Colm Fox Email & Phone Number

Quorn, Leicestershire, Uk

Morphis is a Portuguese software and services provider that specialises in migrating old legacy software applications (COBOL, PowerBuilder, Delphi, Oracle Forms) to modern environments (Java and C#.Net) along with related professional services such as application analysis, transformation and modernisation. I began a sales and partner development operation in London with a brief to build a revenue producing partner network in Europe. This has resulted in active and ongoing OEM partnerships with Fujitsu, Microsoft and other Tier 1 systems integrators and a network of smaller national partners in Germany, Israel, Sweden and other EMEA countries.This was avhieved through direct approaches to senior executives in target organisations, networking and attending international conferences/exhibitions as well as using government business support organisations in the UK and overseas to facilitate introductions through market research.

Nottingham, United Kingdom

TecQuipment is a leading supplier of technical training equipment for the engineering sector. Its clients include engineering faculties in universities as well as public and private sector organisations in the manufacturing, aerospace, automotive, oil and gas and defence sectors.My role was to recruit and manage the distributor and agent base across Europe.Successfully recruited and developed new distributors in the Benelux, Scandinavian and Iberian regions, account managed an existing distributor in Turkey and managed direct sales to various universities throughout Europe.

Responsible for winning large scale (multi million) investment projects and consequent job creation from overseas companies into the UK. This involved building investment cases and selling the UK as a corporate investment/expansion location both directly and through working with partner organisations in a multi stakeholder environment.This involved working at strategic level with senior management in overseas companies to identify and develop new investment opportunities and working with public and private sector partners to ensure that the correct package of business supports are available to ensure success in a globally competitive environment. The partner ecosystem consisted of public funding bodies, universities, industry associations, tax and regulatory authorities, and national and regional economic development agencies.My work directly resulted in multi million pound investments from China, USA, Canada, France typically involving global companies with investment metrics of several million and job creation outputs in the hundreds and thousands

Coalville, Uk

GEMCOM is a Canadian company that sells geological analysis and mine planning software solutions to the mining industry. My role was to win new clients and account manage existing ones in the above territory both individually and through managing a team. I secured new contracts in Egypt, Algeria, Romania, Spain, Portugal and Bosnia, spending around 50% of time overseas.

Birmingham, United Kingdom

Sescoi is a French company that sells CAM and ERP software and technical services to the manufacturing industry. My role was to win sales and lead the UK sales and technical support teams. I also constructed an annual Business Plan, managed indirect sales in Australia and the strategic relationship with HQ in France. My main achievements were in securing prestigious new clients including Rolls Royce and Bentley Motor Cars. I also launched a new ERP system in the UK market, secured initial sales and provided sales training in the new ERP system to the international group as part of the product launch.

Mba, Business And Management

Completed September 2011

Ba, French And History