UK Innovative Tech Leaders is a community of Senior IT Leaders from across the UK created and governed by IT Leaders for peers only and is not open to vendors, service providers or sales people. There are also three regional groups, Northern, Midlands and Southern IT Leaders.We offer a unique alternative to other networking groups and forums as we are focused on helping each other, helping the people we work or contract for and through our charity support, helping those in need.With over 1000 in the network and growing every day we are building also a powerful thought leadership and Influencer community.The group also enables members who wish to the option to securely and privately communicate with each other to share knowledge and discuss challenges, issues, opportunities, products and partners in a closed forum.

UN Women works to make gender equality a reality in every way: from grassroots programmes with the most vulnerable women and girls, to changing attitudes, and helping governments design gender-equal policy. Honoured to be a Company Member from September 2021.

Northern Innovative Tech Leaders is a community of Senior IT Leaders from across the North of the UK including Scotland and Northern Ireland, created and governed by IT Leaders for peers only and is not open to vendors, service providers or sales people. Part of UK IT Leaders Group, one of three regional groups, Northern, Midlands and Southern.We offer a unique alternative to other networking groups and forums as we are focused on helping each other, helping the people we work or contract for and through our charity support, helping those in need.With over 1000 in the network and growing every day, we are building a powerful thought leadership and Influencer community. The group also enables members who wish to, the option to securely and privately communicate with each other to share knowledge and discuss challenges, issues, opportunities, products and partners in a secure, closed forum.

Changing the world through kindness - Every week, 52 Lives helps to change someone's life. We choose someone somewhere in the world in need of help, share their story on our website and social media, and request what that person needs. Our kind supporters then spread the word, offer help if they can, and we change that person's life - and inspire millions more who read about our stories of kindness. 52 Lives also works with thousands of children every year as part of our School Kindness Project. Each week, we visit a different school to run Kindness Workshops. These workshops aim to empower children by helping them realise that the little choices they make every day can make a big difference to the world.Honoured to be a trustee and part of the mission to inspire people to be kind.

Sales Filter provides trusted peer environments to share knowledge and innovation including free private App's and virtual events for peer discussions, all with strictly no sales idiots or sales nonsense.

I enjoyed a great year at Trustmarque where I was responsible for creating and executing a Cloud and hosting strategy that accelerated the growth of Trustmarque’s Cloud business. Personally led the development of the company’s Cloud, Managed Service and SaaS market propositions, increasing both their breadth and depth. Successful propositions creating in year include the Cloud Usage & Risk Analysis (CURA) and Office365 Readiness Assessment.

I sat on the board of The Bunker with Executive responsibility for Sales and Marketing strategy, branding and go to market positioning. Created the Ultra Secure Cloud strategy and brand and led the team "hands-on" to retain and grow the current customer base and delivered rapid success through implementing a sector focused new business sales campaign combined with a channel programme.

Promoted to Sales and Marketing Director for both Servo and ICM and I led the rebranding to a single end user business "ICM" combining the Cloud and hosting services with Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery to provide a single customer view. Launched on 1st April 2011 to trade under the ICM name and brand, with an annual turnover exceeding £160m and Operating Profit of £24m.Rationalised and combined the two separate Sales & Marketing teams into a single team and continued to deliver contractual services growth delivering an increase of £9.7 million at the half year, largely on the back of the growth in Cloud and hosting.

Joined Phoenix IT Group as the Sales and Marketing Director for Servo, creating and executing a strategy that transformed the team of 50 to deliver contractual services wins in the Cloud, hosting and Managed Services arenas.Full year results included significant growth in contractual services driven by new business wins delivering an increase of £19.3 million in my first year.

Started campaigns from scratch and built and managed teams delivering significant new IT Managed Service and Solution wins across multiple business sectors.Contract wins included £100 million with a Global Oil company, £35 million with a Global Outsourcer and £10 million with a UK Outsourcer.

Started by restructuring a City new business sales team and delivering growth from scratch which led led to building a team to target and win Strategic Client campaigns.Contract wins included £10 million with a large UK Outsourcer, £4 million with a Global Outsourcer and £1 million with an Investment Bank.

Took failing sales teams in both UK and USA at small VC backed CRM Software Company and rebuilt into a business sector focused, solution led sales force. Delivered significant growth across new and current Clients including new Software Solution wins of £500k with a Global Car Hire company, £400k with a UK Services company and £400k with a UK Insurance company.

Built and led an EMEA business sector sales team selling high value software solutions based around the Kewill.net electronic trading portal. Designed and implemented a new value based solution selling methodology which delivered high growth during the year of the dot com crash, including £1 million with an EMEA high street Retailer.

Started in new business sales, achievements included Top 3 salesperson and "Rookie of year".Promotions led to Strategic Business Unit Director role leading team targeting high value new Clients across multiple sectors including £10 million contract win with a large UK high street Retailer.

Joined as one of first salespeople and was consistently the top sales performer with significant success in retail sector, culminating in a £1.2 million pa IT Outsourcing win with a large UK Supermarket chain. Business sold to GE Capital IT Solutions shortly after this win