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Worcester, Gb

Droitwich Spa, Gb

Droitwich, England, Gb

Under the banner of The Re Group, Re-generation (Urban & Rural) Ltd, a registered charity, linked with Re-enterprises Ltd, its trading subsidiary, to operate as a social business. The charitable aim being to facilitate long term solutions to deep rooted problems. We provide access to funding and know-how. We adopt an asset based approach to community development (ABCD) both in terms of the way we look at people and how we seek to channel investment. Our goal is to inspire and invest, developing the "assets" that cause communities to thrive.

Worcester, Worcestershire, Gb

Alongside delivering commercially contracted, business, finance and project management services, to SMEs in the UK property sector, Spectrum provided strategic, development and management support, to individuals, community groups, charitable organisations and social businesses operating, predominantly, in the Midlands Region of the UK.

Appointed as founding CEO of Midlands Together CIC to lead a bond issue and subsequent launch of the business creating full-time employment for ex-offenders through the repair and renovation of empty properties. The bond issue of £3m was oversubscribed and closed after only 100 days. As part of the business launch I was responsible for developing partnerships and the design and implementation of systems and procedures later adopted by sister companies in Bristol and Glasgow; in particular introducing innovative and effective social impact measurement and reporting methods.The Company successfully completed four development projects under my stewardship creating employment for almost 20 ex-offenders,(none re-offended), eleven of whom have gone on to secure full-time employment within the construction industry.

Company Founder and Shareholder leading a Professional Design Team to bring about design and planning of a unique mixed use leisure development, including hotel and conference facilities with associated indoor and outdoor leisure facilities, incorporating a pioneering approach to hospitality training and development.Directly responsible for : Company Formation, I.P., Business Planning, raising Debt and Equity Finance for £8m scheme.Successful identification negotiation and purchase of 37 Acre Freehold development site.Secured Planning Permission for 132 Bedroom Conference Hotel with Spa Facilities alongside existing Golf Driving Range together with 5,000 Sq ft of Offices and 7,000 sq ft Pre-School Nursery.Managed Design, and Construction, of 9 hole par 3 Academy Golf Course used for Regional PGA Events.Successful identification and negotiation of agreement to purchase Residential Conference Centre from multi-national plc to establish International Learning and Development facility.

Responsible for Business Planning, Finance Procurement, Site Acquisition, Management and Marketing of a highly successful independent Hotel group.Lead a team of 370 staff involved in the operation of the Company's two Birmingham city centre hotels providing a total of 695 bedrooms with extensive conference and banqueting facilities.Initially directly responsible, as General Manager, for day to day operational management of a new 250 Bedroom Conference and Banqueting Hotel with extensive Banqueting Facilities.Having brought the business into profitable operation after an initial period of three years mandated by shareholders to identify and explore expansion opportunities in key regional cities, delegating Operational Management to expanded Operations Team, whilst retaining responsibility for financial performance.Successfully identified and negotiated the purchase of Berkeley House Birmingham for £4.5m for conversion into 445 Bedroom Chamberlain Tower Hotel.Successfully identified and negotiated agreements to purchase properties in Bristol and London.Chamberlain Hotels was the subject of trade sale to Jury's Hotels in 2001 for £41.9m

Specialist Property and Corporate Finance Broker involved in the procurement of funding for Developers & Investors active in the Midlands and North West of England property sector.Successfully established this pioneering enterprise in the Midlands during a period of extreme pressure in the property market and acted as a catalyst in re-structuring some of the most successful local property companies.

Responsible for the establishment and initial business development activity of this specialist property lending institution's first Regional Office, in central Birmingham. Management responsibility, through local administrative support team, over portfolio of commercial facilities provided to UK and European clients involved in Property Development and Investment.