Firefly Learning
Part of senior management team, restructured and joined-up marketing & customer success teams (5+12) to accelerate growth in LMS & parent engagement subscriptions, successfully positioning SaaS business for Series C fundraising

Customer Success | Customer Service | Onboarding | Growth Marketing | CCO | SaaS | Ed-Tech
Senior leader with extensive commercial, operational and digital transformation experience in SaaS and EdTech, I lead Customer Success, Onboarding & Marketing at Firefly (£multi-million Ed-Tech subscription business) and have just seen them through successful VC exit and PE-backed acquisition. I’ve built, restructured and led Success, Onboarding, Support & Marketing functions, improving process, software and customer experience, and aligning them for greater automation, efficiency and scale. I have delivered high impact go-to-market, acquisition, engagement & retention strategies across the UK and international markets. I have worked at SMT and Board level, supporting growth strategies, series funding and now exit strategies. I have a great track record of creating, managing and nurturing high performing teams and I am passionate about fostering a growth mindset.
Passion for leading and coaching global teams with expertise building marketing, customer success, onboarding & L1-L3 support teams for growth and aligning functions for operational efficiency
10 years experience in SaaS / CS, currently heading CS of £5m ARR business, 900 accounts, achieving 87% revenue retention, £450k up-sell/cross-sell, +30 NPS score
Expertise delivering global go-to-market and commercial strategies including product line, pricing strategy, product launches, rebranding, repositioning etc.
Expertise devising marketing strategy from demand gen, brand, content, events, ABM to marketing technology (Hubspot / Marketo) and improving lead gen & automation
I have extensive culture-change and organizational redesign experience, underpinned by a strong service and growth mind-set approach. I am passionate about leadership, employee engagement and learning. I have managed, led and coached global, physical & virtual teams.
Deployed and used multiple CRM and business productivity platforms (Hubspot, ChargeBee). Currently using Salesforce and tasked with process optimisation from SDR, Sales to Customer Success
Deployed multiple CRM, Sales, Marketing, Customer Success and Support modules migrating from previous Sugar CRM platform. Included GTM process creation, sales solution deployment, on-boarding, Chat bot, FAQ, Level 1 support as well as escalations
Currently using Salesforce and tasked with process optimisation from SDR, Sales to Customer Success. Deploying ChargeBee subscription management software and integrating CRM and subscriptions with two recently acquired companies
10-year SaaS expertise in a variety of roles including commercial (pre-sales, SDR, customer success), operational (customer support, voice of customer, software deployment e.g. CRM, marketing, service, knowledge, platforms) to growth marketing (demand gen, brand, advocacy, communities)
Digital transformation of education expertise in a variety of roles including commercial (pre-sales, SDR, customer success), operational (customer support, voice of customer, software deployment e.g. CRM, marketing, service, knowledge, platforms) to growth marketing (demand gen, brand, advocacy, communities)
Scaling and growth expertise in a variety of roles including commercial (pre-sales, SDR, customer success), operational (customer support, voice of customer, software deployment e.g. CRM, marketing, service, knowledge, platforms) to growth marketing (demand gen, brand, advocacy, communities)
Part of senior management team, restructured and joined-up marketing & customer success teams (5+12) to accelerate growth in LMS & parent engagement subscriptions, successfully positioning SaaS business for Series C fundraising
Part of senior management team, built marketing & customer success teams (5+2) to grow subscription revenue for hardware software-content coding & STEAM solutions into Primary education market
Reporting to CCO, launched SaaS subscription offering from pre-sale to customer success for HE Int’l markets (team of 3)
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Reporting to ELT Commercial SVP, created on-boarding programme and ran support & escalation hubs (team of 14)
Director Voice of Customer Strategy, Global Operations Director Customer Experience Strategy, Global Operations Senior Manager Business Implementation, Global Operations Senior Research Manager, Global Consumer & Brand Insights,