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Ken Foan

Ted combined a deep technical knowledge of the wireless industry with a passion for sharing the best practices from both inside Anritsu and from other benchmark organisations. Ted was able to get things done, and he did it with considerable charm. It would not have been possible to have had the success in the Nordics that we did without the support of Ted and his team. A great team player and a great contributor.

Barry Parkin

I hired Ted and was delighted with my decision! Ted worked for me in a number of sales and marketing roles at Anritsu and he always produced excellent ideas and results. He is dedicated and hard-working, a real team-player. I then left Anritsu and Ted was subsequently promoted to a very senior role within Anritsu Corporate, with global responsibilities.

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Credentials

  • Cruising Instructor (Power)
    Royal Yachting Association (RYA)
    May, 2022
    - Oct, 2024
  • Coastal Passage Making Instructor (Sail & Power)
    US Sailing
    Oct, 2017
    - Oct, 2024
  • Professional Integral Coach
    New Ventures West
    Apr, 2017
    - Oct, 2024
  • Coastal Passage Making Instructor
    US Sailing
    Apr, 2013
    - Oct, 2024
  • Yachtmaster Offshore Instructor
    Royal Yachting Association (RYA)
    Feb, 2007
    - Oct, 2024
  • Master - Near Coastal
    U.S. Coast Guard
    Jul, 2018
    - Oct, 2024
  • Advanced Powerboat - Commercial
    Royal Yachting Association (RYA)

Experience

    • Professional Training and Coaching
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Senior Executive Coach
      • Jul 2019 - Present

      Executive Coach & Leadership Consultant Growth Axis Growth Axis enables leaders, teams and organizations to access new levels of performance by specializing in the following areas: - Coach executive leaders to realize their full potential, and help organizations cultivate highly engaged employees and teams. - Design & facilitate high impact offsites to cultivate trust, collaboration, leadership skills & strategic alignment. - Serve as a strategic partner to leaders and teams to support change and catalyze growth.

    • Managing Director, Professional Coach & Facilitator
      • Jul 2017 - Present
    • Independent Interim Director
      • Sep 2008 - Present

      Ted has a wealth of experience in management, leadership development, cross cultural team development, global business development and the development and delivery of tailored training programs - we focus on helping people develop the essential knowledge and practices that bring sustainable increases in their performance and personal satisfaction. The skill competencies our development programs include: Meeting Management, Coaching, Problem Solving, Sales, Strategic Account Planning, Customer Relationship Management, Implementing Change and Overcoming Cultural Barriers. Ted has worked in Americas, Europe, and Asia developing an interest in helping companies overcome the cultural differences necessary to support their growth and the creation of effective multicultural teams. Ted has successfully incorporated his passion for sailing to facilitate Team Building and Leadership development programs that stretch individuals to think outside the box in achieving their objectives.

    • United States
    • Utilities
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Chief Change Partner - Gas Operations
      • Jul 2014 - Jul 2017

      Leading the change capability for Gas Operations at the Pacific Gas and Electric Company, a $14.9B+ energy company. PG&E provides natural gas and electric service to approximately 15 million people across a 70,000 square mile service territory in central and northern California. PG&E is in the midst of a large-scale transformational change effort to improve and modernize their gas system and strengthen operating practices. Across the service area, PG&E are conducting extensive safety testing, replacing and upgrading vast amounts of infrastructure, and installing new state-of-the-art monitoring and control technologies. The scope of work and the size of PG&E’s investments are unprecedented within the industry. Ultimately, through these efforts, PG&E’s goal is to earn customers’ trust as the safest, most reliable gas operator in the USA.

    • Consultant - Change Management Program Manager
      • Oct 2013 - Jul 2014

      PG&E owns and operates one of the largest natural gas systems in the United States—an integrated transportation, storage and distribution system that consists of approximately 42,000 miles of distribution pipelines, 6,750 miles of backbone and local transmission pipelines, and various storage facilities. The system also includes eight natural gas compressor stations, which receive and move natural gas through their pipelines.While on this engagement, responsibilities include:• Stabilization of the Gas Control Center, utilizing PG&E's state of the art SCADA system• Assessing and addressing the centralization aspects of PG&E's Gas Control• Procedural implementations triggered by new structures• Integrating the change management and communications work across multiple workstreams• Developing and integrating change management best practices across PG&E's Gas Systems Operations (GSO) change initiatives

    • United States
    • IT Services and IT Consulting
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Consultant - Senior Program Manager
      • Jun 2013 - Oct 2013

      Change Management Program Manager working within VISA’s Client Support Services (CSS) with responsibility for programs targeted to solve unique and highly complex issues, with broad client and strategic implications, within the Payment Cards Industry. Indirect management of critical global cross functional project teams and subject matter experts (SME) to ensure successful program delivery. Management of stakeholders relationships at all levels of the organization including cross department Global function heads, senior management, project team, individual contributors and external vendors. • Overseeing all aspects of planning and coordinating CSS Programs from funding request and definition through end user delivery. This includes justification, initiation, requirement definition, detailed project planning, financial oversight, risk identification and management, project execution and control, status reporting, and program and project closure. • Responsible for ensuring the overall program and its deliverables are executed consistent with the company’s Project Management Methodologies (PMM), including processes are followed and required PMM artifacts are created. • Central coordination point for all Program Management activities. • Manage the planning and execution of technology projects’ activities and resources to ensure established cost, time and quality goals are met. • Responsible for overall program financial and delivery performance. • Incorporation of best practices and approaches into the company’s program/project processes and methodologies.

    • Banking
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Consultant Change Manager
      • Apr 2011 - Jun 2012

      Interim Change Manager creating the Payment Cards Industry (PCI) Data Security Standards (DSS) strategy and engagement plan globally.

    • Consultant - Change Manager
      • Aug 2010 - Apr 2011

      Interim Change Manager, designing and building cultural change solutions for an FSA regulated programme. Focussed on improving the bank’’s capabilities in dealing with customer complaints, improving customer loyalty and therefore creating shareholder value.

    • Fundraising
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Chairman
      • 2010 - Apr 2011

      Mission Rwanda is a Scottish charity set up to help the people of Rwanda in their struggle against poverty. The genocide of 1994 claimed the lives of some 800,000 people and created problems which are still being felt today. Mission Rwanda are working with children in schools and orphanages to help develop their education and quality of life. There are many children in Rwanda who do not attend school because their parents’ income is insufficient to pay the fees. The charity is also working with individuals and groups who are engaged in what are known here as income generating activities. The vast majority of people in Rwanda either have no income or earn very little. A typical day’s wage for a labourer is £1 – £2 and many find it difficult to buy even basic foodstuffs. Mission Rwanda is a company limited by guarantee and registered in Scotland, No.: SC345684. Scottish Charity registration: SC040073

    • Business Consulting and Services
    • Associate Director, Business Development (Scotland)
      • 2009 - May 2010

      Accelerating business growth through improved market penetration Ted Thornton has been working with technology companies to achieve the core objective of successfully growing within their home markets and internationally for over 15 years and is now honoured to be working with 2in10 on a shared vision A lot of technology businesses are founded by highly skilled engineers, who understand product design. Many of these companies have benefitted from the expertise 2in10 can bring to the areas that are not natural territory for these entrepreneurs, namely sales and marketing. Understanding technology is one thing; successfully taking it to market is very different. Sales success is obviously central to a profitable business, but designing and promoting the right Product and building and right sales Channels are also vitally important. 2in10 utilise skills, tools and techniques developed during many years spent working on our own high-growth companies as well as for global leaders of the technology sector such as Oracle, IBM, Xerox and HP, to create a comprehensive knowledge-base of best practice in technology sales and marketing. These processes are then used in conjunction with your existing team to deliver the required results. The process is tried and tested. Once your objectives and requirements have been understood, 2in10 will work with you as part of your team, rather than offering consultancy or write reports, to deliver practical hands-on programmes to create a STEP-CHANGE in revenue growth.

    • Director of Globalization (Tokyo, EMEA, California)
      • Aug 1998 - Aug 2008

      2005 - 2008 - Director of Globalization 2001 - 2005 - Director of Business Development & Field Marketing 1998 - 2001 - Business Development Manager - Cellular Market 2005 - 2008 - Director of Globalization 2001 - 2005 - Director of Business Development & Field Marketing 1998 - 2001 - Business Development Manager - Cellular Market

    • Ghana
    • Maritime Transportation
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Volunteer Training Principal, Skipper and Trustee
      • 2003 - 2008

      Voluntary, part time, position with a not for profit charity, Adventures Offshore sail with young people and adults from a wide range of organizations and backgrounds, and of all abilities such as Scouts & Guides, Schools, Youth Clubs, Cadets, Social Services, Duke of Edinburgh Award Groups, etc, as well as individuals. As the training principle I held responsibility for the training of volunteer members in basic sailing skills right up to Commercial Yachtmaster Captains - equivalent to US Coast Guard 250 ton Master As a volunteer Skipper afterguard member I help responsibilities as Captain on one of the two near-identical 49 foot Oyster ketches on evening, weekend Cruises and the Tall Ships Races organised by Sail Training International offering young people a unique opportunity to experience a long sea passage, travel abroad and meet thousands of like-minded young people on other vessels from around the world.

    • United Kingdom
    • Machinery Manufacturing
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Director of Business Development & Field Marketing
      • 2001 - 2005

      • Direct management of a team of 5 Business Development Managers and 15 Field Application Engineers covering 2, 2.5 and 3G Wireless, Photonics, IP, and RF technology segments• Responsible for the successful new product introduction and new business for all Anritsu’s products in EMEA• Setting and implementation of Business Development stratagies that minimize barriers to business• Creation of EMEA product development strategic marketing requirements for global business units

    • Wireless Business Development Manager
      • 1999 - 2001

      Management of the EMEA sales revenue growth of Anritsu's Wirless business units, including funnel management, deal closure and the project management of conformance system delivery. Provided a focal point between the customer/sales and the factory from definition, through quote, and onto delivery and support.

    • Retail Apparel and Fashion
    • Account Manager
      • Aug 1997 - Aug 1998

      Account Manager responsible for Defence & Aerospace, EMS, Cellular and Oil & Gas industry in Scotland, UK. Account Manager responsible for Defence & Aerospace, EMS, Cellular and Oil & Gas industry in Scotland, UK.

    • Cellular Manufacturing Engineer (GSM, ETACS, TACS & NMT)
      • 1993 - 1997

Education

  • New Ventures West
    Certified Professional Integral Coach, Professional Coaching Course
    2016 - 2017
  • Being First
    Transformational Change, Transformational Change - Business, Team, & Personal
    2013 - 2015
  • Human Synergistics International
    Organizational Change
    2006 - 2006
  • Napier University
    Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering
    1991 - 1995
  • University of Warwick - Warwick Business School
    Executive Development Program
  • American Management Association
    Global Leadership Development
  • Mercuri International
    Business Development Workshop
  • Miller Heiman
    Strategic Selling & Large Account Management
  • Royal High School

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