Colin Baker Email & Phone Number

Ringwood, Hampshire

Responsible for developing the business by identifying corporate opportunities in the UK hospitality sector.

Romsey, Hampshire, UK

• Radix Traffic is a privately owned ISO9001 approved company located in Hampshire,England. Established in 1988 the company has developed an unrivalled reputation for reliable,cost effective and innovative products. The.
• Developed and implemented an export strategy for the Company in conjunction with UK DIT
• Built international product awareness generating high level of enquiries from over 40 countries
• Secured first export contracts in the United States, Brazil, Cyprus and Australia
• Established international distributors with frequent travel in Europe and North America
• Positioned the Company to secure R&D investment from Innovate UK / Catapults

UK And Ireland

Created in 1828, Bureau Veritas is a global leader in Testing, Inspection and Certification, delivering high quality services to help clients meet the growing challenges of quality, safety, environmental protection and social responsibility.With more than 59,000 employees operating in 140 countries and a revenue in 2012 of €3.9 billion, Bureau Veritas is a.

Directing business development across the UK and Ireland; delivering profitable growth year on year across divisional boundaries and global business lines. Developing, mentoring and encouraging a diverse team of 12 business development managers, leading by example to confidently engage with major accounts at board level.Up-skilling key account management.

Heading up the product and portfolio management function at Siemens Traffic Solutions for all on-street products worldwide with managing board responsibility for Business Development across the Urban sector with particular focus on strategic issues (such as developing the green agenda), mergers and acquisitions. Responsible (with seven direct reports based.

Selected by the new CEO of Siemens Intelligent Traffic Systems as one of three senior managers within the organisation to restructure the parent company and its satellite companies to form a single market leading traffic systems company. Subsequently appointed to the international managing board of the new global organisation as Business Unit manager (with.

Initially responsible for a team of five sales and tendering engineers at Siemens tasked with growing a profitable service business before building an effective marketing group for the complete traffic business - successfully introducing product and portfolio management to the organisation and establishing a professional marketing communications capability.

Responsible for taking selected innovation ideas to market, securing significant orders for electric drive technology from car manufacturers in Europe, North America and the Far East; and positioning the Company to win a multi-million pound surveillance system project in the Middle East.

Successfully identified and exploited a number of commercial opportunities for products based on technology originally developed for military use, including drive control systems for the electric cars of the future; vessel traffic surveillance systems; and an on-board emergency call system (providing vehicle location and tracking).

Secured a three million pound contract from Bofors in Sweden for surface to air missile simulators, before managing a successful sales team of eight ex-military officers and sales engineers winning multi-million pound defence contracts for digital fire control and electric drive technology in the UK and overseas.

Responsible for the successful completion of a computer generated visual system for use by the Sperry Corporation of Virginia in a US military helicopter simulator.

Employed by Nexos (a Bristol based technology Company funded by the Government's National Enterprise Board) to acquire digital voice bank technology from part of Exxon in the United States and transfer the knowledge back to what was to become BT in the UK.

Key member of team at Marconi Radar that first developed Computer Generated Imagery (CGI) for application in military flight and maritime simulators.

Bachelor Of Science (B.Sc.), Electrical And Electronics Engineering

B.Sc, Electrical And Electronic Engineering