David Davies

I have worked for over 40 years in different Industries. The first 20 years as a Food Technologist and Manager in the Food Industry. Companies like Kraft General Foods, Nabisco, Northern Foods, Eden Vale. Running Operations, R&D and Engineering over multiple sites in the UK with links to mainly American parent companies. The last 20 years were working in Industrial manufacturing, British Gypsum, Armstrong Insulation products (now Armacell) and Parker Hannifin. Mainly in General Management roles and Business Development.
I ran the £15 million UK Business for Armacell and the India Sales team. The site in Oldham manufactured expanded rubber insulation and PE foam insulation products. The Sales team reported to me, and total employees were 95.
The Parker Hannifin role covered low pressure tube sales in Europe and a manufacturing operation with a budget of £6 million.  The factory in Buxton employed 45 people. The Sales team were managed by a separate organisation, but I was responsible for Business Development in Europe.
For the last 3 years in Parker, I was responsible for Polyflex Division Life Science Business Development and worked with a small start up in Sheffield on an innovative Cell Culture project for which I was awarded 2 patents.
Since leaving Parker I have worked as an Engineering Consultant. I ran a Limited Company with a turnover of £80,000 p.a. I closed the company this year to focus on other projects including Coaching.
Core skills: Project Management; New Product Development Processes; Marketing and New Business Development; Introducing Best Practice; Developing Vision, Mission and Strategies; and Managing Teams. I have also been involved in start ups.

My qualifications are BSc in Biochemical Engineering, ILM Level 7 certificate in Executive Coaching, NLP Master Practitioner and Coach.