COO / Managing Director

Build Structure.
Create Clarity.
Scale Properly.

I help businesses turn operational complexity into clarity, and ambition into execution.

Over the last 25 years, I’ve worked across sales, operations, systems, and leadership in founder-led, growth-stage, and PE-backed businesses.

25+ Yearsoperational and commercial leadership
Acquisition Experiencemanaged integration while maintaining stability
Scaled Businessesfrom ~£2m to ~£20m through structure and discipline
UK & Internationalexperience across multiple markets and teams
Sales · Ops · Systemsforecasting, service, support, commercial and leadership
Founder-led & PE-backedenvironments where growth needs structure

What I Actually
Help Businesses Fix

  • Growth outpacing operational systems
  • Teams relying too heavily on individuals
  • Poor visibility across departments
  • Forecasting becoming reactive
  • Sales, operations and finance pulling in different directions
  • Customer experience suffering under scale
  • Too much pressure sitting with too few people
  • Delivery becoming inconsistent despite good people

How I Work

I don’t believe in building businesses around heroics. Good businesses need clarity, rhythm, accountability, communication, and systems people actually use.

Most operational problems look like people problems on the surface. Most of the time they’re visibility problems, process problems, or alignment problems underneath.

My role is to help businesses slow the noise down enough to see what’s actually happening, then build the structure needed to move properly again.

Career Snapshot

Managing Director

Ambersphere Solutions / ACT Entertainment

Led the UK business through acquisition integration while maintaining operational stability, commercial performance, and customer confidence during a significant period of change.

Operations Director

Ambersphere Solutions

Built operational structure, forecasting discipline, service workflows, and cross-department visibility across a rapidly growing technical distribution business.

Earlier Career

Sales · Product · Commercial · Operations

Progressed through technical sales, product, commercial and operational leadership roles, building a practical understanding of how businesses function from the ground up.

Selected
Operational Work

Real situations. Real impact. Focus on structure, clarity, and improving how the business actually runs.

Service Department Rebuild

Inherited a service operation with 8-12 week backlogs and limited workflow visibility. Rebuilt operational structure, introduced workflow systems and customer visibility tools, reducing turnaround times to ~1-2 weeks.

Forecasting & Alignment

Aligned sales, operations and finance around shared visibility and forecasting discipline, improving planning accuracy and reducing reactive decision-making.

Global Support Structure

Helped shape a unified support and service approach across international teams, focused on consistency, visibility, reporting and scalable support systems.

The Elements

LdLeadership
OpOperations
StStrategy
CoCoaching
SySystems

The best operational environments are usually built through a combination of people, structure, communication and consistency, not noise.

Why This Matters

At a certain point, businesses stop needing more effort and start needing better structure.

That is normally the point where experienced operational leadership starts to matter.

Let’s Have
A Conversation

I’m always interested in speaking with founders, recruiters, leadership teams, and businesses navigating growth, operational complexity, integration, or scale challenges.