Van Clark Digital
Van Clark Digital

E-commerce growth for luxury, fashion & omnichannel retail

Grow online revenue without trading away the brand.

Board-level digital leadership from someone who has owned the P&L at Mulberry, Ben Sherman, Jack Wills and Furniture Village.

Current mandate · Project Century

Online revenue roadmap, £m

Strategy across conversion, AOV, traffic, personalisation and platform modernisation for a £500m retailer.
Experience with MulberryFurniture VillageBen ShermanJack WillsAubin & WillsFitFlopSoap & GloryMiss Selfridge

Results

Measured in revenue, conversion and margin.

Every engagement is tied to the numbers your board already tracks. These come from recent in-house and advisory work.

Checkout+30%Checkout completion, found and fixed through A/B testing and funnel analysis.
Online sales+20%Mulberry online sales via performance marketing, merchandising, SEO and CRO.
CVR12–15%Year-on-year conversion uplift across Mulberry's global DTC sites.
Revenue plan2.5×Roadmap to take a £40m online business to £100m.

Services

Senior digital leadership, at the depth you need.

Hire a fractional director for the whole channel, or bring me in for one problem.

Most requested

Fractional Digital Director

A part-time e-commerce director who sits with your board. I set the growth strategy, own the trading rhythm, lead your team and agencies, and hand over a stronger function when we finish.

  • Digital P&L
  • Board trading reviews
  • Team leadership
  • Agency governance

Performance marketing

Full-funnel acquisition and retention planning, with media budgets held to CAC, ROAS and lifetime value targets.

  • Paid search
  • Paid social
  • Affiliates
  • SEO
  • CRM
  • Attribution

Conversion & experience

Phased CRO programmes covering measurement, checkout, personalisation and content, run through structured experimentation.

  • A/B testing
  • Funnel analysis
  • UX
  • Personalisation

Platform & technology

Business cases, vendor selection and roadmaps for re-platforming, composable commerce and the systems around it.

  • Salesforce Commerce
  • Composable
  • Google Cloud
  • ERP · POS · PLM
  • AI in e-commerce

Omnichannel & international

A single view of the customer across stores and digital, and market launches with local payments, delivery, currency and duties.

  • Single customer view
  • Loyalty
  • Local payments
  • Duty & currency

Approach

How an engagement runs.

Data-led throughout: attribution, incrementality testing and territory-level trading analysis decide where the money goes.

  1. Weeks 1–3

    Diagnose

    Audit trading data, the funnel, media spend and the tech stack. Find where revenue is leaking.

  2. Weeks 3–6

    Roadmap

    A costed growth plan with priorities, owners and targets the board can sign off.

  3. Ongoing

    Deliver

    Lead the team and agencies through the plan, with a weekly trading rhythm and monthly board reporting.

  4. Final month

    Hand over

    Embed the processes, coach your people, and help hire the permanent lead if you need one.

Track record

Fifteen years running digital for brands people care about.

2025 – now

Furniture VillageE-commerce Director

Leading the plan to grow online revenue from £40m to £100m, and the £1–2m move from SiteGenesis to composable Storefront Next with Amplience.

2024 – 25

Aubin & WillsFractional Digital Director

Set the customer-led e-commerce and performance marketing strategy with the board, and coached the team on full-funnel planning.

2015 – 24

MulberryHead of Digital, then Global Technology & CX Director

Grew the global DTC business at +10% a year, delivered a single customer view across retail and digital, and owned the CX & Technology P&L.

2014 – 15

FitFlop, Soap & Glory, Live NationInterim and consulting roles

Interim Head of E-commerce at FitFlop, plus digital consulting across beauty, music and entertainment.

2012 – 14

Ben ShermanDirector of E-commerce

Full P&L ownership of the digital channel, repositioning the brand online for a new target audience.

Earlier: Head of E-commerce at Jack Wills, E-commerce & Online Marketing Manager at Miss Selfridge, Web Manager at TNT Magazine, Head of New Media at Telstar Records.

About

George Clark

"Luxury customers notice every detail. So does the P&L."

I've spent my career at the point where brand, customer and commerce meet. I'm happiest in front of a board turning trading data into a short list of decisions, and then working with the team that delivers them.

BSc Computing (Multimedia Production), Brunel University. Member of the Sustainable Markets Initiative and a stakeholder in the Digital ID/Passport Taskforce. Based in High Wycombe, working across London and the UK.

  • CAC
  • ROAS
  • LTV
  • AOV
  • CVR
  • Incrementality

Recognition

Google Cloud Customer Award, Retail · 2021Winner for transformation and innovation.
MuleSoft Omnichannel Transformation Award · 2022Integrated omnichannel customer experience across key global markets.

Contact

Where is your online revenue stuck?

Tell me about your business and I'll come back within two working days with a view on where the quickest gains are.

Emailgeorge@vanclark.com
Phone07931 128612
Based inHigh Wycombe, Bucks