Milly Barker

Milly Barker

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Founder at Pay As You Go COO. I can help your growing company get more sh!t done. Serial startup COO. MBA. ex-Amazon.
United Kingdom

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  • Imperial College London
    Visiting Lecturer
    Imperial College London
    Jan 2025 - Current (1 year 7 months)
    MSc Bioscience Futures: Communication, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship
  • HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW
    Advisory Council Member
    HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW
    Aug 2024 - Current (2 years)
    The Harvard Business Review Advisory Council is an opt-in research community of business professionals that help to shape HBR's content and enrich their understanding of the wider world of management and leadership.
  • neubond
    Board Advisor
    neubond
    Nov 2023 - Current (2 years 9 months)
    Neubond specialises in personalised home rehabilitation devices for stroke patients to address their mobility constraints. Our innovative devices establish a direct connection to the patient’s body, seamlessly integrating effective therapy into their daily lives.
  • Pay As You Go COO
    Founder, Fractional COO, Business Coach, Mentor
    Pay As You Go COO
    Jan 2023 - Current (3 years 7 months)
    I created Pay As You Go COO to make it easier and cheaper for ambitious early stage companies and their teams to access the kind of high-impact Strategic insights and hand-on tactics that have gotten successful companies to where they are today. Through Pay As You Go COO, I provide Fractional COO services to earlier-stage companies, by-the-hour Business Coaching and Personal Mentoring, as well as an affordable selection of ebooks that teach business fundamentals to anyone who wants to learn them. I believe that no vision is too big and no goal is out of reach, even when resources are limited - especially when those resources are limited because of lack of diversity in UK funding. That's why I've crafted budget-stretching ways get expert h
  • Cognism
    Chief Of Staff
    Cognism
    Apr 2022 - Jan 2023 (10 months)
    Implemented a new cross-functional project management system that improved communication and efficiency by 1.5x in 3 months and illustrated the link between day to day tasks and overall company mission to all levels of the company, ensuring clear focus and prioritisation. Led a large round; created all pitch decks, unit economics and net dollar retention models, built and maintained the data room, owned all investor relations. Designed a 5 year strategy from mission through objectives, key results, and departmental metrics, including designing and implementing a new cadence for weekly management meetings, daily stand-ups, and bi-annual management offsites. Strategic oversight of Corporate Development, including managing complex due diligenc
  • Imperial Enterprise Lab
    Expert in Residence
    Imperial Enterprise Lab
    Mar 2022 - Current (4 years 5 months)
    As an Expert in Residence, I provide consultancy to early-stage founders in five key areas: breaking long term goals down into actionable plans and implementing those plans, operational efficiency/excellence, storytelling with data, how to be a good leader, and organising your organisation.
  • Milly Barker Consulting
    COO / Chief Operating Officer / Director of Operations / Operations Director / Chief of Staff
    Milly Barker Consulting
    Jan 2018 - Sep 2023 (5 years 9 months)
    I worked with start-ups and scale-ups in Interim C-Suite roles to transform nebulous long-term visions into actionable, achievable, and realistic goals. I garnered buy-in for wide-reaching changes and improved working relationships by mentoring and developing talent, all to ensure the smooth transition from vision to strategic plan to quantifiable transformational impact. Roles included: Chief of Staff/Head of New Ventures in Exec Search (12 month project, PT/FT) Provided investment advice and topline analyses of potential portfolio companies to the venture development arm & delivered a clear & resource-planned differentiated and defensible 5 year plan, mapped into project management software as specific and measurable goals. COO in Real
  • Amazon
    Business Development & Strategic Consultancy
    Amazon
    Feb 2015 - Dec 2017 (2 years 11 months)
    Led New Business Development for two Amazon categories; identified and progressed external relationships, creating an environment of trust with new and existing Amazon Vendors in order to access and grow new revenue streams by 130% YOY with 110% growth in customer acquisition. Developed and rolled out a new stratum of in-house strategic consultants which allowed the business to simultaneously target top and bottom line improvements by doubling revenues from consultancy across four channels at a quarter of the cost.
  • global
    Creative Content Solutions
    global
    Jan 2013 - Feb 2015 (2 years 2 months)
    Conceptualised, designed, and end-to-end project-managed multi-platform advertising campaigns across radio, TV, digital, mobile, social media, CRM, charity, and event platforms by utilising marketplace insight, segmentation, and Econometrics data along with empirical sociological value theories to find the most effective content partnership to deliver on the client’s objectives.
  • Global Radio
    Events & Executive Management
    Global Radio
    Nov 2011 - Dec 2012 (1 year 2 months)
    Managed commercial events, including compiling and managing VIP guest lists for the Capital FM Jingle Bell and Summertime Balls, helping to secure commercial partners and implementing in-show client integrations. Supported three Commercial Directors of the multi award-winning Global Sales Team, covering day to day personal administration, including diary management, gatekeeping, and relationship management.
  • Foster  Partners
    Architectural Project Coordination
    Foster Partners
    Mar 2010 - Nov 2011 (1 year 9 months)
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  • Imperial College Business School
    Global MBA, MBA
    Imperial College Business School
    Jan 2016 - Dec 2017 (2 years)
    Financial & Management Accounting, Organisational Behaviour, Corporate Finance, Strategy, Marketing Management, Managerial Economics, Innovation, Entrepreneurship & Design, International Business, Strategic Problem Solving, Managing Negotiation, Leadership, Advanced Strategy Thesis: What are the major barriers to the implementation of flexible working hours and how can the current knowledge be expanded?
  • I
    Global MBA, MBA
    Imperial Business School
    Jan 2016 - Jan 2017 (1 year 1 month)
    Financial & Management Accounting, Organisational Behaviour, Corporate Finance, Strategy, Marketing Management, Managerial Economics, Innovation, Entrepreneurship & Design, International Business, Strategic Problem Solving, Managing Negotiation, Leadership, Advanced Strategy Thesis: What are the major barriers to the implementation of flexible working hours and how can the current knowledge be expanded?
  • University Of Southampton
    Bachelor of Arts (BA, English and Philosophy
    University Of Southampton
    Jan 2006 - Dec 2009 (4 years)
    BA (Hons) English and Philosophy
  • malvern college
    International Baccalaureate
    malvern college
    Jan 1998 - Dec 2003 (6 years)
    GCSEs, International Baccalaureate
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