Kam Kothia OBE

Kam Kothia OBE

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    Our company Time2 have launched our brand new range of easy to install home wifi security cameras. See and hear…

  • Welcome to Clan

    Later this week, our company is launching an exciting new range of home security cameras to protect and monitor the…

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    ‘The smart home will only start to mean something to the mass market when there is seamless interoperability between…

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    Next week I've been asked to join a panel at the Smart Home Summit in London speaking about who will control the smart…

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    seoBusiness

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    Blackburn, United Kingdom

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    Preston, England, United Kingdom

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Education

Volunteer Experience

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    Chair of the Board of Trustees

    Star Academies

    - Present 15 years 1 month

    Education

    Focused on the strategic direction, performance standards and the service ethos of the Trust.

    Since 2010, Star has successfully grown from a single school with a few hundred pupils to a diverse network of 31 primary and secondary schools spread across the UK, serving more than 20,000 pupils, extending access to high-quality education for young people in some of UK’s most disadvantaged communities.

    Star Academies has consistently been one of the highest-performing multi-academy…

    Focused on the strategic direction, performance standards and the service ethos of the Trust.

    Since 2010, Star has successfully grown from a single school with a few hundred pupils to a diverse network of 31 primary and secondary schools spread across the UK, serving more than 20,000 pupils, extending access to high-quality education for young people in some of UK’s most disadvantaged communities.

    Star Academies has consistently been one of the highest-performing multi-academy trusts in England over recent years, running some of the country’s top-performing schools. In the government’s most recent performance tables (2019), Star schools secured first, second and third places in the national rankings, with five in total in the top 15. The pursuit of educational excellence and the shared desire amongst Star Academies’ staff to achieve the very best outcome for pupils, is deeply embedded throughout the trust’s work.

    Star is a values-based organisation that works to improve the life chances of young people in areas of social and economic deprivation to help them succeed at the highest levels of education and employment.

    Star’s recent landmark partnership with Eton College to set up 6th form colleges in deprived communities in the Midlands and North of England will be transformational for the sector.

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    Non Executive Director - Digital Sector Lead

    Lancashire Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP)

    - Present 4 years 9 months

    Science and Technology

    Leading the development of an inclusive digital sector strategy for Lancashire, designed to capitalise on the county's unique strengths in emerging technologies and leveraging the once in a generation opportunities presented by the £5bn investment in the National Cyber Force HQ and North West Cyber Corridor.

    The Lancashire Enterprise Partnership (LEP) is a strategic collaboration between business, universities and local councils which directs economic growth and drives job…

    Leading the development of an inclusive digital sector strategy for Lancashire, designed to capitalise on the county's unique strengths in emerging technologies and leveraging the once in a generation opportunities presented by the £5bn investment in the National Cyber Force HQ and North West Cyber Corridor.

    The Lancashire Enterprise Partnership (LEP) is a strategic collaboration between business, universities and local councils which directs economic growth and drives job creation.

    The LEP’s role is to ensure the best possible economic conditions so that businesses can start, grow and thrive, by enjoying easy access to high-grade support for sustainable expansion.

  • Member, The Regimental Council

    The Duke of Lancaster Regiment, The British Army

    - Present 5 years 10 months

    The Duke of Lancaster's Regiment is the Infantry Regiment of the North West of England. We have 2 regular battalions and 1 reserve battalion. Fierce, strong and courageous, the regiment is known as The Lions of England

  • Deputy Lieutenant

    Lancashire Lieutenancy

    - Present 13 years 9 months

    Assisting the Lord-Lieutenant of Lancashire in carrying out his public duties

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    Chair of Governors

    Tauheedul Islam Girls' High School

    - 19 years 1 month

    Education

    Leading the school’s transformation from a small independent school to the best-performing state school in the country,

    TIGHS been rated as ‘outstanding’ by OFSTED on four consecutive inspections, and over the past several years has consistently ranked number 1 in the country out of over 3000 state-funded schools

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    Chair of Foundation

    Tauheedul Charity

    Children

    2011 to 2014

    Guided by values of faith, excellence and service, TF provides outstanding educational opportunities for thousands of young people throughout the UK, and funds educational, health and disaster relief for some of those most in need around the world.

  • Board Member

    Business Link Lancashire

    - 7 years

    Economic Empowerment

    Business Link Lancashire was a government funded business support agency set up to help SMEs in Lancashire to set up and grow, and to improve the economic prosperity of the county's businesses.

  • Member

    DTI Ministerial Ethnic Minority Business Forum

    - 4 years

    The Ethnic Minority Business Forum was established in 2000 by The Right Honourable
    Patricia Hewitt as an independent, strategic advisory body to represent the views of ethnic minority business communities. It advised Government on policies and practices as they related to ethnic minority business across England

Projects

  • SEO campaign rockets vaping retailer to 2,300% increase in revenues

    - seoBusiness helps retailer secure more than 100 top five rankings in extremely competitive industry
    - Our digital marketing campaign doubled web traffic to Vape & Go’s website in the first three months, and increased it by a further 163% over the next three months
    - Monthly sales are up by 2,301% two years after the campaign launched

    The brief:

    Vape & Go approached seoBusiness with a vision to establish itself in a particularly competitive marketplace.

    The online…

    - seoBusiness helps retailer secure more than 100 top five rankings in extremely competitive industry
    - Our digital marketing campaign doubled web traffic to Vape & Go’s website in the first three months, and increased it by a further 163% over the next three months
    - Monthly sales are up by 2,301% two years after the campaign launched

    The brief:

    Vape & Go approached seoBusiness with a vision to establish itself in a particularly competitive marketplace.

    The online retailer stocks a huge range of e-cigarette kits, vape liquid, batteries, atomisers, parts and accessories sourced from across the world.

    While already registering five-figure monthly revenues, Vape & Go had much bigger ambitions, believing it had enormous potential to grow if only it could increase its visibility to potential customers.

    The company was only appearing in the top five search results for just four important keywords, and so the directors sought out the opinions of a range of SEO experts, and found our analysis to be streets ahead of the competition.

    With more than two decades of experience in building digital marketing campaigns behind us, we set about establishing Vape & Go as a true online force.

    How seoBusiness delivered:

    It’s difficult to measure the true progress of the seoBusiness campaign, as the website before we began the work was so basic that it wasn’t even counting or analysing incoming traffic. This only began with the launch of our campaign.

    However, what we do know is that two years since our SEO work went live, monthly traffic has increased by 428%, which has resulted in an incredible 2,301% increase in monthly income.

    The Feedback:

    The seoBusiness team gives us monthly reviews about what they’re doing and what they’d like to do for the next month. They’re always available, and everything that we talk about is simplified for us to understand.

    I’m very happy with everything that we’ve received from seoBusiness.

    Salman Essap, Director, Vape & Go

  • Improving ROI by delivering more traffic and more sales for less spend

    - seoBusiness helped Mersey Rod secure number one rankings for 30 keywords and increased traffic by more than 400%, helping to increase the number of enquiries and orders
    - By focusing on the long-term gains of SEO over short-term PPC wins we greatly reduced the campaign’s cost-per-lead
    - seoBusiness’s new campaign also provided Mersey Rod with a more steady, predictable flow of orders

    The brief:

    Liverpool-based drainage specialist Mersey Rod had already built a successful…

    - seoBusiness helped Mersey Rod secure number one rankings for 30 keywords and increased traffic by more than 400%, helping to increase the number of enquiries and orders
    - By focusing on the long-term gains of SEO over short-term PPC wins we greatly reduced the campaign’s cost-per-lead
    - seoBusiness’s new campaign also provided Mersey Rod with a more steady, predictable flow of orders

    The brief:

    Liverpool-based drainage specialist Mersey Rod had already built a successful business backed by digital marketing when it approached seoBusiness, but the costs of maintaining online visibility were proving to be a burden, limiting the scope for future growth.

    Mersey Rod only appeared as the top search result for one of its keywords, and in the top five for just one other. This meant that the company was heavily reliant on pay-per-click advertising which, while effective in certain cases, can be less cost-effective in the long-term.

    How seoBusiness delivered:

    seoBusiness built an SEO campaign for Mersey Rod, helping increase the company’s visibility on Google so that it could become less reliant on the more expensive PPC advertising.

    seoBusiness initially worked with Mersey Rod to identify the 30 keywords that potential customers might enter into Google when trying to find the services they offer.

    However, the 30-keyword campaign was so successful so quickly, that Mersey Rod soon increased its investment, extending to 80 keywords.

    Visibility vastly increased, with Mersey Rod earning 30 number one rankings, featuring in the top five for 72 keywords and in the top ten for 80 keywords.

    This resulted in a dramatically increased number of enquiries from organic search, allowing Mersey Rod to scale back its PPC campaign.

    Just one month after the expanded 80-keyword campaign launched, Mersey Rod saw a 31% month-on-month increase in web traffic and received hundreds more enquiries.

    In total, over the first three years, monthly traffic increased by 675%.

Honors & Awards

  • Lancastrian of the Year

    North & Western Lancashire Chamber of Commerce

    Run by the North & Western Lancashire Chamber of Commerce, the Be Inspired Business Awards (BIBAs) is Lancashire’s longest running, largest and most prestigious business awards ceremony.

    The Lancastrian of the Year is a lifetime achievement award presented to a member of Lancashire's business community

  • Honorary Professor - School of Engineering and Computing

    University of Lancashire

    Supporting the delivery of the UCLan School of Engineering and Computing's Innovation and Enterprise agenda

  • Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)

    Issued by UK Government - Central Chancery of the Orders of Knighthood

    Her Majesty The Queen's Birthday Honours 2022
    For services to Education

    https://www.thegazette.co.uk/notice/4084252

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