A successful entrepreneur, business manager, coach and mentor with a long track record of leading and developing companies through organic growth, mergers, acquisition and sales.Non-executive Director experience at a number of levels in differing businesses. Investments in a variety of companies. Has conducted a number of successful company turnarounds and is known as being particularly realistic and pragmatic.A tenacious leader who looks at a set of problems, clears the noise around them and focuses on what the real issues are to deliver rapid and sustainable profit and growth. Well versed in M&A's of businesses from different cultures.John is the founder of Axiom Two which supports entrepreneurs and business managers in keeping the companies that they run efficient and sustainable, improves their personal work life balance and helps them get their businesses back on track when things go wrong.He began with a number of years of sales and senior management experience in the Corporate IT world specialising in financial markets. He lead a start up systems business with partners from the front room of a house growing it to becoming a major supplier of solutions to the retail and hospitality sector. After a restructure he took that business private and created a wider independent software and services group before selling this company to a European based provider of IT solutions. He worked to develop that business internationally before merging it with a Swedish systems company. In January 2020 John published his book about entrepreneurship "Against the Odds" which is unique amongst business guides in discussing and promoting honest self judgement and realistic thinking as the precursor to business success.He now uses his experience to help businesses large and small transform their fortunes.