My Search Fund seeks to acquire a successful family-owned light-manufacturing technology SME (UK), preferably supplying products for the low-carbon or environmental sectors, with international market potential. Novastone Capital Advisors (NCA) provides an Entrepreneur through Acquisition (ETA) program that connects investors with talented entrepreneurs who are looking to locate, acquire, manage, and grow a privately held company, via a Search Fund.

A new MD role created to manage the merger and integration of recent acquisitions (Videalert and Vortex) to form Marston's new Technology division, and deliver significant growth. Marston Holdings is a PE-owned £300m revenue business spanning town planning consultancy, parking enforcement and debt recovery. Videalert provides market-leading CCTV-based software technology for moving traffic enforcement and low-emission zones, Vortex designs and manufactures air quality monitoring sensor instruments.

• Full operational leadership of a growing £24m turnover, 120 FTE, world-leading electrochemical gas sensor manufacturing business, supplying Health & Safety and Air Quality monitoring markets. Successful management of revenue growth from £11m (FY16) - £24m (FY22): 85% export, 26% EBITDA.• Board of Directors’ Responsibilities: Overall Business Strategy, P&L, £5m Purchasing/Supply Chain, £700k Capex Budget, Legal Contracts, New Business/Start-up Investment Board seats. • Management responsibility for a UK production facility, leading and motivating a team of 89 staff, manufacturing 100,000 sensors per month. Close relationship with R&D scientists.• Operational Responsibilities: Master Planning Scheduling, KPIs and Quality Management Systems (ISO9001:2015), implemented O365 and Sage X3 ERP systema, HR and Recruitment (60 staff recruited in 4yrs), New Product Introduction, Business Continuity Planning.• Leadership of LEAN/6Sigma program, delivering 26% production efficiency improvement in 1 year.Dec 2020-Nov 2021 – DEAL TEAM LEAD (M&A) Alphasense Ltd. (UK)• Leadership of Alphasense’s management team during its sale for in Nov ’21.• Participation in all investor meetings/calls (commercial, operations, finance, technical) with 12 potential buyers (trade and PE) throughout the 3-month sale process.• Full ownership of data room, investor Q&A, warranty schedules for SPA.• Developed a new 5-year business plan with KPMG, inc. full review of all departments, restructure of Sales & Marketing, renewed R&D pipeline strategy, creation of detailed 5-year P&L and cashflow forecast model, introduction of new O365 and ERP software, ABC/CCO/GDPR alignment.• Creation of Alphasense sale prospectus (Information Memorandum) with KPMG.Alphasense supplies high quality Oxygen, CO2, toxic and flammable Gas sensors to many of the world’s leading industrial OEMs.

• Board seat, representing Alphasense Ltd. (40% shareholder).• Corporate Governance, commercial growth strategy, operational support, investor pitches.South Coast Science designs and manufactures Air Quality monitors with IoT connectivity.

Overall accountability of UK manufacturing business and European Sales:• Continual commercial and operational responsibility of UK based location and business.• Leading the merger between Payton and Himag Solutions – January 2013 to April 2014.• VP European Sales and Marketing for circa $10M European Group sales, managing output from UK, Chinese, US and Middle-East manufacturing locations.

Managing Director with broad accountabilities covering commercial, operational, financial, quality, supply chain, HR, investment and legal positions. Took over control of this small business after it went into administration in 2005:• Operations: Full P&L, cashflow and capex responsibility. Complete overhaul of company processes, inc. quality management systems, manufacturing efficiency, creation of low-cost supply chain, and adding off-shore (China) subcontract manufacturing in 2011.• Business Development: Created and implemented a worldwide marketing strategy taking Himag’s innovative new technology in to world-wide multi-billion $ blue chip companies, inc. Alcatel-Lucent, GE, Renault, Foxconn, Emerson, Thales, Jabil and Exide.• Investment & Grants: Personally secured an investment package of up to $5.25mln in 2011 from an NYSE-listed investor; managed sale of business in 2013. Also responsible for recouping £150k R&D Tax Credits from HMRC and a £157k Govt. ‘Grant for R&D’.

Full responsibility running a property development business.

Manager of high-volume City locations. Customer-service management training program.

Full responsibility for Resort Management in a high-pressure customer service environment.

Graduate Trainee Patent Attorney to the Senior Partner of the UK's largest private-practice patent law firm.

Graduate assistant to Director of Strategy in the Investment Management Division. Risk management investigations, running of model portfolios and data analysis.