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• Experienced Tech Company CTO • Lead Communicator, sharing the vision.• Passionate about product design, innovation and Management.• Built and led software development teams, driving the creation of commercial IP.• Founded tech company and led that through VC investment, international growth and successful exit to PE.With 28 years experience building businesses I learned to engage with clients of all sizes, in broad markets. Creating initiatives, driving into new sectors and crafting our proposition. More Detail• Designed and Product Managed many successful software packages. Created a software development team of 20 engineers to deliver these, maturing into an Agile, ISO 9001 compliant capability.• A passion for delivering excellent products. I develop an obvious passion that infects our developers with the shared goal of delivering a great customer experience. • A proven technical communicator, able to share ideas and vision with a wide audience. Have presented at many conferences/ events and to media journalists / TV news segments over the years.• Partner Management: drove relationships with Key suppliers and customers. Developing relationships that gather market intelligence and create in depth partnerships that drive sales through confidence, and recommendation.• Heavily involved with selling, both directly and as high-level technical sales support. Personally handled many > £1 million accounts in a wide range of sectors. Negotiated licensing/OEM deals, as well designing product sales structure.• Worked deeply with clients in market segments such as Aerospace, Retail, Defence, Training, Medical, Energy, Education, Research & Engineering. Mapped our capabilities onto customer requirements, showing how our technology could solve their business challenges. • Delivered & managed many international projects to customers such as Lockheed, Boeing, Thales, BAE, Raytheon. Often through US gov Systems Engineering processes to a Nato level specification. Developed a partnership approach with clients where we operated as an integrated team, avoiding traditional customer/supplier stand-offs.• Excellent knowledge of engineering data systems, and how product data can be leveraged to drive a wide range of corporate applications.• An expert in 3D visualisation techniques, and VR/XR Technologies, having been one of the founding/early adopters in the early 90’s and delivered solutions to worldwide clients.• Experience in moving form a local to an international business, setting up offices and recruiting staff for US, German and far east markets,