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Secure Power Division, £81.7m T/O, 750 employees• Responsible for managing the global operations and growing the Secure Power division prior to a combined Trade and Private Equity sale. Developed a robust growth strategy and rapidly grew the division, opening further facilities in UK, Middle East and South America. • Led the UK and LATAM teams to complete product expansion programmes, increased like for like sales by 87% from £43.8m to £81.7m, taking the business from break even to £7.5m in profit and achieving record underlying divisional profitability. • Instigated organic growth initiatives including the opening of a new sales and assembly business in Brazil which achieved £3m sales within 2 years of operation.• Negotiated long term exclusive contracts with Far East supply partners in support of a product expansion initiative, resulting in £8m of incremental sales. .

Electrical Products Division, £180m T/O, 2000 employees, • Led the Electrical Products Division to become the best performing division, achieving sales and profits growth of 36% and 55% respectively between 2005 and 2008 and generating almost 50% of the Groups total profit in 2008.• Following TTE’s unsuccessful attempts to sell its AEI Compounds business in Gravesend, obtained Board approval to relocate operations to enable the sale. Identified a low cost site in Sandwich and secured Government grant, successfully moved the business to enable its sale for £8m. • Established 2 new manufacturing facilities in Mexico, which doubled sales from £27.6m to £46.9m within 3 years making it the most profitable business within the Group. • Drove the sale of 4 non-core businesses and achieved aggregate proceeds of £23m, keeping the management teams motivated and focused while under the threat of closure

European Components & Power Systems Division, £123m T/O, 1475 employees • Devised and commenced execution of a robust strategic plan to merge the European Components businesses into a single coordinated entity through the consolidation of the European warehouses, refocusing sales efforts towards “embedded technology”, and streamlining of the UK manufacturing operations. • Led the successful merger of Dale Power Solutions plc and Erskine Systems Ltd, removing a layer of management and reducing costs by £0.75m, increasing profitability by £1m. • Returned AB Automotive Electronics to profitability through cost reduction, strong management and margin improvement.• Introduced new management to the poor performing Welwyn Components’ business, drove two major rationalisation programmes and transferred labour intensive production to China and India, strengthening the business to become one of the most profitable in the Group. • Developed Ottomotores from a business primarily focused on the Mexican market generating £2m profit pa to a business with a growing international presence with profits of £6m pa.

Genergy plc, £30m T/O, 120 employees• First operational role that involved turning round a heavily loss-making generating set company involved in a number of problematic long-term contracts, by focusing the business on high value added projects and high margin service operations.• The Company was totally reorganised with all long term contracts successfully completed.UK volume manufacturing was transferred to Mexico and costs reduced by £2.9m. The business was re-launched as Dale Power Solutions and has remained profitable ever since.

Automotive Sensors & EMS Division, £250m T/O, 86 Finance staff• Designed a product profit improvement reporting programme enabling local German management to improve margin by over 15% with its newly developed “hall effect” sensor product range supplied to BMW, Daimler and VW. • Negotiated and eliminated £4m of exposure for TTE’s assets tied up in Lake Communications.• Led the Steering Committee in implementing SAP R3 into the German Automotive businesses.• Managed the financial due diligence acquisition programmes of Ruf Electronics Gmbh and Demo SA.

GEC Marconi S3i Ltd, £88m T/O, with over 700 employees• Responsible for managing the finance department of 23 staff, financial planning, modelling and control, currency hedging, guarantees, customer contract and price negotiations.• Established a user friendly long term contract reporting format which was subsequently adopted across GEC Marconi.• Consolidated the Command & Control and EASAMS Software finance departments; this led to a reduction in operating costs by nearly 40%.• Managed and resolved several outstanding contractual problems including a tax dispute in Singapore.• Developed robust and reliable forecasts as well as clean audits during a period of considerable change to achieve successive years of strong financial management.

Marconi Radar & Control Systems, £40m T/O, 500 employees• Commenced role with GEC Marconi Radar as Financial Accountant and was promoted to Chief Accountant, responsible for managing a finance team of 15. • Coordinated the relocation of the radar manufacturing capability from Chelmsford to Leicester.• Generated £1m in operating profit through the effective management of an insurance claim.