Symon B.

Symon B.

Senior Content Writer

United Kingdom
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About Me

Symon is an experienced writer and communications specialist, assisting companies in making the most of content, and developing a brand voice that activates key audiences across media channels. He has over a decade of expertise in corporate communications and management, including creating, financing, and running multiple successful firms as CEO and Creative Director. He built and led the implementation of solutions for key companies in telecommunications, IT (SaaS), computer games, business services, real estate, and other B2B industries.

Work history

UpStack
UpStack
Senior Content Writer
2021 - Present (3 years)
Remote, United Kingdom
  • Create content aligned with the company’s business objectives, ensuring an effective collaboration with marketing, business owners and product teams.

  • Work together with multiple departments and teams to create innovative content ideas.

  • Partner with legal department when required to ensure that content is in compliance.

 Freelance
Freelance
Communications Consultant/Writer
2012 - Present (12 years)
Remote, United Kingdom
  • Worked on creating blogs and articles on B2B subjects, including digitalization, post-Covid working, welcoming new challenges and topics to explore.

  • Utilized core skills including team leadership, business strategy, copywriting, and creative direction, particularly in a B2B environment.

  • Handled the creation of spreadsheets, as well as presented to customers or investors for SME businesses and startups.

Presence Networks Limited
Presence Networks Limited
Founder
2003 - 2012 (9 years)
United Kingdom
  • Conceived NetWorker, a SaaS-based multi-tenant B2B/B2C/ C2B secure Comms system. The company worked with a Ukraine-based Tech Team to specify and build the system, and to evolve the User experience with many unique features.

  • Under my leadership, the company raised over $5m in investment capital working with a Venture Fund and with Private Investors and developed partnerships with Telcos and with Systems Integrators in the UK, USA and APAC.

  • The User Management capability was designed to be integrated with Carriers' service to be White Labelled incorporating an auditable voice/video/data presence in the Cloud.

Portfolio

Evolution or Revolution? Choosing the Right Path for your Payments Solution / Executive summary
Evolution or Revolution? Choosing the Right Path for your Payments Solution / Executive summary

In this paper, we examine the challenges facing many financial institutions as they struggle to maintain competitive services based on their legacy payment platform. We look at the options for protecting and future-proofing their business and why the decisions they make now may prove to be pivotal in protecting their long-term future. In industry sectors like music and publishing, an unwillingness or inability to recognise change and innovate has led to seismic shifts in market dominance. Former major players have been sidelined or even replaced as new, disruptive emergents - many from the technology sector - have, in less than a decade, altered the market dynamics out of all recognition.

HARNESSING CHAOS - Creating coherency around digital assets
HARNESSING CHAOS - Creating coherency around digital assets

As the inexorable rise of the Digital World continues to transform how we live, work and interact with each other, affecting almost every aspect of our lives, it is proving to be the smartest businesses, no longer the largest, that have the whip hand. W h y i s s i m p l e . I n v e s t m e n t i n t o technologies continues to enable even the smallest companies to organise and engage in entirely new ways and gain competitive advantage.

Education

Understanding the Presence RevolutionUnderstanding the Presence Revolution

A guide to the application of Instant Messaging, Social Media and Presence technologies for business. The book was not a technical book but aimed at helping businesses understanding the legal, HR and business ramifications of working in a live connected global market.
Understanding the Presence RevolutionUnderstanding the Presence Revolution A guide to the application of Instant Messaging, Social Media and Presence technologies for business. The book was not a technical book but aimed at helping businesses understanding the legal, HR and business ramifications of working in a live connected global market.
Publications