John Watkinson Email & Phone Number

Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom

Letchworth, England, United Kingdom

I am delighted to be working with Innovative Trials co-founders, Kate and Dave, and the Leadership team as they seek to develop and improve this amazing business into an even more effective provider of game-changing patient recruitment strategies for clinical trials being delivered around the globe.

Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

It is great to be working with Alistair, David and the director team at COEL - ensuring that we are clear about our strategy, courageous in our actions, caring about our customers, curious about the future and consistent in our leadership of each other.

St Neots, England, United Kingdom

Working with Managing Director, Ashley Moscrop and his team, to help them to develop, promote and achieve Dufaylite's vision to 'free the world of polystyrene' in all packaging.

Peterborough, England, United Kingdom

After first working with Teemo’s co-founders in the 1990s, I am delighted to now be working with Teemo’s second generation owner and Managing Director, Nick Green, and his team as they continue to create and supply beautiful furniture to leading retailers.

Cambridge/Great Yarmouth

As the Non-Executive Chairman of Swiss Camplings, my priority is to work with the Executive Director team - ensuring an effective board, overseeing the creation and execution of a clear and effective strategy, monitoring key controls, mitigating risk, and encouraging the development of talent at all levels in the business.

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Since retiring as an active Vistage Chair, I was invited to become a Vistage Chair Emeritus in recognition of my performance and service to Vistage and its members over the last fifteen years. In this role, I remain an enthusiastic ambassador for Vistage and would be happy to discuss Vistage with any CEO, MD or future MD looking for challenge, support and.

Fo fifteen years, I challenged and supported over 120 CEOs and MDs through a number of Vistage peer groups. The role was the greatest privilege of my working life and also so humbling to be trusted by so many brilliant and ambitious business owners and leaders to encourage and cajole them to learn, develop and flourish. During the time as a Vistage chair.

Suffolk

After working alongside the CEO and the other family shareholders as a board advisor, I agreed to become their Non-Executive Chairman. This continued our collaboration to drive financial performance; develop governance processes; encourage executive talent; facilitate the transition to the next generation and reduce dependency on the family.

Northamptonshire

Working closely with the Chairman and Managing Director, and often as the sole independent NED, I helped the leadership transition between generations, introduced better governance, actively supported and challenged plans to improve performance and develop the business into new markets and territories.

Huntingdon

After an initial period as a board advisor, I stepped into the role of Non Executive Chairman to support, challenge and guide the EACS board towards and through a successfully executed sale of the business. Now under new ownership, EACS remains an award winning and trusted provider of IT solutions and managed services to a wide range of UK organisations of.

Huntingdon

As a member of the Board and Audit Committee, I monitored and challenged the financial and operational performance of AWS; working alongside the Executive team to question and enhance their tactical and strategic decision-making. OFWAT, the industry regulator, consistently rated AWS as one of the UK’s leading Water and Waste Water Companies for its overall.

London/Liverpool/Norwich

CCS is the UK’s largest procurement organisation within the public sector. During a period of unparalleled change and opportunity within public sector procurement, I actively supported and challenged the Executive team through my work with the Board and Audit Committee.

Having been approached in 2005 to lead a private equity-backed management buy-in, my main focus was to lead, motivate and challenge the business to reach, and then exceed its financial and strategic objectives. As a team, we delivered a 50% increase in EBITDA in the two full years of my tenure – exceeding budgeted levels of cashflow and profitability.

During six years as COO and then CEO, I built a team to re-establish our flagship Regent Street store as a ‘world class retail theatre’, and the development of the Hamleys brand as a distinctive, premium toy brand through the creation of a unique range of high margin, own label products. In parallel, I led the creation and development of the Bear Factory.