Location Aware Mobile Products and Services
London, United Kingdom
- Current
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- Chief Commercial Officer at MobGeo Ltd.
- Owner at Sunny Side Down
- Past
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- C.E.O at Socialight UK
- Operations Director at Gold-R
- New Business Development Manager at AngloGold-Ashanti
- Operations Director at GoldAvenue SARL
- Owner & CEO at Looking for Love?
- Education
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- Columbia University - School of Business
- Open University (UK)
- University of the Witwatersrand (South Africa)
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Simon Davis’s Summary
Simon Davis’s Specialties:
Actionable mobile marketing. Location aware mobile marketing, location based services and mobile, local search. Past life includes e-commerce and direct mail start-ups, supply chain architecture, customer service architecture, operational processes and technical specifications. Luxury brand marketing & brand management.
Simon Davis’s Experience
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Chief Commercial Officer
MobGeo Ltd.
(Wireless industry)
2007 — Present (2 years )
MOBGEO specialise in real-time, targeted mobile advertising technologies and vouchers. We can make every mobile user a potential customer for your business. Our innovative products will help your customers enjoy your marketing and enable them to communicate and transact with you more frequently. Importantly, our products will help you learn a lot more about your customers and how to service them in exciting new ways.
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Owner
Sunny Side Down
(Information Technology and Services industry)
January 2005 — Present (4 years 11 months)
Mobile and web based tools and help for artists
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C.E.O
Socialight UK
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Wireless industry)
October 2006 — January 2008 (1 year 4 months)
Socialight is a mobile social network and publishing platform for WEB/WAP/SMS. www.socialight.com
Socialight UK is responsible for launching the service in the UK, Europe and South Africa. -
Operations Director
Gold-R
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Luxury Goods & Jewelry industry)
February 2004 — May 2005 (1 year 4 months)
Set-up and launched "Gold-R" - a direct jewelery retail business in the USA, owned by AngloGold-Ashanti.
I was responsible for setting the company up, developing business strategies and implementing all operational policies and procedures.
Evaluated, selected and trained 3rd party call centers, fulfillment centers and technology providers. Managed the development of their e-commerce website and integration with the chosen 3rd party fulfillment providers.
At launch, managed day-to-day operations. -
New Business Development Manager
AngloGold-Ashanti
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; AU; Mining & Metals industry)
August 1999 — May 2005 (5 years 10 months)
Managed various 'vertical integration projects' wholly or partially owned by the parent company and JPMorgan. (See Gold-R, GoldAvenue)
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Operations Director
GoldAvenue SARL
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Luxury Goods & Jewelry industry)
September 1999 — February 2004 (4 years 6 months)
Launched GoldAvenue, a B2C direct retail and B2B supplier of luxury gold jewellery. A partnership between AngloGold-Ashanti, JPMorgan and PAMP-Suisse.
Responsibilities included the production of direct mail, jewellery catalogs circulated to 500,000 customers, the e-commerce website, management of PR, fulfillment and call centers. Integration of back-office systems between the Geneva office and New York based sub-contractors.
Developed technical specifications for purchase and sales order processing, inventory management, CRM and multi-currency, gold based accounting.
Developed the specifications for a physical gold trading and delivery system with JPMorgan. -
Owner & CEO
Looking for Love?
(Partnership; 1-10 employees; Events Services industry)
January 1993 — February 1995 (2 years 2 months)
Organised 'Rave' warehouse parties at various unusual, abandoned locations. Bus depots, cinema complexes, swimming pools etc. Attendance between 200 and 1000 per event.
Simon Davis’s Education
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Columbia University - School of Business
FMBA , Finance & Marketing , September 2003 — October 2003
Executive Education Program
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Open University (UK)
Diploma , Business Administration , June 1998 — June 1999
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University of the Witwatersrand (South Africa)
BA , Philosophy of Science, History of Art , January 1993 — December 1995
