London, England, United Kingdom
Exceptional business director, visionary executive leader and pan-European market development professional with outstanding delivery results. Inspirational and collaborative business thought leader with passion for providing highest possible service standards. C-level executive experience with a strong record of rapidly ramping up growth and taking business to the next level or setting up start-ups. Strategy innovation specialist with track record of revenue generation (over €1.4B revenues in ~20 years), profits and share growth through focused consultancy and business propositions. Deep experience in international sales and marketing. Extremely strong sales revenue attainment capabilities and sales management. Excellent track record of developing, managing and leading international teams or organisation with ability to work within a group. Highly creative with excellent implementation skills and proven ability to grow and mentor key people and build high-performance teams. Proven capacity and expertise to form strategic vision. Expertise in identifying and exploiting new Internet and mobile services. Excellent negotiation capabilities at all levels, well-developed ability to build and sustain personal relationships. Self-motivated and able to work to meet deadlines. Strong sense of integrity, loyalty and ethics in business and personal dealings. Intellectually alert, highly numerate and excellent analytical skills. Visionary forward thinker, serial entrepreneur, technology evangelist. Business angel, mentor and startup advisor. SKILLS: - International Business - Board-Level Influence - Financial Planning / Budgeting / Reporting - P&L Management - Sales Generation, Business Development - Sales attainment in Complex Environment - Global Account Coordination - Matrix Management - Mobile Technology & Enterprise Software - AI & LLM expert - Financial Services / FinTech - Telecommunications - New & Innovative Technologies - Professional Services - Establishing New Business / Startups - New Product & Service Development - Strategy & Vision Formulation - Leadership / Management - Creating Operational Infrastructure - Marketing (Strategic & Tactical) - Critical Thinking & Problem Solving - Climate Change Initiatives - Sustainability / ESG / CSR - Circular Economy - M&A - Fundraising / VC & CVC / PE - Investor & Business Angel - Startup Advisor / Mentor - Team Building - Open Innovation - Digital Transformation - Technology Evangelist
Solaris Suborbital is an Earth Intelligence company that designed and operates 3rd generation “Solar Gliders” that fly suborbital space (stratosphere), carrying a range of instruments, sensors, and cameras that provide Earth Observation in high resolution back to our Guardians and Planet's Stewards. Solaris can track or “sit & stare” for months at a time and see the earth in unprecedented detail, giving scientists and impact organizations unmatched data to improve life on our planet. Solaris vision is to unlock the vast potential that this new layer of suborbital data holds integrating technologies such as: HD real-time live video stream, AI, drones, geospatial, big data analytics, machine learning and vision. Our low cost, highly scalable platforms provide the highest quality geospatial data at a fraction of the cost of space or aerial layers below. Solaris tackles the world’s most pressing problems: - Disasters: wildfires, climate, decarbonization - Humanitarian: food safety, trafficking, trade - Security: borders, conflicts, risk mitigation, critical infrastructure
A disruptive game changing FinTech enterprise introducing an innovative economic solution that enables companies and governments to unlock new sources of credit from their abundance of available capacity, stimulating trade and investment across international markets and a wide range of sectors to promote incremental revenues, profits and prosperity. Responsible for the Telecommunications, IT, Media, Energy, Travel/Hospitality, Government, Aviation/Aerospace and Defence industry practices.