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About

My name is Brian Hoadley

On a journey that’s followed a path through engineering, project and program management, design, product and research. And today, I touch on all of those things in my work in organizational design and transformation.

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What's in a story?

It’s rare to say you’ve been in an industry since its inception. Working professionally in digital since 1994, and having run old school bulletin boards since 1983, I’ve spent a long time getting to know this industry. An industry that’s experienced incredible evolution–and revolution–is still changing (and in many ways still in its infancy), it's been a long, exciting journey.

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Some highlights:

  • Launched an e-commerce website personally introduced by Bill Gates in 2000

  • Product Design of US-based whole-school reform site for BBN Technologies 

  • Design and delivery of U.K.’s first data.gov.uk website

  • Co-design of Sir Tim Bernard-Lee’s first ODI Summit website in 2012

  • Founded and ran 2 award-winning design agencies (U.S. and U.K.)

  • Led teams winning BIMA Grand Prix and Entertainment awards and a Webby

  • Director of Product and Design for a well-known prop-tech company

  • Co-founder and Chief Product Officer for a mobile app start-up

  • VP of Product and Design for a business data start-up

  • Delivered and led major U.K. bank Customer Labs capability

  • Restructured major U.K. mobile telecoms Digital Customer Experience team

  • Built global Product Design function in a B2B FS software platform company

 

I’ve spent the last 10+ years as an independent consultant helping organizations shape their product and service vision, supporting leaders, and building and restructuring digital practices.​​ I’ve also designed and delivered remote and in-person courses focused on helping digital teams strengthen their practices inside their organizations.

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If you’re interested in having a chat about any of these things, have questions, are struggling with a sticky problem or challenge, or just want to have conversation, please reach out.

Career overview

A brief overview of my career which includes, engineering, project and program management, design and content.

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Clients

Some of the clients I’ve worked with and advised over the years.

  • Amazon.com

  • AXA

  • BBC

  • BBC Worldwide

  • Bowers & Wilkins

  • BSKYB

  • Channel 4

  • Compaq

  • Currys

  • Deutsche Bank

  • Directgov

  • DueDil

  • Ebay

  • EE/BT

  • First Plus

  • Five

  • HP

  • HPI

  • J&J Acuvue

  • Kaspersky Labs

  • Lloyds Banking Group

  • Lonely Planet

  • Lovefilm

  • Mercedes-Benz

  • Microsoft

  • National Assessment Agency

  • NatWest

  • Nokia

  • Open Data Institute

  • Purplebricks

  • Rentify

  • Sega

  • Skype

  • Sony

  • Sopra Banking Software

  • U.K. Ministry of Justice

  • University of Cambridge

  • UserZoom

  • Whitbread

In 2000 I founded and led fourMangos, a web design agency, in Boston Massachusetts.

In 2003 I founded phunQube, a product and service design agency, in London U.K. which I led until January 2009.

Agency founder

I've founded and run agencies in the U.S. and U.K.

Let’s Work Together

Get in touch so we can start working together.

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About

Brian Hoadley is an experienced digital professional with over 25 years of engineering, project and program management, design and content experience as a practitioner, leader and consultant.

© 2024 Brian Hoadley

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