Marketing Consultancy Team

We’re a growing team of marketing directors and director level research and creative consultants with world leading brand expertise and desire to solve tricky marketing problems. We’re rigorous, creative and energetic and work collaboratively with our clients to devise superior marketing solutions to help businesses and brands get and stay ahead

Guy Tomlinson

Guy is a brand marketing, research and innovation expert and leads much of our work. He has been a marketing director and business planning manager for ten years and marketing consultant for fifteen years. His experience includes working for companies and world leading brands including Procter & Gamble, Boots, Cadbury, McDonald’s, BBC and Reader’s Digest and management and marketing consultancies KAE, New Solutions and PricewaterhouseCoopers. Guy is also a Course Director for The Chartered Institute of Marketing and co-author of The Marketing Director’s Handbook. He has a BSc in Chemistry and a passion for water skiing, tennis and Hull City AFC

Sharon Wolf

Sharon is one of the world’s leading qualitative and ethnographic researchers. Based in San Francisco and New York, she runs US projects as well as contributes to global studies. Previously Sharon was marketing director for Spicer and Oppenheim. She has also held leadership positions for ESOMAR and the American Marketing Association and was the founding Editor in Chief for QRCA Views (the journal of the US Qualitative Research Consultants Association). She has a MA in Literature and a MS in Psychology. She is also an ace photographer

Emma Devine

Emma is a very talented designer and specialises in graphic design for packaging, printed and digital media. She helps build arresting and engaging brands by bringing our strategies to life. Emma has had a passion for design since the age of ten and has won a hatful of awards in her still short career. Her successes include working for brands including Kelloggs, Mercedes, Jacobs Creek and Jordans. She has a BA in Applied Graphic Design

Geoff Dodds

Geoff is an expert marketer, business and brand strategist and coach. He has huge experience in building corporate brands, sales, facilitating change and teaching. He has worked at the highest levels in several blue-chip organisations. Most recently he was head of brand at Lloyd’s of London and global brand director at PricewaterhouseCoopers. Geoff started his career in consumer goods at GlaxoSmithKline before moving into retail as marketing director at the Dixons Stores Group. Geoff has an MA in Oriental Studies and loves walking in Wales

Susan Flinders

Susan is a creative marketing communications expert. She has particular expertise in helping extend brands into new markets via brand licensing. Susan started her career in advertising and then went on to work in and run a number of communications and licensing agencies. Most recently she was marketing director for Storm, responsible for global operations and where she helped extend the brand into new fashion markets. Susan has experience in markets including consumer goods, fashion, healthcare, media and services. She has a BA in Graphic Design and is an avid astronomer

Tim Arnold

Tim is a highly creative marketer with immense expertise in developing creative marketing solutions typically associated with agencies. He also has huge experience in website and digital marketing. Unilever trained, he has ten years experience as a marketing director and twenty years agency experience. Tim has worked in most industry sectors and with a range of multi-nationals, independent companies and brands in both b2c and b2b sectors. He is co-author of The Marketing Director’s Handbook with Guy and currently working on a hotel (and probably restaurant/pub) guide (but don’t mention this to his wife)