Simon Smale

20+ years’ international senior leadership experience in the IT, Tech & Telecoms industries in global FTSE 100 / Fortune 100 and local Fast Track 100 businesses with a focus on developing sustainable tech and affordability solutions. A highly innovative, successful, motivated and results-driven enabler who consistently delivers rapid growth in line with company objectives. Have a track record of conceiving and implementing industry changing initiatives.

Relish the responsibility for defining, owning and delivering a vision. A commercially astute, pragmatic executive leader and dealmaker.

• Pan-European team leadership: design, build, development and performance management (300+ HC)
• Full P&L responsibility and risk management (€100m+ revenue, €20m+ EBITDA)
• Formulating, developing and implementing business vision, sales plans & roadmaps
• Complex commercial negotiations: multi-million euro deal maker both up and down the supply chain, often with multiple partners
• Propositions’ development: conceiving, launching, refining, often outside of the traditional core business
• Management of all relevant stakeholders (from Chairman / CEO down)
• Acquisition, divestment and integration
• Turnaround of under-performing business units
• Proven value creation in ITAD, buyback/trade-in, fintech, subscription, telco, distribution services

University of London BA (Hons) Economics & German 2(i)

Winchester College (scholarship winner) 3 'A' levels; 10 GCSE's