Anthony Paine

Co-CEO & Co-founder

Designability

Designability is a national charity that creates innovative products and services with and for disabled people, removing barriers and helping them to live with greater independence.

Business Development Lead

King's College London

Supporting the brightest and highest potential ventures from across the King's ecosystem to reach their potential.

Expert in Residence

Stashbee

Advisor & Board Member

Stashbee is the simplest, smartest, most sustainable way for anyone to share and fill storage space. Whatever your situation or ambition, we have spaces of all sizes for people at all stages.

CEO & Co-Founder

Babbasa

Consultant

We believe that young people’s aspirations & opportunities should not be determined by their background, and that every young person has a unique skill or talent which, if explored and nurtured, can advance humanity in a significant way.

Head of Operations

Senior Business Engagement Lead

Founder Jumpstart

Giving entrepreneurs the mental tools to thrive

Chief Jumpstarter

Elixirr

Elixirr is a different type of consultancy. We challenge ineffective convention - changing the game in our own industry and helping our clients change the game in theirs. Everyone’s talking about the future, a new digital world, but few are doing anything about it. We deliver actionable strategies and practical implementation. We focus on short-term results and long-term transformation. 

That's why we are the UK's Best New Consultancy, as voted by the Management Consultancies Association (MCA).

www.elixirr.com

Manager

Career Journey International

Responsible for Career Journey International (CJI) in Brazil, including market entry & strategic planning, business development and operational oversight.

Head of Operations Brazil

Accenture

Technology Consultant

Diageo Portugal

Consumer marketing at Diageo Portugal.
Planning and implementation of national advertising campaigns, budget control & planning, deep dive product analysis, ROI/brand performance tracking.

Assistant Brand Manager - Whiskies & Wines

Warner Bros. Entertainment Group of Companies

Marketing Intern - Warner Home Video (New Releases)

⭐ Helping disabled people live with greater independence @ Designability
🚀 Supporting early-stage entrepreneurs @ KCL Entrepreneurship Institute
📦 Founder @ Stashbee

Customer IQ

Founder of Customer IQ - Market Research for Startups 🚀

Our mission: levelling the playing field by giving founders access to high-quality customer research and market insight.
 
Customer IQ offers something for startup founders at every stage: 

1] Bootstrapped and early stage - training and coaching for DIY research done well. 
2] Market research essentials such as market sizing, competitor reviews and idea validation.
3] Outsourced research projects to get closer to product market fit, eg customer discovery, product testing.
4] Research to help get you scaling eg brand awareness tracking, brand development research.

Founder / Research & Insight Director

Profundo Research & Insight (now Customer IQ)

Profundo was my first go at creating and running a business and took me on a great journey of learning and discovery!

I started out contracting and freelancing, working for corporates and market research agencies who needed my skills or an extra pair of hands.

Whilst this type of work gave me some freedom to manage my own time, it didn't give me the professional reward I was looking for longer-term. 

So around 2016 I focused on positioning myself as a consultancy, delivering research projects to clients, whilst trying to maintain an income. Hard work!

But in 2 short years I turned the business around from 67:33 contracting:freelancing to 82% project work. This was no mean feat and I am genuinely thankful to those early clients for trusting me. 

Building up the business into 2019 and being fortunate enough to be accepted onto the NatWest Accelerator, we then had covid to deal with. 

I managed to scrape through but by 2021, I realised there was a greater mission for me to tackle. The time was right for Customer IQ...

Insight Director [Founder, Owner]

Digital-i

I launched and established the Consultancy division of Digital-i, delivering a number of high profile strategic insight projects to a wide range of Broadcast clients.

More info here: http://digital-i.com/

Head of Consultancy (Contract)

William Hill

Research Consultant (Contract)

Head of Brand, Services & Strategy Research (Contract)

ASOS.com

Lloyds Banking Group

Research Manager

Channel 5

Research & Insight Manager

Startups cannot access good quality market research. 

AND THAT'S UNFAIR!

Certainly when you consider it's startups who need it the most. Through my business - Customer IQ - I am on a mission to change that by changing the way research and customer insight is delivered to the startup community. 

I started my career in research in the year 2000 and spent 10 years in a mix of agency and client roles (BMRB, BBC, Channel 5). 

In 2010 I set up on my own - spent some years in the wilderness of contracting and freelancing before developing a vision and mission to help startup founders and their teams. 

Fancy a chat? Book in at meetgideon.com 🖖

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