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steve.beaumont@emcltd.co.uk
Steve joined EMC in 2008. He is an energetic, focussed business driver with hands-on experience gained across a variety of business sizes and industrial sectors.
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Steve's career has been built around his core competence of finance, rising to Finance Director of Parker Pen at the age of 28. After two years Steve assumed responsibility for the general management of Parker Pen UK including its manufacturing plant at Newhaven, East Sussex, employing around 1,000 staff. As the business expanded, Steve moved to embrace all of the European, African and Middle East businesses within the group.
Following the sale of the business to Gillette, Steve spent the next two years as the Marketing and Planning Director for Gillette's European business. This led to a global role as Group Marketing Director for the Parker brand responsible for all new products, core collateral materials and international advertising. This was followed by an appointment as Managing Director of Africa, Eastern Europe, Middle East and India for Gillette's stationery products group.
Following a successful trade sale of the business, Steve moved to head up the newly formed European Group for Sanford, a division of Newell Rubbermaid. Here, Steve consolidated the 12 operating companies and some 30 distributor groups to form a cohesive pan-European operating unit managing 15 brands and sales of $400 million plus.
Building on this invaluable experience Steve became the Managing Director of a specialist manufacturing company operating in the bathing and showering arena with the brief to turn the business around and prepare it for a future trade sale. This was achieved.
Following an interim appointment centred on organisational change within the textiles industry, Steve became the CEO of a USA public company operating in the digital technology space (TV over the Internet) where he built sales from $1m to $8m in 15 months, raised $8m in new funding, raised the share price from $0.50 to $1.20 achieved analyst coverage and introduced operational efficiencies. This success led to him being appointed to Managing Director for a USA investment fund focussed on the internet arena with full control of all European investigations and negotiations whilst assisting on the USA-based projects.
An opportunity then arose to join a UK-based company in the digital media environment where the main task was to secure the second round financing for this start-up. This resulted in the business being acquired by a USA group for $17 million.
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