- A martial artist with 45 years experience in Kanazawa-ryu Shotokan karate, as well as a smattering of aikido, tai chi, White Crane, and an active zen meditation practice.- A manager with more than 25 years of experience in complex IT environments including Pharmaceutical Discovery Research, Clinical Research, Marketing, and Manufacturing; also University research, and electronics research and design software.- Problem-solver possessing intelligence, flexibility and imagination, coupled with analytical ability. Able to rapidly grasp new skills and information, analyse problems and find solutions. Strongly-motivated to deliver on goals and to support colleagues in achieving shared targets.- Team leader, very effective at coaching others, drawing out their best contributions, and removing barriers to stakeholder and team collaboration. Creates a productive environment within teams: through respected team leadership, highly-effective coaching and mentoring at an individual level.- Program manager with extensive successful experience working with a range of business and regional cultures: particularly US, Netherlands, and France, but also with teams in all European and Scandinavian countries, North and South Africa, CIS (Russia and surrounding countries), Malaysia, Australia, India and Japan. Able to work remotely with complex matrix project teams, with great results in all these countries.