Career Highlights
10 years in Corporate Finance - private equity fundraising and selling companies
20 years in Industry including start-up, growth & mature businesses, covering telecoms, technology, retail, IT infrastructure & software consulting & cruise photography.
Recent career highlights:
Driving return to profitability at $80m business primarily through David & Goliath commercial contract re-negotiations, major inventory overhaul & organisational restructuring
Complex business sale in two transactions and subsequent shut down & liquidation of multiple legal entities
Identification & execution of months’ long strategy to win back largest customer lost by client
Cultural transformation at 50-person organisation through careful recruitment of new leadership team
Laser focused advisor selection & management which was critical to business transformation & subsequent sale of business - the right headhunters, lawyers, external accountants, tax advisors, insurance brokers, M&A advisors, maritime labor convention advisors
Implementation of GDPR at geographically diverse 800+ employee technology organisation
Intellectual property protection for critical technology assets
Saved client from £30k contractual close shave that would have delivered zero ROI