Martin Bailie
Chief Marketing Officer @ The Hacking Games
About
Fractional CMO, brand builder, and innovation strategist helping brands scale with AI-driven growth systems and tested positioning. I turn complex technology products and go-to-market problems into repeatable wins through marketing and sales systems. I'm currently leading teams deploying advanced prompt engineering, custom LLM-driven campaign workflows, use of tools like Clay, Octave, N8N & Make, Highlevel for lead gen, Midjourney, OpenAI Playground, HubSpot, and building bespoke AI automation methods.- Co-founder of one of Europe's leading digital agencies (Campaign Agency of the Year etc), multiple Cannes Lions and marketing effectiveness award wins. Sold to Dentsu Inc. Grew from a handful to 150 FTEs.- Co-founder of B2B marketing consulting firm, now launching AI agents to automate B2B marketing. Inventor of the Unfair Advantage methodology, optimising GTM strategy and execution for over 100 B2B businesses. www.Sales-Agents.co - CMO and Head of Product for The Hacking Games, a cyber security recruitment startup, featured in all major media (BBC, The Telegraph, The Guardian etc) on a mission to inspire a generation of ethical hackers to make the world safer. www.thehackinggames.comI’ve built, invested in and sold businesses in the tech and digital marketing space. I'm a brand, innovation and digital product development strategist and author, Chief Strategy Officer, an innovation lead and Chief Marketing Officer (CMO). I've helped run a design sprint lab and partnered with progressive CEOs and marketers to help them become fast, testing-obsessed and innovative sales organisations. I've led sprint methodologies and rapid prototyping on numerous projects to deliver new products and services and deliver digital transformation. At Dentsu I ran a consultancy practice to help its agency networks become more digitally capable, profitable and consistently innovative.I've built a venture-backed startup in the MarTech space.I'm a honourary Fellow of the Institute of Direct Marketing, a former member of the Account Planning Group board and the IPA Strategy Group, a University of Greenwich lecturer and an e-consultancy.com trainer.I lead teams to deliver:-All aspects of global sales, marketing, media and advertising strategy and delivery-Design thinking: Lean and agile digital product development and innovation projects-New business and pitch winning-Venture capital investment, fundraising, and M&A advisory-Digital strategy, including web build, ecommerce, performance and social marketing-Mentoring and coaching
United Kingdom
London
Marketing & Advertising
Brand Building, Coaching, Sales, Communication, Digital Strategy, Digital Marketing, Mobile Marketing, Integrated Marketing, eCRM, account planning, Brand Innovation, Advertising, Account Planning, Ironing, Online Marketing, Social Media, Digital Media, Creative Direction, Content Strategy, Online Advertising
Experience

Chief Marketing Officer
London Area, United Kingdom
Hacking leads to the loss of trillions of dollars for companies and governments, and some of the most prolific hackers are youngsters. The Hacking Games is an entertainment, training, and recruitment enterprise creating a generation of ethical hackers to make the world safer.

Co-Founder
We help fast-growth B2B technology businesses at Series A-C as well as established Small-Mid Cap enterprises sell more, faster. We use AI workflows combined with decades of marketing experience to craft impactful Positioning, Messaging, Channel planning and Marketing and Sales Delivery. www.sales-agents.co www.elysianfields.ai www.elysianfields.co

Executive Strategy Director (Contractor)
London, United Kingdom
-Introduced Design Thinking sprints -Led Category Design workshops -Global strategy lead for key accounts (brand planning, CX, digital, new product development, integrated marketing and communications) Client work: -B2B (Saas) scale up: marketing lead / CMO -B2C consumer brand: integrated global campaign -Trainer: design sprints and new ways of working

Co-founder, Chief Marketing Officer (Launchpad drinks)
National
CMO, drinks NPD, retail strategy, CX and direct to consumer marketing for this FT FastTrack 250 national coffee retailer. Created the “Fuelling Ambition” brand relaunch. This brand relaunch and consequent innovation pipeline has increased EBITDA 3x over 12 months, due to more profitable sales of the same product lines. Launched the Kenyan co-owned Meru Farm project ‘One farm, four thousand members’ www.paddyandscotts.co.uk/our-farm

Innovation strategy consultant (Design-thinking leader)
London, United Kingdom
Blood is the strategy consulting unit within You & Mr Jones's 'brand tech' group of companies. -Developed brand strategy for B2C clients including Unilever and Pernod Ricard to invent new global brands and business models. -Ran design sprint, branding and marketing Hack workshops as part of Blood's Accelerator sprint process, to arrive at validated new brand and business model solutions quickly. -Advised on marketing technology M&A/investment sourcing for the group. Blood is the brandtech consultancy practice that sits at the heart of the investment group You & Mr Jones. http://youandmrjones.com/ It’s a strategic and creative advisory that helps marketers harness the power of technology to answer difficult business marketing questions.

Advertising, Marketing and Digital workshop facilitator
Various
Digital skills training for in-company clients and public training courses. Topics: -Digital creativity -Innovation processes -Social and content marketing -Digital product development (lean software development, agile processes, testing and innovation behaviours)

Co-founder, Product and CMO (B2B and B2C)
London, United Kingdom
Co-founded Tailored.to, a VC backed personal shopping assistant and media business, powering personalised advertising for brands. The technology eradicates boring product research from our lives by harnessing the wisdom of the web to tailor the best products for a user’s needs. Investors include Amadeus and Ascension Ventures. Tailored makes money by tailoring advertising to those needs at scale. We increase host publisher yields by at least 50% through combined audience data sales, ecommerce and brand partnerships. Our ecommerce conversion rate is 2-3%, while our ad format interaction rate is 2-5%, a 75%-225% increase vs the best ad format performance on the market.

Director, Global Agency Development & Commercial Strategy
London, United Kingdom
Isobar is the digital and product agency within Dentsu, the third largest global media and advertising group. Roles: Global agency leadership with responsibility for increasing performance and driving new working practices across the Isobar global network (70+ offices) as part of the Exec Board team. Led the team that invented the proprietary ‘Digital Maturity Index’, an auditing and performance measurement tool that tracked the daily processes, ‘digital cultural traits’, skills and work attitude of 70+ agencies. The Index formulation was 81% correlated to profits, 70% to staff satisfaction and award wins and 89% correlated with Net Promoter Score. Through the introduction of the Digital Maturity Index consultancy process, the top performing businesses increased their net profit contribution by 55% on average each year. The bottom performing increased 20% yoy. The DMI metric became a central Dentsu network global metric for agency performance, alongside P&L. Led the new management consultancy unit advising Dentsu CEOs on organisational best practice and profitable innovation behaviours, based on the DMI data. Worked with M&A team to scout for new acquisitions, resulting in 3 successful acquisitions over a 24 month period (£15m-25m each). Involved in the onboarding process of these acquisitions using the DMI learnings.

Exec Planning Director
London, United Kingdom
Glue London (then Isobar) co-founder, planning lead, global and UK planning responsibilities. Glue was agency of the year for Campaign and Marketing magazines, NMA’s most respected agency 3 years running, and a Sunday Times Top 100 Companies to work for. -Over the 13 years I've run a 15 strong strategy team, as well as leading the UK innovation function and global commercial strategy for Isobar (covering digital operational best practice across 35 countries). -Led lean product development, digital marketing and business transformation for many blue-chip clients, including the following highlights: -Launched marketing Virgin Credit Card in the UK, resulting in the fastest ever growing credit card launch in the UK. Winner of an NMA Effectiveness award for positive 1:3 ROI. -Led strategy, design, build and relaunch of Virgin.com. -Created and optimise Virgin Trains’ ecommerce and CRM strategy, including re-designed booking engines. Winner of several effectiveness awards, including an ROI increase for direct channels of 300% and the doubling of online sales over 2003-6. -Designed, launched and optimised Sky TV’s ecommerce function, including the UK’s largest behavioural retargeting project at the time. Winner of an NMA Effectiveness Award: increased online sales by 36% on equivalent quarters (2006) whilst maintaining CPA target. Maintained 1:4 ROI over 18 months. -Led the multi-channel brand strategy for mobile operator Three, resulting in the first increase in ‘propensity to buy’ for 5 years. -Led the digital transformation strategy for RBS Group, including organisational best-practice, establishing Natwest and RBS’ social presence, social customer service, onsite behavioural optimisation, mobile development and advertising. -Ran lean product development / prototyping for innovation lab ‘Nowlab’ resulting in £540k of incremental new business within 12 months.

Founder
liquidworld
Digital marketing and design agency specialising in digital innovation for charities and arts sector.
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