Experience

Podaris

• United Kingdom
• Architecture and Planning
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Partnerships and Business Development Manager

  • Apr 2020 - Present

  Our mission is to make places of the future more innovative, integrated, inclusive, equitable and sustainable, by providing digital tools for planning and implementing urban infrastructure in a more agile, accurate, accessible, and collaborative fashion. Transport planning is burdened by slow, opaque, inaccurate, and non-inclusive collaboration processes. Such infrastructure projects frequently suffer from major cost and time overruns -- a trillion dollar per year global problem. Perhaps more critically, ineffective collaboration impedes innovation. We have created a revolutionary way to plan transport infrastructure and services. Drawing on cutting-edge real-time cloud collaboration technologies, Podaris is a platform for multi-modal transport planning, engineering, and stakeholder engagement. Users can create holistic, robustly versioned, digital twins, incorporating land-use and development planning scenarios. This shortens interdisciplinary and inter-agency feedback loops from months to milliseconds, reducing the time and cost of transport studies by as much as 80%, while improving transparency, accuracy, and inclusivity Show less



Connected Places Catapult

• United Kingdom
• Research
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Business Engagement Manager

  • Apr 2019 - Apr 2020

  Local/Regional Development and Maritime Local/Regional Development and Maritime



Transport Systems Catapult

• United Kingdom
• Transportation/Trucking/Railroad
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Business Engagement Manager, Local Development & Maritime

  • Apr 2018 - Apr 2020

  Responsible for identifying transport challenges in regional development and for forming the necessary consortia, collaboration and co-operative models that can address these issues in the area of Connected and Autonomous Vehicles ( CAV), New Mobility Services, Data and Air Pollution. This involves working with a multiple number of stakeholders and managing these relationships. This includes Local Government, Central Government, Industry, SME's, Academia, Local Groups, Pressure Group and others Transport Systems Catapult Ensuring that the UK capitalises on this new and exciting market, creating jobs and growth in the UK economy, is the primary objective of the Transport Systems Catapult. Driving economic growth Founded in 2013 as part of the wider Catapult programme – a government-supported network of elite technology and innovation centres, each with their own specific sector focus – our remit is to transform the UK’s capability for innovation within the transport sector and to help drive future economic growth. We do this by using our in-house expertise to identify and overcome market failures, and by bringing together industry and academia to accelerate the development of new products and services. We also work with public bodies to help shape a regulatory environment in which these products and services can be successfully trialled and brought rapidly to market, as well as overseeing our own cutting-edge trials and demonstrations. Neutral and collaborative As a neutral and independent organisation, the Transport Systems Catapult is able to recognise barriers to innovation, and then work with our partners in government, industry and academia to remove these barriers. Show less



University of Bedfordshire

• United Kingdom
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Business Engagement Manager, STEM Degree Apprenticeship Development Project

  • Oct 2017 - Mar 2018

  Identify and recruit businesses to participate in the development of STEM education and training and to assist them to place new and existing employees on the resulting degree level apprenticeships in Cyber Security, Enterprise Computing, Food Science & Technology and Construction Management Identify and recruit businesses to participate in the development of STEM education and training and to assist them to place new and existing employees on the resulting degree level apprenticeships in Cyber Security, Enterprise Computing, Food Science & Technology and Construction Management



Bridge MK project

• Business Consultant ( Voluntary)

  • Aug 2017 - Oct 2017

  Responsible for helping to form a Milton Keynes based 'umbrella' charity organisation called Bridge MK where ten different community groups could pool their resources together to enable events and activities. This included the Middle East Group, Russian School, French School, the African MK Melting Pot group and others Responsible for helping to form a Milton Keynes based 'umbrella' charity organisation called Bridge MK where ten different community groups could pool their resources together to enable events and activities. This included the Middle East Group, Russian School, French School, the African MK Melting Pot group and others

• MK:Smart Commercial Manager - Business Engagement

  • Jul 2014 - Jul 2017

  MK:Smart is a complex £16m Smart City collaborative initiative funded by Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) and an Open University led consortium that includes BT, E.ON, Anglian Water, Samsung, Huawei, Tech Mahindra, University of Cambridge, University Campus Milton Keynes, Satellite Catapult, Transport Catapult, Future Cities Catapult, Milton Keynes Council and others) which will develop innovative solutions centred around a 'Big Data Hub' to support the growth of Milton Keynes. Core responsibilities of the role are to identify and exploit business engagement opportunities to create a new cluster of Innovation to generate 90 projects which will enable businesses, technology experts, government agencies, academics and students to work together. This in turn will support technology focused SME's, Start-Ups and University spin-outs around Smart Cities, Big Data, Digital Healthcare, Intelligent Mobility etc Show less



IBDG,

• International Trade and Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Business Development Manager

  • Aug 2007 - Jul 2014

  Inward Investment, Strategy and Consulting. Responsible for developing and managing Inward Investment projects on behalf of Government Economic Development Agencies in UK, Europe and North America. Clients include Invest in Iceland, New York State for Economic Development, Invest in Denmark, East of England International, Piemonte Development Agency, International Business Wales and East Midlands Development Agency and University of Derby Corporate. Considerable knowledge of key verticals including ICT, Automotive, Advanced Engineering, Renewable Energy, Life Sciences and Food& Drink Show less



Sanyo

• Appliances, Electrical, and Electronics Manufacturing
• 100 - 200 Employee

• New Business Development Manager

  • Sep 2003 - Apr 2007

  Establish and manage a New Business Division. Responsible for strategic planning, creating and developing new sales channels and customers in the B2B & B2C ectors for new Sanyo concepts such as the Massage Chairs, world's smallest Digital Movie cameras and Wireless Security solutions Establish and manage a New Business Division. Responsible for strategic planning, creating and developing new sales channels and customers in the B2B & B2C ectors for new Sanyo concepts such as the Massage Chairs, world's smallest Digital Movie cameras and Wireless Security solutions



Samsung Business UK

• New Business Development Manager

  • Mar 2001 - Sep 2003

  Introduced Healthcare products to the pharmaceutical sector, Digital Broadcast products to the retail & corporate markets and Broadband/Bluetooth products to AOL and BT Introduced Healthcare products to the pharmaceutical sector, Digital Broadcast products to the retail & corporate markets and Broadband/Bluetooth products to AOL and BT


NetMaster Communication Ltd
• Business Development Manager

  • May 2000 - Feb 2001


Ambient plc

• Account Manager

  • Sep 1999 - May 2000

  Sell business intelligent software to clients such as Portugal Telecom, Cable & Wireless, Conoco, Thames Water and Costain Sell business intelligent software to clients such as Portugal Telecom, Cable & Wireless, Conoco, Thames Water and Costain



CBI (Confederation of British Industry)

• United Kingdom
• Non-profit Organization Management
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Policy Advisor

  • Jul 1994 - Aug 1999

  Senior Policy Advisor for Inward Investment and International Trade for Europe, Middle East and Africa regions Senior Policy Advisor for Inward Investment and International Trade for Europe, Middle East and Africa regions