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Hook, Gb

Bath, England, United Kingdom

Axiom is a next-gen ProcureTech innovation that enables Enterprise organisations to automate Tailspend and, equally importantly, to transform the experience for Buyers, Suppliers and Procurement. Our marketPlace platform (with integrated marketSourcing), enables Procurement to set up, manage and control a closed and automated tailspend environment for all free-text, catalog and content-based categories (both products and services) across the organisation.Traditional Buying channels (S2P guided buying, S2P catalogs, free-text orders and standalone marketplaces, etc.) are simply not good enough in today’s rapidly evolving, user-focussed Enterprise world. And change is afoot!A recent Hackett survey revealed that nearly 70% of Procurement Professionals are frustrated with their free-text and current catalog sourcing model, and are looking to change. Reinforcing this, PwC estimates that 76% of Enterprise Procurement teams will be involved in a Digital Procurement Transformation Project by 2027 (up from 36% today). Increasingly, as part of this transformation, Enterprise organisations are raising the bar in terms of their targets for the automation of their Indirect Spend categories, to up to 90%.Dr Elouise Epstein, Partner at Kearney, Futurist | Technology Cynic and big Axion fan: “You guys have nailed it!! There’s literally no-one else doing what you’re doing, and I love it!!”We’re also delighted to be selected to the elite Kearney-sponsored global ProcureTech100 for 2023/4, included in The Procurement TP Techmap 2024, shortlisted in the procurement technology provider category for the prestigious 2024 World Procurement Awards, to be a shortlisted finalist in the Gamechanger category at the inaugural SeedLegals awards, awarded ‘Best Newcomer 2023’ in a global pharma’s annual global supplier awards (in which only six suppliers received awards out of over 65,000 suppliers) and shortlisted for KPMG’s prestigious UK Tech Innovator Award.

United Kingdom

I was appointed as Managing Director of ASL Global in November 2017, with the key objective of delivering the business strategy and repositioning the business as a leader in the marketing services outsourcing sector, from a standing start. By 2020, the company had over-achieved on the objectives that had been set, winning a number of large, blue chip regional and global marketing services contracts, competing against the largest players in the sector and placing the company on a very strong growth trajectory, operating in 42 countries on 6 continents.

London, United Kingdom

I Joined ASL Global as Advisor to the Founder and Chairman in February 2017 to assist in developing the future strategy of the business. ASL was specialist Far East promotional products sourcing business that had grown from a start-up in 2006 to one of the leading global businesses of its kind by 2017. Given the rapid shift towards outsourcing in this sector, there was a need to move the existing business model from one that was completely transactional to a contracted, service and technology driven outsourcing platform. I worked closely with the Founder and his management team to develop a clear strategy for rapid entry into the marketing services outsourcing market by repositioning the company, its proposition and its capabilities in order to take advantage of its key strengths versus other large and established, outsourcing providers.

Basingstoke, United Kingdom

I joined Adare International in early 2004 as the Managing Director of a c£30m, 110-person, UK-only print management company. Since then the business has gone through metamorphic change and has realised significant international growth, with a five-fold increase in revenues and staff numbers. By the end of 2016 the company had become one of the world’s largest and truly international independent marketing services outsourcing businesses, now operating in over 40 countries in Europe, North America, Latin America and Asia Pacific, with c600 specialist staff servicing the creative, digital and marketing materials sourcing needs of some of the world’s best known organisations. In 2016, the teams' exceptional achievements over a number of years, were recognised as it won The Queen’s Award for Enterprise – International Trade (http://queensawardsmagazine.com/business-winner/adare-international-ltd/). The company was also recognised in 2015 as a Sunday Times HSBC Fast Track International 200 award recipient (http://www.adare.com/news/article/adare-recognised-as-a-the-sunday-times-hsbc-international-track-top-200-com)

During my time at Williams Lea, I held various senior general and operational management roles. I was appointed to the Executive Operating Board in 2002, with responsibility for the Managed Solutions Division with a budgeted turnover of £108 million and over 1,450 employees.I had the privilege of working within an exceptional team, and contributing to, this highly entrepreneurial organisation as it was going through a period of explosive growth. It's pioneering culture and innovative approach to the document management outsourcing market place resulted in the team winning and delivering some of the largest deals of period in this market place.

Cape Town, South Africa

Consol Glass is the largest glass packaging company in Africa. I held various management roles in sales, marketing, business development and operations over an eight-year period with this organisation, which allowed me to gain a very broad skills base working in a large, highly technical, manufacturing and B2B organisation. My career at Consol culminated in a senior operations management role and the completion of a MBA degree in 1997 (part-time study), before taking the decision to move to the UK with my family in 1998.After a very rewarding 5-year period in Marketing & Business Development during which time I led the development, testing and introduction (to the SA wine industry) of the worlds' lightest range of wine bottles and also led projects which won the SA Institute of Packaging Marketing trophy and 7 other awards for packaging innovation, I then went on to learn the ropes in logistics and operations within one of the largest glass manufacturing plants in the Southern Hemisphere as the organisation went through a significant period of change, growth and capital projects related to manufacturing capacity expansion and business process re-engineering activity.

Cape Town, South Africa

Intec College is one of the largest distance learning institutions in South Africa.This role reported into the Marketing Manager and was a classic entry level graduate marking role which drove the marketing of a range of existing products and new products via direct marketing, advertising and media activity.

Master Of Business Management & Administration (Mba) Cum Laude, International Business Strategy, Cum Laude

Bachelor'S Degree, Economics

Hons, Business Management And Administration