Personal Profile• Experienced general manager, strong emphasis on customer service• Broad knowledge of the global bike industry • Sound knowledge of bicycle design and components• Highly articulate, able to work at all levels.• High personal integrity, dependable, reliable and diplomatic.Experience• 30 years of managing businesses • Responsibilities for sales, marketing and manufacturing• Managed businesses as stand alone and within a £450m group.• Supplied customers as varied as car manufacturers, the RAC and bike shops.Achievements• Founder team member of Tern Bicycles and Bickerton Portables (2011)• Board Director and Past President of the Bicycle Association of GB• Built up the Dahon brand in the UK over 28 years• Appointed many of the largest UK bike companies as distributors.• Managed many different channels• Managed organisational change and corporate cultures.• Reliably produced profit over many years.Specialties: purchasing, marketing, sales, negotiation
Listed skills include Product Marketing, Product Development, Marketing, Marketing Strategy, and 21 others.