James Richards
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True Place Consulting
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United Kingdom
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Business Consulting and Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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Associate Director
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Jul 2017 - Present
Windsor, UK True Place is a strategic and training consultancy with a creative edge. We believe that everyone’s path to success is unique – finding your next practice not copying others best practice. Our pathfinding process combines forensic analysis, inspiring creative thinking and excellence in execution to help clients find their own True Place. We work with clients across a multitude of sectors and countries. We are not specialists in the drinks industry but are retained by one of the… Show more True Place is a strategic and training consultancy with a creative edge. We believe that everyone’s path to success is unique – finding your next practice not copying others best practice. Our pathfinding process combines forensic analysis, inspiring creative thinking and excellence in execution to help clients find their own True Place. We work with clients across a multitude of sectors and countries. We are not specialists in the drinks industry but are retained by one of the world’s biggest brewers. We are not solely focused on the mobile phone business, yet count on one of the UK’s largest phone networks as a founding client. We are not retail specialists, yet we train the next generation of retail experts in the art of the possible. It’s not down on any map. True Places never are. www.trueplaceconsulting.com Show less
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Folio Ideas Ltd
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United Kingdom
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Business Consulting and Services
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Managing Director
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Jul 2017 - Present
Berkshire, UK When we’re faced with a problem our first reaction is to use our memory and logic to solve it. What did I do last time? What’s the obvious thing to do? And that’s the problem – the answers are obvious, which means your competitors will come up with the same answers. But if we want to do something different, or we’ve never seen a problem like that before then we need to do something different. We need to think differently. At Folio Ideas we've developed a simple but comprehensive… Show more When we’re faced with a problem our first reaction is to use our memory and logic to solve it. What did I do last time? What’s the obvious thing to do? And that’s the problem – the answers are obvious, which means your competitors will come up with the same answers. But if we want to do something different, or we’ve never seen a problem like that before then we need to do something different. We need to think differently. At Folio Ideas we've developed a simple but comprehensive creative thinking process and toolkit to help our clients find different, creative, innovative solutions to their business challenges. And through consulting, training, coaching and workshops we’ve helped clients solve all sorts of challenging problems Show less
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O2 (Telefónica UK)
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United Kingdom
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Telecommunications
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700 & Above Employee
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Head of Digital Services and New Consumer Business
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Jun 2014 - Jun 2017
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Head of New Customer Acquisition
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Jan 2013 - Jun 2014
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Head of Pay & Go Acquisition
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Jan 2011 - Jan 2013
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Director
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Aug 2010 - Jan 2011
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Business Development Director
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Jan 2010 - Jan 2011
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Group Head of Marketing
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Apr 2008 - Nov 2009
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Three UK
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United Kingdom
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Telecommunications
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700 & Above Employee
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Head of Base Marketing
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Nov 2006 - Mar 2008
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Vodafone
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United Kingdom
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Telecommunications
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700 & Above Employee
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Senior Marketing Manager
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Apr 2001 - Oct 2006
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Project Engineer
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Sep 1991 - Apr 2001
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Education
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University of Bristol
BEng, Aeronautical engineering -
RGS, High Wycombe