John was one of the original team at Systems Union Group, www.systemsunion.com, the authors of the SunSystems accounting and business software package. As President & Chief Operating Officer he oversaw the growth of the company from revenues of £100k to $100m, a £7m funding round with 3i and remained with company as a non executive director until the company was AIM listed in 1999.

In 1999 he joined Oxygen Solutions, a CRM vendor, as Chief Executive Officer. Working with the original founders and investors Kennet Capital & Thompson Clive he returned the company to profitability, grew the revenues 30% to £4.9m and sold the company in 2000 to Aspective, www.aspective.com, generating a fourfold growth in shareholder value in 16 months.

In 2001 he was appointed CEO of Zeus Technology, www.zeus.com, an Internet infrastructure vendor. The company had raised total of $17m funding but had over-expanded in the dot com boom. Working with the original founders and investors Cazenove Private Equity & Cross Atlantic Capital Partners, he restructured the company to achieve near break even, negotiated the breaking of onerous property liabilities, determined and executed a new product strategy and raised an additional £1m from the existing investors.

John now works with numerous companies in non-executive, advisory and consulting roles.