BALE CROCKER - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Communications Specialist
Job Titles:
- Coach
- Executive
- Consulting Ltd
- Senior Human Resources Executive
Alison has over 25 years global experience in professional services environments. Her roles have included leading projects such as the first global outsourcing of human resources activities in partnership with Hewitt. In addition, she has extensive experience of India and a passion for the richness and creativity that diversity of thought brings to senior management teams.
Alison is a qualified executive coach and a member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), the International Coaching Federation (ICF) and the European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC). She holds a First Class BSc (Hons) in Psychology from Goldsmith's College, University of London. She and her husband live in Hampshire with their three boys. Personal interests include the guitar, pilates and running.
Job Titles:
- CEO, Director, & Majority Shareholder
Andrew has over 35 years' experience as owner, director, majority shareholder and CEO of privately owned companies with a range of experience of managing and merging companies in UK.
Job Titles:
- Latterly Global Executive Head of HR for the De Beers Group
Moving to the public sector, Ann then managed change across government from the Department for Trade and Industry, as Managing Director in the UK's Small Business Service, before returning to the private sector in 2007 to take up the role of Chief Executive of a biofuel joint venture 50 per cent owned by BP. As BP's strategy changed, and the business was sold, she became Managing Director for Energy at Xyntéo. In 2013, she joined Rolls-Royce plc and served as Director International until moving to the De Beers Group in 2017. Previous Non-Executive roles included serving on the British Institute for Energy Economics Council 2005-2016 (and as Council Chair 2006-07), as Board member of the CBI International Advisory Board and the UK India Business Council, and as Audit and Risk Committee member at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office 2011 - 2019.
Chris has over thirty years' experience as an adviser to, and finance director of, listed and privately owned, small and medium-sized companies (SMEs).
Job Titles:
- Executive and Non - Executive Board Director
Chrissi has over 20 years' experience as an adviser to and General Counsel of listed and privately owned multi-national organisations.
Christopher has led strategic digital transformation initiatives in professional services, utilities, retail, FMCG, advertising, broadcasting, government, manufacturing and entertainment sectors. In 2017 we published the ‘Integrity' argument.
Job Titles:
- an Interim CEO / MD, Business Mentor
Declan has over thirty years' experience at CEO, MD and senior financial levels across many industries. He set up his own consultancy in 2004 specializing in business mentoring and interim senior management assignments. .
Fiona has nearly 25 years' experience providing communications advice to ministers and senior officials in central government. She has worked with a wide range of stakeholders, including the judiciary and Bar, academic institutions, trade associations, major City finance and legal firms, regulators, local government and the emergency services.
Job Titles:
- Consultant
- Consultant and Coach With PLC Background
Helen is a consultant and qualified executive and team coach focusing on business performance improvement across a variety of business sectors. She has more than twenty years' experience to Senior Leadership level as a Sales and Marketing expert within the consumer goods industry where she worked with major brands including Pepsi, J2O, Tropicana, Hovis, and McVitie's.
Helen has a BSc Hons in Psychology (2:1) and a Postgraduate Certificate in Business and Executive Coaching. She is currently studying for a Masters in Organisational Change at Ashridge Business School. She is a member of the European Mentoring and Coaching Council and the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development. Helen lives in Hertfordshire. Her hobbies include travelling, theatre, cooking, reading, fitness training, and hiking.
Iain has over 14 years' in-house legal experience with 7 years as the Group General Counsel for Mercedes-Benz Group. In September 2013 Iain founded Radius Law. In addition, Iain has held a number of non-executive roles, is a contributing author for LexisNexis and a regular speaker particularly on legal management and corporate compliance topics.
Job Titles:
- Chief Marketing Officer With a Range of Industry & International Experience
- Founder and Director of Portio Consult
Jayne has twenty years of international executive experience and strategic B2B and B2C communications and marketing expertise to grow businesses, improve performance, increase profits generate leads, leverage partners, launch new products, services and divisions and commercialise the IP in young companies
Job Titles:
- Co - Founder
- CEO, Start - Up Co - Founder
John Bale - Managing Director
Job Titles:
- Managing Director
- Sales Leader
John has managed significant client relationships, sales forces and international sales resources for over thirty years. He has held international executive posts in sales and business development with IBM, Accenture and iXL. John is a strategic advisor on business development and sales performance to several ‘magic circle' law firms, to two of the Big-4 accountancy firms across Europe and to a portfolio of other clients.
Managing Director John spent many years with IBM (Sales Development Director, Global Services North Europe) and with Accenture (Global Lead for Relationship Management) developing his skills before forming Bale Crocker.
Since then he has provided great value to three of the Big 4 accountancy firms, many international law firms, consulting, financial services and manufacturing & distribution businesses.
" What I really value in John is his dedication to addressing your issue and not to promoting his own offerings. He is a really valued and trusted advisor. (Big 4 lead Partner)
John has had a successful career with a major plc where he held senior domestic and international positions and regards the highlight as tea with Mrs Thatcher when he persuaded her to introduce flexible licensing hours! Subsequently he operated a venture capital backed business and his own coffee equipment sales and distribution business.
Kareen Cranston - Chief Legal Officer, Secretary
Job Titles:
- Company Secretary
- General Counsel
Kareen has over thirteen years' experience as a legal adviser to and general counsel of large financial services organisations. She has also had board positions with these organisations as Company Secretary advising on legal and governance issues.
Margaret has over thirty years' experience as a Chief Executive, Executive Manager and Adviser to both Voluntary and Statutory sectors providing Adoption and Child Protection Services throughout the UK, USA, Canada and South Africa.
Invested in and operates two coffee and sandwich bars in Dublin's Financial District (IFSC).
Job Titles:
- Chief Marketing Officer
- Co - Founder of Pioneering Group Fitness Concept, Frame
Pip is currently Chief Marketing Officer overseeing the Marketing, Product, Digital and Customer Experience elements of the business. She has prior experience working in Agency environments and now works with a number of creative agencies, freelancers and in-house team to ensure that the Frame Brand Values and Customer Experience are always upheld as the business grows.
Pippa is an experienced board level executive with wide corporate experience in leadership and operational design mainly in the financial services sector.
Job Titles:
- Graduate Sales Trainee to Senior Sales Manager.
Rob held several senior roles with Royal Dutch Shell including Head of International Taxation, Country CEO of Belgium, and of Italy. As well as running the operational side, both country roles involved helping manage the transition to new structures. Since leaving Shell Rob has held several senior non-exec positions in the public, private and voluntary sectors. The public sector roles have involved extensive interaction with Government ministers and officials at the most senior levels. He is currently Chairman of the UK Space Agency Steering Board and of the Queen Elizabeth's Foundation for the Disabled.
Job Titles:
- Senior Human Resources Executive
Robert is an experienced Board level HR Director whose roles in the NHS, IBM and Capgemini have required him to lead the corporate HR services together with significant general management and client service responsibilities in UK, Europe, North America and Asia Pacific. His particular focus has been on executive talent management, employee engagement and all the people issues relating to the outsourcing of client services to on and offshore centres. He is now operating as an independent consultant to a number of long-term international clients.
Managed the global human resources function which supported business mergers, acquisitions and related growth from 350 to 1300 employees.
Job Titles:
- Private Family Office, General Counsel
Provided general commercial/business and legal support on a local & international basis.
Steve has over thirty years' experience in the medical device industry with twenty of those years spent initiating, conducting and advising on mergers, acquisitions, technology licensing, forming joint ventures and other commercial partnerships.
Job Titles:
- Executive Director With a Range of Public and Private Sector Experience
Tom has over thirty years' experience as an operational director, corporate resources and organisational effectiveness specialist and as strategic advisor to Governments.