1. Looking for:
A challenging role with strategic goals and a fast pace
Personal Profile:
 CEO/Director with international experience
 Skilled at building key stakeholder relationships
 Enjoys change management and major strategic and budgetary demands
Key Achievements
 Launched first-ever Moscow retail JV and produced $35million turnover in Year 1 under
exceptionally difficult trading conditions
 Moved failing fashion department store to group’s top performing outlet within half year,
increasing t/o and gross margin by 85%
 Established first mixed-use scheme in Peak District, attracting 750,000 visitors p.a.
Business Support Experience 2007 - current
Wakefield Metropolitan District Council/West Yorkshire Enterprise Agency/Business Link
Yorkshire/Bradford Chamber
Role: Advising new and pre-start businesses on enterprise and survival in disadvantaged areas. To
date have achieved ??? new businesses with a 12-month survival rate of ??, creating ?? jobs.
Independent Business Consultant 2004-2007
Advised on a series of retail fashion projects and ran outlet businesses within Peak Village and
Lightwater Valley Outlets
Centre Management
Director, Peak Village Outlet, Derbyshire – owners Terrace Hill Group 1998-2004
Targets for this new build with ??? outlets on a sensitive National Park site were to attract footfall of
???, ensure good relationships with surrounding properties and local authorities, and achieve a
selling price of £8.6million in Year 5.
 All key indicators achieved plus???
Director, Yorkshire Outlet Centre, Doncaster – owners Clarks Village and USA-based ???1996-1998
 Brought in ?? businesses and achieved t/o of ??
 Created strong regional links with key local stakeholders
General Manager, Freeport Leisure Outlets Hornsea and Fleetwood 1994-1996
 Managed both sites with very different tourism footfall requirements, taking Hornsea to
£20million t/o in Year 2, net profit £1.2million; same t/o level for Fleetwood in Year 3.
 Brought in ?? new and diverse tenants to increase width of offer

2. Director, Marketgate Centre, Wigan 1992-1994
 Took this unprofitable centre to key target of sale to a larger rival.
 Increased footfall by 35%
CEO The Irish House JV, Moscow -– owners Aer Rianta (Irish State Airlines) and Mossoviet ???
First hard currency store in Moscow: the store (food, white goods and an Irish bar) was a focal point
of the ex-pat, embassy and wealthier Russian circles. The role demanded a high degree of tenacity,
relationship building across cultures, and negotiation skills with suppliers, Mossoviet Government
figures, customers and 350 Soviet and Irish staff. I took up post as Government tanks rolled past the
front door and my Russian staff manned the White House barricades at the end of their store shift
during the 1999 coup!
 Achieved t/o of $35million in Year 1, net profit 17.5%
 Developed and managed unrivalled international press and sponsorship campaigns
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