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| David Pearson |
Chairman |
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David Pearson has extensive experience in consumer goods, electronics and technology licensing. After graduating in Law from Oxford University and blue chip management development in sales and marketing with Procter& Gamble, Mars and Pillsbury, David became Managing Director of Sony UK Consumer Products where he led the team that built sales from £150 million to £523 million in ten years. His success was rewarded by additional responsibility for a region in Western Europe and then promotion as Managing Director for the entire Sony United Kingdom company, responsible for turnover exceeding £2.2 billion and 5000 employees.
As Managing Director of International Brands for Pentland Group plc, a then FTSE 350 company, he applied these skills to the licensing of brands like Speedo and Ellesse on a global basis and also managed the Footwear license from Lacoste.
For five years David was Chief Executive Officer of NXT plc, a then FTSE 350 technology licensing company specialising in Audio. Under his leadership licensees, including 3M, NEC, Philips, Pioneer and Toshiba, launched products in all targeted sectors.
With this track record of success behind him David has demonstrated a consistent commitment to developing businesses based on meeting customer needs and managing the dynamics of different routes to market. He has experience in dealing in over 50 countries and the network of contacts that goes with such experience.
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| Phil Pettitt |
Chief Executive |
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Phil Pettitt helped to plan and create innovITS before being recruited to become chief executive of innovITS.
Prior to innovITS, Phil worked for about ten years in a variety of business development roles in QinetiQ, the R&D organisation. This was after many years in the IT industry in a range of consultancy, project management and research roles. He received his BSc in Computer Science at Essex University and an MBA from London Business School. He is also a Chartered Engineer and Member of the British Computer Society.
He is a past chair of ITS(UK) and is theme chair in SMMT Foresight Vehicle for ASSET (Automotive Software, Sensors, Electronics & Telematics). He is also a member of the International Advisory committee for AUTO21, the Canadian Automotive Network of Excellence |
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| Tessa Darley |
KTN Knowledge Manager |
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Tessa joined innovITS in October 2009 as KTN Knowledge Manager. Prior to this, working with the Improvement Service in Scotland, Tessa was concentrating on fostering and supporting knowledge exchange using communities of practice amongst Scottish councils. Using a variety of tools and techniques, both on- and offline, Tessa brings together people and technology to encourage a knowledge-sharing and collaborative culture across many diverse stakeholder groups. Tessa has a background in a variety of roles and industry, including management, facilitation and customer service, in start-ups in the private sector to non-profit and local government. Her background is in IT and knowledge management, with an MSc in e-Business Systems and Consultancy. She can be contacted at innovITS and found on Twitter (@tessadarley) and (LinkedIn) |
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| Rob Furlong |
KTN Business Development Manager |
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Rob joined innovITS in February 2008 as ITS Knowledge Transfer Network Development Manager. His role at innovITS is to manage the ITS Knowledge Transfer Network (KTN) which brings together industry, research and government stakeholders in intelligent transport systems, linking people with expertise in a broad range of technologies, including automotive, telecommunications, traffic management and computing.
Prior to innovITS, Rob worked in business development for software company and as a business development manager for British Telecom local business. Before this, Rob worked in a number of development roles on ITS projects for BAE Systems and Multiple Data Management.
His career started in 1985 when he joined Marconi Communications as a graduate Engineer with a 15 year spell working on the design and development of military and civil communication products. Rob then became the Software Development Manager for the Marconi ITS team, responsible for the development of the Road Traffic Advisor project. Rob represented Marconi Communications and BSI as the layer 7 Editor of TC278 Dedicated Short Range Communications (DSRC) road tolling specifications. Rob, a graduate from Bangor University, North Wales achieved his BSc (Hons) in Electronics and Telecommunications. |
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| Roger Wilson |
Business Development Manager, Advance |
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Roger Wilson joined innovITS in November 2009 with responsibility for the business development of innovITS Advance, Europe’s first ITS R&D facility. He has extensive senior management experience in all aspects of corporate sales, marketing and business development both domestically and overseas.
Roger graduated with an Honours Degree in Geography from Portsmouth University and gained a DipMS and subsequent Post Graduate Degree in Key Account Management from Cranfield University. He worked in the finance sector for Abbey Bank for over 15 years, leading the Corporate Sales Division to achieve annual revenue generation in excess of £60M, introducing organisation wide profit driven KAM best practices. More recently he has applied his knowledge, skills and experience across a range of industries and business scenarios including ITS & Telematics R&D. Roger specialises in establishing and implementing accelerated revenue growth strategies through KAM and leading the development of long term value based relationships with key global blue chip organisations.
Roger is a member of the South Northamptonshire Enterprise Board, an Ambassador for Northamptonshire and a Fellow of the Institute of Sales and Marketing Management. |
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