★ Dan Dunleavy ★ Email & Phone Number

London, GB

Provide Management Services to fast-growing companies and provide a vehicle for investment

Investor

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Board member with responsibility for operational management and development of technology-based, Internet travel shopping site. We:- more than doubled organic traffic- more than doubled revenues- doubled talent pool- restructured Finance & Sales- started Marketing function- launched internationalization process- introduced HR/performance management.

- non-executive input to business development of talent profiling and management consultancy- profiling of management talent at all levels

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- principal of European arm of San Jose, CA consultancy company- medium-term investment of time and money in high potential growth companies- preparation of companies for investment, acquisition or floatation- Identified several exceptional companies, including FareCompare.com

Operational responsibility for worldwide Sales.- grew sales $9m to $15m- elucidated/drove new ‘Existing Key Account’ & ‘Target Account’ sales strategies- signed long-term supply agreements with major OEMs- transformed trade shows into nucleus for proactive meetings with targeted customers - broke into target accounts with ’CTO-level’ contacts using.

- Supported Dell global partnership for IT services- Secured first European services contracts for Texas-based IT services company

- Set up first European presence of Silicon Valley start-up- Identified target partners and orchestrated ‘CEO/CTO-level’ introductions

- Set up and ran new Sales Division of 160 covering UK, Germany and France- Lead role in creating European sales organisation, opened 11 subsidiaries in 18 months- Hired 300 staff, up to Director level- Set up and ran European HR Dept, with responsibility for development of 700 staff - Board-level contribution to $500m company, with consistent 50+% annual.

- wrote Microswitch Business Area Market Situation Analysis- restructured Sales department- managed Automotive & Telecoms segments- commercial integration of acquisition

Ran International Sales Agents:- doubled sales in 4 years- doubled geographic coverage- commercial integration of Johnson Matthey company

- supported overseas subsidiaries technically and commercially- specialist for Spain

- Support of overseas Sales Agents

- doubled sales in 12 months- won Enthusiasm Award at first Sales Conference

Mba, Management

Activities and Societies: Representative to Board of Studies - Scholarship from Torday and Carlisle PLC

Diplom De Langue Francaise, French

- Rotary Club Scholarship

Bsc, Engineering

- Scholarship from British Rail

A Levels: Maths, Further Maths, Physics