Penelope HoltPrincipal, Branding & Marketing Specialist
areas of expertise
- Branding & Positioning
- Market Strategy
- Marketing Plan Development & Implementation
- Public Relations, Advertising & Creative Services
- Sales Support & Enablement
education
- BA Linguistics
- BA English Literature
- York University, England
Penelope is a powerhouse in supporting start-ups and rapidly moving them to fast growth and profitability. As a marketing innovator, she is able to reboot stalled enterprises or mature businesses.
Acting as a marketing Swiss Army knife, she has worked on both the client and the agency side to provide wide-ranging marketing support across disciplines, from market strategy and powerful positioning, to go-to-market planning, creative, advertising, PR and digital strategies. She is a king maker, who creates thought leaders and positions business for success via speechwriting, content marketing, artful PR and book development. She has partnered with business and cultural leaders as a contributor, author and co-author of 10 books.
Key Accomplishments
As co-founder & CMO at BorrowersFirst, Penelope established this FinTech online lending platform with an on-your-side consumer marketing strategy and brand that achieved profitability within 9 months of launch; driving down customer acquisition costs with innovative distribution partnerships.
As a Marketing partner to eBay merchant business development, Penelope supported the growth of top retailers & brands on eBay and establishment of top-seller tools & communications to drive seller transaction volume
She was a full-time Marketing Consultant and Advisor to PayPal executives to establish market positioning, message platform, and enterprise sales strategies to penetrate the Internet Retailer 100.
Penelope was a Marketing Partner at Bill Me Later in establishing brand, positioning, go-to-market and messaging to drive consumer adoption of this point-of-sale credit option, and to support enterprise sales in creating an acceptance network of top multi-channel retailers; contributing to BML’s 2008 billion dollar acquisition by PayPal
As an Advertising & PR executive and consultant, Penelope has provided a full range of marketing strategy, marketing plan development and implementation, brand building, superior sales and marketing support for clients including Peppers & Rogers’ Accelerating 1-1, Alliance of Cambridge Advisors, Arbinet the Exchange, Argus Investors, British Telecom, Chase Bank, CommerceHub, Creative Compensation Strategies, Equitable Life Assurance, Exec-U-Net, First Lease Advisors, ICN, Impact Planning Group, JRI, Lombard Medical Technologies, Mosley Corporation, Oak Investment Partners, Oxford Biosciences, Pitney Bowes Corp., Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp., Wright Investor Services and others.
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