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Key Services Offered:
Business support and development.
Core Experience of Principals:
Extensive commercial experience in a number of industries.
Twenty years at a senior and director level manufacturing and
distributing office furniture, 320 employees £32M t/o.
Successfully sold this business in 2000. Then started from scratch
and ran for 5 years, a touch screen kiosk design and manufacturing
business to the digital photography market. Now provides general
and specialist commercial management to small and medium size
companies in the North West of England. These include strategic
planning and business development, sales, marketing, product
design in a number of rolls from project work, NED, Interim director
to managing director.
Enthusiastic and proactive business manager, proven success delivering
results through effective leadership and innovation. A strategic
and practical leader, able to clearly define a business strategy,
create deliverable goals, motivate a team and successfully deliver
the benefits on time and to budget:
- Strategic Management
- Expert problem solver and innovator
- Strong negotiator and communicator
- Business development
- Strong leader and people motivator
- Natural salesman
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Qualifications:
1973 - 1976 BA. Furniture Production & Management
1977 - 2000 Continuous management, sales and presentation training
1980 - 1995 AutoCAD, 3D Studio, Novel and Microsoft networking,
MS/Office 2000 Microsoft Thin Client and Citrix. SalesMaker CRM
software 2004 Lean Manufacturing 2006 Solidworks parametric product
design CAD software. Accredited Associate, Institute for Independent
Business.
Industry Sectors worked in:
Office Furniture, manufacturer and distributor, Retail
Electronics, design and manufacturer, Industrial Engineering
(grinding wheels), Software for call centres, Beauty (non-surgical
10 minutes face lift), Advertising Electronics (in pavement advertising),
Safety, Carbon Monoxide sensor testing, Sport, first new snooker/pool
cue in 200 years.
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