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A highly capable CEO with extensive permanent, interim and consulting experience. A successful track record of improving performance, turnarounds, acquisitions, and disposals across both traditional and digital sectors in FTSE Plc’s and private equity owned companies.Knowledge and skills to develop and implement new profitable business strategies. A proven record of delivering improved performance, establishing strong teams with reliable managerial controls, and leading and embedding large-scale change. Strengths in a range of disciplines including strategy, online and digital marketing, finance, and IT. Experience of numerous B2B, B2C acquisitions, carve outs, and disposals.Strong leadership of boards, management, and project teams, to carve out businesses for disposal, enhance profitability and grow sales, and to restructure and rationalise operations.* Managed single organisations with revenues up to £220m, and portfolio companies with collective sales of £145m* Developed and implemented a turnaround plan, leading to the successful sale of a luxury consumer brand * Integrated and improved the performance of more than eight acquisitions and managed four divestments, including work with private equity investors* Managed turnaround, carve out from plc and sale process of business services company* Built strategies and led boards through restructuring, cash constraints, and digitally orientated growth* Turned a number of plc and private equity businesses to profit whilst growing sales, including a number of online retailers for example Kitbag, where revenue grew from £20m to £50m over 3 years* Doubled profits at several companies including schools supplier, Findel Education (£27.5m) and home shopping business Kleeneze (£7m)* Managed projects to improve operational performance, reduce costs, and to implement new ERP systems in organisations in the UK and Europe* Experienced in the United Kingdom, Europe, Asia and the USA.

Listed skills include Business Strategy, Change Management, Management, Strategy, and 30 others.