Arron Knight
COO & Founder
Strategy, Operations & Business Development
Harmoni
AI Innovation Management Platform
Many mid-market companies have no systematic way to capture employee ideas internally - and no structured route for leadership to channel specific challenges back to their teams. Harmoni fixes both. Employees get a structured way to surface ideas with built-in recognition. Managers get clear review workflows. Leadership gets an innovation pipeline they can actually see and act on.
Built end to end and live with early customers.
Professional Summary
COO and Head of Business Development at Inspion Sports. Owned every function of a business operating across 75+ schools — P&L, financial planning, supply chain, technology, people, and commercial strategy. Reduced operational costs by 15%, increased lead generation by 111%, drove 25% year-on-year revenue growth, and opened international partnership negotiations with the Saudi Arabian Fencing Federation targeting a £30m market. Also founded Harmoni, an AI-powered innovation management platform for 100–500 person companies, built end to end and now live with customers. First Class BSc in Business and Management, Royal Holloway.
Experience Highlights
- •COO and Head of Business Development at Inspion Sports across 75+ schools
- •Reduced operational costs by 15% and increased programme profitability by 22%
- •Increased lead generation by 111% through CRM systems built from scratch
- •Drove 25% year-on-year revenue growth as sole commercial lead
- •Scheduling automation that cut operational conflicts by 50%
- •Supply chain negotiations with manufacturers in China and Pakistan
- •International partnership negotiations with the Saudi Arabian Fencing Federation targeting a £30m market
- •Founder of Harmoni — AI-powered SaaS platform, built end to end, live with customers