Director, CEO & Chartered Accountant with 25 years experience:- leadership, staff coaching and innovation,- building businesses from conception to IPO/Trade Sale, - brand management,- costing and cost control,- performance management and revenue generation,- governance in highly volatile market segments,- managing growth through acquisition and organic expansion, - assembling highly skilled teams of expert while maintaining staff churn at below 4%, and- management of software development and general service teams.Computer Scientist with exensive experience in:- taking a bespoke solution from conception to production,- managing and evolving a product over multiple years,- Delphi application development,- distributed semi-connected high demand internet based applications, and - teaching computer science and mentoring developers.Board member with extensive experience in:- Board leadership- Governance and management of the CEO - board relationship- Executive recruitment, remuneration review and performance management- Corporate recovery, turn-around, external administration of troubled entities and successfully "trading out".Specialties: Business Mentoring, Financial & Strategic Management, Organisation Design, Software Engineering, Risk & Compliance Management, Business Leadership, CEO, Business Recovery, Financial Control, Artificial Intelligence, Large Scale Project Management, Process Re-engineering, Research Leadership, Writing & Authoring.