South Shields, England, United Kingdom
Currently leading Bardex Corporation's work across Europe, Middle East, and Africa serving the ports, shipyards, oil and gas, offshore wind, and naval defence markets. Bardex’s signature products include OmniLift®, OmniCrane®, Floating OmniDock®, BarMoor® Quick Connector, and Off-Vessel Tensioning BarLatch® solutions. We deliver complex, high-value, engineered solutions and services for global renewable energy and ship yard customers. I have more than 35 years' sales and business development management experience, spanning the industrial automation and renewables sectors. Since 2008, I've worked in senior business development roles in the global offshore wind and marine renewables markets. I'm passionate about using advanced technology solutions to make our planet safer, cleaner, and more sustainable for humanity and every species with whom we share our amazing, beautiful world.
CleanWatts provides management consultancy, business development, sales, marketing, and IT services to clients involved in, or transitioning into the clean energy sector - in particular offshore wind, wave and tidal energy. By implementing lean sales processes, CRM (Customer Relationship Management) solutions and applying proven sales management techniques, CleanWatts has helped many companies drive sales efficiency and establish long-term profitable client relationships with their own customers. CleanWatts' business model is firmly founded on building trust with our customers. We have wide-ranging industry expertise and work with a huge network of trusted clients and industrial partners. Our know-how has been developed through 16 years' of experience delivering renewable energy projects and 17 years' experience implementing state-of-the-art industrial automation solutions. We help our clients develop and deliver products, services and projects more efficiently. We apply skills, knowledge and learning gleaned from many diverse industry sectors to ensure our customers' success in the highly competitive renewables and clean-tech sectors.
Port of Tyne is major port on North-East England coast supporting the Offshore Wind, Automotive, Container, Bulk Cargo and International Ferry / Cruise sectors. It is one of the UK's deepest-water ports and ideally positioned to support offshore wind projects in the North Sea. With 80ha of prime development land and 3km of deep-water berths close to the mouth of the river Tyne, it is an ideal base for offshore wind manufacturing, construction marshalling and operations and maintenance activities. Commercial Director responsibilities included: • Setting the port’s strategic direction to support long-term growth in the renewable energy sector. • Providing guidance to the board on strategic offshore wind investment strategies to ensure profitable growth and maximise returns on the port’s multi-million-pound infrastructure investments. • Leading business development activities for all new offshore wind construction marshalling, manufacturing, and operations & maintenance opportunities. • Building collaborative partnerships between public and private sector off-takers and green hydrogen / methanol producers, to establish a commercially viable supply-demand chain. • Mentoring and supporting the career development of the Commercial Team's graduates and commercial coordinator staff.
Bureau Veritas offers a full range of accredited Project Certification, Turbine / Component Type Certification, Third Party Inspections and Verification Services, Dynamic Positioning Systems support, Marine Warranty Services, Loss Adjusting, Risk Assessment and Maritime Consulting services. This contract assignment provided management consultancy and business development leadership as part of Bureau Veritas' rapid expansion of its testing, inspection and certification services for Offshore Wind and Marine Renewable Energy clients in the UK and Europe.
Combining expert offshore design services from Apollo with fabrication, O&M and construction marshalling port facilities from its parent company, Global Energy Group, the combined group offers the renewable energy sector a complete Engineering, Procurement and Construction capability, significantly lowering the LCOE (levelised-cost-of-energy) for project developers and operators. This contract assignment provided business development and IT support covering a portfolio of world-class design, fabrication, construction, port and O&M services for the renewable energy sector. Global Energy Group's Port of Nigg offers unmatched facilities for offshore wind farm construction, and Nigg is now firmly established as one of the world's most advanced ports supporting the manufacture, construction and deployment of fixed and floating wind turbines.