Founded a healthcare business start-up specialising in surgical gloves, formed as a management break-out from Mölnlycke, after securing £1m of venture capital funding from Mercia Ventures and DBW investment funds following the development of a comprehensive business plan. Oversaw the start-up, development and growth of the business, taking a lead role across multiple disciplines while managing senior executives in support of a heavily outsourced business model. Key achievements have included: • Securing $2bn of private equity funding in 2022 in support of an attempt to acquire the surgical division of a major, international healthcare business. • Securing highly prized NHS Supply Chain nationwide framework contracts in 2016, 2020 and 2022 after developing a surgical glove product range from scratch, overseeing product development, clinical evaluation, packaging design and manufacture, all supported by a strong-brand ethos on product efficiency and cost saving with improved clinical outcomes, resulting in sales of over 56 million gloves across the NHS. • Developing effective supply-chain partnerships with strategic manufacturing partners in Malaysia, Indonesia and China, capable of delivering products with key performance advantages at reduced costs.• Engineering strategic partnerships with Bunzl Healthcare and DCC / Squadron Healthcare, extending to provision of warehousing, order processing and logistics support together with further investments in stock.• Development of exceptional levels of brand awareness in a limited timescale as a result of unique and clear positioning, an effective marketing strategy and generation of significant press coverage, including adoption by the Royal College of Surgeons as a result of displacing the dominant, market-leading product from a 30 year relationship.

Reporting to the Managing Partner, supporting a 20-strong team of accountancy professionals to provide a boutique accountancy service to clients across North West England, advising clients on strategic planning, R&D strategies and investment readiness. Key achievements have included:• Supporting clients to claim in excess of £2m in R&D Tax Credits from HMRC, with not a single claim under management challenged or disputed, undertaking a formulaic approach.• Provided strategic reviews of businesses across a wide range of industrial sectors.• Supported the sale of corporate advisory services via the identification of strategic gaps in client businesses necessitating remedy in order for investment readiness, ranging from commercial and wider business strategy to guidance on the implementation of ISO9001.• Assisted the marketing team with the development of key communications and marketing assets spanning social media, websites and vlogs.

Reporting directly to the Managing Director, held responsibility for the strategic management of the Technical Fibre Products global business, with direct responsibility for EMEA sales, marketing, customer service and commercial leadership of new product development. • Developed the company’s first comprehensive ‘5 Year Global Strategic Plan’, comprising market opportunity identification, competitive landscape appraisal, diversification and geographic expansion strategy, sales channel optimisation, organisational structure overhaul, new product development matrix and sales evolution waterfall.• Exited the previous distributor-based sales model leading to significant growth in sales revenue and EBITDA via focus in Medical, Automotive, Aerospace and Defence business segments, revised positioning and identification and exploitation of key competitive advantages.• Re-branded the company as TFP, overseeing the generation of new marketing tools across a host of platforms, to clearly and effectively convey core brand values, targeting improved market penetration.• Delivered effective commercial leadership via implemention of Stage-Gate project management and the generation of a comprehensive 5-year NPD plan.

Held responsibility for the strategic management of the global research program and research budget of the surgical glove business unit within Molnlycke Health Care.Key achievements included:• Restructured the research team at Molnlycke Health Care, resulting in the reduction of development timescales by 50% and the delivery of 12 new products in three years.• Led the retraining of the global sales team, focussed on developing knowledge excellence in finite technical areas representing competitive advantages within the surgical glove category.• Fostered research partnerships with external centres of technical excellence, reducing development costs via the use of flexible resource, capitalisation of UK tax rebates on research and the successful capture of government grants for investment in research.• Developed new sales tools for the Biogel Indicator range of surgical gloves, utilising colour physics to convey competitive advantages. • Led the business into new sales channels in non-surgical markets, capitalising on over 7 years of retail sales experience.Awards:• 2009: President's Award (Employee of the Year Award) - best example of overall leadership and dedication within the business.• 2008: Teamwork Award - best example of a group working together to accomplish a single, focused task.

Reporting to the Business Unit Director, Surgical Gloves, oversaw day-to-day management of the Project Management Team.Achievements included:• Co-established online competitive product performance matrix, equipping Sales Team with an effective sales tool to highlight product competitive advantages to customers.• Devised / responsible for patent applications in the following key areas: reduced cuff roll-down, enhanced surface grip, puncture resistance, puncture indication.

Reporting to the Research & Development Director, oversaw day-to-day management of a wide number of research projects focussed on the development of a range of surgical medical devices from conceptual design to manufacture.Key achievements included:• Developed, validated and delivered new manufacturing process based at the manufacturing site in Kulim, Malaysia, facilitating range of new surgical glove products.

Reporting to the Technical Director, oversaw research and development of new products and engineering solutions in accordance with strategic sales targets.Key achievements included:• Designed, engineered and delivered innovative high performance combat textile for Canadian Department of Defence and UK MOD.• Developed a novel, ultra-high abrasion resistant coating in partnership with a multinational technical materials company. Patent filed January 2004.• Successfully co-ordinated commercialisation of a new textile dyeing process technology, developed in 2001, with a multi-national chemical company.

Reporting to the New Product Development Manager, held responsibility for the development of novel innovative technologies with respect to new product development and improved process efficiency. Key achievements included:• Developed a new dyeing process technology, allowing reductions of dye quantities used in processing in the order of 50%. Patent application filed July 2002.

Reporting to the Technical Director, oversaw transfer of new products from development to bulk production and the development of specific surface coating formulations.