Bio

A highly motivated, successful entrepreneur and proven business leader, with more than 40 years of international experience within the global automotive, textile supply chain and speciality contract furniture sectors. Founded successful businesses and led them through growth and recession - an astute strategist and a skilled communicator, with a zeal for embracing fresh challenges and creating strong business relationships in the UK, EU and Worldwide. A fundamental appreciation of leadership skills, cross border trade with expertise that ranges from industrial manufacturing, global distribution and large volume raw material procurement to diverse funding streams, stakeholder management, private equity partnerships, restructuring and turnarounds. A committed internationalist and europhile who has undertaken a number of advisory and consultancy roles in business and politics and was knighted for services to politics in the 2015 Dissolution Honours.