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Jim Hawker

Advisor

“I led Threepipe’s transformation from traditional PR agency to a fully integrated brand and performance agency, with 90 experts across PR, data & analytics, paid media, SEO, creative and social channels, until its sale in 2019.”

Jim Hawker

Experience

As a happily exited agency founder, Jim now applies twenty years of hard-won experience running an agency to his role helping ambitious agency founders to grow their businesses.

Jim co-founded and ran Threepipe, one the UKs best regarded digital marketing agencies, building it up to sale in 2019, and as such possesses that rare combination of both brand and performance marketing expertise and broader entrepreneurial thinking.

Personable and trusted by senior industry leaders both agency and client-side, Jim has an enviable record of winning and growing client business. Highly experienced in leading teams through high growth as well as turbulent times, Jim demonstrates a high degree of resilience and determination and is unafraid to back his convictions and voice his opinion.

Jim is highly media-trained and a regular contributor to the business and marketing media, appearing on podcasts and at industry events.

Sweetspots

  • Business growth strategy (organic and acquisition)

  • Integrated marketing and comms

  • New business pitching and client growth

  • Multichannel agency management & selection

  • Senior leadership counsel

  • Crisis & spokesperson expertise

“Jim is a first class leader - very astute and extremely quick to understand the business requirement and respond with well thought-out ideas and solutions. I would recommend Jim to anyone.”

Steve Halsall, Founder


“Jim is a natural entrepreneur who brings creativity and courage…I recommend him without hesitation.”

Gareth Zundel, Chief Comms Officer

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