Simon Rowland

Simon is the Managing Director of the Optima Consultancy and a fellow in the Institute of Sales and Marketing Management. Simon is a commercially experienced sales manager and director.

He has held senior sales management positions with GE Capital, Exel plc, Trafficmaster plc and Cybit Holdings plc. His hard-earned real-world experience, combined with his desire to motivate others to succeed, makes him a dynamic and effective trainer, coach and developer of businesses and people.

He is passionate about working with sales operations that strive to be the best-in-class and understands the challenges of commercial selling.

Richard Gamble

Richard is an Associate Director of the Optima Consultancy and a Member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing. His knowledge and expertise in the fields of PR and Marketing is delivering significant high value impact to many UK businesses.

Richard knows how to drive new sales opportunity through the application of focused, well-targetted campaigns and has a keen understanding of the need for a return on investment (ROI) through the measurement and reporting of effective campaigns.

Peter Button

Peter is an Associate Director of the Optima Consultancy. As a Fellow of the Institute of Sales and Marketing Management, his key strengths are to do with the combination of his imagination, hard-won commercial experience and a passionate commitment to the need to be clear about objectives and “real world strategy”.

Experience and character have combined to produce excellent communication skills. Peter’s genuine delight in encouraging people to believe in themselves and fulfil their potential make him a highly effective independent sales team coach, trainer and consultant.

Peter is one of the UK’s most effective sales team performance coaches.

Jerry Marshall

Jerry is an Associate Director at Optima. He studied at Cambridge and is a Chartered Marketer with proven market research, marketing strategy, marketing training and consulting expertise.

Jerry has developed loyal clients with relationships that have passed the test of time and who continue to benefit from his hands-on approach.

Peter Muscutt

Peter is an Associate Director of the Optima Consultancy. Peter is a highly experienced marketing professional 20+ years experience in a variety of sales and marketing roles with multi-national companies. Key strengths are his extensive strategic marketing and project management expertise combined with strong leadership and communication abilities. He is a Chartered Marketer, active member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing and member of the British Psychological Society. Peter has a first degree in Psychology together with an MSc in Marketing.

Marianne Harris-Bridge

Marianne is a successful marketing and business development director with over 25 years experience of working in the public and private sectors, in international and UK markets and with products and services. A business Leader member of the Marketing Society and member of the Chartered Management Institute, Marianne has knowledge and expertise in strategic Marketing and communications as well as Corporate Social Responsibility.

Key strengths are the strategic development of new organisations and brands, partnership building, particularly across the public/private divide and creative marketing and communication solutions to wide ranging business issues. A strong proponent of customer care Marianne also chairs a Social Enterprise and is keen to help organisations to develop and grow social capital as well as financial profits.