Skills & Services

Bob offers a full range of business support:

• Full business management
• A highly experienced advisor who will strengthen your team and improve your success.
• World class advice on energy management and energy.
• World class advice on lighting & visual perception
• Profitable innovation (new products or markets that leverage existing capability)
• Creating investor-friendly business plans and strategies
• Saving management time so that they can remain focused on the day-to-day business
• Sales and technical sales training, management and strategy that has been proven to generate growth and profits.
• Marketing plans and marketing communication for manufacturing, sales, distribution and service enterprises
• Product development (including high tech and lean products)
• Developing and running tailor made profit-generating sales campaigns for any size of business.
• Practical cost and overhead reduction and management.
• Negotiation & contracts.

Main Expertise: Business Management & Profit Improvement
Secondary Expertise: Engineering, Sales, Marketing, Distribution, Service, Energy Management, Manufacture. Technology, Contracts, Negotiation, Design

Career Background

• Head of Applications R&D at Jules Thorn Labs creating commercially successful products.
• Head of technical sales - trained & grew small UK base to No1 in over 20 countries £70m
• Technical and marketing director at Siemens reponsible for strategic growth of new business and new products.
• Numerous board level directorships including Chairman, VP, CEO and MD as well as Commercial, Engineering, Distribution and Production Director
• International experience in over 30 countries (inc USA, India and China).
• World class expertise in energy management, sustainable energy & lighting systems.
• CEO Deutz UK (generators & engines)
• Successful at creating global distributorships

Qualifications & Accreditations

• Chartered Director (MIoD)
• Chartered Engineer (CEng)
• BSc (Hons) Electrical Engineering (South Bank)
• MCIBSE Member of Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers
• MIET Member of Institute of Engineering Technology
• MSLL Member of Society of Light and Lighting
• Trained in Business Management at Ashridge Business College
• Trained in Strategic Planning at Thorn EMI
• Trained in Strategic Planning at Siemens Plc

Comments

I can provide shared funding projecs to qualifying enterprises.

I can transform manufacturing, engineering, energy, technology and service business that are in difficulties or have not realised their full potential.

I can help cut overheads without loss of customer service. saving money, energy and the environment.

As a mentor I can pull together a team of trusted experts, if required, to improve the business of a client.

With 40 years of experience I only take on new clients where my business help will generate benefits that are 10x the cost.

I always keep things simple and do-able.