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Laura Derbyshire

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Fractional CMO & Brand Consultant at Business Leader
📍 United Kingdom

Laura Derbyshire is the founder of OSER, a growth consultancy for investor-backed scale-ups. With over 20 years of experience in global advertising, she blends big-agency creativity with investor-level commercial strategy to unlock growth. She holds degrees in Economics and International Business from The University of Manchester, and colleagues describe her as "brilliant" and "strategic."

From a young age, Laura has been passionate about brand and creativity, and she used to record Nike advertisements on tape as a child.

Her consultancy, OSER, utilizes a hybrid approach of human-led and AI-enabled solutions to create speed and cost efficiencies for clients.

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Experience
16 Years
Current Role
Fractional CMO & Brand Consultant
Job Level
Leadership
Location
United Kingdom
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Scale-up Growth
Her entire professional focus is on diagnosing and unblocking growth challenges for companies in the £10m-£50m revenue range, helping them move beyond performance plateaus.
Brand & Creativity
Believes that a strong brand strategy is essential for long-term growth and that an over-reliance on performance marketing will eventually fail scaling companies.
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Career

Work history

5-2025
Fractional CMO & Brand Consultant
Business Leader
11-2020 - 11-2023
Non Executive Director & Global Brand & Marketing Consultant
Citywire
3-2020
Founder & Growth Strategy Advisor
OSER
12-2017 - 1-2019
Managing Director of Venture-backed Portfolio Company - TruVenturo. Independent Investor
Videobeat Networks
8-2016 - 11-2017
Chief Marketing Officer & Board Director
ZAK
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Laura Derbyshire, OSER | Enterprise Nation. Featured in Enterprise Nation
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Education
2000 - 2011
International Business
Alliance Manchester Business School
1997 - 2000
Economics
The University of Manchester
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