Name

Glenn

Position

Board Advisor

Location

Lincolnshire

Big Business Experience

PwC

Courtaulds plc

Small Business Experience

Rahu Catalytics Limited

Tribosonics Limited

Summary

An entrepreneurial business leader and advisor with a strong track record in supporting SMEs, leaders and founders in growth paths, value creation, and successful exits. NED and mentoring experience.

Expertise and transferable skills spanning M&A, fundraising, finance, operations, building high-performing teams, IP & innovation platforms, technology productisation and commercialisation.

Senior management/director roles for a large listed chemicals business. Founded, funded, scaled and exited four industrial companies.

Significant C-Suite experience across industrial manufacturing, engineering, digital, and clean technologies. A strong sustainability theme with clean tech, decarbonisation, energy efficiency and waste reduction.

A Chartered Accountant and a Fellow (FCA) of the ICAEW.

Qualifications

• BSc (Hons) Economics (Loughborough University)
• Chartered Accountant (ACA – qualified with PwC)
• Fellow (FCA) of the ICAEW
• Certified in Carbon Literacy by The Carbon Literacy Trust, for the purpose of sustainability in the workplace, in education and for the community

Key Areas of Expertise

• Entrepreneur – founded and exited four businesses
• Corporate Finance & Transaction Services
• Fundraising
• M&A (origination, planning and execution)
• Team building (recruitment, retention, development)
• Values based business culture architecture
• IP and Innovation Platform building
• Technology productisation
• Sustainability and clean tech
• Operations, engineering and manufacturing
• Commercial/GTM
• Digital transformation
• NED, Chair, Board Advisor, Mentor

Experience

• Experienced C-Suite Executive, entrepreneur, business leader, NED and Mentor.
  Glenn has had three decades of real world industrial experience.
• Energy and passion to support ambitious and diverse leaders and teams in scale-ups and SME’s to move to their next level and achieve their full potential.
• A combined strategic and hand-on approach, advocating and enacting a collaborative, innovative and values based approach
• Experience with PwC covering audit, business recovery, corporate finance and transaction services
• A career in the corporate industrial world with a large listed chemicals manufacturer. Including senior roles in finance, operations, innovation, commercialisation and M&A.
• Introducing environmentally friendly man-made fibre process and products.
• Then moved into an entrepreneurial career in founding, funding, scaling and exiting industrial ventures, all with a sustainability theme.
• Including replacing toxic components in coatings, commercialising environmentally friendly industrial processes; developing end to end industrial technology to work with the energy and oil & gas sectors, thus promoting clean power and decarbonisation.
• Numerous NED in industrial tech scale ups and mentoring experience in businesses and participation in external mentor programmes.