Summary

Mike has a very wide and successful background in management and business development. His combination of excellent communication skills with an aptitude for business development and management have provided success for the companies for whom he has worked or owned. His in depth education of business processes from IBM, together with the practical application of these principles in SME companies has combined to give birth to CCG. Coaching businesses to greater success and profitability is what switches Mike on these days.

Mike has developed a unique methodology for companies to follow in order to grow profitably; not rocket science; not over-powering and complicated, but pragmatic.

Previous Experience

Mike’s rich commercial background includes a highly successful career at IBM, starting in software development and then graduating through sales to general management.

From there he branched out into the small and medium enterprise sector where the blend of his international business skills and his instinctively entrepreneurial nature proved a winning formula, enabling him to grow and diversify the businesses he has worked with.

During that time, Mike successfully grew two UK limited companies plus the European division of a major US corporation. This provided experience of Mergers and Acquisition as well legal and financial disciplines associated with building successful companies.

Mike has nearly twenty years experience at board level in both executive and non-executive roles with companies of all sizes and across various sectors.

Qualifications

As well as qualifying to teach, Mike also qualified as a computer programmer in 1969 and subsequently progressed on the technical side of IBM through a number of management schools. MBA-equivalent courses were successfully concluded at IBM’s international school; and Mike graduated top of IBM’s infamous, challenging Sales School in 1981.