A seasoned international business professional with specialist experience in Consulting, Training and Management development. Fully integrated into an executive management team with a focus on strategic business related decisions that impact outside strategic development. Strengths include; the ability to promote teamwork and operate under pressure; highly trained and developed planning and organizational skills; adaptability; and innovation. Excellent communication skills and an experienced strategic professional

Career Summary

July 1999 – date. Head of Strategic National & International Development – IDI

Head hunted for this role of strategic development, my responsibilities are Communications methods, Business management, national and international strategic development and Criminology. One of our main tasks is to develop the strategic marketing practices for our clients, we are strategic consultants in the field on project management, strategic marketing solutions, for national and international sectors, including; product life cycle management (PLC), strategic development, and marketing communication and brand specialist. We investigate corruption issues within large organization; develop training materials for the identification of fraud, bribery and theft. I also designed training materials, and departmental structures for IDI and our clients.

Specific Achievements

· Develop training state of the art software, in order to identify corruption
· Conduct training session to more than 500 of the USA top corporations,
· Consultation given to companies who wish to change direction and objectives in order to survive in new markets, based on future trends, and estimating profits for the company and design of the correct strategies for this, then implementing the strategies for success.
· Developing a brand image for the company spending approximately $150m, which was a very success campaign.

February 1992 – June 1999 Strategic Marketing Director: TNS Holdings, Inc.

TNS Holdings are a small hygiene company with a new oral product. Responsibilities include: All major strategic decisions within the department, this included Public relations, International marketing and marketing communications, and the writing of strategies – Developed product marketed internally, produced detailed reports, which were used by medical staff in the advancement of oral hygiene, and improved market share by 15% within two years. The setting up and running of, marketing information and intelligence systems, and I trained and supervised 350+ employees.


Specific Achievements

· Increasing profits from $300,000 to $367million in six years.
· Increasing market share and profitability of TNS Holdings by 15% and investigating new and improved markets, including IT markets.
· Training of administrative team and implementation of a new computerized systems, and customer service record systems. Deliver corporate training solutions and project/product management in Asia and Africa.
· Design of competitive information and intelligence systems. Training of marketing staff, in marketing strategy and concepts.
· Writing of strategy for new and developing markets, including overseas markets, such Asia, Africa and USA
· Detailed customer service training.
· Introduction of change management to employees and training of change management. Design of the pricing strategy, and designing strategies for the PLC.
· Marketing planning for home and overseas countries this also includes Technical product planning, and project development.

APS Direct Sales professionals, a direct sales firm who increase market share for their clients. Responsibilities included: Managing a variety of major clients such as Thomas De-La Rue, Landis and Gyre and AT&T Telecommunications, all with a turn over of more than $300million.

Specific Achievements

· Increased market share and turnover,
· Research and implemented marketing operations with logistics;
· Manage new products from conception to final launch date; follow up promotion within exacting time’s budget and quality control.
· Design a graduate recruitment strategy to attract and retain high calibre graduates. Increase retention rate from 56% to 71% in 1991