AMPIOS MANAGEMENT PARTNERS LIMITED - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Chairman
- Non - Executive Director
- Trustee
- Finance - Raising and Governance Specialist
Alan is an experienced chair, non-executive director, trustee and mentor. He has highly developed finance and business advisory skills from a career in business and corporate banking followed by roles in the accountancy and business finance sectors. Alan has worked with companies across multiple sectors with particular focus on assisting owner-managers mitigate financial and business risk while continuing to grow their businesses. Alan has an extensive network of funding and professional services providers. As an independent Board adviser, Alan brings financial literacy, openness and transparency, strategic thinking and constructive challenge to any Board entrusted with the stewardship of its business.
Job Titles:
- Manufacturing and Process Change Specialist / Finance and Growth Specialist
Andy has a strong operational excellence background where he utilizes his LEAN Manufacturing experience to guide and shape businesses to create the environment for lasting change. He has worked with companies across multiple sectors both in the UK and Asia Pacific regions, ranging from SMEs to multinational organisations.
Job Titles:
- Finance and Profit Improvement Specialist / Manufacturing and Process Change Specialist
Carl is an experienced commercially astute finance director, non-executive director and mentor, focusing on strategic and operational business transformation. He can drive forward changes to improve profitability and growth, by the identification and efficient management of process improvements and business improvement programmes. He was a director of the UK and Nordic companies of a US-based global manufacturing and distribution operation. He has latterly focussed on mentoring SME's to develop strategic plans to identify business development and opportunities.
Job Titles:
- Finance and Mergers Specialist / Private Equity / Venture Capital and Corporate Finance
David's incisive ability to see and evaluate issues has enabled him to work successfully as MD/FD with growth companies and in cash-stressed situations requiring rapid understanding and response. A strong believer in the power of relevant/reliable information upon which to base decisions and drive planned progress. A credible team builder and communicator between stakeholder groups.
Key Services: Delivers a focused, inclusive, and high impact improvement agenda created through solid financial understanding
Ed's brilliant creative design thinking, branding and marketing skills bring colour to Ampios and our clients. As Ampios's valued and trusted design marketing consultant, Ed works with our clients to create and implement effective marketing strategies for companies to drive sales, boost brand awareness and increase their market share. With an enviable client list in the private and public sector he has worked on marketing campaigns using digital and traditional media, driven digital marketing, enhanced packaging designs and produced some stunning annual reports. Ed started his career as a film technician on movies and music videos in Hollywood, including Michael Jackson's ‘Rock With You' and ‘She's Out of my Life' highly acclaimed music videos.
Job Titles:
- HR Consultant
- Human Resource Specialist
Helen is an experienced HR Consultant who brings pragmatic organisation-specific solutions to our clients. Working collaboratively to achieve business results, Helen builds strong and effective relationships with clients to identify and deliver solutions. Her commercial acumen allows her to shape and deliver the strategies as an enabler for business success.
Job Titles:
- Hospitality and Leisure Expert / CFO, TURNAROUND, and INVESTOR READINESS SPECIALIST
Howard is an experienced Hospitality professional with over 35 years of Leadership experience, most of which have been in Hotel General Management roles. He also has extensive Chair and Board experience currently Chair of Club Liverpool and was a Trustee at Blackpool Carers Centre for nearly a decade.
Howard is also on the Council of Governors at Alder hey Children's Hospital in Liverpool and sits on the Accommodation BID and Liverpool Hospitality Boards. He became an Apprenticeship Ambassador in 2010 in Blackpool, supporting the Northwest Apprenticeship Service spreading the positive message as an employer. He also worked supporting the HERO Project in Blackpool with judging on enterprise competition and offering mentoring to students.
Jason is an experienced analyst with over 20 years' experience within the telecoms/engineering industry who excels in effectively communicating issues, whether they be derived from data, processes or more anecdotally, into clearly defined process improvements, reports, documents or KPIs that can then be used to bring unambiguous improvements to an organization.
Job Titles:
- Strategic and Operational Leadership Specialist
John is an accomplished, senior executive; sought after Chair,NED and intuitive investor. A very hands-on leader with over 25 years experience across multi-cultural and diverse organisations.
With a background within Government Office, he transitioned into the Fortune 500 arena, elevating to being part of the global senior management team for Electronic Data Systems Group which later became part of HP under a $13.9 billion deal in 2008.
John sees and creates opportunities, ‘joining the dots' through his extensive private network to bring people, funding and businesses together. He has an intuition for bringing suitable parties together to broker a transaction or conclude a critical event.
John has a particular interest in electronic sensors, artificial intelligence, green technology and proprietary technology. His goal is to deliver significant profitability, margins, revenues and sustainability opportunities.
Job Titles:
- Chairman of the Board
- Director
- Strategic and Operational Leadership Specialist / Strategy and Leadership Specialist
John Boydell is an experienced board chair and director, a corporate lawyer and a pioneer internet entrepreneur in his own right. He has worked for decades alongside management teams in private (including may SMEs) and public companies, helping them to achieve higher performance levels and shareholder value.
Job Titles:
- Procurement Specialist / Research & Marketing Manager
Mark is a Procurement professional, Board Director, business consultant, coach and mentor, who helps business leaders make the best business decisions. With over 25 years of delivering outstanding results with and within complex sectors and organisations, he brings passion, energy and integrity to his clients, offering business leaders strategic insight, constructive challenge and hands on support to help them achieve their business aspirations.
Job Titles:
- Chairman, Non - Executive Director, Board Adviser, Senior Manager
- Strategy and Leadership Specialist
Martyn is a very experienced chair, non-executive director, board adviser, senior manager, trustee and mentor. He has worked with companies across multiple sectors and from FTSE100 giants to SMEs. He is particularly effective as an independent advisor to the Board and as a Mentor to Business Owners and MDs/CEOs. He brings a fresh pair of eyes, an analytical approach, natural curiosity, experience of best practice across sectors, and infectious enthusiasm.
Job Titles:
- Building and Coaching for Safety Specialist
Job Titles:
- CFO, TURNAROUND, and INVESTOR READINESS SPECIALIST
Mike has 25 years commercial and financial management experience gained across a wide range of businesses, including software start-ups, multinationals, and fast-growing entrepreneurial businesses.
Mike now works hand with private businesses on turnarounds, transforming operations, implementing financial best practice, and undertaking investor readiness for company exits.
Job Titles:
- Research & Marketing Manager
Nela is qualified and experienced nutritionist with regulatory and quality background skilled in customer service, HACCP, GMP, Food Safety EU & UK REACH, Regulation, Classification, Labelling and Packaging Regulation (CLP), toxicology consulting and testing management to ensure that regulatory and quality requirement are met.
She has demonstrated history of working in food retail, and chemical industries as well as fast-paced environments.
Working within regulatory sector and dealing with certain government policies allowed her to develop analytical and critical thinking that she now successfully applies.
She also holds PG in Leadership and Digital Marketing from Liverpool Business School (LJMU) and understands the meaning and importance of true leadership and how the success of a business depends on it.
Qualifications: BSc Community Nutrition, PG Leadership and Digital Marketing
Job Titles:
- Finance and Growth Specialist / Sales, Marketing and Public Relations Specialist
Nick has the ability to quickly analyse issues and create solutions enabling many years of successful assistance to growth companies across a number of sectors. An easy communicator, Nick gains trust with clients enabling effective relationships, which in turn allow plans to be developed more efficiently and effectively for strategic and operational business improvement.
Job Titles:
- Private Equity / Venture Capital and Corporate Finance
Richard is Manchester's longest surviving venture capitalist, doing his first deal in 1989 and working with over 100 companies since then. Initially in private equity, he then specialised in growth investment, backing some of the most successful companies in the North West. Alongside his understanding of equity funding and M&A, he also sits on boards and works closely on recruitment and performance of senior people.
Job Titles:
- Operational Leadership and Organisational Change Specialist
Robert has hands-on experience of running various types of businesses, some international, including; building design services, medical devices, corporate recovery, product design consultancy, manufacturing, company formations and sweet re-packing. Operating as either director or chairman. These experiences place Robert in an ideal position to understand where you are on your business journey and to help you develop your next steps to grow your business and deliver shareholder value.
Job Titles:
- Sales, Marketing and Public Relations Specialist
Stephen is an executive professional with a diverse background in business development across several market sectors. His primary areas of expertise are in up-scaling B2B strategies, team asset development, sales and marketing strategy, public relations, and CRM implementation.
His corporate career profile includes 15 years living in the United States holding the positions of Key Account Management, Vice President Sales and Marketing and Company Vice President, all within international public companies. Stephen brings a focused approach that inspires others to build and maintain profitable business activity.