Established in 1993, Chess have helped over 100,000 businesses improve their communication experience and reduce their costs. Not only do we pride ourselves on our award winning customer service…We are also a Sunday Times 2nd Best Company to Work for in the UK.

Commercial Director for Mobile and Unified Communications with the objective of delivering sales growth, management of key supplier relationships and P&L responsibility. Led the Commercial team, Sales and Bid teams to deliver all product, propositions, governance and targets. Developed and implemented commercial strategy across multiple Sales Directors and Distribution Channels which resulted in a multi-million pound increase in sales performance.Daisy Group has developed through a combination of organic and acquisitive growth. With a business-only focus, the company now boasts more than 60,000 customers and supplies IT and communications to some of the UK's best-known organisations.The company provides a range of unified communications and IT services, including connectivity, voice, maintenance, as well as cloud and hosting solutions.

Headed up the mobile company for Outsourcery with full P&L responsibilityOutsourcery became one of the world's leading Cloud Service Providers (CSP) and a founding member of the UK Cloud Industry Forum. The services at the time included Cloud-based unified communications solutions built on Microsoft Lync Enterprise Server and Polycom technology providing next generation converged communications and collaboration solutions for companies of all sizes.Outsourcery at that time offered its customers and partners the full Microsoft technology stack hosted (multi-tenanted or dedicated private clouds) in Tier 3 / 4 data centres on a wholly owned state-of-the-art virtualised Hyper-V Cloud platform. Services included Exchange, Lync, SharePoint, CRM, Windows Virtual Servers, Mobile connectivity, Smartphones, Consulting and Connectivity.Customers ranged from start-ups working virtually to global solutions for FTSE-100 companies and the reseller partners ranged from local IT and comms suppliers to some of the world's largest technology consultancies, telcos and their end-customers.

Part of the senior management team following the purchase of the business from DSGi by a consortium led by our venture capital partners.Outsourcery was a virtual mobile service provider for both Vodafone and O2 it became one of the world's leading Cloud Service Providers (CSP) and a founding member of the UK Cloud Industry Forum. At them time services included Cloud-based unified communications solutions built on Microsoft Lync Enterprise Server and Polycom technology providing next generation converged communications and collaboration solutions for companies of all sizes.Outsourcery offered its customers and partners the full Microsoft technology stack hosted (multi-tenanted or dedicated private clouds) in Tier 3 / 4 data centres on a wholly owned state-of-the-art virtualised Hyper-V Cloud platform. Services included Exchange, Lync, SharePoint, CRM, Windows Virtual Servers, Mobile connectivity, Smartphones, Consulting and Connectivity.Its customers ranged from start-ups working virtually to global solutions for FTSE-100 companies and the reseller partners ranged from local IT and comms suppliers to some of the world's largest technology consultancies, telcos and their end-customers.Our awards:2011 Presidents Club for Microsoft Dynamics CRM2011 Mobile News Award Winner for Business Solutions Provider2011 Comms Business Award Winner for Reseller of the Year (Large)2010 Microsoft Worldwide Hosting Partner of the Year2010 Microsoft Worldwide Hosted Dynamics Partner of the Year2010 Presidents Club for Microsoft Dynamics CRM2010 CNA Award Winner - Unified Communications Solutions to SMEs - sponsored by BT2010 Mobile News Awards - Business Solutions Provider2010 Parallels – Newcomer of the Year2009 - Microsoft’s UK launch partner for Unified Communications.2009, 2010 & 2011 - #1 Microsoft UK Dynamics CRM Hosting Partner

Dixons Retail plc is a FTSE listed international retail group with over 1200 stores across Europe. Reporting to the Managing Director, in the high growth, high profit and entrepreneurial B2B Mobile Phone Division (The Link and Genesis Communications). Full responsibility for Commercial Strategy and the delivery of KPI's across the business. I was an integral part of the due diligence, negotiation, acquisition and disposal of a number of bases, and negotiated and established a unique multi million pound contractual relationship with the mobile networks.

Dixons Retail plc is a FTSE listed international retail group with over 1200 stores across Europe. Reporting to the Finance Director, in a high growth, high profit and entrepreneurial B2B Mobile Phone Division (The Link and Genesis Communications). Full responsibility for Financial Control including budgets, forecasts, cash flow, management and financial reporting of the business to group, audits and the delivery of key KPI's across the business, alongside due diligence work post acquisition. During my time I directly managed a team of over sixty people from Operations, Business Analysts, Finance, Purchasing, Facilities, Credit Control

Reporting to the Finance Director, Genesis became one of the Top 100 fastest growing companies in the UK. In April 2002 The business was sold to DSGi for £29m. Full responsibility for Financial Control and worked closely with managers to provide the business with autonomy and accountability at management level by implementing, cost centres, profit centres and a range of KPI's to measure and control the business during this time of significant growth, as well as full responsibility for all budgets, forecasts, cash flow, management and financial reporting of the business. I also played an integral part in the commercial direction of the business.

Weatherseal was a very fast growing privately owned direct sales company, manufacturing, installing and selling home improvements. Weatherseal turnover grew to over £38m and as part of the Latium Group was the fundamental success behind the acquisition of the Everest group which took the Latium Group turnover to over £250m. Responsible for all aspects of cash and financial control, including all commissions, financial ledgers, budgets, forecasts, and management accounts for production and installation departments. Trusted individual who worked closely with the senior board members.