What does Steph Hamill do?

Steph Hamill is a non-executive director, fractional CGO and CMO, strategic advisor, and commercial strategist. She works with growth-stage businesses, PE-backed companies, and founders navigating fundraising, go-to-market strategy, digital transformation, and board-level governance.

How can I work with Steph Hamill?

Steph Hamill works across four modes: non-executive director, strategic advisor, fractional CGO or CMO, and time-bound transformation and capital projects. Book a discovery call at https://calendar.app.google/C2N6Zi1T8UXJwbnq7 or email steph@ham.agency.

What sectors does Steph Hamill specialise in?

Consumer brands, PE-backed scale-ups, funded healthtech, EdTech, government and public sector, FTSE 100 consulting, AI and digital strategy, D2C, luxury and premium brands, and founder-led businesses from pre-seed to Series B and beyond.

Is Steph Hamill available as a keynote speaker?

Yes. Speaking enquiries are handled through A-Speakers at https://www.a-speakers.com/speakers/steph-hamill/

Non-Executive Director · Fractional CGO CMO · Strategic Advisor

I build the engines that make ambitious businesses move.

Twenty years. Three continents. Five sectors. C-suite across consumer brands, conceptual startups, PE-backed scale-ups, funded healthtech, government and FTSE 100 consulting. Cannes Lion winner. Youngest partner ever appointed at a FTSE 100 firm. Equity-holding CMO. Founder. Professor of Practice. UN Delegate.

I work at board level, in the boardroom and alongside it. As a non-executive director, I bring independent strategic challenge and commercial rigour. As a fractional CGO or CMO, I get inside the engine and move it. As a strategic advisor, I bring pattern recognition, commercial opportunity and capital relationships.

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Cannes Lion FRSA D&AD Pencil UN Delegate 2024–26 Top 50 Women in Tech Vogue Professor of Practice

Steph Hamill, non-executive director and commercial strategist — portrait in three-piece suit

How I Work

The rarest thing in a boardroom

The rarest thing in a boardroom is someone who can read the whole commercial system at once.

Most businesses at an inflection point face one of two problems. Either growth is fragmented across siloed teams with no single executive owning the full engine, or they have capital and ambition but the go-to-market strategy has not kept pace. In both cases the answer is the same: one senior mind who can diagnose the whole system, identify exactly where value is being left on the table, and build the strategy to capture it.

That is what I do. At board level, in the operating chair, and everywhere in between. I work across four modes, depending on what the business needs. Each one is different in structure. All of them are the same in standard.

My background spans twelve years at the leading edge of digital and integrated advertising — Turner Broadcasting, McCann, AKQA, Razorfish and ASOS — followed by a decade building growth engines, securing capital and leading transformation at C-suite level across consumer, health, fintech and professional services.

What makes the combination rare is not any single thing on that list. It is all of them together: the creative authority of a Cannes Lion winner, the commercial rigour of a FTSE 100 partner, and the founder instinct of someone who has built from nothing and knows what it costs.

Engagements

I do not take on clients. I take on partnerships.

I work with a small number of businesses at any one time. Every engagement is selective, entered into only where I can see a genuine commercial opportunity to move the needle.

Non-Executive Director

Independent board-level oversight for growth-stage and PE-backed businesses, and the right pre-seed businesses with genuine ambition. I bring commercial challenge, growth strategy and investor relations capability to boards navigating scale, transformation or capital events. Suited to founders with skin in the game, Series B and beyond, PE-backed portfolios and businesses preparing for exit or significant capital raise.

Strategic Advisor

A standing advisory relationship for founders and leadership teams who need a senior thinking partner with genuine commercial and capital experience. I bring pattern recognition across sectors, commercial opportunity identification and execution, introductions into investor and partner networks, and a direct line to someone who has been in the room when the decisions that matter are made.

Fractional Chief Growth or Marketing Officer

Embedded, senior-level commercial leadership for businesses that need a CGO or CMO but are not yet at the stage to hire one full time. I own the growth strategy, the go-to-market architecture and the execution, with board-level accountability and the depth of a full-time appointment, without the full-time overhead.

Transformation and Capital Projects

Intensive, time-bound engagements for specific commercial inflection points: fundraising preparation, investor narrative and data room architecture, go-to-market design, brand transformation, and digital or AI strategy. These are the engagements where the stakes are highest and the timeline is not forgiving. I have delivered at this level from seed stage to FTSE 100.

Proof

The work that matters is measured.

£48M+ funding secured for portfolio companies

40% user growth delivered in six months

×2 Apple App of the Day — twice

5,000 pre-orders at launch, zero paid media spend

82% product validation accuracy, proprietary two-week process

22% OpEx reduction forecast — 100+ websites unified

300+ founders advised through Oneday

91 NPS average workshop score

20 years experience across three continents, five sectors

Steph Hamill speaking on stage — keynote speaker on innovation and growth strategy

What people say

"Steph Hamill is uniquely original, passionate, hard-working, intelligent, strategic and an overall brand guru."

Mary Keane-Dawson — formerly MD, Neo@Ogilvy / WPP

"She's always finding the best outcomes, no matter how complex the project or varied the stakeholders."

Pip Dunjay — Head of Strategy, Dyson (formerly Head of Creative Strategy, TikTok)

"Steph is a firestarter."

Neil Smith — CEO, Mettle

"The most creative person I've met."

Leo Rayman — CEO, EdenLabs (formerly CEO, Grey)

About

Steph Hamill is a non-executive director, fractional Chief Growth Officer, strategic advisor and commercial strategist based in London. Over a 20-year career spanning consumer brands, PE-backed scale-ups, funded healthtech, government and FTSE 100 consulting, she secured over £48M in funding for portfolio companies, drove 40% user growth in six months at a leading platform, and delivered one of the UK's largest government digital consolidation programme plans as youngest partner ever appointed at a FTSE 100 firm. She is a Cannes Lion winner, a Professor of Practice at Vogue Condé Nast College, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and a UK Delegate to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women in 2024, 2025 and 2026. She works as a non-executive director, strategic advisor, fractional CGO and CMO, and leads transformation and capital projects through HAM Agency.

Let's Talk

If you are working on something that requires this kind of thinking, let's talk.

I work with a deliberately small number of businesses at any one time. That is not scarcity as a tactic. It is a commitment to quality. Every business I work with gets the full depth of what I bring, not a fraction of my attention parcelled out across too many engagements.

If you are a founder navigating a raise, a PE-backed business that needs independent commercial challenge at board level, or a leadership team trying to build a growth engine that works without you being in every room, I would like to hear about it.

All introductions and enquiries are handled directly. No intake forms, no calls with a sales person. If there is a fit, you will know within twenty minutes.

Board appointments, NED introductions and advisory conversations are welcome. I am currently accepting a small number of new engagements across non-executive, advisory and fractional CGO / CMO roles.

Book a discovery call steph@ham.agency