Indigo Verve provides business advice, support and coaching to start-ups, small businesses and Social Enterprise. We offer a pragmatic assessment to identify the priority business issues to address. We deliver coaching and training to improve business and leadership skills that give clarity and focus in how to run a profitable business and achieve success. Gary is supporting as a mentor and sounding board to the Managing Director through the start-up phase of Indigo Verve.

Advanced Medical Solutions is a £60 million turnover, UK based company developing and providing leading edge technology to the global wound care market. This was a new role to develop and implement NPD and Programme Management processes as a leadership team member of the OEM business unit.- Delivered improvements to the NPD and Programme Management processes

Go Wisely was a third sector organisation that's aim was to provide sustainable transport and travel solutions, raise awareness of issues, remove barriers and promote independence for vulnerable people. - Performed market opportunity assessment- Identified and mediated strategic differences between owners resulting in amicable agreement to dissolve the business

Programme managed medical/pharmaceutical technology development and product scale-up projects. Responsible for programme budgets in excess of £10m with global teams of 50 – 100 staff. Accountable for all aspects of projects: scoping, cost, schedule, resourcing, regulatory, technical activities, quality, manufacturing, risk and customer management. Product management responsibility for device range, including technical business development. Additionally asked to turnaround a failing technology development project.Headline programme was a medical device scale-up programme critical to the division’s primary strategic new product.• Identified optimum approach to deliver solution meeting constraints, negotiated trade-offs with senior management and secured buy-in to scale-up strategy• Led technical business development activities, developed and delivered successful business proposals winning significant new business• Aligned stakeholders to secure tooling and manufacturing line investment from 3M global board• Handed full implementation plan over to manufacturing on time and budget and meeting all performance, cost and regulatory constraints

Change agent in staff group with responsibility for: driving growth, broadening culture of innovation, coaching and training staff and providing commercialisation and project management expertise for business critical new products. • Increased value of New Product Pipeline, raising 3M UK’s credibility in the global business• Delivered a positive change in behaviour around the identification, development and launch of new products• Developed dashboard and processes used by 3M UK board to track New Product Pipeline• Led development of a pragmatic, streamlined training programme covering technical and marketing aspects of New Product Introduction (NPI).• Leadership team member for one of 3M UK businesses ($30m turnover), responsible for driving new product growth and portfolio management

Responsible for driving successful commercialisation for New Products across all 3M UK businesses. New Product Introduction (NPI) expert supporting a diverse range of product/technology development opportunities (across sectors including: Health Care, Safety, Security, Consumer, Transportation, Automotive, Electronics)• Applied DfSS, DMAIC, Lean & Agile methodologies.• Acted as coach and mentor for New Product Development and Introduction teams to deliver competitive advantage and superior customer value.• Developed and delivered NPI training to the technical and business community.Technical Project Leader for the development of safer road signage. Provided technical and quality oversight for the project and coached the project team in product development & introduction.• Led product from concept to launch in 10 months

Programme managed a range of technology development projects. Led strategic marketing programme to establish future business strategy. Product management responsibility for inhalation hardware technologies and services.• Led global R&D projects for novel drug delivery hardware to generate $multi-million R&D sales and significant intellectual property• Championed technology strategy and influenced senior stakeholders to secure funding for the design and development of the 3M “Dose by Dose” Counter – launched in 2010 on a major US product• Led strategic marketing programme confirming divisions future direction for Metered Dose Inhalers.• Presented 3M’s technologies to pharmaceutical companies and through papers at EU/US conferences• Identified acquisition opportunities and led projects to assess 3rd party medical device technologies • Inventor on 4 patents for inhalation hardware• Utilised Agile product development methods to reduce development cycle times by up to 75%