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Si Brown
North Yorkshire
About Si
Entrepreneur and Business Leader - Strong Executive level track record, (25 years) leading, creating and growing businesses, experienced in the scaling, evolution and establishment of brands and organisations. Resourceful and well-organized with excellent leadership and team building record, welcomes the opportunity to support multi-functional teams and operate under pressure.
Capital Funding - Experienced in identifying backing for start-up ventures, raising capital for growth into new market sectors and new territories.
Award Winning - technically-savvy with outstanding relationship building, training and presentation skills.
Operational Excellence - Recognized for assessing operational needs and developing solutions to save costs, improve revenues and drive customer satisfaction.
Non-Exec Director – experienced at both chairing and contributing as a trusted board member and critical friend - bringing operational experience, strong leadership and relationship-building skills.
Si's Career History
skignz
Founder & CEO
February 2012 - Ongoing
• Managing fundraising/Investment to start & grow business at each stage
• Planned business operational mandates and policies, starting with defining customers and market
• Assessed business systems and processes, identifying areas that could be improved to support future growth, including platform delivery, integration of ARKit/ARCore and development of SDK/APi for enterprise customers
• Created and executed marketing/PR campaigns, including new product introductions and existing product development
• Automated operational workflow by implementing Microsoft Teams & Xero into new processing platform
• Led cross-functional teams to analyse and understand operational impacts and opportunities of technology changes
• Reported and consolidated company financial performance
• Reviewed, researched and negotiated insurance, health plans, benefit packages and other contracts
• Tracked, analysed and interpreted trends in AR, Location & Mobile data
• Deployed new software baselines to develop, test and train in pre-production and production environments
• Engaged in strategic development for Enterprise business client base, providing advice on how to engage and deliver workshops
• Met end-user goals by supporting strategic planning initiatives for applications
• Communicated with customers, employees and other individuals to answer questions and explain information
• Reduced organisational operating costs by 65% by streamlining processes
Faris International
Non-Executive Director
December 2009 - July 2019
NHS Trust Community Services | Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire
Non-Executive Director
February 2007 - October 2009
NECC (North East Chamber of Commerce)
Board & Council Member
April 2003 - March 2007
Main (Autism Charity)
Chairman of Trustees
January 2003 - November 2008
Business Link (Tees Valley)
Non-Executive Director
January 2001 - August 2005
Chilli Group
Chairman
November 1999 - December 2009
Calm
Founder & CEO
February 1999 - December 2009
Endorsements
Alastair Thomson
27/11/2019
Deborah McGargle
27/11/2019
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