Name

Clive

Position

Fractional / Interim Chief Operating Officer / Non-Executive Director / Board Advisor

Location

Essex

Small Business Experience

Source Advisors Ltd COO

Elecro Engineering Ltd – Director & GM

Summary

Clive is a highly accomplished, technically focused, COO, with broad experience across diverse industry sectors, an expert in leading operational functions and streamlining business processes to quickly create shareholder value, scalability and profitability.

Clive is skilled in leading high-performing teams, combining crystal clear performance management with coaching to shape and accelerate career progression.

Clive is considered to be someone who can add real strategic value to organisations of various sizes and stages. Above all, he has a reputation for getting things done.

Clive typically works alongside senior leadership teams, translating corporate strategic vision into the delivery of commercially viable operating models while meeting investment constraints.

Key Areas of Expertise

• Operational & Digital Transformation
• Business transformation
• Change Management
• DevOps Strategy & implementation
• Tech Enablement & Intelligent Automation
• Continuous Process Improvement
• CRM / ERP / MRP / MPS Product Manager
• End-to-end process design
• Analytical Ability
• Target Operating Model; design and implementation
• Commercial & Technical Acumen
• Stakeholder Management
• P&L Accountability
• People Leadership, Coaching & Development
• Contract Development & Negotiation

Experience

• Over 20 years experience in senior leadership and executive roles touching a multitude of sectors and industries.
• Successfully exited a Private Equity sponsored, professional services company achieving an IRR of 24%.
• Intellectual Property and Research and Development
• COO of an innovation consultancy with close to 1,000 clients across the UK with a very broad spectrum of industries and stages, from start-up’s to FTSE250 companies.
• Relationship holder for an autonomous driving company that recently secured a further $1b USD in a Series C round.
• Private angel investor
• Doubled a niche manufacturing business’ revenue within 3 years and extended export regions to over 70 countries.
• Successfully designed and implemented numerous ERP solutions.
• Product development – successfully launched many successful products highly considered within their markets
• Clive excels at helping early-stage companies become fit for the future in order to attract further investment and scale effectively and more mature business rejuvenate, designing and implementing new target operating models.
• Clive has a proven history of quickly creating shareholder value and always has a commercial lens on everything he approaches.