Mark Harris
Managing Director & Senior Consultant

A hands on, results orientated Business Director with the proven ability to deliver high levels of operational, commercial, and financial performance in the business development and distribution of products and services worth over £500m. Roles have includes Operations Director, Manufacturing Director and Business Development Consultant.

Key Skills

• Business Performance Improvement Specialist using the Value Forward Methodology
• Extensive Franchising / Licensing / Supply experience to successfully grow businesses with minimal investment required in equipment, people and premises. Worked with many of the major high street retailers and franchises.
• Business development and growth by acquisition. This includes the successful acquisition and merger of several businesses which were worth millions of pounds on the bottom line.
• Turnaround experience including business re-engineering, employee downsizing, supplier negotiations, and cost control and reduction.

David Martin
Senior Consultant

A finance expert with over thirty years of banking, franchising and commercial experience. Roles have included banker, corporate accountant, finance director and banking consultant. Financed and managed deals of all sizes from thousands of pounds to tens of millions of pounds including franchises, MBOs, mergers, acquisitions, investment property, sales and disposals.

Key Skills

• Business Development and Franchise Specialist
• Raising finance for any kind of deal. Extensive contacts with banks, financial institutions, private investors, venture capitalists, and business angels.
• Finance Restructuring
• Business and Cash Flow Planning
• Reducing the costs of finance
• Interest Rate Checks
• Exit Strategy Planning

Lee Barlow
Online Sales and SEO Improvement Specialist

An e-commerce, webdesign and SEO specialist who has worked with hundreds of clients to help maximise their online sales processes and integrate it into their whole strategy, sales and marketing. Click here to see samples.

Key Skills

• Maximising online sales
• E-commerce and Web Design
• SEO
• Pay Per Click
• Website Analytics
• Software and Databases
• Shopping Carts
• Auto Responders
• Outsourcing

Paul DiModica
Senior Consultant and founder of the ValueForward Network

Paul DiModica is the founder of the Value Forward Network. As a best selling author, Paul speaks internationally on marketing, strategy and sales best practices.

Paul is the author of the best selling book Value Forward Selling: How to Sell to Management and Sales Management Power Strategies. His new book Value Forward Marketing: How to Use Thought Leadership to Turn Prospects Into Customers is scheduled to be released in 2007.

Prior to launching DigitalHatch and The Value Forward Network, Paul spent over 20 years in business as a Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing, Vice President of Strategy, Vice President of Operations, Chief Operating Officer and company Founder in private, family-run and public companies with annual revenues up to $900 million.

Paul has been featured or interviewed by the New York Times, Fox News, Selling Power Magazine, Sales and Marketing Magazine, CIO Magazine, CFO Magazine, Entrepreneur Magazine, Training Magazine, Marketing Magazine, Transport Times, Computer World Magazine, Entrepreneur Radio, Chicago Tribune, The Cleveland Sunday Paper, Kansas City Small Business Monthly, The Manager's Intelligence Report, Agent's Sales Journal, Executive Travel Magazine, Wisconsin Professional Journal, Time Compression Technologies Magazine, Minorities and Women Magazine, Broker Agent News, World Fence News, Affluent Magazine, Value Added Partners, The Merchant Magazine, Pennsylvania Business Central Magazine, and many others.