Experience

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  Scotcrest

  • Inverclyde

  • Managing Director

    • Aug 2011 - Present
    • Inverclyde

    Design, manufacture and supply of Scottish gifts for trade and private customers globally.

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  Quarriers

  • Quarriers HQ, Quarriers Village, Bridge of Weir

  • Business Development and Corporate Fundraising

    • Sep 2012 - Oct 2013
    • Quarriers HQ, Quarriers Village, Bridge of Weir

    Providing Business/Service Development and Corporate Fundraising support. Designed and implemented a new KPI scorecard for the organisations key performance metrics. This is used to inform the Exec Team, Staff and Board of Trustees on a regular basis. Member of the Fundraising Board who raised £6.2m to build the William Quarriers Scottish Epilepsy Centre which opened on time and within budget in April 2013. The facility is now the most technically advanced epilepsy centre in the world. Member of the team who successfully bid for Quarriers being appointed as National Charity for The Ryder Cup 2014. Funds raised from the Quarriers Ryder Cup project will be used to develop a new Coaching Programme for disadvantaged children and adults. Developed and implemented a Product Design Challenge for Scottish Universities to include as part of the curriculum. This will stimulate creativity and the generation of product solutions to help some of the people we support while providing the students a chance to work on real life challenges and fundraising activities. All of these are fascinating areas to be involved with and hugely worthwhile in terms of their importance to this amazing organisation and the people it supports.

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  Penna

  • Country Director - Scotland

    • Apr 2006 - Aug 2012

    Accountable for Regional Sales & Marketing, Account Management & Regional P&L. Member of the UK HRC Leadership Team

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  DBM

  • Regional Director Scotland & NI & UK Exec

    • Apr 2004 - Apr 2006

    Rebuild of the Scottish Regional Team including sales and marketing, account management and service development. All of this achieved while the organisation was bought and re structured by a private equity company.

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  Penna Consulting

  • Business Development Manager

    • Mar 2002 - Apr 2004

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  Compaq

  • EMEA Supply Chain Management

    • 1989 - Feb 2002

    Lead the manufacturing team to design and implement BTO (build to order) and CTO (configure to order). Both projects and capabilities were successfully delivered for the EMEA marketplace.

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  Rolls-Royce

  • Production & Mechanical Engineering

    • Aug 1979 - Oct 1989