John Weaver Email & Phone Number

United Kingdom

Weaver Franz is an international Board Advisory and Management Consultancy business. Under this brand I have pursued a portfolio of projects with Boards, Private Equity and HNWs while discussing CEO roles. These projects have leveraged my strategic, commercial, value creation and leadership development skills, both in the UK and overseas. Much of my work is confidential. Highlights include:• Conflict resolution programme with confidential digital services Board transforming… Show more Weaver Franz is an international Board Advisory and Management Consultancy business. Under this brand I have pursued a portfolio of projects with Boards, Private Equity and HNWs while discussing CEO roles. These projects have leveraged my strategic, commercial, value creation and leadership development skills, both in the UK and overseas. Much of my work is confidential. Highlights include:• Conflict resolution programme with confidential digital services Board transforming relationships between the founder and new investor directors• Delivered consultancy and due diligence support on HNW’s start-up portfolio (including digital payments and residential property)• Worked with several PE firms, delivering strategic and commercial due diligence leading to rejection of overvalued potential acquisitions in the UK and Benelux regions• Managed the orderly wind down of a family business, disposing of an industrial property portfolio, with a value creation of 2.2X• Interim CEO appointed to refinance and restructure a consumer goods firm raising new finance• Non-Executive Director of a Health and Wellness product distributor Show less

Identified this Dutch-owned UK subsidiary as an attractive acquisition. For over a decade I delivered growth in revenue and margin, organically and then through a secondary acquisition. This made it the largest health and wellness distributor in the UK & Ireland. It carried 10,000 products and employed more than 300 people on multiple sites. Selected Achievements:• Adding 50% to revenue then more than doubling the original figure by acquisition of a competitor• Growing… Show more Identified this Dutch-owned UK subsidiary as an attractive acquisition. For over a decade I delivered growth in revenue and margin, organically and then through a secondary acquisition. This made it the largest health and wellness distributor in the UK & Ireland. It carried 10,000 products and employed more than 300 people on multiple sites. Selected Achievements:• Adding 50% to revenue then more than doubling the original figure by acquisition of a competitor• Growing EBITDA by 5X• Increasing market share of the UK’s leading health and wellness distributor from 19% to 30% with a single acquisition• Stripping out cost to drive value creation:o Paying off the cost of the first acquisition by negotiating a sale and lease-back of the freehold warehouse and office propertyo Reducing overall logistics costs from 6% of net revenue to 2% by removing 85% of owned fleet costs, moving to an outsourced model and optimising delivery modalitieso Saving on core-business warehouses, consolidating five warehouses into just two• Adding around a healthy eight figure sum in online and multiple retail sales (Amazon, Whole Foods Markets, Tesco, Asda, Morrison’s, Ocado), including:o Launching the firm’s presence on Amazon:o Growing income from zero to eight figureso Listing 5,500 items on the world’s major ecommerce siteo Negotiating with the Texas-based leaders of Whole Foods Markets, a world leader in organic food retail:o Winning the initial UK anchor distributor contract worth to supply virtually all Tree of Life’s lineso Trebling the size of the account during my tenure• Identifying and integrating a major acquisition, saving cost through supply chain rationalisation• Delivering almost seven figures straight to the bottom line by growing non-trading income (mostly advertising) by 900%• De-risking the firm by replacing a legacy ERP programme, managing the change, using the same system as Majestic Wine and repaying the investment in two years Show less

Identified this premium FMCG distributor as a potential MBO target, turned the business around from a break-even position, helped the owner achieve an exit and became a shareholder and COO as part of an MBO whilst increasing EBITDA ten-fold.Selected Achievements:• Grew revenue by around 80% and EBITDA by 10X• Led executive team in MBO, acquired and exited shareholding• Delivered several million pounds of incremental revenue in Tesco, Asda, Sainsbury, Morrison’s… Show more Identified this premium FMCG distributor as a potential MBO target, turned the business around from a break-even position, helped the owner achieve an exit and became a shareholder and COO as part of an MBO whilst increasing EBITDA ten-fold.Selected Achievements:• Grew revenue by around 80% and EBITDA by 10X• Led executive team in MBO, acquired and exited shareholding• Delivered several million pounds of incremental revenue in Tesco, Asda, Sainsbury, Morrison’s, Waitrose and Coop• Grew international markets by 50% in Singapore, Thailand, Taiwan, Malaysia, Hong Kong• Worked with the Department for International Trade to establish a presence in China• Grew Weight Watchers brand from a token sum to eight figure revenue through licensing and consolidated distribution agreements (negotiated contract packing partnership with Bonne Maman having won conserves licence from Premier Foods)• Negotiated multi-million pounds distribution rights with more than 20 UK and international brands including Nestlé Suisse’s leading confectionery brand Cailler, Lavazza, Patak’s, Amoy, Sacla, Walkers and Canderel Show less

Berlin, Germany

FMCG supply chain optimisation, business strategy and change management consultancy.• Led change management project with 70 workgroups on merger of two global tobacco companies• Produced strategic supply chain review on merger of two global FMCG manufacturers• Created and delivered Supply Chain Optimisation training for global hygiene products manufacturer

Hamburg, Germany

Exclusive distributor for German region of Budweiser, Sol, Bass and Whitbread products

Berlin, Germany

Munich, Germany

Mba, Business Administration

Part-time MBA course in Paris, Oxford, Berlin

Ba Hons, Anglistik, Germanistik

Bachelor Of Arts, German Studies With Russian, 2.1