Founder & director of Thrive Business Development Ltd. – providing business development services for well technology providers for North Sea operations.

Co-founder of ZeGen Energy, worked to deliver geothermal energy from existing hydrocarbon wells

Active cohort in Grey Matters programme, run by Elevator UK, to encourage entrepreneurship & develop new business ventures

Tasked with developing global business for unique new valve technology across water distribution, gas distribution and oil & gas sectors.Responsible for managing global sales team & maximising their effectiveness.Tasked with generating revenue budget and developing global business strategy.Accountable for creating new website, to include latest technology and products.Developed, nurtured and managed global sales team for improved focus and effectiveness.Implemented Salesforce as key company CRM system.Identified new business opportunities for products globally, and progressed development.Managed corporate exhibition stands at trade shows.

Founder & director of Thrive Business Development Ltd. – providing business development services for well technology providers for North Sea operations.

Tasked with introducing & developing North Sea business - UK, Norway, Netherlands & Denmark.Created new strategic plan to grow business in North Sea, Europe, West & North Africa.Pro-actively delivered offshore operations and all regional activities in North Sea & Europe.Promoted & marketed technology & services to clients through presentations, demos, exhibitions & conferences.Created & delivered entirely new application of technology – targeted at North Sea clients.Individually responsible for generating over 65% of global company revenues in the first 12 months, exceeding budget by over 100% – in new market region during industry downturn – and all with new clients.Individually delivered over 100% increase in well operations in 2nd year and generating over 65% of global company revenues.Simultaneously led operational delivery of well operations to multiple clients – planning, execution & follow-up. Operations Manager and field personnel all based in Calgary.Ensured Blue Spark technology achieved Top 5 Finalist Award for SPE Innovation Award.Initiated entirely new application of technology for P&A operations – with client funding.Created new client presentations, client proposals, case studies and client reports – now used globally by Blue Spark Energy.

Accountable for UK sales, then promoted to lead team covering North Sea, Europe & Africa.Created strategic plan and led team to grow business in Europe & Africa.Built relationships with new and existing clients - to grow revenue.Introduced READ services to new markets – to grow revenue.Led team responsible for generating over 80% of total company revenue.Key member of team to win critical client contract, against fierce competition.Built new alliances with key partners across multiple regions, leading to increased revenue.Introduced READ technology & services to new markets & new clients in Europe & Africa.Key member of team leading re-branding & subsequent re-launch of company.Submitted & won proposals & bids to new clients – in difficult market conditions.Created new client presentations, technical data sheets, case studies and global price list.

Member of senior management team and participant at board meetings.Actively engaging with new clients and developing new markets and applications.Driving communications & marketing with all external parties.Active in small management team which took private equity backed company through sale.Introduced technology & services to new markets - previously dependent on sole client.Involved in company rebranding project to position IWC in new target markets.Designed and managed IWC’s new website and all corporate and technical literature.

Actively developed expansion into high value well engineering and well integrity services.

Designed and wrote Expro’s Global Cased Hole Services training and competency system.

Negotiated and extended key contract (revenue of £40 million/year) for 2-year extension with Shell at time of downturn, as part of Expro team.

Increased annual global revenue with Shell to $120m at time of downturn - key part of Expro team.

Created electric line operations department and completed first commercial well operations.

Established Moscow office and won 3 key contracts – with new clients in Russia.

Won multiple tenders with clients as Client Account Manager.

Key member of small management consultancy providing tailored performance improvement to Shell Completions & Well Interventions team in Aberdeen.Significant reduction in NPT leading to major performance improvement & project cost reduction.

Responsibility for assessment of all gas projects, as part of small team that developed investments in upstream gas & energy projects globally but principally throughout Europe, Sub-Saharan Africa & South Asia.Evaluation of projects; activities included business screening, data room analysis, risk analysis, financial modelling and valuation, bid preparation and submission, contract negotiation, country and energy sector profile reports, main board paper preparation & presentation, conference paper/presentation preparation.

Responsibility for assessment of all gas projects, as part of small team that developed investments in upstream gas & energy projects globally but principally throughout Europe, Sub-Saharan Africa & South Asia.Evaluation of projects; activities included business screening, data room analysis, risk analysis, financial modelling and valuation, bid preparation and submission, contract negotiation, country and energy sector profile reports, main board paper preparation & presentation, conference paper/presentation preparation.

Delivery at the well-site of full suite of openhole and cased hole wireline logging services to clients. This included resistivity, nuclear, sonic, dipmeter, scanner, perforating, plugs/packers, production logging, RFT, CBL, well seismic, pipe recovery, log processing & interpretation services.Progressed rapidly from Trainee Field Engineer to General Field Engineer and on to Country Manager, reporting directly to the Global Operations Director in the UK. Led & managed field operations & full crew, offshore, onshore & in remote locations.