Jonathan Wagstaffe

Background

Jonathan is a tech entrepreneur, digital marketing educator, and keynote speaker, with decades of experience of growing businesses.

In 2018 he launched Growva, an organisation designed to educate and help leaders of growing businesses to increase sales and customer engagement by better using their websites and other digital tools. He is actively involved in how Growva's customers use digital and inbound marketing to drive sales growth in 2023.

He is a Visiting Fellow at the School of Management at Cranfield University, where he lectures on subjects from Digital Marketing to Customer Advocacy, and was described by New York Business Expo as a 'Marketing Change Agent'.

He was the Chairman at Struto, a UK based HubSpot partner agency, which has grown to become a HubSpot Elite Partner.

He was co-founder of Connectology, a network services business, in 1994, and he led that business to a top ten place in the Sunday Times Fast Track of the UKs fastest growing businesses in 1999.

He was co-founder of Adactus, an e-commerce development business, in 2001 and sat on the board of the company through its launch and strong growth during its first five years to 2006.

He was co-founder of Project Vision, a network solutions specialist, and was Managing Director of this business through its launch and rapid growth from 2009-2015.

He has been written about in the Sunday Times, the Times, and the Daily Telegraph, as well as a range of industry publications. He has appeared on radio and TV stations in Oxfordshire and the Thames Valley.

Jonathan's first position in industry was at Xerox. Here, he undertook the company's intensive and respected Graduate Training Programme, from which he emerged with the award as the outstanding graduate of 1986.

Jonathan is a graduate of the University of Warwick. He is married to the ever-patient Louise, and is father to two wonderful children.

Specialties: Digital Marketing, Digital Sales, Employer Branding, Customer Advocacy.