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Re-engineering business processes of the "back office" including changing the culture whilst managing accounts department

• Massive improvement in staff morale reducing staff turnover from over one per month to nil.
• Quicker, more accurate information, streamlined controls reducing workload
• Greater approval from internal and external customers

Finance member of board defining and creating new division charged with streamlining, servicing and controlling the company's 13 sites.

• Rapidly seized control over expenditure
• Clarified purpose, "mission" and strategy of new division
• Won board approval for plans

Co-ordinate the finance functions of the European subsidiaries.

• Designed and won board approval for restructured European logistics function.
• Pursued opportunities for joint products with other high tech businesses
• Divisionalised key income streams, enabling under-performing divisions to be closed down

Recruit, develop and manage UK finance function

• Financial support for new ventures exploiting secondary markets and e-commerce
• Developed new method of controlling marketing spend, better targeting spend and eliminating overspend
• Developed pricing policy enabling clearance of overstocks and leading to re-working of internal royalty system

Manager within practice servicing mainly media and service clients.

• Decreased non-chargeable hours
• Increased profitablity on assignments
• Counseled staff to qualification

• ACA Admitted 1990
• BA 2ii, Politics, University of Warwick

• DOB 28 May 1964
• Married
• Three children, Jack (5) Katie (2) and Bryony (0)