An engaging and exciting non-executive "grey-beard" role, alongside excellent colleagues, on familiar turf. Oversight responsibility for sound practice, good governance and safeguarding our corporate culture of integrity. Additionally shouldering strategic and executive responsibilities for the successful selection and implementation of leading-edge process technologies.

A hands-on, 100-day, business-development role. Tuning the structures and providing appropriate leadership (after the unplanned departure of the founder) to ensure this promising niche company was suitably primed to recover, scale and thrive.

Various roles notably 4+ years of behind the scenes strategic and commercial support to the Vancouver based CEO of an international tech company. Areas of work included acquisition support, hiring, executive coaching and boosting the sales success of the UK division.

Enforced career break due to 12 month non-compete. Fulfilled an ambition to commission, project manage and install a 80Kw/h a day power-generating waterwheel at home to meet all domestic electricity requirements with surplus to spare.

Board Director (alongside COO, CTO, CEO and CFO) of the European Business. Buck-stop responsibility for all marketing and sales in the core markets (FR, CH, UK, DE, AT, NL and BE) and for future European expansion under the RingGo, ParkNow, Park-Line, Spacehopper and Parkmobile brands. Above target rates of 31% year on year volume growth achieved.

Founder and commercial driving force of the company behind the RingGo parking app. Bootstrapped from a hired portakabin, Cobalt was developed, largely by my force of will, into a profitable and fast-growing company specialising in secure 24x7 automated transaction handling. A pivot towards parking in 2005 created the parking payments product RingGo. It is today the UK's leading phone parking brand with 100m transactions a year and over 18 million registered users. Responsible for passion, evangelism, culture, front-of-house, business development, sparkle, strategy and drive.

A formative time learning the ropes of being an effective change agent in the financial services side of the business. In particular how to drive business transformation and pare-down a flabby business to restore profitability

3 inspiring years playing a modest part in the white-hot telecommunications revolution of the 1990's. Essentially, laying the foundations for the digital revolution that has followed since.

Commissioned officer in the Royal Engineers. Unique and invaluable leadership and learning experiences in the Falklands, Cold-War West Germany, Austria and Italy. Front-line active service leading 47 fellow combatants in Iraq, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia during the build-up, engagement and post-conflict phases of the first Gulf War.