SCOTS insight-led consultancy service, Optima Companions, has immediately introduced Martin Dowson FRSA as its new Managing Director of Consulting.
Identified for his experience in driving efficient enterprise transformation by means of Design & Buyer Expertise, Martin is the most recent key rent in what Optima Companions is asking “an aggressive recruitment technique to bolster its crew”.
The corporate is on the right track to double headcount to greater than 100 throughout its three UK bases by the tip of 2023.
Martin has beforehand led Buyer Expertise Design groups in Business and Consulting with organisations together with Lloyds Banking Group, BT and Accenture.
He has suggested on Design-Led Transformation throughout Banking, CPG, Power and TelCo industries.
Martin is a present Fellow on the RSA and has been frequently invited to visitor lecture on Design and its Worth in Enterprise at Glasgow Faculty of Artwork, Napier College and Rutgers College.
Martin’s hiring follows the announcement that Optima Companions has secured a £2.3 million funding from capital investor BGF.
Speedy development has additionally seen the enterprise put up turnover in extra of £5.7m for his or her Monetary 12 months 2022.
Earlier this yr [2023], Optima Companions introduced the opening of its third workplace, in Bristol, including to its Edinburgh workplace and web site in central London with growth plans into Europe already beneath method.
In keeping with a latest study1, the worth of Europe’s knowledge economic system is predicted to develop by €225 billion to €550 billion by 2025.
CEO and founding father of Optima Companions, Alan Crawley, stated: “The very ethos of Optima Companions is about unlocking latent worth in companies by means of transformation by design, and having Martin Dowson be part of us as Managing Director for Consulting is testomony to the worth we place on experience in design and person expertise.
“Companies want important shifts in the case of making marked enhancements, not tweaks across the edges, and Martin has a monitor document of success in enterprise transformation on the degree we offer.
“We have now hit the bottom working this yr and are on monitor for a significant growth which Martin is a key a part of and we’re delighted to welcome him to the crew.”
Optima’s flagship “Transformation by Design” method is described as integrating state-of-the-art strategies from design considering, techniques considering, outcome-driven innovation and knowledge sciences.
Martin Dowson, Managing Director Consulting at Optima Companions, stated: “I’m thrilled to be a part of the crew as we work to understand a visionary and bold yr forward.
“Optima Companions has a transparent goal to assist our purchasers set up and enhance the worth trade they’ve with their prospects and in so doing unlock latent worth of their enterprise.
“What attracted me to working with Optima Companions is the popularity that the Transformation required to unlock that worth should be purposefully designed utilizing a full vary of expertise and capabilities which can be not often introduced collectively so nicely.
“I’m trying ahead to working with our purchasers to mix Buyer Technique and Knowledge Science with Design and Methods Pondering to resolve some actually systemic challenges for our purchasers.”
