Alistair Rutherford Email & Phone Number

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Vortex International is a Leadership and Sales training consultancy. It specialises in leadership and people development, sales & key account management skills, and organisational culture change. The consultancy designs and delivers high impact solutions to meet the wide ranging people development and sales-based needs of companies, institutions and not-for-profits.

Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Business and relationship development. ClientMap is a content marketing consultancy specialising in the UK financial services sector.

Edinburgh

Entrepreneur IQ was a consultancy specialising in Entrepreneurial talent profiling and development. It used Performance Psychology concepts and over 10 years analysis of the behaviours, skills and psychological know-how for entrepreneurial success to develop entrepreneurial capability in young people. Through this the consultancy sought to work with investors and wider organisations to improve the capability and performance of entrepreneurs and business startups.

Scotland

The Pacific Institute is a global leader in the field of leadership development and organisational change. Founded in the 1970s the organisation delivers a wide range of learning and development programmes in over 130 countries to bring about personal, organisational and community social change.

Perth, Scotland

The SCSTG is a high profile tourism industry change management group. It was set up to bring about major industry change across one of Scotland's largest contributing tourism sectors with a value of £350m per annum. As Group Director I led and managed the group's entire operations from the development and implementation of the group's strategic vision to the engagement of industry-wide stakeholder groups and the management of all financial and budgetary responsibilities. Specific focus areas for the group's activities included: * Strategic Industry Leadership* Industry Cohesion & Stakeholder Engagement* Product Innovation and Disruption* Service Delivery Quality Assurance* Domestic and International Promotion* New Market Exploitation * Digital & Social Media Marketing* Service Delivery Training and Development

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Edinburgh Provisions Ltd was a multi-award winning specialty food producer manufacturing and supplying premium condiments, jams, chutneys and snacks to the retail and wholesale sectors. The business won the highest industry awards for both its products and operations. As co-founder with responsibility for all strategic business growth, sales & marketing and product development activities I managed the development of the business from Startup till my exit. The business employed approximately 40 staff both in the UK and overseas. The company achieved widespread UK and international acclaim securing long term contracts with the majority of the largest and most prestigious supermarkets and independent retailers in the UK. Accounts included household names such as:Sainsburys Plc; Tesco Plc; Waitrose Plc; Safeways Plc (Morrisons Plc); John Lewis Plc; Costco UK Ltd; TK Maxx International; Harrods Ltd; Selfridges Ltd; Fortnum & Mason Ltd; Conran Shops Ltd; Jenners Ltd and House of Bruar Ltd amongst an account base of over 1100 UK retailers.I also personally developed an extensive Export side to the business culminating in distribution agreements in 9 international markets across Europe, North America, Canada, Australasia and Scandinavia. This involved the strategic development of importer, distributor and agent partnerships within each market destination as well as the direct supply of product to major accounts when appropriate.I exited the business through share sale in 2004.

Master Of Science (Msc), Performance Psychology

Studying the psychological and developmental aspects of elite performance within the fields of business and sport.

Bsc, Sports Science, Management And Psychology, 2:1

Activities and Societies: Played rugby, hockey and cricket. Did an exchange year in California State University Longbeach studying sports.

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