Melanie Foster

Location South East England

Melanie has over 30 years of experience developing customer-led strategies across several industries, including technology and maritime.  Melanie’s diverse commercial expertise has delivered significant results when facilitating and delivering business-critical projects.  Clients have ranged from global Fortune 500 organisations to small local SMBs.


Operating predominantly through her boutique consultancy, HARNESS, since 2011, Melanie also co-founded a network for sales and marketing professionals in 2020.  OESMA aims to support professionals working in the broad ocean economies to transition to more data and customer-driven approaches.


Expertise: Technology, Stakeholder Engagement, Marketing and Communications