My career has allowed me to become a commercially orientated technically based PLC board Director with a good understanding of both Food Manufacturing and Food Retailing. Retail clients since the formation of my company have included Tesco in the UK, Sobeys in Canada and the FOZZY Group in the Ukraine. I have provided confidential consultancy in areas as diverse as crisis management to improving the operational capacity of sandwiches makers . I have acted for clients throughout the UK and Europe as well as the USA. and Canada. Experience as an trained expert witness has been particularly interesting. My involvement with GFSI acting as benchmark leader on a number of projects and acting as the consultant for their Retail and Wholesale Benchmarking Standard involving companies across the world was both interesting and challenging. Over the past few years I have become increasingly interested in my involvement with mentoring and NED roles both within the food sectors as well as companies involved in anything from specialist car performance enhancing, through fashion gym clothing to industrial insulationSpecialties: My specialist areas are Mentoring NEDPrivate Label development Understanding the UK Retailers Mentoring SME's Mergers and Acquistion commercial due diligence Crisis Management Recruitment Expert WitnessFrozen FoodChilled Food GFSI