DIRECTORS PROFILES

Jetstream Profit was formed to provide rapid and substantial improvements for smaller businesses. We pride ourselves in the quality of our members and associates and aim to be the best at what we do.

John Fordham

John is a widely experienced managing director and has extensive experience and success in large and small companies in sales, marketing, product development, general management, company turnarounds, and people motivation and leadership skills.

Experience and achievement includes, as MD, rapidly turning around a loss making manufacturing company into a top fast growing engineering and manufacturing company which supplies large Blue Chip companies.

Wide international experience was gained working for large multinationals and also smaller companies; was instrumental board member in growing a company internationally from £5.0 to £25m in 5 years.

Over the last few years John has helped Managing Director Owners improve their businesses in general management improvement, performance measures, coaching, sales drives, marketing initiatives, and profit improvement activities for companies in plastics, engineering, electronics, cartons, timber buildings, telecoms, hydraulics, sales agencies, and more. John is an Executive Member of the Institute for Independent Business (IIB).

Peter Dudley

Peter is an experienced Director specialising in business strategy and planning. He can help you to assess what you want from your business and put together a plan with you to achieve those goals. He has extensive experience and skills in strategic planning and management, organisation design, change programmes and business operations.

His background includes project management, operations and marketing, and has run both small and large businesses. Working mainly in Europe and North America, for some of the largest global corporations in the telecoms, energy and insurance sectors, he has delivered several large change programmes and built a solid reputation for focus and results.

Passionate about the benefits that good planning can bring to a business, he is an advocate of business modelling and exponent of interactive dashboards. Peter has a BSc (Hons) in Electronics from University of London. Peter is an Executive Member of the Institute for Independent Business (IIB).

Charles Bartholomew

Charles qualified as a Chartered Accountant in the early 1970’s doing his Articles in the City of London. He initially specialised in audit work, particularly systems, and special investigations including prospectuses for companies floating on the London Stock Exchange.

The majority of his working life has been involved in the practical management and ownership of Small to Medium sized businesses, including those involved in : international trade and development; manufacturing in the electrical engineering industry; provision of consumer services (facility management) and franchising (in both the retail and Business2Business service sectors).

Having been an Independent Business Advisor for many years, Charles brings practical, objective and independent advice. Over the years he has developed a highly effective system for establishing "Financial Management at a glance" aimed specifically at non-financially trained Directors and owners of Small to Medium sized businesses. Charles is an Executive Member of the Institute for Independent Business (IIB).

Fred Squire

Fred is a highly experienced business manager. He has worked with companies in Europe and Asia to help them plan, develop and grow their business. He has particular expertise in business to business sales, marketing and pricing and in the development and implementation of integrated plans to drive and grow sales and profitability.

He worked for ICI for 16 years in a variety of commercial and change roles including three years as a regional manager in Asia. For the past decade he has worked with both large and small companies at Board level on a wide variety of business improvement projects.

He has a Law degree from Oxford University, is a member of the Institute of Business Consulting, an active member of the IoD and an Executive Member of the Institute for Independent Business (IIB).