Ferryman was founded by John McGlade whose 20 years of marketing and business experience puts him in a unique position to deliver outstanding strategic and tactical advice across a range of business and marketing dimensions. Whether your company is large or small, blue chip or start-up, B2C or B2B, your communications, sales and marketing drives must work effectively to achieve your business goals.

John’s experience covers all of these. In particular, few people could match his experience in how to put advertising, PR, direct marketing, research, new product development, alliance marketing, online marketing, sales processes, CRM and loyalty marketing to work to achieve your business goals.

He has worked in senior roles for blue chip companies like American Express and Bank of Ireland, start-up operations like first-e the internet bank and services firms such as Drury Communications and Adsell Advertising.

Career highlights include shaping and launching the Membership Rewards programme in Ireland for Amex, launching new products for Amex in Europe, leading the marketing drive for first-e in UK achieving 200,000 new customers and assets in excess of €1 billion from scratch.

His vision for Ferryman is to build a reputation for achieving faster growth and improved bottom-lines for its client companies through better marketing and smarter communications.