Jolyon Platts B.Eng Mba Email & Phone Number

West End, Gb

Developing business opportunities for the new Pro10 retail headset communication solution and Pro9 drive thru solution directly to customers and through selected re-sellers across EMEA. Also developing connected head office solutions for the Pro10 creating new in-store services allowing retail head offices to connect live to shop floor colleagues and deliver key messages enabling the store to operate much more efficiently.

Co Founder and Director of Collectec who are a UK solutions company focused on providing the latest innovations, experience and technology to bring the digital & the physical worlds together seamlessly in a Click & Collect service customer love to use.Having previously designed and developed Tesco's and Asda's Click & Collect systems we set up Collectec and set about designing a specific solution for Click & Collect. We specified the architecture of our solution and the software requirements. We designed our hardware and had it manufactured. Having covered this ground we then very successfully piloted our solution. We have continued to develop our solution adding a beacon triggered alert for collecting customers. We are working with retailers to implement our solution, and exciting process. there are a lot of areas our solution can expand into in the future to maximise our value to our customers.

Saint Thibault Des Vignes, Fr

Responsible for operating and building the UK business, with P&L responsibility, specialising in peripheral restaurant systems. Acrelec provide hardware and software solutions for self service kiosks, drive thru customer order displays and associated in-store systems, Digital Menu Board systems etc. to McDonalds, KFC, Subway, Pret A Manger, Whitbread. Lead the customer development of new products with software and hardware development teams in France and Bucharest developing innovative valuable features. Managed international customer projects and represented the business at international level.Envisioned, developed and sold the first grocery drive thru Click & Collect solutions in the UK for Tesco. Lead the development, design and customisation of the second grocery in-store and drive thru Click & Collect solution for Asda.Sold concepts and hosted customer consultancy/discovery days in Paris to establish the customers requirements and to start the design process for a suitable solution and establish the Click & Collect projects and teams. Managed the piloting, introduction and deployment of grocery Click & Collect solution into the field.

Montvale, Nj, Us

As Divisional Manager I was operationally responsible for a number of business areas within Sharp with P&L responsibility and managing teams in Business Planning, Sales and Marketing in each business area. I negotiated business plans in Japan and consulted on new product development from market inputs and set up and managed operational budgets. I controlled the sales and purchasing processes and regularly met with distribution partners.Managed Businesses: Electronic Cash Registers/ Electronic Point Of Sale-EPOS (software & hardware) - DistributionSmall Printers (including Ink business) - DistributionScientific Calculator - RetailFax - Distribution

Montvale, Nj, Us

General manager of the ECR EPOS department. P/L, Business Planning, Sales & Marketing responsibility. Negotiated business plans in Japan. Specified new product development from market input. Negotiated budgets. Developed costed plan for internal software development.

Newark, Nj, Us

Business Planning, P&L responsibility, EPOS Software enhancement for UK market, Specifying EPOS software and hardware development, Inventory Control, Key Account Management, Sales Management. McDonalds key account responsibility, sold £9 million on EPOS refresh. Started new business channel for Direct Business. Managed EPOS reseller channel and sales. Negotiated business plans in Japan. Specified new product development from market input.

Pointe-Claire, Quebec, Ca

Responsible for trading electronic components to the US and Canadian markets

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Business/Commerce, General

B. Eng (Hons), Mechanical Eng