Market leading Major Events security, stewarding and car parking workforce organisation. We are the main providers at Tottenham, Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool and other football clubs, the major golf tournaments, Wimbledon, Twickenham and festivals. Growing the company as part of a private equity investment.

Strata FSC is a high impact consultancy focused on delivering successful project outcomes for the asset management sector. Focused on growth and company culture.

Flare Bright is a high growth aerospace and military grade software company. We assure complex drone issues using machine learning digital twins. This machine learning digital twin ecosystem has powered rapid and cost-effective development of unmanned aircraft It has grown rapidly from 4 to 25 people over the last 5 years and won numerous high profilecontracts, as well as many industry awards.

Mentoring and advising on entrepreneurship within the Oxford maths community.

The Academy for the Mathematical Sciences is being created to facilitate links between academia, government and industry and act as the coordinating focal point for the community.

Director of the UK industry body for remotely piloted aircraft (drones)

Airwards is a not-for-profit Awards programme dedicated to identifying and recognising positive drone use. The first digital awards platform of its kind to champion positive drone use cases internationally. Airwards is open to a range of individuals and companies each year, including drone specialists transforming an industry, start-ups using drone technology for creative solutions and large corporations driving innovation. The award categories span a number of uses and sectors, including Technology, Operations, Supporting Services, specific Industries/Fields and Giving Back, with a People's Choice category voted for by the public. Airwards will be looking for outstanding examples where drones are leading the way in innovation, responsibility and impactful real-world solutions.

Sl Mercury became Norland Equity Partners, and acquired a company, which I have been asked to Chair.

SATAVIA is a Big Data and Machine Learning (AI) company. Satavia has received support from InnovateUK, the ATI and the European Space Agency. Defined and focused the business on a core market and created new opportunities and new customers. Business Plan, Revenue planner, Budgeting and Forecasting.

Extremely high profile comms role, involving regular global comms and plenty of crisis comms. B2B Marketing and Digital Marketing in the Manufacturing sector. Raised £2.1 and £1.3 million on two groundbreaking crowdfunding rounds through Crowdcube.com, which have become case studies of how an industrial company goes about crowdfunding. Brand creation and management. STEM programme. Supporters Club.

Revamped business model and complete cultural change across a staff of 70 for a £3.5million turnover social enterprise. Led on activation of sponsorship with Asda and negotiated details of contract. Wrote successful £1.5 million Spirit of 2012 Trust bid (part of Big Lottery Fund). Sports Leaders UK is a charity that trains young people in vocational leadership skills that lead to employment and education.

Essentially a start-up business within Lloyds Banking Group (recruited a team of 13 with an exceptional focus on Performance Management and Team Building, taking the lessons from elite sport) with a focus on B2B Marketing and Revenue generation. Successful initial implementation through this small team and wider bank steering committees resulted in: • Earning over £100m new-to-bank revenue;• Engaging half the workforce in a ground-breaking and award-winning employee engagement programme, which won the European Sponsorship Association’s Best Business to Employee Programme of 2012.• Was the main spokesperson for Lloyds Bank on all business and economics aspects of London 2012, and was interviewed regularly live on Sky News, numerous radio stations and appeared in all national newspapers.• Creating lasting and profitable relationships with new customers and stakeholders; • Launching new types of customer events with best-ever feedback.Responsible for activating all B2B aspects of Lloyds Banking Group Tier 1 sponsorship for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Internally placed into this role post-Financial Crisis to solve the problem of how to activate a very public and expensive sponsorship in a novel and effective manner, when customers and the public were extremely anti-banking. Business development, client events, stakeholder relationships, sponsorship and employee engagement across the B2B division to get value from Lloyds London 2012 Partnership, which ultimately became the go-to innovation hub within the Bank.

Developed new business line and client franchise from scratch. Responsible for all derivatives and structured products sales to Financial Institutions. Grew client base of regular dealers to 30 from nothing and created strong relationships with over 100 clients. Coordinated disparate areas of the bank for approval of new and innovative products.

Sales and marketing of all financial risk management products to Lloyds TSB continental European client base. Trained and developed the 9 Benelux Treasury staff from only transacting basic financial instruments to financial advisory across all debt classes and derivatives. First year profits gone from virtually zero to GBP 2m, through closing a number of significant deals.

“Chief of Staff” in newly-formed Markets team, within the bank’s most profitable team, Structured Capital Markets. Advised clients globally on efficient financing and risk management solutions, while coordinating and controlling other areas of the bank to deliver clients for these deals.Ran the Scandinavian and Dutch Risk Advisory team. Advised on, sold and transacted banking products for largest companies in the Region, in a multi-bank competitive environment. Increased profit by 10 times (to £5m) in first year of role by creating new ways of coordinating with the rest of the bank. Set up new equity derivatives business area from scratch that grew into a £10 million profit per year business.

Athletes Services Manager for Modern Pentathlon event at the Sydney 2000 Olympics. Liaison between athletes of all nationalities and SOCOG, the organisers of the event, for both the pre-event training venues and at the event itself.Guest of London 2012 bid team at the Athens Olympics.

Roles included: Belfast surveillance operation; Intelligence Officer in Arctic-role (Norway); jungle warfare (Brunei); Platoon Commander in Northern Ireland pre and post-ceasefire; Won Director of Infantry’s prize for top student on Platoon Commander’s Battle Course; Courses completed include Psychological Operations, Electronic Warfare, Defence Debriefers, NATO Winter Warfare Commanders Course, Joint Services Mountain Expedition Leader, Represented Army team at orienteering and athletics.

Software Engineer designing the programme to control the first internet enabled IBM PC. Learned to programme in Pascal and spent 9 months understanding the "mythical man month" and other aspects of computer software design and development with one of the leading companies globally doing this.