The Core Team
Roy Lauder – Director and Co-Founder
Roy began his career in land surveying before entering the oil sector and then the power industry.
He has an engineering background and has gained strong business development and project management skills by working with both large corporates and small businesses. He has set up and built three companies.
Jim Henderson – Director and Co-Founder
Jim’s career started as a microbiologist with British Bakeries then quickly moved into operations, being thrown in at the deep end managing a production team on the shop floor. A whole series of promotions culminated in Jim running his first factory in Dundee, before being persuaded into a new sector, Soft Drinks, managing and leading factories with the Coop and Princes Group.
John Quinn – Director
John has held senior sales, marketing and business development roles for over 30 years with leading global companies including FUJIFILM, SAPPI, Tetra Pak and Alcan Aluminium. Most of John’s roles have involved the reorientation, re-organisation and re-invigoration of sales and marketing functions.
He has first-hand, proven success in designing and executing accelerated sales growth programmes that deliver sustainable profitability.
He has world class expertise in Sales Team Development, Key Account Management, Customer Centricity and Pricing for Profitable Growth.
John holds a BA (Hons) in Business Economics & Marketing and MSc in Corporate Leadership.
Jim Rae – Director
With over 30 years’ experience in business, Jim has operated at MD and Partner level for many years. He has been instrumental in the start-up, development, growth, diversification and divestment, of several businesses, including his own.
A Human Resources professional, Jim’s main focus is on people development and the role of “human capital” in a business. He brings a wealth of knowledge across a broad range of business challenges.
Client A testimonial
The challenge was to streamline some internal issues that were limiting our growth opportunities. Once they were identified, through clear communication and the strategic approach to putting solutions in place were really effective. We have implemented these changes and our business has doubled in the past 2 years with continued growth in the pipeline.
Client B testimonial
The business model was presented to our senior team, and this was a great visual representation to determine where on our growth curve we were as a business. This gave us the reassurance that other companies also face similar challenges when growing their business, and was a key catalyst for us proceeding. We have worked together over the past 18 months to great effect. We have had support to transform our board meetings, systemise the functionality within the business, and re-position ourselves within the market. The work is helping us go from A to B in a more defined way, rather than through experimentation where time and money can so often be wasted.
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