stage at Bread and Jam festival for FMCG entrepreneurs and was invited back in 2025 to host the Investor Stage.

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Chaired a series of events for Primrose Hill Entrepreneurs to inspire and educate the local community of changemakers.

I also have experience working with organisations that either support small businesses or are small businesses themselves, including:

SheShoreham | StartUp Britain | Bread & Butter Festival | Moneypenny | Mental Movement Magazine, Leafage | Gather & See | Westminster Enterprise Network.

Read more about the projects I have worked on.