With over 25 years of experience in sales and leadership, I bring a wealth of expertise to my role as Managing Director at Vantage Consulting. My career has been dedicated to driving business growth, leading organisational transformation, and fostering high-performance teams.

Previously, as Chief Operating Officer of PSR Group, I supported the CEO in realising Vision 2.0 and managed daily operations. Key achievements included expanding the team from 20 to over 200, establishing 12 offices across 3 countries, completing 2 strategic acquisitions, and launching a technology start-up. I also led the company to attain the Investor in People Platinum award.

I am committed to continual self-improvement and am currently pursuing postgraduate studies in global football business management. My leadership philosophy is based on maximising potential and treating everyone with respect and courtesy.

David Berks

🥷 Founder at DOJO AI | 🌊The Only Tool You Need To Grow Your Brand

Building the only tool you need to grow your brand.

Duarte Garrido

My number 1 source of inbound leads right now costs me 10 minutes every morning. No ads. No content calendar. No agency.
Here's the exact workflow ⤵️ 

1️⃣ Every morning I ask DOJO AI to find fresh LinkedIn posts — published in the last 6 hours — from marketing professionals talking about AI tools, martech, campaign performance, or marketing strategy.

2️⃣ It searches the web in real time, verifies each post directly, and comes back with 6–10 confirmed posts with direct URLs, author context, and post summaries.

3️⃣ Then it writes me a tailored comment for each one — grounded in the specific argument the author is making, adding a contrarian angle where it's earned, and naturally weaving in what DOJO does without sounding like an ad.

4️⃣ I copy. I paste. I post. Done by 10am.

The results have been consistent enough that I now run this every single day.

Why can't you do it with ChatGPT or a legacy Marketing Automation tool?

❌ ChatGPT has no real-time web access. It can't find posts from this morning. It doesn't know your brand positioning, your product, or how you write. Even with the best prompt, you get generic comments that sound like every other AI comment on LinkedIn. People can tell.

❌ Marketing automation tools are built for scheduled content publishing. They have no concept of real-time engagement intelligence — finding the right conversations as they happen and inserting your brand into them at the right moment with the right angle.

✅ DOJO is different because it's an AI marketing OS — it combines live web search, your brand context, your voice profile, and autonomous agent execution in one system. It doesn't just generate content. It understands what you're trying to accomplish and executes the full workflow.

The comment isn't the product. The signal-to-action pipeline is.

Most marketers I talk to are still thinking about AI as a writing assistant.

This isn't about whether AI can write well... it's whether your AI knows what's happening in your market right now, who to talk to, what to say, and why.

That gap is where the leads are!

Want to see how it works? See link in comments, or DM me.

#DOJOAI #LinkedInMarketing #AIMarketing

Co-Founder at DOJO AI 🌊 We’re Hiring!

Most marketing teams run 9+ tools. None of them talk to each other.

You spot a problem on Monday. By Thursday you've figured out what caused it, switched between four platforms, and briefed someone to fix it. The fix ships the following week.

That's not a team problem. That's a tool architecture problem.

We built DOJO AI around one idea: your marketing should be under control. All of it. 

Here's what that looks like in practice:

📊 Unified Dashboard — every channel in one view. Website, Meta, Google, LinkedIn, SEO, AEO/GEO. Live. Problems ranked by what they're actually costing you, not buried in a report you'll read on Friday.

📣 Proactive Monitoring — DOJO watches your campaigns continuously. When CPM spikes or a keyword drops, you can act before the damage is done. With an explanation of why.

✍ Inline Creation — you don't just get told what to do. You click the recommendation and DOJO builds the fix right there. Ad copy, briefs, strategy docs — with your brand voice and campaign context.

➰ Context Layer — everything created gets saved and linked back to the conversation it came from. Your team can find it, reuse it, pick up where you left off.

No tab-switching. No starting from scratch. No losing the thread.

Most tools give you data. DOJO tells you what's wrong and helps you fix it — in the same place.

If you're still piecing things together at the end of the week, that's the problem we built this for.

👇 Curious — what's the biggest time sink in your current marketing stack?

#DOJOAI #Marketing #MarketingAI

I've been saying this for two years. Megan Bowen said it better in 5 seconds.

"The more people adopt it, the less effective it becomes"

GTM engineering is cold outbound with a science-sounding name. 

Everyone's running it. Nobody's showing you the revenue. And the more teams adopt it, the worse it works for everyone.

Meanwhile the companies that win in 2026 won't be the ones with the most sophisticated outbound sequences.

They'll be the ones who stopped overspending on demand capture and started building demand.

Megan runs Refine Labs. She sees the inside of more B2B pipelines than almost anyone in this space. This is what she's watching play out across her client base right now.

Swipe through.

Full episode coming soon!

#RefineLabs #DOJOAI #GTMEngineer

GTM Engineering - A Chat With Refine Labs

I've been banging on "Human + AI" for two years. Megan Bowen showed Luke Costley-White and I what it actually looks like in practice.

If someone doesn't know who Megan is: she's the powerhouse CEO of Refine Labs. 

20 years in B2B GTM. Not someone who repeats vendor talking points.

Her take on DOJO AI: "When you couple your tool with a really smart marketer, that's when things really start to happen."

She's already running the experiment internally: one person, full book of business, DOJO as the intelligence layer. 

Can they absorb one extra customer this year from the efficiency gains alone?

That's not a productivity question. It's a business model question.

Then she told me about Malin Wijenayake, one of her star Directors at Refine Labs.

He spotted a performance issue for a client. Came back within 48 hours with a root cause and a fix ready to go. Got the green light. Turned it around in under a week.

The client was genuinely impressed.

Here's the thing: that's not a DOJO story. That's a Malin story. DOJO just meant he didn't spend two weeks pulling data before he could even start thinking.

Most teams are still scheduling the diagnosis call.

Full episode dropping soon. 🎙️



What does AI actually freeing up your thinking time look like on your team? 👇

#GrowthDOJO #B2BMarketing #DemandGeneration #MarketingAI

FACT: Most marketers can't tell you if their Brand marketing is working.

Not because they lack data. Because the data is in 6 different dashboards, updated weekly, requiring a BI ticket to interpret.

That's best case scenario. Worst case they rely on external partners to conduct manual research and stick it on a powerpoint.

By the time you have an answer, the moment has passed.

That's the real problem with brand measurement. It's not a data problem. It's a speed and usability problem.

So when Romney Taylor from Kuda told us this, I immediately turned it into content:
"DOJO has brought rigour and science to how we measure brand marketing - to make it real-time, conversational and actually useful."

Real-time. Conversational. Actually useful.

Three words that basically summarize everything wrong with how brand marketing has been measured for the last decade.

We've had the rigour. We've had the science. What we've never had is the speed to act on it.

That's what we're building. And hearing it land that way for a team like Kuda's makes it real.

If brand measurement at your company still means waiting for a monthly report — curious what the biggest bottleneck is.

#BrandMarketing #MarketingStrategy #B2BMarketing

AGENCY MARKETERS THIS IS FOR YOU! 

Got your attention? We're #hiring. People like you. 

#MarketingJob #MarketingAgency

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