Associate Newsletter - August 2024
Newsletter Issue N°45
August 2024 -
News & Updates
Management Update 2024
As we approach our 10th financial year, we’ve taken the opportunity to reflect on our accomplishments across every department over the past year and to outline our plans for the year ahead…
Platform Smart Highlights
Throughout the financial year, we’ve experienced significant change and achieved a whole host of milestones as a business. We’ve highlighted some of our key accomplishments above and are incredibly proud of these successes. We look forward to celebrating many more as we progress into our 10th financial year.
Oscar Roper - Managing Consultant
Platform Smart are pleased to announce that from August 2024, Oscar Roper will be transitioning from his existing role as Head of Associate Programme to Managing Consultant. In his new role Oscar will lead the client engagement and oversee the delivery of our associate teams across a number of key clients.
Associate Drinks Event
We are excited to announce that we have a date for our next Associate Drinks Event. Please save Thursday 7th November 2024 in your calendars. The venue is yet to be confirmed, so stay tuned for further updates and the RSVP details.
Stuart Miller
Unfortunately, one of our long-standing associates and friends Stuart Miller, recently informed us of some devastating news in relation to his health. We have known Stuart for close to 20 years, first meeting him at BAA when he was working on various projects at Gatwick and Heathrow Airports. Stuart has been an associate of Platform Smart since we were formed in 2015 and he has successfully delivered various engagements to our clients including HSBC, Heathrow and Centrica.
Stuart finished delivering a project at HSBC earlier this year and within a few weeks of finishing his engagement he unexpectedly experienced a number of seizures. Following various hospital visits and scans he was diagnosed with a fast growing and aggressive high grade 4 glioblastoma.
Stuart has recently had surgery but following discussions with his doctors he has been informed that his life expectancy is short. This is obviously devastating news for Stuart, his wife (Steph) and their young children; made even more sad by the tragedy they have experienced as a family having already lost Steph’s sister, mother and father.
Stuart’s best friend has setup a gofundme page, the objective of this page is to raise as much money as possible that will hopefully allow Stuart to access immunotherapy and alternative treatments that will hopefully help prolong his life and give him longer to make memories with his family.
The link for his gofundme page is below, many of you will know Stuart and we are hoping that by sharing this news the Platform Smart community can help make a difference to Stuart and his family at this very sad and difficult time.
We thank you all in advance for any donation you are able to make…
Insights & Case Studies
Since last August, we’ve been working closely with our trusted associates to achieve one of our primary goals: enhancing communication with our associates and clients. To highlight the expertise of our associates, we’ve started producing articles and interviews that bring value and insight to our associate community.
We’ve built a growing library of use cases and insights on our newly launched website, and we invite you to have a look at what we’ve published so far. We’re continually looking to expand our content and aim to have a variety, if you’re interested in contributing an article or participating an interview, please reach out to anyone in the team.
We want to hear from you.
Since the start of August, there has been a big focus on improving our communications ensuring that Platform Smart’s journey in terms of new projects, opportunities and milestones was shared with our Associate Programme…