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An advisor, navigator and guide, I bring the strategic thinking to join the dots others cannot see, helping you achieve your goals. Whatever your A, I'll help you scale to B, by simplifying the complex, bringing corporate rigour, structure, discipline and governance into smaller, nimbler organisations to achieve your goals, enabling you to make the leap from 'small' to 'large' (wherever you are on the scale), and guiding you through the transition. Aligning organisation, strategy and leadership; I bridge the people, process and technology gaps, and bring governance, oversight and engagement, enabling you to deliver change and supercharge growth. I help you keep the levers of business in balance by bringing the rigour and insight of corporate and knowing what is right in theory, what will work in best practice, and then putting it all into action in the real world. Able to switch focus from the strategic view to detailed and back, asking the right questions, I can work alongside you on a Fractional, Interim, or Retained Advisory basis (hour, day, project), to realise your desired goals and outcomes. DM me to discuss how we can work together. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ An experienced Strategic Board Advisor, NED, CIO, CTO, Transformation Director and Mentor, with a multi-decade career spanning diverse sectors and organisations. I've advised CEOs, Boards and Executive Leadership Teams of large Corporate FTSE 100 Blue-Chips, FTSE 250, and SMEs. I have also worked with Start-up Founders, Privately Owned companies and Private Equity, including on Merger & Acquisition (M&A) activity. I advise on business-critical and complex business change, as well as Cyber Security and Cloud enabled technology. Working with you to achieve your goals, by simplifying understanding of the vision; communicating the what, why, and how to key stakeholders; then recommending, defining, and overseeing delivery of the desired outcomes. At Crew Clothing I cut the annual Operational IT Budget by over 1/3 whilst improving the overall service, created a high performance Tech team, and delivered projects that added £6.5m EBITDA in year 1. At Wiggle, I defined the technology strategy, presenting the options to the main Board and PE partners, enabling them to grow from £150m to £400m+ revenue, acquire a rival, and scale to £1bn. At Office Outlet I created the Operating Model and helped the board secure £30m working capital from the PE Partners. On the Santander mentor programme I helped a female founder shape her business and increase YoY sales by over 30% in under 10 months.