ProfileCHRIS WALMSLEY has over 30 years’ experience of Sales & Marketing and all the various skills related to working at Board level as a Director or Chief Executive. He has successfully attained targets and achieved growth even in difficult markets and economic downturns. He has led, managed and motivated teams to higher levels of performance through training, empowerment, communication and by engendering a ‘feel good’ factor by measuring, incentivising and recognition. Showing individuals how to succeed by passing on product knowledge, pricing and promotional strategy linked to comprehensive customer relationship management has been the key to many of Chris’s successful roles. He is an expert in the technique of managing by exception. He has managed a sales team of 14 multi linguists covering Europe, Middle East and Africa selling £40M of computer monitors annually and covered UK and Ireland on his own for a global manufacturer and achieving 4.8% market share in 2 years. He has managed a team of 45 telesales operatives selling £65M of computer components annually and managed his own business building a turnover of £6M per year in the wholesale of TV’s and accessories. In so doing he has negotiated with investors and implemented post investment strategy. He is very experienced with lean and mean practises and very comfortable with business development, product development and sales management.

Interim management and business development assignments for clients in strategy and general management. Operational and supply chain improvements and specifically web based sales and marketing solutions.

Onei Solutions was the Distribution arm for the retail activities of The Big TV Shop and the service arm The Hotel TV Company

UK & European Sales of Relisys Monitors and displays based in Manchester and managing a team of 6 for the UK and 7 for Europe