Roland Harwood – Co-Founder & Networks Partner
Email: roland@100Open.com
Twitter: @rolandharwood
Roland co-founded 100%Open, coming from NESTA where he was Director of Open Innovation. Graduating with a PhD in physics from Edinburgh University, he has held senior innovation roles in the utilities and media industries and in addition has worked with 100′s of start-ups to raise venture capital and commercialise technology. In addition he has worked as a TV and film music producer for SonyBMG.
David Simoes-Brown – Co-Founder & Strategy Partner
Email: david@100Open.com
Twitter: @deeyesbee
David co-founded 100%Open, spinning out of NESTA where he led Corporate Open Innovation. A biology graduate, David has a background in advertising, branding and design, having held strategy directorships at DDB, Seymourpowell and Moving Brands. He has helped diverse clients from Christian Aid to Unilever to innovate their messages, brands and products. David is currently writing a book that investigates the role of human emotion in decision-making.
Nick Jankel-Elliot – Training & Facilitation
Email: nick@100Open.com
Nick joined 100%Open as an associate in 2009. He is an expert on collaboration mindsets, having founded one of the first innovation agencies in the 90s, training senior staff from Virgin, Orange, PepsiCo, Unilever, Diageo, PlayStation & Shell using open innovation principles. He holds a triple 1st Class Degree in Philosophy and Medicine from Cambridge, has starred on BBC TV and Radio as a leadership coach.
Heli Rajasalo – Account Director
Email: heli@100Open.com
Heli joined 100%Open as an associate in 2011. With a firm belief of ‘There’s no such thing as can’t be done’, Heli has spent 15 years in a variety of management roles across market research, telecoms and creative industry, spreading this attitude among big brands like Nokia, Microsoft and O2 and discovered a knack for successfully connecting diverse people and organisations for mutual business benefit. Heli is a trained co-active coach and gets her kicks out of making change happen.
Carmen Marrero – Communication
Email: carmen@100Open.com
Carmen is an associate of 100%Open since 2011. She is a specialist in the marketing of services through integrated media and the use of partnerships and networks. She runs her own consultancy helping clients find and express their point of differentiation. Over the last decade, she has worked with some of the leading thinkers in the area of branding and innovation, including Wolff Olins, Wally Olins at Saffron, and IDEO. Carmen is a classical pianist by training.
Sean Miller – Programmes & Service Design
Email: sean@100Open.com
Sean joined 100%Open as an associate in 2010. A former project engineer, management consultant and saved by service design and open innovation, Sean has worked on oil platforms in the North Sea, pulp and paper factories in Norway and everything in-between. With a glass half-full disposition mixed with the rigorous application of uncommon sense, he helps clients to deliver brilliant programmes. Sean writes movie scripts in his spare time and is still looking for his first buyer and runaway success.
David Townson – Proposition Design & Development
Email: dt@100Open.com
David joined 100%Open as an associate in 2011. A designer and design manager whose work has involved the innovation of such things as; returnable transit packaging, knowledge management systems, cat flaps, educational programmes, online courses for aspiring playwrights and automated banking services. David uses strategic design management methods to enable clients’ business to grow. When not at work, he is most likely to be found in his campervan, with the family, heading for the coast.
Simon Lewis – Simplifying Technology
Email: simon@100Open.com
Simon joined 100%Open as an associate in 2011. He has spent much of his life programming computers, and most of it shouting at them. He worked for at both Hewlett-Packard’s and BT’s corporate research labs, developing innovative concepts for new products. He has since founded or worked with many hi-tech companies, and spends a lot of his time developing and extolling the benefits of deep – what’s really the problem here – simplicity.
Daniel Kirk - Insights & Research
Email: daniel@100Open.com
Daniel joined 100%Open as an associate in 2010. After spending a few years in small organisations, he moved to What If and then WPP to work with some of the world’s largest. Though his work has spanned countries from China to Canada and clients from AstraZeneca to Vodafone, the constant has been a desire to help people find innovative solutions to business problems. So naturally his most overused expressions are ‘Interesting!’ and ‘Why?’.
Andrew Sleigh - Digital Marketing
Email: andrew@100Open.com
Andrew joined 100%Open as an associate in 2010. As ex-head of strategy at digital agency Worth. Andrew has over a decade’s experience in digital marketing and communications. For clients as diverse as COI, GlaxoSmithKline, Channel 4 and British Library, he has helped them break new ground in digital technology. He specialises in user-led platforms, mobilising communities to collaborate, share stories and change behaviour. When not online, Andrew heads for the hills, seeking out the most miserable weather this country has to offer.
Daniel Linde – Research Analyst
Email: dl@100Open.com
Daniel joined 100%Open as an associate in 2011. He has worked in investment banking which, along with the other banking skills, taught him about bringing disparate parties together to achieve a common goal. He co-founded and ran his own venture backed startup company and has worked in management and consultant roles for others. Daniel helps clients apply research and analytical frameworks to develop and strengthen business ideas and to collaborate with partners to bring them to life.
Murray Sim – Lead Designer
Email: murray@100Open.com
Murray joined 100%Open as an associate in 2011. Emerging from art school as a Product Designer he has since worked in Graphic Design, in Interactions for Microsoft Research, and in Service Design for pioneering agency live|work. With a user-centric approach he has helped local authorities get long term unemployed back to work, art galleries rethink their service offerings, and private organisations better understand their partners, employees and customers. Murray helps our clients visualise what they are thinking in an instantly memorable fashion.
Simone Jaeger – Head of Account Management
Email: simone@100Open.com
Simone joined 100%Open as an associate in 2011. Using a dynamic tool kit of knowledge, skills and techniques, Simone leads on accounts and supports the 100% Open associates network across our varied client base. Taking a partnership approach in order to deliver bespoke and multi disciplinary solutions, Simone loves turning ideas into action – blending a can-do attitude and collaborative spirit, with a sensitivity for what each part of the system needs. In her spare time, Simone sings in a harmony choir and loves swimming outdoors in her local lido.
Lucy Gower – Training & Coaching
Email: lucy@100Open.com
Lucy joined 100%Open as an associate in 2012. A Textile Design graduate that fell towards good causes, Lucy has over 10 years of charity fundraising experience, from large national organsiations including the NSPCC, to small local causes. Lucy is passionate about how creative thinking and collaboration can transform organisational and individual performance. She trains and coaches not-for-profits in creativity and innovation skills. When she’s not leading workshops she can mostly be found under the sea scuba diving or singing karaoke.
Alice Elliott – Sustainability & Supply Chain
Email: alice@100Open.com
Alice seeks to understand the environmental challenges businesses, particularly food supply chains, face in tackling poverty and inequality. She helped implement the Mayor of London’s healthy and sustainable food strategy, the One Planet Food campaign for WWF, and the leading retailer sustainability strategy, Plan A, with M&S. In her spare time Alice cycles too fast and teaches yoga slowly.
Josie Shantonas – PA & Events
Email: josie@100Open.com
Josie joined 100% as PA to the partners in 2011. Her background is in advertising and marketing ,helping companies run their businesses and she has strong skills in events management, as well as major trade shows, exhibitions and industry workshops at European Embassies. Her experience spans work with Gillette UK, H J Heinz, Natwest Bank, The House of Lords & Oxford University.
