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<!-- COPIED FROM HOME --> <h3><img class="leaf" width="18" height="18" src="images/leaf01.gif" alt="Gold Leaf: interim management solutions" /> You require an interim manager who can:</h3> <h5>Plan</h5> <ul> <li>Identify, validate and business plan growth opportunities for your business</li> <li>Develop an evidenced-based strategic marketing plan</li> <li>Fully integrate Internet and global marketing into the marketing mix</li> </ul> <h5>Manage</h5> <ul> <li>Steer a venture to market; securing partners, colleagues, capital and custom</li> <li>Manage or transform an existing business</li> <li>Design, develop and market a commercial learning / e-learning offering</li> </ul> <h5>Understand your business</h5> <ul> <li>Understand consumer behaviour and international marketing</li> <li>Understand the dynamics and opportunities of the new economy</li> <li>Understand the structure and requirements of education markets</li> </ul> <h4>Email <span class="address"><a href="mailto:simon@interim.me.uk">simon@interim.me.uk</a></span> or call <span class="address">+44 (0) 7940 735585</span></h4> <!-- COPIED FROM CV --> <h3><img class="leaf" width="18" height="18" src="images/leaf01.gif" alt="Gold Leaf: interim management solutions" /> Curriculum vitae</h3> <h5>Simon Mitchell</h5> <p>"He is one of the brightest guys I know, is exceptionally hard working, and knows the education market inside out and backward. He is effective, easy to work with and will be a huge asset to your team." <br /><em>Kenny Forsyth, Strategy Consultant, PWC</em></p> <h5>Key skills and experience</h5> <ul> <li>Industry analysis, strategy formation, and business planning</li> <li>Strategic marketing, and evidence-based marketing planning</li> <li>Business management, taking new ventures to market</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Senior manager, with experience at director level</li> <li>Ten years experience of learning industry</li> <li>Strategy consultant since 1992</li> </ul> <h5>Recent achievements</h5> <ol> <li>Launched Escry, an e-commerce start-up, marketing niche products to the "cognoscenti". Visit <a href="http://www.echocolat.co.uk/" target="_parent">www.echocolat.com</a> for an example of the Escry business model - and for <a href="http://www.echocolat.com/" target="_parent" style="text-decoration: none;">fine hand made chocolates</a>!</li> <li>Conducted an analysis of the central government education sector, identifying several business development opportunities with a potential value of over £50 million for Fujitsu Services</li> <li>Developed marketing strategy and wrote international marketing plan for UK eUniversities worldwide Ltd, a £100 million venture providing the capital, technology and channels to market to deliver UK higher education overseas and over the Internet</li> <li>Raised the profile of Epic Group plc, a leading e-learning company, in the education sector - wrote several proposals to Ufi, UK eUniversities, universities, professional bodies, government departments, publishers and broadcasters of learning - won business</li> <li>Wrote proposal to Kenyan Government for "[client] to implement a nation-wide, cradle-to-grave, learning experience [throughout Kenya] ... [to] catapult Kenya into the global Internet economy as a cost effective provider of online technology solutions"</li> <li>Wrote business plan for LearningGym, an ambitious new venture in the fast growing consumer learning market; identified and secured colleagues, development partners and investment capital</li> <li>Reversed 5 year decline in sales in one business sector and achieved 85% growth in the other, making Pitman Qualifications the best performing business unit in the City & Guilds Group</li> <li>Identified, validated and business planned brand new e-learning offering to achieve set objective of transforming £2 million unit into £10 million business - the initiative, which brings together two global brands in education, is currently being implemented across the whole City & Guilds group</li> <li>Identified, business planned and guided to market several other new ventures ranging in value from £2 million per annum to £20 million per annum, such as SmartScreen, an online assessment product for the corporate and agency personnel selection markets</li> </ol> <h5>Employment</h5> <h6>May 2000 to present        <em>Interim manager within the learning industry</em></h6> <ul> <li>2003                 Fujitsu Services, London <br />The world's third largest IT services company <br /><em>Consultant</em></li> <li>2001 - 2002     UK eUniversities worldwide Ltd, London <br />£100 million new venture, offering UK higher education online <br /><em>Consultant</em></li> <li>2001                 Epic Group plc, Brighton <br />Europe's leading developer of bespoke e-learning solutions <br /><em>Business development director</em></li> <li>2000                 ZygoCity plc, London <br />Leading specialist in internet and wireless enabled technology <br /><em>Consultant</em></li> <li>2000                 LearningGym, London <br />Start-up venture in fast growing consumer learning market <br /><em>Director of marketing and strategy</em></li> </ul> <h6>May 1995 to April 2000        <em>City & Guilds Group, London</em></h6> <ul> <li>1999 - 2000     Pitman Qualifications, London <br />£3 million business unit - part of City & Guilds Group <br /><em>Business unit manager</em></li> <li>1995 - 1999     City & Guilds Group, London <br />£50 million global awarding body with 8,000 customers in 100 countries <br /><em>Strategic planner</em>  (working alongside Deloitte Consulting)</li> </ul> <h6>September 1989 to April 1995</h6> <ul> <li>1993 - 1995     South Thames Training & Enterprise Council, London <br />£35 million administrator of local training and business support activities <br /><em>Management information manager</em></li> <li>1992 - 1993     Payment Systems Partnership, London <br />Strategy boutique advising Eastern European banking market <br /><em>Business analyst</em></li> <li>1989 - 1991     Lane Clark & Peacock, London <br />Leading firm of actuaries advising the pensions and insurance markets <br /><em>Trainee actuary</em></li> </ul> <h5>Qualifications</h5> <ul> <li>MSc Economics <br />Birkbeck College, University of London</li> <li>Actuary (part qualified) <br />Institute of Actuaries</li> <li>BSc Mathematics and Statistics <br />University of St Andrews</li> </ul> <h5>Personal details</h5> <ul> <li>Date of birth: 5 January 1966</li> <li>Nationality: British</li> <li>Status: Long-term relationship</li> </ul> <h5>Contact</h5> <ul> <li>Coach House Cottage, Graffham, Petworth, West Sussex, GU28 0NJ, UK</li> <li>Tel: +44 (0) 7940 735585</li> <li>Email: simon@interim.me.uk</li> </ul> <!-- END OF COPY -->
