Near Life have developed cutting edge interactive video learning technology to bring a gaming approach to training. Their content development platform, brings experiential learning online and gives learners realistic, scenario-based, role-play training while tracking their interactions to provide performance feedback and monitor progress. My role, as a Board Advisor, is to make this great company with a superb product, a global leader in online experiential learning.

Extending my skillset to help me better lead companies that develop solutions, including front and back-end web development: HTML5, CSS, Ruby, SQL, Javascript, Object Relational Mappers, Rails and React.

Working with a team of like-minded people who want to turn healthcare on its head by empowering people to own and control their own medical records, health and wellbeing who will receive advice and guidance that is personalised.

• Board director, responsible for sales and marketing, working closely with the product team defining a roadmap relevant to the markets we serve in the UK, Ireland, Hong Kong, Malaysia, New Zealand and Australia.• P&L responsibilities for the sales budget, as well as overall management of the P&L with the executive team.• Transformed a departmental silo based sales and marketing team, into a highly effective enterprise strategic selling team by implementing Miller Heiman sales… Show more • Board director, responsible for sales and marketing, working closely with the product team defining a roadmap relevant to the markets we serve in the UK, Ireland, Hong Kong, Malaysia, New Zealand and Australia.• P&L responsibilities for the sales budget, as well as overall management of the P&L with the executive team.• Transformed a departmental silo based sales and marketing team, into a highly effective enterprise strategic selling team by implementing Miller Heiman sales process, underpinned by Salesforce CRM automation.• 33% growth in new business won, in the year prior to the acquisition of Ascribe by EMIS, and 26% growth in the first full year following acquisition, with an expectation of 27% growth this year.• Led the sales team, that secured a ten year contract for EMIS Group’s first full health economy sale in Gibraltar, worth over £11m. Show less

• Executive responsible for setting sales direction, for all new clients and for all new products in the UK.• Set direction for emerging leaders who have been given general management responsibilities for new solutions. Each business unit owner has end to end responsibility for the success of that business unit, from organisation structure, investment opportunities, marketing collatoral, delivery and sales.• Transformed a largely ineffective and de-motivated sales team into an… Show more • Executive responsible for setting sales direction, for all new clients and for all new products in the UK.• Set direction for emerging leaders who have been given general management responsibilities for new solutions. Each business unit owner has end to end responsibility for the success of that business unit, from organisation structure, investment opportunities, marketing collatoral, delivery and sales.• Transformed a largely ineffective and de-motivated sales team into an effective and motivated group with pipeline opportunities doubling in the past six months, expected to double again, before the end of 2010. Show less

• Directed solution strategy in the UK, reporting to the strategy group in Kansas City.• Directed the team of strategists responsible, for defining the developments, required to make the Cerner solutions relevant in the UK market and the requirements of the National Program.• Was a key member of the negotiation team, assigned to re-negotiate the national contract.

• A board director, reporting to Bridgepoint Capital maintaining stakeholder engagement and investment.• Directorate responsibilities for the sales team delivering a year on year increase in booking and margin values leading to growth and profitability.• Multiplied the effectiveness of the sales team by a factor of 10 since taking on sales responsibilities.• Took responsibility for the delivery of high value, complex IT projects when failing.

• Responsible for all technical aspects of disclosure, internal quality policies, procedures and proving that the software products sold as part of the assets were of substantial value during the sale of Elan Technologies to Capula.• Responsible for the technical solutions delivered to healthcare organisations throughout the world making Elan Technologies one of the leading healthcare IT solution providers in the UK.• Directed technical product, process and quality improvements… Show more • Responsible for all technical aspects of disclosure, internal quality policies, procedures and proving that the software products sold as part of the assets were of substantial value during the sale of Elan Technologies to Capula.• Responsible for the technical solutions delivered to healthcare organisations throughout the world making Elan Technologies one of the leading healthcare IT solution providers in the UK.• Directed technical product, process and quality improvements enabling a strategic partnership agreement between Siemens (a major healthcare IT market leader) and Elan for the supply of ‘Oasis’ software to Siemens clients in the UK.• Managed the product development team that build the Oasis suite of Hospital Information systems, recently sold to Allscripts, that replaced SMS, Cerner, McKesson and Siemens at hospitals in the UK, South Africa and Italy. Show less