Nigel Hood Email & Phone Number

Hitchin

Helping build a strategic business plan to optimize the construction industries uptake of HDS's revolutionary technologies

St Ives Cambridge Uk

The £100m business had been performing below market consistently for the past 6 years, promoted to revitalise commercial team and drive growth through share gain,- Initiated development of a new product range which launched in 2015, driving growth of 7.6% in 2016 and 12.5% in 2017, in a market growing at 3%, the fastest growing operating company in Danaher- Turned around lagging Chinese business arm to deliver 10% growth in 2016 and 21% in 2017- Recruited new Sales, Marketing and Business Development leaders building a solid L1 team driving growth and developing engaged teams- Grew OTD from 93% to 96% with 45% improvement in quality performance whilst improving inventory levels from 12 to 14 turns and increasing working capital turns to 16.5

Promoted to the Board of Directors team tasked to drive growth in the $1.2b business and to create alignment between different strands of business- Created stand-alone Life Science sales team driving sales growth 24%, 16% and 11% 2010 to 2012 through aggressive share gain to overtake historic leader, became leading global supplier of Particle Counters- Renewed product portfolio with vitality index of 35%, drove 14 consecutive quarters of double-digit growth in the overall Hach business- Instrumental in multiple successful M&A negotiations and integrations