stephen deadmon

* Founded in 1999, Sia Partners is an independent global management consulting firm with 20 offices in 15 countries. In the UK, Sia Partners work with the world’s best businesses to deliver innovative new growth and complex organisational change across different all major sectors. Sia Partners’ core capabilities include: * Growth Strategy & Innovation (through acquisition of Inzenka in August 2018) * Data Science * Operating Model * Organisation Design * Change Management * Programme & Project Management * PMO

Acquired by Sia Partners in August 2018 Director of Growth & innovation at Inzenka, the UK’s leading growth and innovation strategy consultancy, leading clients through the entire growth cycle from opportunity space identification, portfolio evaluation, proposition/service development, & technology commercialisation right the way through to business piloting, partner ecosystem build & business implementation. Part of Inzenka's leadership team with additional responsibility for development of the Inzenka's outward offering, capability set, people agenda, and with a parallel sales and delivery focus on TMT/IoT-related projects. Clients have included BT (Consumer, Business, Global Services & Wholesale), Arqiva, Alcatel-Lucent, CGI Logica, Shell, BP Castrol, Reed Elsevier, GE Healthcare, British American Tobacco, Danone Nutricia, EDF Energy, E.ON, RWE Npower, Philips, Unilever, BAE Systems/AI, Tech Mahindra, Unilever & Vodafone.

Merged with Emoov and Tepilo in 2018 Established in 2005 Urban.co.uk pioneered the concept of Online Estate Agency. In 2013 alone Urban generated more viewings than any other online estate agents, selling and letting over £400,000,000 worth of property and saving its customers over £3,000,000 in commissions. I advise Urban's leadership team on the development of a long-term strategy and growth agenda. I am applying my experience in driving growth and developing new businesses for FTSE100 organisations to embedding innovative culture, new product and service propositions to maintain Urban's differentiated and market-leading online offer.

Developed innovative product, services, business models and growth strategies for companies wanting to operate in the digital space, as part of the digital arm of the world's leading innovation company. Led the development of an analytical & market insight-based offering, to build upon ?What If!’s existing consumer-orientated approach to proposition development. Managed a team of 6 analysts in promoting and delivering the analytical proposition to the wider business. Clients included HIT Entertainment, Samsung, Lexis Nexis, Tesco, Abbott, Unilever, News International, Nestle, Carlsberg, Centrica, Danone & Citibank.

Acquired by ?What If! Innovation in 2008 Strategy consulting, business development and proposition development for clients in, or wanting to enter, the technology, media & telecommunications (TMT) sectors. Clients included the BBC, Channel 4, UKTV, Vodafone, O2, Orange / FT, Intel, News International and a number of digital start-ups.

* Pricing & bundling strategy * exchange roll-out and investment planning * competitive analysis * marketing/PR strategy, customer database analysis & strategic recommendations from trends / market developments for the IPTV provider Homechoice, acquired by Tiscali in 2006

Merged with Thus Communications in 2006 Strategic support to the product management, marketing and corporate strategy functions, including market sizing modelling, research supplier selection, pricing strategy, products to service strategy, competitor analysis and corporate strategy development

Working within the BBC Ventures Group helping to define go-to-market strategy and conducting due diligence on a number of potential acquisition targets including EPG / TV listings and digital newsroom solutions providers

Associate at top tier international strategy consulting firm, responsible for conducting primary and secondary research, performing rigorous strategic and financial analysis, collaborating with team members to derive trends, conclusions and recommendations based on the data and analysis.and transforming information into thoughtful insights. Sector agnostic but with major projects covering media/technology, rail transport and financial services.