Gareth Owen
DIGITAL PRODUCT LEADER
Get on top of your digital product teams and strategy with a leader who has been devising and leading digital product teams - at scale - for over 20 years
Grow your business with the leader behind the digital products and strategies at some of the worlds biggest companies
Part of the leadership teams behind product such as BBC Digital and Booking.com's OpenTable, Gareth works with the C-Suite of companies from FTSE 100s to growing SMEs
Digital Strategy Review
Gareth is usually brought in when the C-Suite at companies from FTSE 100s to SMEs feel that they need support from an expert who's been there and done that, at scale, with digital
Trusted by PE and VCs
Gareth is regularly brought in by Private Equity and VCs to draw up the digital product strategies for their portfolio companies, to take on interim CPO positions and to help lead their exec teams to growth through digital
Trusted by £1billion+ to SME companies
Gareth is trusted by companies from Esure to GSK, advising their C-Suite leadership, down to SMEs and Start-Ups with their first few million of investment/turnover
What clients say
"Gareth is one of the best things about the new GSK energy"
Karren Anne-Terrell, Chief Digital Officer, GSK
"Gareth is one of the few advisors we work with who genuinely knows how to do this properly"
Dr Rebecca Love, Co-Founder, Vira Health
"Gareth cuts through the nonsense to provide leadership teams with completely invaluable advice at every stage he is involved in"
Serena Davies, Glyndebourne
"Gareth is one of the sharpest people I have worked with. He understands how companies can get stuck in idea mode and is very effective at crystallising it down into a product or strategy"
Vincent Tuk, Chief Digital Officer, Eneco NL
Companies that trust Gareth to deliver their digital product growth
As a leading part of the original team behind BBC Digital, Gareth was instrumental in creating the product that we all know today and is now used by over 300 million people every month.
Gareth personally devised many of the features that have comes to define the way content is consumed all over the world.
Gareth led Product, User Experience/Design and Strategy for BBC News digital and was also a key part of the iPlayer's launch team
San Francisco company OpenTable has long been loved by Americans - with 16 million of them being seated in restaurants by the service every month and hundreds of millions of dollars in profits every year.
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Gareth led the global expansion of OpenTable as his teams evolved the product and company strategy to launch in 17 countries from Australia to Paris
When the UK government introduced new regulation, Gareth was brought in to lead the strategy behind the digital products that would help this £1billion+/year insurance company better serve their customers while maintaining profits
Gareth led CNN's global teams (London, Hong Kong, Middle East, Atlanta) responsible for CNN.com, the CNN App and language services including CNN Arabic
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Under Gareth's leadership CNN.com reached 19 Million users daily and devised countless innovative and cutting edge new features for both consumers and advertisers across the globe
Working as a personal advisor over several years to the Chief Digital Officer of this $32billion+/year turnover 150,000 person company - Gareth was instrumental in building out the teams and strategy that helped transform GSK into to the data driven and AI powered star of the FTSE 100 that it is today
When one of the world's most prestigious operas needed a total overhaul to reach a younger audience, they called on Gareth.
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Gareth produced a whole new product strategy that stripped the whole proposition back to basics, leading to a whopping 36% increase in online booking conversion led by a 400% increase in new, younger attendees all directly attributed to Gareth's strategy and digital product changes
Inflexion, the investors in this £50m turnover company backed Gareth to lead a major product strategy overhaul. Gareth sat embedded with the c-suite to lead the product teams to switch the company to data-driven product development, working towards a significant increase in average spend per user.
When this much loved psychology publisher was ready to make the move to digital they called in Gareth who produced the company's commercial digital strategy and then worked with the company's board and executive to deliver on it - moving the company's content to a digital subscription/paywalled model, launching their successful app and steering them both to profitability
The Chief Digital Officer of Eneco, the largest energy provider in the Netherlands, brought in Gareth to help him to build out the product and digital teams and in setting the strategy for the company's biggest new digital initiatives - including the launch of the company's first dynamically priced energy tariff
When one of the world's oldest baby products companies wanted a digital stratgey they called on Gareth to write it. Focussing on the company's move into connected digital products, Gareth's digital product strategy for Tommee Tippee focussed on building an ecosystem of products connected via beautiful user experiences designed to create strong loyalty and revenue growth for the company
The Telegraph underwent a digital revolution under Gareth's leadership as Head of Product and Strategy.
Gareth's strategy flipped the organisation's previous model, prioritising digital content and transforming the company from a newspaper with a website to a digital platform with a print edition. The Telegraph is now on course to hit their first 1 Million digital subscribers this year
A company with clients from Google to McDonalds, data driven consultancy CMSPI optimises the card payments of billions of dollars or transactions every day.
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Brought in by the company's Private Equity investors and the CEO, Gareth devised the strategy and product vision for a shift to an AI data driven future for the company. Gareth then worked closely with the company's C-suite for 2 years to deliver the vision which is now being rolled out to the company's clients globally.
When Google pulls together its group of media industry digital leaders from across Europe, they bring in Gareth to design and facilitate the programmes they run aimed at raising the standards of digital and digital strategy in the world’s leading media companies.
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“It’s great to hear about other companies and how they approach their digital problems & strategies. Gareth's real-life examples are always really helpful.” - Representative from Westdeutscher Rundfunk, Germany's national Broadcaster
This cutting edge women's health tech start-up, initially focussed on the menopause and backed by the VC Local Globe, brought Gareth in from the very start when the two founders were the only other people in the company.
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Gareth continues to work closely with the company's - now much larger - team as an advisor and has been there throughout the company's rapid growth and their recent significant US market launch
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Strategy review
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CPO in the cloud
Know you need someone very senior and experienced to work with you but you’re not yet ready to make that £200k+ hire? Let’s talk about how you can tap into Gareth's expertise to get your company moving on the right track
CEO/Board advisory
Help your leaders and oversight boards see the woods for the trees with an external perspective built on decades of cutting-edge digital experience
