Team Profiles
Kathryn Shepherd-Jones
 Kathryn has over 18 years' experience of providing strategic advice and guidance to both SMEs and blue chip organisations.
Kathryn combines her proven business skills and considerable business development expertise to help clients to shape profitable and sustainable growth.
She is experienced in board-level strategy formulation, business and communications planning and implementation and always strives to deliver exceptional results.
Example Assignments
- Providing advice and hands-on support to a training company to assist them with the successful franchising of the business as the key route to eventual exit.
- Developing and implementing a rapid growth programme; transforming a loss making division of a communications company into a profitable growth business.
- Initiating, branding and developing an independent global partner network to generate growth opportunities within the marketing services sector.
Key Skills
- Profit improvement
- Business development: strategy formulation, planning & implementation
- Pan-European marketing communications
- Internal communications
- Fluent French & German speaker
- Project management
Industry Sectors
- Technology
- Professional services
- Publishing
- Manufacturing
- Recruitment
- Vending
- Utilities
Graham Hudson
 Graham Hudson has over thirty years experience of organising and carrying out strategic marketing programmes, as a General Manager/ Director of blue chip companies, and latterly as an adviser to both SMEs and larger companies.
His career has embraced domestic and multi-national companies; he has a track record of achieving in a variety of company sizes, and a number of marketplaces - having traded and advised clients in UK, Europe, the Americas, and the Far East.
He has assisted a number of companies to create, resource and execute growth activity - through strategic development initiatives, product and market development, innovation, the appointment of key trading partners, and by ensuring the availability of funds and key people.
Example Assignments
- Introduced strategic development programme into interior design operation, leading to doubling of profits within eight months.
- Introduction of marketing focus and people into niche mail order business, resulting in 30% extra turnover and 50% extra profit within a year.
- Established firm foundations for new software development company, grew business, organised successful sale to PLC.
Key Skills
- Profit focus
- Business/ marketing strategy creation and execution
- New product development and introduction
- Change management
- Value creation to lead to exit and succession strategies
- Project management
Industry Sectors
- Consumer durables - white goods, brown goods, clothing
- Pharmaceuticals/ healthcare
- Manufacturing
- Professional services/ financial services
- IT/ Internet
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