Ian's Experiences

Over 30 years of global commercial experience (buying, selling, marketing, product management, benchmarking, M&A due diligence) in variety of industries, with long list of achievements in complex multi-faceted negotiations. Known as someone who focuses on long term relationships, creativity and can get `get the deal`.

Worked for 6½  years with prestigious Private Equity firm; present at virtually all quarterly board meetings. Experience of 3 financing rounds, auditing, mezzanine finance, bond and accounting issues. Sat on European Exec Board of $16bn company (Dow Europe GmbH), representing Shared Services.

Has negotiated with senior politicians & business leaders in China, India, Brasil, USA, Europe, Japan, Canada, Ireland, UK. Special knowledge  in building and finance of factories in wind industry in China, Morocco, France and Brasil.

Employed as `associate` of the largest global consultancy firm (in 2014) Deloitte LLP, working in Supply Chain practice with 3 major clients.

Ran the largest global strategic sourcing group in the Chemical Industry with 80 strategic buyers and $9bn spend, negotiating contracts over $1bn, initiating low cost country sourcing. Ran European shared services group 

Responsible for $400m global commodity trading (buy and sell) business unit

P&L responsibility for 4 global multi-site, multi hundred million $, business units in B2B area, based in USA, Germany, Japan, China

People manager of global sales teams for over 18 years, consistently improving market share, margin, customer satisfaction, cash flow and driving innovative growth. Sought after speaker at industry conferences.

Devised, built and launched one of Dow`s most successful global eBusinesses which was competing channel to market back in year 2000, and lectured on it at IMD, HSG and other business schools.