Name

Darrel

Position

Regional Director

Location

West Midlands

Big Business Experience

GKN

Thyssen Krupp

Small Business Experience

Tricorn Group PLC

Summary

Darrel is a Business Owner/ General Manager/ Managing Director/ Operations Director/ Project Director with a sustained record of success. He has extensive commercial, financial, operational and technical experience.

Prior to starting his own business Darrel has led organisations with between 60 and 600 employees across a variety of Manufacturing and construction sectors over the previous twenty years.

Darrel is utilising his previous skills, knowledge and experience gained in supporting SME Business Owners achieve their ambitions.

He specialises across the following key areas:

• Strategic Business Planning delivering Business Growth and Scale
• Collaboratively working with business owners developing Exit Plans.
• Mergers and Acquisitions – supporting clients on both buyer and seller side.

Qualifications

• HNC Mechanical and Production Engineering
• Lean manufacturing and New Product Introduction – Cardiff Business School
• Kaizen training – Kaizen Institute

Key Areas of Expertise

• Strategic Planning and Leadership
• Operational Planning and Control
• Business Planning
• Financial planning
• Business Growth and Scaling.
• Exit Planning
• People management, Team development
• Mergers and Acquisitions
• Sales and Business Development
• Business Process Improvement
• Manufacturing Operations
• Lean manufacturing
• Project Management

Experience

During his career Darrel has led organisations through significant change in periods of significant growth and also during times of challenging economic conditions. He has a passion for the manufacturing sector and is a strong believer in a participative style of leadership which delivers results through the team. Always driving continuous improvement through business process improvements and team development. During his business career to Darrel has a record of significant achievement across a wide range of sectors, achieving significant financial results in Business Development, Operational growth and business improvement.

A selection of these improvements includes:

• Setting up own business specialising in Business Growth and scale, Exit Planning and Mergers and Acquisitions.
• Delivery of an operational plan which increased output by 30% (£12m per annum) for a Midlands based Aerospace business.
• Leading team responsible for the delivery of £120m of construction projects in the NHS.
• In a period of significant economic decline in the manufacturing sector delivered business profitability despite a massive reduction in revenue. Following decline rebuilt business in a controlled manner to achieve and surpass previous turnover and profitability.