Experience

Greenly's Holdings Ltd

• Executive Chairman

  • Jun 1985 - Present

  We are re-energised. Founded before the first world war, Greenly's has always excelled in a crisis. Now more than ever, Cash is King and using it wisely is a necessity. Our energy is highly focused. We help SME companies that deserve to survive the recession created by the Covid -19 pandemic. They need to survive to thrive in the longer term. Help comes in two forms. Capital to restore a balance sheet. People to help restore drive and direction.



Live Group

• Australia
• Financial Services

• Chairman

  • Oct 2018 - Present

• Advisor to the board

  • Aug 2014 - Sep 2018



Notcutts

• United Kingdom
• Retail
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Non executive director and shareholder representative

  • Jul 2014 - Feb 2016

• Advisor to the family shareholders

  • Mar 2011 - Jun 2014



University of Portsmouth

• United Kingdom
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Visiting Entrepreneur

  • Nov 2010 - Sep 2013

  A pro bono activity to help connect the world of academia with real business. The aim; to stimulate the growth of new enterprises led by Portsmouth alumni.



Hampshire Chamber of Commerce

• United Kingdom
• Information Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Chairman

  • Jul 2010 - Mar 2012

  A pro bono activity to enhance the effectiveness of the Chamber by merging three Hampshire Chambers into one. A bit like herding cats.



Warrens Office

• United Kingdom
• Business Supplies & Equipment
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Advisor to the Board

  • Sep 2006 - Nov 2011

  An adviser to the Board on strategic, performance management and governance issues.



Hampshire Chambers of Commerce

• International Trade and Development

• Director

  • Apr 2009 - Mar 2011

  Step two in the plan to merge the 3 Hampshire Chambers.



Portsmouth and East Hampshire Chamber of Commerce

• United Kingdom
• Education Administration Programs

• Director

  • Mar 2009 - Mar 2011

  Step one in the plan to merge the 3 Hampshire Chambers.



Zylpha Ltd

• United Kingdom
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Advisor to the Board

  • 2006 - Aug 2010

  “A brain to pick, an ear to listen, and a nudge in the right direction” Zylpha is now flying.



Peter Honey Publications Ltd

• Advisor to the Board

  • Jan 2009 - Feb 2010

  Creating an exit for an owner by reshaping the business then selling it. A quoted company lapped it up.



Griffon Hovercraft

• United States
• Government Relations Services

• Acting Chairman of the Board

  • May 2008 - May 2009

  Creating the platform for a merger of two complimentary, but financially weak, companies. The investor gave it sufficient financial clout to facilitate the winning of large overseas contracts.



3A Manufacturing Ltd

• United Kingdom
• Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals

• Advisor to the owner

  • Aug 2006 - Mar 2008

  A turnaround of a small manufacturing company that had overreached itself financially by taking on a second site.

• Chairman

  • Mar 2000 - Oct 2002

  The principal responsibility was to restructure and refocus the company. A poor MD appointment had nearly driven the company on the rocks.



Campaign for Learning

• United Kingdom
• Non-profit Organization Management
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Chairman

  • 1997 - 2002

  A charity turnaround under the auspices of the the RSA and its Vice Chair Pru Leith. It worked.



The Windsor Leadership Trust

• United Kingdom
• Higher Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Trustee and Director

  • 1995 - 2001

  The re-creation of an excellent idea under the control of St George's House, Windsor Castle. It is still going. Its purpose; to help would be leaders gathered from all sections of society to grasp the essentials of Strategic Leadership.



Britax

• Australia

• Advisor to the Board

  • 1995 - 2000

  Developing a strategy to reshape the business



Cable & Wireless

• United Kingdom
• Telecommunications
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Advisor to the Chairman and Remuneration Committee

  • 1980 - 1999

  A real marathon stint. We helped take the company from being a nationalised industry to a thriving world wide FTSE100 enterprise. Lord Sharp (Chairman) was a great guy to work with. In a different way, so was his successor, Lord Young. A shame that when we all departed, the new Board made such a financial mess of the business.



Inchcape plc

• United Kingdom
• Motor Vehicle Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Advisor to the Board and Remuneration Committee

  • Jun 1995 - Dec 1998



Tomorrow's Company

• United Kingdom
• Non-profit Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Researcher

  • 1993 - 1998

  A five year intensive research project interviewing the great and good of the FTSE 100. I gained deep insights into Leadership styles. It was a pity that we were prevented from publishing the findings!



GLS Systems Ltd

• India
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Turnaround agent

  • 1991 - 1993

  A turnaround and sale of a business in a market that I knew very little about at the time. Maybe I got lucky.



Greenlys Recruitment Ltd

• Owner and Chairman

  • Apr 1988 - Sep 1990

  A right bog up and it served me right at the time. I was one step away from insolvency. A great lesson to me. I was saved from hubris by a colleague who is still with me.



Les Routiers

• United Kingdom

• Owner and Chairman

  • 1975 - 1990

  My first successful turnaround. And the I threw it all away by starting Greenly's recruitment.



J Lloyd Instruments PLC

• Director

  • 1985 - 1989

  A successful MBI followed by a less successful sale. I worked with a great chairman, Eddie Nixon of IBM fame.



ATA Selection

• United Kingdom
• Outsourcing/Offshoring

• Chairman

  • 1985 - 1987

  Rescuing a misguided float on the Stock Exchange, a merger then a sale.



RE Rogers Ltd

• Advisor to the Board and Investor

  • Jan 1977 - Nov 1982

  Guiding an entrepreneur who was financially naive.



Stafford Robert & Partners

• Co Founder

  • Sep 1971 - Sep 1982

  This was my first venture started with my accountant brother Robert. It started life as a financial advisory business and slowly morphed into a management consultancy for quoted companies. I bought back the family companies in 1982 and changed the name of the business to Greenlys.



Allied Dairies

• India
• Consumer Services

• Advisor to the Board

  • Apr 1978 - Dec 1980



John Waddingtons plc

• Advisor to the Board

  • Sep 1975 - May 1980

  My main responsibilities included a project to advise the Board on the legal structure of the group.



Hargreaves Group

• United Kingdom
• Capital Markets

• Advisor to the Board

  • Jun 1977 - Dec 1979



Procter & Gamble

• United States
• Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Various

  • Sep 1967 - Jul 1971

  This provided the basics of my understanding of business in the real world after a 3 year spell at Beecham Group where I was recruited as a management trainee in their Marketing Department.