Gary Baxter
Gary offers practical management advice and avoids financial jargon. His clients cover a wide range of businesses, from start-ups to long established design groups.
Members’ Area
From receiving expert help and guidance to benchmarking your business’ performance, the Members’ Area is a gateway to resources, services and support specifically developed for those working in the field of design.
Some sections are exclusively accessible to DBA members, connecting you to the extensive range of benefits your membership provides.
DBA membership extends to everyone working within your business – all members of your team can register for their own password – ensuring the whole team benefits.
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Experts
If you have a particular business challenge or are looking to move your agency to the next level, we’ll work closely with you to connect you to an expert, whatever the issue. We’ve identified expert consultants with sustained and relevant experience in supporting the design industry, so you can rest assured that we can introduce you to the right one to meet your needs.
Our Experts have extensive experience supporting the creative industries and are:
- DBA Approved.
- Recommended by peers.
- Reference checked.
If you’re interested in becoming a DBA Expert find out more. Alternatively email Eleanor Singh or call 020 7251 9229 for more information.
Gary offers practical management advice and avoids financial jargon. His clients cover a wide range of businesses, from start-ups to long established design groups.
Heli Heartland
Heli provides practical leadership advisory and training to leaders and teams who want to significantly increase their personal and commercial impact within their business, the industry and beyond.
Jack O’Hern
Jack works with owner managed businesses to help them first identify and then achieve their goals, through a combination of strategy and tax planning.
James Pearce
James has more than twenty years experience as a senior BBC broadcaster and runs his own agency, specialising in improving the communications skills of those working in businesses up and down the country.
James Selby Bennett
James has been the DBA solicitor for over 15 years and gives practical and user friendly commercial legal advice to design consultancies in relation to all aspects of the Design Business including intellectual property law, artistic law, contract law, international law, competition law and employment law.
Jeremy Davies
Jeremy works with consultancies to bridge the gap between positioning and proposition, and be more proactive and productive in their approach to business development. He helps creative people maximise their resources, nurture a new business culture and find the right blend between sales and marketing. An experienced mentor, and a hands-on, creative marketer and writer, he helps empower agency owners, and their new business teams, to create better content, and get better results.
Jeremy Paterson
Jeremy helps SME agencies to drive growth and efficiency by bridging the gap between operations, commercial and finance to create transparency, enabling business leaders to make confident, informed decisions.
Areas of Expertise: Business processes, Financial planning, Legal & ethical, People, Sales & Marketing
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Jeremy Pennant
Jeremy is a Trade Mark and Design Attorney with over 25 years’ intellectual property law experience. He advises clients on a comprehensive range of trade mark, design, copyright and branding issues.
John Chittenden
John provides strategic legal advice to his clients on all aspects of their business. His work involves all contentious and non-contentious aspects of commercial and construction law. The experience gained from working in industry enables him to focus on providing solutions.
Jonathan Gaunt
Jonathan believes in doing finance better together and he believes designers deserve a ‘best friend in finance’. He wants to help their design business clients succeed and be their trusted adviser, enabling them to drive their business growth and success.