Anthony H. Email and Phone Number

Graded Network; simply put is a distributor of both graded and refurbished handsets, all externally inspected to the highest standard. Customers can dictate the criteria of stock they require and GN can supply stock qc'd to those requirements.

Responsible for purchasing all used and refurbished products for Elite Mobile.

Solus Enterprise is a new company that has been set up to facilitate the spot buying of parcels of stock (both new and used); it has service partners to grade and configure stock.Solus bids on stock from auctions and direct with vendors; assigning values to hundreds of varied lines of handset and electronics, dependent on their condition. Once procured and graded/configured the units are offered to clients.Having been a partner in various companies over the past 20 years the time has come to be solely responsible.

CMD is a company that services the UK B2C dealers, offering them credit accounts and a variety of new and refurbished products for next day delivery. It sells direct to the public online and also has a presence on eBay and Amazon. We also trade with and assist large retail organisations to get maximum return for EOL and customer returned products.

I was employed by TMT First to build a sales arm utilizing its already well established relationships with networks and large retailers alike. This included volume sales of laptops, consoles, handsets (new and graded) and also unlocking/grading/configuration services for which TMT are second to none. I worked closely with Adam and his team in what for a relatively large company felt like a family run business. In my time here I managed to generate substantial profits whilst growing established relationships and establishing new ones.

Unistar Group was set up with an investment from myself and Ruarri to develop a VOIP product. After beating Skype to finish post we blew it by charging for the product and not getting a large enough user base prior to our competition; cheers Giorgie, I hope your doing a better job for Branson!

It is here that i took my first directorship and role as Sales Director and later on as a shareholder; Continuing and building on my relationship with Ruarri the salesman i had previously had such a good working relationship with at European Telecom. Tasked with driving the business and generating profit whilst managing the associated risks we saw huge growth and in our peak turned over well in excess of £150 million.

Another evolution of Caudwell Group I was part of a team of 4 that ran the International handset trading of 2020 Mobile.

Working in a small team of five we purchased all the non manufacturer sourced stock for the company. Here i met my future business partner Ruarri where we forged a strong relationship as the only people to do a trade deal (he was the salesman i sourced the stock) with over £1million GP in it.

Here i had the pleasure of working with Ian and Lynne and again with Les. I sold handsets and accessories to the UK dealer base and developed the companies relationships with overseas suppliers/customers.

TCC was one of my best accounts that I developed over time and ended working for. Here i sourced and traded stock whilst assisting in the Direct sales campaigns that were ran. It is here that i first met Les Bewick my now partner and Sales Director.

Again working for a different former Caudwell director I was tasked with maintaining and creating new sales streams through the UK channels for this American giants brief dabble in the UK market.

Working under a former director and a salesman from Caudwell that had set up an independent distribution company; I used my sales ability to maximize and develop sales initially within the UK but then expanding internationally. This again was a family run business with a few extras like myself.

Another Caudwell company that dealt with mobile phone repairs based a hundred yards up the road from Minton Hollins where i was previously based. Here my technical knowledge was utilized by me taking information supplied by the engineers about repairs and faults and in turn processing the warranty claims and returning information to the manufacturers about faults; We also tested handsets and accessories. Here i had the pleasure of working with Paul O'Neil, Daren Bee, Steve Cuthbert and someone I consider a life long friend, Liz O'Meara. My first GSM phone the Motorola 5020 and the sexy Tac II LED, not to forget Caudwell's own branded the Y Phone which saw the largest ever return rates since the Maxon MN1 !

The Caudwell group was evolving. I was assigned a sales role in Dextra a newly formed entity selling mobile phone accessories to the UK dealer base. This was from the same building as Caudwell Communications.

My first role with The Caudwell group and my roll of the dice; Leaving a steady job to chase the pot of the gold selling mobile phones for an emerging company in Stoke. Leaving my friends and social life behind and swapping it for 5 miles walking and 11 hours in the office every day. Whilst here i managed UK accounts selling handsets and accessories, this was a difficult task seeing as you had get the stock to sell which involved beating Matt Gaunt to it who generally sold all the good stuff before anyone other than the girls booking it in knew about it. If you did succeed in that you had to get it signed off by Barry Morris who would have a queue of salesmen up the stairs waiting to negotiate the signing off procedure. I see this as my training ground, we had sales training, call targets, constant monitoring, furious internal competition, Saturday staffing/meetings; The office was open plan so we could see the International sales guys doing deals, the UK sales guys competing for the monthly prize of the company car with the personalized plate. The monthly coach trips organised by Bonnie to take us to the best UK clubs, karaoke down the pub outside Minton on Friday's, black tie Fridays when J Mac would wear a black tie to work and everyone in the office new someone was getting fired at the end of the day. Thank you John for the opportunity and the environment to develop and thank you Brian for the 456GT and not sacking Wardy and I when Paul Barker reported us for being drunk/hungover at work on a Saturday.

Whilst at Advanced I worked in a family run business in the town where i went to secondary school/sixth form. I reprogrammed mobile phones, installed car phones, phone systems, early LCR solutions and assisted with other general duties. My choice phone whilst employment here was the NEC P3 or possibly the Panasonic F1. These were the good old days where reprogramming these phones required advanced tools like a paper clip or a two pence piece!

My first full time job after deciding to seek employment rather than taking an acting degree. I reprogrammed NAM's and ESN's on handsets installed car phones and assisted in general duties. I got my first phone whilst i worked here a Motorola 4500 transportable - golden!