Producing ready to eat vegetables and salads for Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand. We offer a bespoke service for hotels and restaurants with a comprehensive range for retail outlets.

Business Strategy & DevelopmentBusiness ConsultingProduct SourcingProject ManagementMentoring & TrainingReal Estate SearchExecutive SearchCurrently sourcing and consulting on various projects across Australasia:Introduced an on-line vegetable business, delivering direct from Farm to homes in Malaysia, now expanding to restaurants and small businesses. Developed a range of ready to eat and ready to cook products for Malaysia retail businesses and the on-line platform. Implemented a sales planning session to a farming business to enable the sales force to grow sales and create and aligned business. Advised a Thai retail company to develop a new retail format including; design, ranging, sourcing and operations. Developed and implemented a Supply Chain strategy to manage the growing pains and allow more to be done from the same space by improving productivity, reducing inventory, and designing and building a new Distribution centre along with leaving a strategy of the future.Consulting with a large retailer on supply chain strategy and focus. Developing tools to improve demand planning and forecasting.Developed the logistics plan for worldwide distribution of Air Purifiers to improve the quality of Air in peoples homes. Implemented the plan in Malaysia.Providing search and real estate funding for international investment fund.Providing people and recruitment searches for many businesses across Asia from Board level to Management.

Leading AVT logistics and Developing the Supply Chain for the Veyseloglu group of companies. Delivering significant change for the 12,000 customers and 3000 retail stores provided for in Azerbaijan to improve service and reduce costs.

Leading a team of 8,500 people to deliver great service in 150 hypermarkets, whilst improving availability through developing the ordering systems and improving efficiency in the 5 Distribution centres across Malaysia. Providing leadership and coaching to the whole team, actively involved in industry and working with Government departments to deliver a strategic shift in thinking for government to see the benefits of modern retail. Significant achievementsLed a team of retail staff to change culture to have customer at the heart of what we do. Led a savings plan to deliver 10% reduction in costs per yearDeveloped and implemented cost neutral distribution for retailDesigned, developed and implemented a 113,000 square foot fresh & frozen distribution centre Coached a team of future supply chain leaders A rare breed of operational excellence, Customer focus and cost management.

TESCO LOTUS THAILAND 2009 – 2012 Tesco Lotus in Thailand is one of the largest markets outside the UK with more than 50,000 employees in 1500 Hypermarket to Convenience multi format stores from with annual revenue of 3740m GBP achieving 14% market share making it the largest modern trade retailer Supply Chain Director (SVP) The role reported to the COO and was accountable for the availability of our customer offer to achieve the sales targets 3740 GBP per year for 55,000 products in all 1500 stores. My team of 12 direct reports controlled ‘open to buy’ collaborated with vendors, HM customs, internal marketing and buying functions to provide operational savings, planning and forecasting visibility for both strategic network capacity and daily capability planning for logistics centers and stores. • Led multi-cultural team to deliver 17% sales growth each year for 3 years from new store openings and improvements in range, availability and execution• Reduced known loss in-store by 7m GBP per year by developing and implementing central ordering. • Improved availability by 9% to 98% across all 55,000 products by developing effective management of stock and flow.• Reduced capital spend on inventory by 19% releasing 21mGBP back into business• Grew fresh food sales by 21% by implementing affordable ranges into all stores based on customer and store dynamics• Saved 14% of transport costs by developing and implementing reduced delivery frequency saving 11m GBP per year• Developed 29 local leaders to be promoted to management positions• Led the business through the flood crisis in Thailand where 20% of stores, 30% of suppliers and all our logistics centers were under water.• As Chairman of ECR Thailand (Efficient consumer response industry body of all retailers and suppliers) implemented a 5 part strategy to grow sales and reduce cost for the industry

Supply Chain & Logistics Director CR/SR 2006 – 2009 The role was a country executive board position reporting to the CEO and was fully accountable for the profit and loss of the logistics and supply chain functions; capital (70m GBP) and revenue (120m GBP per year) spend and recovery of logistics income in both countries. Providing strong leadership for a team of 2,500 people through 10 direct reports and building sustainable relationships with suppliers, and 3rd party providers and our own internal retail and commercial businesses. • Wrote and implemented the strategy that opened 5 new distribution centers and closed inefficient ones achieving a 50% reduction in the cost of logistics. • Integrated Edeka and Carrefour businesses seamlessly into the supply chain as part of the Merger team (M&A) doubling the size of the business and reducing costs.• Developed and implemented a logistics income stream to support future investment and make internal logistics a profit center • Initiated and implemented a step change plan on fruit and vegetables which grew sales by 14% with central ranging and ordering making the change sustainable• Introduced an automated ordering system for all stores improving availability by 6% to 98%• Freed up 12m GBP cash flow through stock reduction and clearing aged stock• Provided leadership for 2,500 people and introduced succession planning to have complete local team in place when my assignment ended.

Food Supply Director 2000 – 2009 The role reported to the Supply Chain Director and was positioned in the top 200 leaders of Tesco PLC and was accountable for Inventory and availability of 29,000 food products in the Tesco business with revenue of 36Bn GBP per year. I developed and led a team of 200 people led the development of the automatic ordering systems and collaboration with vendors to deliver 30m cases of stock per week and negotiations on Tesco vendor collection service including the planning of 32 distribution centers workload for a 7 day 24 hour operation.• Spearheaded automatic ordering saving 39m GBP retail payroll and 12m GBP on retail loss with a 4% improvement in availability to 97% & improving customer satisfaction.• Developed tools to collaborate with 4000 Vendors resulting in combined savings of 17m GBP from productivity, storage overheads and customer availability improvement.• Generated primary income model to allow Tesco to collect from vendors saving Tesco and the industry 90m GBP per year • Created a sophisticated central booking team for all 32 logistics centers that managed workload resulting in a single point of contact and 4m GBP per year savings• Developed a sustained team of future leaders from an in-house education system that saw 28 executives becoming managers or leaders each year.• Launched ‘Crisis’ process to deal with country problems such as lack of fuel or “foot and mouth’ ensure Tesco voice was heard with industry and government. • Appointed by my peers as Chairman of ECR Europe to lead industry to the right changes for the consumer.