Michael Edwards Email & Phone Number

London, England, United Kingdom

Milton Keynes, United Kingdom

Connected Places Catapult (CPC) is the UK’s technology and innovation centre for mobility and the built environment. CPC works across industry, academia and government to remove market barriers preventing innovation within industry, with the ultimate goal of driving technology, economic and job growth within the UK.

Milton Keynes, United Kingdom

• Energy Developments is a multi-billion pound global leader in the production of renewable and sustainable energy. The business is head-quartered in Brisbane, Australia and is part of the Cheung Kong Infrastructure.
• Interim role as the Head of Commercial reporting into the Finance Director, responsible for driving commercial strategy and growth initiatives across the UK business.
• Successfully led the renegotiation of high-spend supplier contracts to deliver multimillion-pound savings for the business and achieve a 15% reduction in direct and indirect operating costs.
• Worked directly the Managing Director to identify and evaluate potential growth opportunities within the UK and European renewable energy markets.
• UK lead for implementing global commercial initiatives as defined by the group commercial team in Australia.

Oxford, United Kingdom

• Incuna is a leading digital healthcare agency that specialises in the development of digital products and services for the world’s leading pharmaceutical and healthcare organisations.
• Responsible for delivering global technology and transformation programmes accounting for 40% of Incuna’s revenue.
• Clients include top-10 pharmaceutical companies such as GlaxoSmithKline, as well as leading global healthcare organisations.
• Global programme and commercial lead for a multi-million pound, 10-year transformation programme to deliver a digital platform that will distribute £140bn of financial aid around the world. Programme being delivered.
• Delivery of a £2.5m global digital transformation programme for a world-leading pharmaceutical organisation.
• Led programme teams of up to 35 internal and external resources delivering digital transformation initiatives.

Northampton, United Kingdom

• Collision Management Systems focuses on the development of industry-leading vehicle crash detection software, utilising science-led Research and Development (R&D) programmes to drive technology development.
• Initiated and led a business transformation programme to transition the organisation from a high-price hardware and software provider, to a low-price Software as a Service provider. Change programme enabled the.
• Delivered change management programme to move the organisation from a Waterfall to an Agile delivery methodology. Product updates released every 4-6 weeks, whereas historically they were delivered bi-annually..
• Bid managed a £2.6m application to Innovate UK to deliver R&D programmes in partnership with the University of Bristol Astrophysics department.
• Key member of the senior management team responsible for developing board reports and presenting at board and investor meetings.
• Instrumental in supporting the business to secure three rounds of growth funding.

London, United Kingdom

• Floream is the UK’s largest online Business College and one of the UK’s leading providers of distance learning managing over 25,000 students per year.
• Programme and commercial lead for the development of an international online learning platform for elite athletes delivered in partnership with the International Olympics Committee (IOC). Partnered with academic.
• Programme and commercial lead for the creation of a 5 year, £15m partnership with the Institute of Direct and Digital Marketing. Led key aspects of the commercial workstream, such as pricing and IP ownership, as well.
• Successfully delivered a £1.5m early-stage investment programme to create a leading-edge mobile learning platform (Android and iOS) transforming online and paper-based education courses into mobile first products. Led.

London, United Kingdom

• New financial services business venture setup in February 2012 to deliver bespoke commercial solutions to top 5 accountancy firm Grant Thornton. Claims Broker employed 50 staff managing a client portfolio worth £15m.
• Placed into the business in the role of Managing Director at a time when the business was failing. Responsible for all commercial, finance and strategy aspects of the business.
• Delivered business-wide change programme with a focus on improving revenue generation and process efficiency.
• Transformation initiatives delivered over a 6-8 week period improved monthly revenue generation from £195,000 to £1.3m.
• Transformation activities included organisation structure redesign, business process reengineering and fundamental changes in partner engagement and payment processes.
• Business turnaround enabled Claims Broker to complete a trade sale and deliver a 15% return on capital for investors.

London, United Kingdom

• Agilisys is one of the UK’s leading Business Process Outsourcing and IT service providers specialising in Local Government, Healthcare and Digital Services. The company employs over 2,000 staff with an annual turnover.
• Responsible for identifying and winning new business for the Agilisys healthcare practice, as well as leading healthcare strategy across the organisation. Successfully won contracts up to a value of £2m.
• Business Development lead for a £20m IT and Business Process Outsourcing proposition to leading European healthcare provider. Successfully secured £2m capital funding to support the business transition.
• Successfully bid managed a 5 year, £25m outsourcing contract to deliver clinical diagnostics services for leading private hospital group. Contract closed in 6 weeks, £5m capital secured from investors to support.
• PET/ CT South Programme Manager, delivered leading-edge cancer scanning solution for the South of England - £6m TCV. Managed technical team of 15 resources delivering infrastructure, applications and clinical systems.
• London Diagnostics Scheme Technical Project Manager - £15m TCV. Managed technical team of 25 resources to design, deliver and support the London Diagnostics service. Solution successfully diagnosed over 1m patients in.