1 © John L. Evans Mar-16 Contact : john.evans@ececs.com +44 203 051 3370 (Office) +44 7957 190186 (Mobile) +44 1926 624832 (Home)

John L. Evans

Executive Officer

John L. Evans FCMI, FIC, FBCS CITP, MCIPS.

Expertise John Evans offers over 20 years Board-level executive and

non-executive leadership expertise, Strategic Planning and Technology Management, Consultancy, Project and Programme Delivery, Risk Management, Issue and Dispute Resolution, Sourcing, Procurement and Joint Venture, as well as considerable Commercial and Subject Matter Expertise.

Taking on challenging situations he specialises in succeeding where others have walked, or been sent, away.

He has built successful businesses from scratch, worked with Start-ups and Early Stage ventures, raised capital and generated sales channels and routes to market with Small Medium Enterprises, through to Listed National and International Corporations, Public and Private in:

Utilities

Telecoms

Retail / FMCG

Banking & Financial Services

Executive Director, Interim, Consultant Manager, and Managing Director with EXECS Limited.

Summary

An inspirational, entrepreneurial, leader by example with a unique blend of skills, able to deliver results, on time and to budget.

He values people and their ideas.

Technically strong, highly analytical, quality oriented, and strategically influential with over 20 years ICT, systems and infrastructure, strategic, tactical and operational experience.

A knowledgeable, negotiator, risk, issue, and dispute resolver, and a process oriented, programme and portfolio director, proficient in meeting deadlines and commitments, including regulatory and compliance obligations.

Experienced in business development and competitive tendering, crisis, 3rd party and stakeholder management, commercially astute, in various sourcing and supply arrangements, as both service provider and customer.

Adept at stepping into difficult and / or challenging situations, getting plans on track and meeting client expectations.

A career record of managing suppliers and joint ventures, businesses, contractors, consultants, professional service providers and suppliers in general, in complex situations, reducing friction and misunderstanding by highly effective communications.

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2 © John L. Evans Mar-16 Contact : john.evans@ececs.com +44 203 051 3370 (Office) +44 7957 190186 (Mobile) +44 1926 624832 (Home)

Main Qualifications

Fellow : Chartered Management Institute - FCMI

Fellow : Institute of Consulting- FIC

Member : Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply – MCIPS

Chartered IT Professional – Fellow, of the British Computer Society – FBCS CITP

Member : BCS ELITE Group

Member : BCS Projects and Programme Management SIG

Programme and Portfolio management

Creation of New Ventures and Business Development in Cloud Services and Telecoms Network equipment

Go-to-market strategies, customer trials, exhibition and market entry planning

Exmplar(selected)

Utilities, North West Water’s Telecommunications Project Engineering (fixed, cellular, mobile, telemetry, radio, including mast infrastructures, fibre, etc.), BG Transco’s Remote Meter Reading project with BT, Centrica’s ERP deployment to LP Gas, etc.

Telecoms, designed and deployed the largest (then) private broadband networks in Europe, ran COLT’s Cloud Services with customers including Bild.de and DirectLine, acted as Genesis Technical Systems’ General Manager and VP Business Development and Operations, audited the INMARSAT II project, established and ran A&T EMEA’s Legal Entity restructuring, CoolToCall Facebook Calling app, UK Mob app incubator, etc.

Retail & FMCG, Land Rover Dealer Networks, UNIPART Group Telecoms Manager, Edmunds Walker & UNIPART Counters‘ ePOS, UK National Lottery business, organisation, resources plans and initiation, operated as head of commercial procurement for Boots the Chemist, £60M+ IT and telecoms spend including ePOS, loyalty card and SAP deals. Programme Managed WINCOR NIXDORF deployment of systems and ePOS to Woolworths, One-Fuel Shell Racing Solutions, etc.

Financial Services, BACS network, LIFFE CONNECT™ Global e-trading platform, UreLife® Card, the UK's First Prepaid Debit Card With Built-In Government-Approved Proof-of-Age, Paribas €uro programme, L&G 60 x Branch Office Systems upgrade and telecoms outsourcing, etc.

Designed, recruited and equipped programmes, and portfolios from £5M to £300M; build and run major change programme functions, and companies, from scratch.

Negotiated multi-million pound commercial deals; complex sourcing and supply contracts, in excess of £25m, both within and outside the strictures of procurement legislation.

Resolved some incredible ICT challenges, led, turned around and delivered time critical objectives including matters of survival.

Experience

Skills Profile

John L. Evans FCMI, FIC, FBCS CITP, MCIPS.