I am the Senior Corporate Fundraiser with Samaritans Head Office bringing in substantial new funders to the organisation. I was brought in to introduce more commercial aspects of fundraising to the team.
I manage major national relationships with large corporate donors whilst bringing in two new major funders. Compass Foods Group and Trader Media Group.
Achievements:
Successfully introduced £180,000 initial funding from Arup Group.
Brought in Compass Group as our Charity of the Year 2006 (£200k potential)
Developed and manage a charity card scheme with Barclaycard (£180k p.a.)
Personally responsible for bringing in £500,000 of new revenue in 2004/5

Chief Executive 1999 - 2004
parent company (Columbus Group) launched IPO.
Established US distributors. Became approved suppliers to EDS, Computacenter and SCC. Brought in outside investors and management expertise.
*- Won "Best Innovation" in national Security Excellence Awards 2003 using RFID tags and Protrac software.
The company was sold in 2004
Appointed Sales Director 1996. Grew company to £1,600,000 G.P.in 4 years, became approved Apple Inc product and listed by Compaq, HP and IBM. Used direct mail to targeted lists to build reputation of company and generate new income.
Sales Manager 1994 – 1996
Secured contracts with large corporations and government departments including Inland Revenue, London Borough Richmond, London Borough Lambeth, Rhondda Cynon Taff CC. Avon Constabulary, HM Customs and Excise,Bristol City Council and Bank of England. Using Wavetrend RFiD Active tags with i-trac and Protrac software solutions.

Selling Unix Based Accounts systems to large national accounts with a team of 50. Average order value: £200,000. New account achieved in 1993.
Managed sales and management of large division selling accounting solutions to Thames Valley businesses. Created team of 16 achieving sales targets of £4.2M p.a. Reporting to Sales Director (Bristol based) and attending board meetings. Developed Auto cad strategy for the group bringing in revenue over £1,000,000