Jon Fowler Email & Phone Number

London, Gb

Advisory role for start up's or for those business owners wishing to buy a business or sell their business in the future

London, England, Gb

I was headhunted in to create and execute growth and disposal strategies for a portfolio of businesses. I have led and executed growth strategies for eleven of OCS’s businesses. I have since provided a rapid return from significant losses to significant profits, created a world class leadership team and completed a major growth strategy. We created over £400m in value. In 2018 I was promoted to run the business and industry facilities management business across the UK. This is in addition to my existing Compliance and field based service businesses.My role managed a peak of £175m turnover with significant growth during my tenure.My expertise is in strategy, M&A, integrations, efficiency, and creating growth businesses.

Advising Crown Worldwide Group, a large corporate customer on growth, retention, cross sell and upsell strategies .

Chippenham, Wiltshire, Gb

In 2007 I was appointed to build and expand a £30m autonomous division of Wincanton Plc that provided facilities management type services such as document/information management, scanning and imaging, on site waste and shredding services, BPO, and data management services to Insurance, Banking & Finance, Legal, IT, Healthcare and Public sector clients. The business required both integration into the wider corporate infrastructure and the creation and implementation of a growth strategy via business development, customer up-sell and product innovation . We successfully sold the business in January 2016 to Restore PlcFull P&L responsible, I led turnaround, customer acquisition and retention and property strategies that led to double-digit growth year on year and a six fold increase in value. This growth significantly contributed to Wincanton’s share price growing from £0.36 in 2012 to £2.08 in 2015. As a result of this value creation, the business was sold to Restore Plc at the end of 2015 and created one of Wincanton’s largest cash inflows for many years.Key elements of this achievement included the delivery of:• double-digit growth across multiple geographies.• cost saving expert - lean operations and improved customer satisfaction. • increased engagement levels of a mainly blue-collar workforce.• a culture of innovation, fast thinking and agility in both customer acquisition and customer service.Wincanton Plc is a FTSE listed business service outsourcing company that operate numerous divisions across the UK&I in warehousing, depots, FM business services and logistics via multi site operations.

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

Iron Mountain is a global real estate company operating multi site warehousing and logistics services , assisting more than 156,000 organizations in 36 countries on five continents with storing, protecting and managing their high value assets. Iron Mountain purchased Hays Plc’s Information Management division in 2003 for £200m. Initially I was appointed by the European President to take their analogue business into the digital world across their European sites . Post that I created their pan European business strategy and subsequently transacted various mergers and acquisitions across EMEA. • With a budget of $140m, transacted various mergers and acquisitions throughout EMEA in multiple products and services• Directed due diligence and 100 day integration for all acquisitions• Together with the country-managing directors, helped create business plans for all continental European markets.• Launched new digital products and services across Europe.

London, England, Gb

In 1997 Hays Plc was an international FTSE 100 company operating logistics, information management and recruitment services. My role was to direct and successfully expand their £40m office services, FM and Information Management’s data and disaster recovery division for a mainly FTSE 250 client base. • Became the specialist in turning around under performing regions through a mixture of KPI and lean process and people led strategies.• Turned the division into a high growth high margin business.

In 1989 at the age of 20, after researching the document and information management market I launched a new start-up group of businesses to compete in this area using a unique differential. This was a £10m turnover business. After a number of successful years of growth and regional coverage I sold the group to Hays Plc.

I built a property development business with a £2m turnover buying, refurbishing and selling properties in the UK and Spain. This led into a property buy to let business still going today.

Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, Gb

My sales experience was all learnt in my early years with Countrywide estate agency. After winning many salesmen of the year awards I progressed to a branch manager and then an area general manager. This was managing a team of sales negotiators and surveyors across multiple offices.

Business School Course, Mergers And Acquisitions

Master’S Degree Pgdip, Corporate Finance, M&A, Business Analysis

Certified Diploma In Accounting And Business From Acca, Accounting And Finance, Business Analyses

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