We have over 200 people in the How Might network, giving us strength and depth in an extremely wide range of skills relating to innovation.

moti-shahaniMoti Shahani is How Might’s Managing Director. 

Moti has a background with McKinsey, American Express and Wolff Olins. He also founded and grew E-Marketing, one of the UK’s earliest and most innovative Internet businesses. He has worked with more than 30 clients in eight European and Asian countries, including AEG, Asda, Atlantic 252, Banca Nazionale del Lavoro, Carlton, Channel 4 Schools, Clairol, Conde Nast, De Lage Landen, ENRC, Grosvenor, Henderson Global Investors, Leaping Salmon, Lloyds TSB, MTV Networks Europe, Natwest, Nestle, Shell, Standard Chartered, The Audit Commission, The Fabulous Bakin’ Boys and William Hill.

Moti has spoken on innovation and the Internet at events organised by Financial Times, INSEAD, London Innovation, Marketing, McKinsey and others to senior business audiences of up to 1,000 people.  He holds a degree in Economics from Cambridge and an MBA from INSEAD. He is a Charter Member and entrepreneurial mentor with the The Indus Entrepreneurs.

Below are some examples of How Might’s top expert members. Each one has proven, world-class skills relevant to innovation and over 10 years of experience in a specialist field.  Many also have an MA, MBA, PhD or other professional or academic qualification from a leading institution.

Strategy

  • A leading academic with a global reputation in business strategy, growth and decision-making.  Wide consulting experience and numerous publications, inluding articles in the most respected business journals.
  • An innovation strategist with experience of consulting to some of the world’s most creative media organisations.

Branding

  • A brand strategist who has led major rebranding projects with a large number of clients worldwide and for Europe and Asia in particular.
  • A brand and communications strategist who has advised on and reinvented a number of the world’s most prominent consumer and B2B brands.

Marketing

  • A marketing director who has managed several major UK consumer brands, with sales and marketing budgets of up to £100 million and teams of up to 700.
  • An Internet marketing specialist who has worked with consumer, publishing and B2B companies to launch innovative websites, campaigns and online-offline propositions.
  • A consumer insight specialist with a blue-chip background and a passion for finding out what makes consumers tick.

Technology

  • A technology matchmaker with a background at Accenture and a PhD in operational management who has had a key role in setting up several hundred collaborative R&D projects.
  • A chief operating officer who has delivered performance improvements worth up to US$60 million in large, complex, distributed, technology environments in Europe and Asia.

Finance

  • A finance director with experience across a wide range of sectors, including financial, technology and creative organisations.
  • An innovations analyst with a background in accountancy who applies analytical rigour and proprietary How Might algorithms to generate deep innovation insight.

Design

  • A creative director who has created the visual identities for a FTSE100 company, some of the world’s best-known mobile communications brands and one of the world’s top consumer goods companies.
  • An interaction designer with a background in e-learning who creates engaging, easy-to-use interfaces for How Might’s innovation platform.
  • A cartoonist who helps to bring people’s innovation ideas to life through simple, attractive sketches, often with a humorous touch.