Chief Growth Officer (CGO) & Head of Marketing (CMO)A ‘C Suite’ executive with extensive International experience and a proven track record in driving top line growth & profitability through innovation, new market & channel development and building brands. Worked with CEO’s and Boards to develop and sell growth strategies across the organization and executed plans to successfully deliver results across multiple industries and countries. Pro-active Marketing professional with significant experience in using data to understand consumers & customers, identifying insights, developing brand positioning and executing marketing strategies in both B2C and B2B environments successfully. I have been responsible for both strategy development & execution, Marketing, R&D, Innovation & Sales.Proven and demonstrable success in growing sales & profitability in each position across multiple industries and markets. Industries include Food, Snacks, Dairy, Drinks, (MARS, NADEC), Entertainment including Pay TV and Music products, Shows, Events, Games, Digital platforms (SHOWTIME & EMI) and Technology including hardware (Xerox) and software (IBI). Markets worked in include UK, Scandinavia, France, Germany & Netherlands, Dubai, Saudi Arabia, MENA region.Responsible for large teams (2500+), budgets($300m+) across Sales, Marketing, Digital, R&D, Quality and Innovation. Specialties: Marketing strategy & implementationBrand strategy & communicationBrand Positioning Innovation New Product DevelopmentConsumer segmentation Consumer InsightsPR strategy development and executionDigital StrategySocial Media marketingBusiness DevelopmentExport MarketsGrowth StrategiesExploiting intellectual property Channel DevelopmentNew MediaSales Sales ManagementTraining, people development & coachingOrganisation Design & Management Development