Dan Mian

Co-Founder

Birmingham, England, United Kingdom9 yrs 9 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Built two successful digital businesses generating millions in revenue.
  • Led initiatives for ethnic diversity impacting 100,000+ employees.
  • Achieved 450+ graduate placements with £12.4M+ salary outcomes.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Digital Marketing expert with a strong focus on diversity and inclusion.

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Skills

Core Skills

MarketingDigital MarketingCareer CounselingCoachingLeadershipStakeholder ManagementPerformance Marketing

Other Skills

CopywritingTeam LeadershipSocial Media MarketingContent Management Systems (CMS)Paid MediaBudgetingProject ManagementContract ManagementSupply Chain OperationsCustomer Relationship Management (CRM)Microsoft OfficeMentoringTeamworkCommunicationRelationship Building

About

I'm building two digital businesses, growing an audience to 200K+ with 140M+ impressions, and partnering with founders and creators - generating millions in revenue. How I got here: 2015: Graduated with no connections, no network and no one who looked like me in the rooms I wanted to be in. 2017: Joined BT (£20bn company) as a graduate. One of 200 selected from 26,000 applicants. 2019: Started posting on LinkedIn. Built Gradvance on the side. Began placing graduates at Google, TikTok, Amazon and more. 2023: Moved into BT's innovation team. Launched first in-house digital marketing agency. Scaled start-ups and SaaS businesses with Meta Ads and Google Ads (£100K+/month paid media spend). 2024: Became Chair of BT's Ethnic Diversity Network. Won multiple awards for DE&I and leadership across a business of 100,000+ people. 2025: Left corporate to go all in. Co-founded Launchpad Creators and scaled fast. And on the 1st January 2026, I welcomed my first-born son into the world. A very special time. What I've built: Gradvance is a UK leading graduate career academy. 450+ placements, £12.4M+ in salary outcomes. (6 figures) Launchpad Creators is a growth marketing partner for founders and creators. Full funnels, paid ads, creative execution and everything in between. Partners include some of the world's leading founders and creators. (7 figures) 🚀 Interested in partnering with us? Visit launchpadcreators.com If you want to learn more or you're building something of your own, I'm documenting the full journey in my newsletter - growing a personal brand, running paid ads without burning cash, operating and scaling digital businesses. The lessons, failures, frameworks and insights. And if you're not ready for any of that yet, welcome anyway. I share actionable tips on entrepreneurship, marketing, leadership, careers and personal growth 🌱 📩 Subscribe to my newsletter: dan-mian.com 📩 For sponsorships or brand partnerships: dan@dan-mian.com

Experience

Launchpad creators

Co-Founder

Apr 2025Present · 11 mos · United Kingdom

  • Partnering with creators to build and scale digital products.
MarketingDigital MarketingPerformance Marketing

The school of innovation

Fractional Marketing Director

Mar 2024Jun 2024 · 3 mos · United Kingdom · Hybrid

Content Management Systems (CMS)MarketingSocial Media MarketingPaid MediaDigital MarketingPerformance Marketing

Bt

3 roles

Co-Chair - Ethnic Diversity Network

Promoted

Jan 2024Mar 2025 · 1 yr 2 mos

  • Leading the committee to drive strategic change at Ex-Co level and create long-lasting change to positively impact our ethnic minority colleagues across BT Group (87,200 employees in UK).
Team LeadershipStakeholder ManagementLeadership

Performance Marketing Manager

Oct 2022Nov 2023 · 1 yr 1 mo

  • Operating within a SAAS start-up in BT, Digital Marketing Hub. Driving the brand positioning and go-to-market strategy to re-launch the product in 2023. Leading the brand, marketing, creative and paid media efforts. Digital Marketing Hub helps small businesses easily run digital ads across multiple channels, all from one place.

Comms Lead - Ethnic Diversity Network

Aug 2020Oct 2023 · 3 yrs 2 mos

  • Leading a team and managing all comms channels: social, copy writing, content and events. Grown the membership community by 30% to 1700+ colleagues and we’re driving group-wide initiatives to influence positive change and create a more inclusive culture for 100,000 employees.
MarketingSocial Media MarketingDigital Marketing

Etc.

Digital Marketing Manager

Nov 2023Mar 2025 · 1 yr 4 mos · Birmingham, England, United Kingdom · Hybrid

  • Working in BT's innovation team, managing the digital marketing and go-to-market strategy and execution across 4 start-up businesses, disrupting industries including: Health Care, EV Charging, Fintech and Drones.
MarketingSocial Media MarketingLeadership

Gradvance

Founder

Feb 2020Present · 6 yrs 1 mo

  • Gradvance Career Mentoring Program
  • Personalised mentoring program which walks you through our proven framework to land your dream graduate job.
  • 1. Gain Clarity
  • Go from feeling lost and confused with your career, to super focussed and clear about what you want. We’ll help you built a target list of ideal companies and dream jobs.
  • 2. Get Visibility
  • No more applying online and never hearing back. We’ll teach you strategies to become unforgettable and market yourself to your dream employers, from networking to growing your profile, we’ll get in front of the right people.
  • 3. Interview like a pro
  • Learn how to tell your unique story, skills and potential to hiring managers at interviews. With our interview prep frameworks, you’ll be more confident than ever and get into the top 1%, leading to job offers! We’ll also help you get the best deal with effective salary negotiation.
  • What you’ll get by joining the program:
  • Gradvance Academy
  • 30 unique video lessons - covering topics such as job search strategies, networking, LinkedIn, CV’s, cover letters, interviewing, and more...
  • Weekly live coaching
  • Dan goes live on a Zoom call to review the week's lessons and to answer any questions that you may have regarding your journey.
  • All the templates you need
  • Access a suite of high quality templates and examples you need to land your dream job, which can be implemented quickly and easily!
  • We've helped hundreds of people land jobs at: Google, TikTok, BT, Vodafone, Amazon, EY and more.
  • To learn more, visit gradvance.co.uk
Career CounselingCoachingCopywriting

bt business

Marketing Manager

Jan 2019Oct 2022 · 3 yrs 9 mos · West Midlands, England, United Kingdom

  • Lead the marketing strategy and execution of four specialist multi-million-pound businesses.
  • Managing the 2021 Street Hubs proposition launch to deliver £80m revenue by 2025.
  • Managing Drone Solutions GTM plan, campaign execution, and consortium partnerships.
  • BT Final Mile:
  • Transformed BT Final Mile from proposition to millions of pounds in sales, tens of millions in digital awareness, and exceptional brand and digital presence in the logistics market.
  • Executed two £150K paid media awareness campaigns, generating 25m impressions, a 1000% increase in website traffic and the highest CTR of any BT paid media campaign to date.
  • Running paid media lead generation campaigns, resulting in a £2.1m sales pipeline including senior leaders at DHL, NHS and Thames Water.
MarketingSocial Media Marketing

Bt

Graduate Programme - Business Management

Sep 2017Jul 2019 · 1 yr 10 mos · Milton Keynes, United Kingdom

  • Delivered outstanding commercial and operational value for BT, EE, Daisy Group, Openreach and EDF.
  • EE Supply Chain Operations Management
  • Saved 2.1 million sheets of paper (126 trees) for EE Supply Chain by optimising operations, resource and machinery.
  • Designed and delivered 10,000+ EE Retail repair bags to 650 stores nationwide, improving repairs by significantly reducing in-transit damage to products.
  • Project managed a £250K office refurbishment, relocating 16 colleagues.
  • Customer Service Desk Manager - led a team of 30 people
  • Improved the % of Calls Answered within 30 seconds (PCA 30s) from 65% to 90% (industry average 80%) for Openreach and EDF engineers.
  • Achieved significant reductions in the average time to answer calls (90s to 10s).
  • Business Improvement Manager
  • Launched a £30K/month project for Daisy Group, driving a 50% increase in operational efficiency.
MarketingSocial Media Marketing

In the city magazine

Business Development Manager

Jul 2016Dec 2016 · 5 mos · Birmingham, United Kingdom

MarketingSocial Media Marketing

Quintadena ltd

Business Development Executive

Sep 2015Jun 2016 · 9 mos · Smethwick, Birmingham

MarketingSocial Media Marketing

Royal bank of scotland

Relationship Manager Placement

Apr 2015May 2015 · 1 mo · West Midlands, England, United Kingdom

MarketingSocial Media Marketing

Loughborough university

Bar Supervisor - Students Union

Jan 2013Apr 2015 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Loughborough, England, United Kingdom

Ardencote

Operations Assistant

Feb 2011Mar 2015 · 4 yrs 1 mo · Henley-In-Arden, England, United Kingdom

The football association

Professional Football Referee

Jan 2008Jan 2015 · 7 yrs · Birmingham, England, United Kingdom

Education

Loughborough University

BSc Geography & Economics

Solihull Sixth Form College

A-Levels

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