Name

Raj

Position

Chairman / Non-Executive Director / Board Advisor / Mentor / Fractional Consultant

Location

Scotland, Tyne & Wear, Greater London

Big Business Experience

NHS

Siemens

Small Business Experience

Pure Wafer Semiconductors
Reconomy (formerly UK Waste Solutions)

Summary

Raj has launched and scaled businesses across the UK, Europe, and Asia, bringing expertise in funding models and M&A.

With 30+ years’ experience across hi tech manufacturing, waste, rail, utilities, government, healthcare, education, and the third sector, he offers strong transferrable skills and fresh insight. He has served as chairman, non executive director, mentor and fractional consultant, aligning strategy with delivery.

Raj leads sustainable, innovative business models grounded in the latest technology, including data driven AI automation, and has delivered major transformations and R&D initiatives across multi site, multi stakeholder environments with converging interests and conflicting priorities, including partnerships with universities and technology firms.

Qualifications

• Member – IoD, IET, Royal Society of Medicine
• Non-Executive Director Programme – University of Edinburgh
• MBA – Durham University
• MSP – Learning Tree
• PRINCE2 Certified Professional – Attra Partners
• Digital Transformation – MiT
• MSc Software Engineering & System Development – University of Northumbria
• BEng (Hons) Electronics Engineering – University of Brighton

Key Areas of Expertise

• Board governance, stakeholder engagement, funding, investment and M&A.
• Leading change through mentorship.
• Regulatory and ISO compliance.
• Strategy operations technology alignment with P3M, data, AI and ESG.
• Digital tool selection/implementation.
• Managing delivery healthcare, factory-automation, waste digital ecosystems.
• Data driven automation across CRM, ERP, e commerce, cloud/on premise.
• Product, IP and SaaS development using outsourced models.

Experience

Raj brings board level expertise, advisory support, mentorship and fractional consultancy, and has:

• Provided thought leadership on how to create effective business models.
• Successfully set-up and grew three companies.
• Supported SMEs across B2B/B2C with founder led operational insight.
• Advised exporters, inbound firms and outsourced models working with UKRI.
• Established a UK presence for a German IoT manufacturer.
• Led transformations aligned to corporate supply chain expectations.
• Guided leadership to build scalable delivery models.
• Helped SMEs scale to 7× revenue (to £70m).
• Delivered health/factory/waste digital ecosystems (£50k–£60m budgets).
• Built roadmap for 350+ healthcare projects – delivered 80% savings.
• Improved referrals, waiting lists, staff adoption and patient tracking.
• Led R&D/standardised patient centred feedback, evaluation and care.
• Cut staff admin workload by 55% integrating finance/payroll/HR data.
• Saved £1m per rail vehicle delivery using digital twins.
• Delivered product traceability enabled by factory automation.
• Advanced circular wafer reclaim with lower emissions, higher profitability.
• Delivered AI based net zero compliance for PE backed utilities MBO.
• Drove growth with a SaaS supply chain AI waste tracking ecosystem
• Supported angels/VCs with process/technology due diligence.
• Led internationally funded geospatial AI R&D profiling waste to drive policy.