David founded Brooklands Executives Limited and has built the business into a market leader.

Prior to starting the company, David spent several years as one of the highest individual producers in the UK Interim Executive market where he trebled the size of one of the leading intermediaries, in just three years. David’s success was due in part to his 360 degree view of the Interim Executive market – he has operated as one himself, hired them and now places them with some of the world’s leading companies and brands.

David has held senior sales and marketing posts, general management and Managing Director posts in a range of major international businesses – United Glass, Reed International, Caddie SA, BUPA, Zenith SA, Chinacraft, and latterly Accor Corporate Services.

His international experience over many years of developing products and service solutions for Board Directors has seen him working in countries as diverse as USA, Denmark, Italy, France, Switzerland and the UAE to name a few.

When not working, David tries to grab some time at his house in Ibiza where he is battling blazing sun and scarcity of water to grow an almond grove.

Stephen is a founder member and Director of Brooklands Executives. He brings a passion to our outstanding business process, focusing on quality and speed of response.

Following a classic sales and marketing career in industry and employee benefit business services, Stephen has held senior sales management posts for leading European companies. IDV, Accor and Gissings are just some of the leading employers he has been employed by in his career. Stephen heads up our Hospitality & Leisure, Food & Drink practice.

Stephen is a keen squash enthusiast and a leading light in the Wine Trade squash club. He also travels the world to watch England play cricket despite the fact the aura of his presence appears to be a handicap on many occasions. His daughter's horsebox can be seen on the highways and byways of southern England most weekends, sporting the Brooklands livery.

Simon joined in 2007 and brings 12 years of “search” (head hunting) experience to Brooklands.

He has worked across sectors, from software to retail, delivering senior management and board director positions across all functions from Sales and Marketing through HR and Finance to Development. Simon has carried out every role in a search business from researcher to trainer and senior consultant. He brings a robust knowledge of successful “search process” and a passion for delivering.

Rugby and skiing will always get an animated conversation going with Simon, as will Sri Lanka. After much research with his young family they have decided Sri Lanka is their favourite place to visit and much time is spent in planning for the day when they set off to find the perfect spot near Galle. Consequently Simon has now relocated there and is our Regional Managing Director – South Asia, covering India and Sri Lanka.

Barry entered the consumer electronics industry in 1978 after spending the first six years of his career in FMCG with two blue chip companies, Beechams and Smith & Nephew. His early years in electronics were with Sony, and he also held senior sales and marketing roles with Toshiba and Aiwa.

He joined LG Electronics in 1992, was appointed Managing Director in 1995 and was responsible for a major sales growth from £26 million in 1992 to £317 million in 2002. In 1998 he was appointed Vice President of LG Electronics Inc. in Korea. LG's wide field has also given him experience in IT, Telecoms and AirCon markets. Barry was Chairman of the Television and Radio Industries Club (TRIC) in 2001 and 2002 and sat on the executive committee of the British Radio and Electronics Association (BREMA) from 1988 to 2002. He was also a board member of the Association of Manufacturers of Domestic Electrical Appliances (AMDEA) and is a member of the Institute of Directors and the Marketing Society. The 30 years that he has worked within the electronics industry have provided Barry with a wealth of experience at all levels of business and across all disciplines. Barry lives in Thailand and is passionate about the South East Asia region where he has lived and worked extensively.

Barry has three grown up "children", and amongst his other loves are Wolverhampton Wanderers Football Club and Soul music.

Clive has been providing interim manage-ment solutions to both public and private sector organisations for over 12 years.

His early career was built on a steel industry apprenticeship, a chemical engineering degree, and a progression to Plant Manager within Unilever’s food interests. His decision, aged 30, and with a young family, to embark on a self-funded MBA at London Business School proved a ‘life changing’ experience. Over the following 20 years his portfolio career encompassed Management Consultancy within PA’s General Management and Oil & Gas Divisions, Programme Management in the USA, Divisional MD of a quoted UK company, and leading a VC backed MBO/MBI through a turnaround!

Since moving into Interim Management in the mid-90’s, Clive has been a passionate advocate of the benefits interim managers bring to both public and private sector organisations. His first-hand experience of designing and delivering business transformation forms the core of his belief in the part interim managers can play in developing the professional skills within the client’s own core team to leave an enduring legacy. Clive leads our Public Sector practice as he has a long and successful track record in this arena and it optimises our Catalist / Buying Solutions accreditation as one of the few Government pre-approved suppliers of Interim Executive Management.

An avid scuba diver and nature lover with a pioneering streak, Clive organises and leads expeditions to increasingly far flung destinations ‘off the beaten track’. Now finally thawed out after diving with leopard seals and icebergs in Antarctica he’d welcome suggestions for 2010 – somewhere warm!

Martin has a wide remit at Brooklands and considers this the most fulfilling thing he has done in his career to date. In particular Martin finds immense satisfaction from the win/win situation when clients identify a need to fill an assignment or role and Martin delivers candidates that deliver.

Prior to joining Brooklands, Martin was General Manager of Doctors Direct plc, a company supplying private General Practitioner services to corporate clients and the public. Most of his working life however has been spent in the City at Lloyds of London. Having started his training in one of the bigger broking houses he, through a series of moves and promotions, became a Director of one of the medium sized broking houses. This has given him a wide experience of doing business on an international scale and dealing with a colourful and varied client base.

Outside the working environment Martin enjoys racing both horses and Formula 1. He confesses to a fondness for Arsenal, which provides an expensive and often disappointing enjoyment of sport. He also enjoys sailing and fine dining.

A qualified engineer, Bruce has held senior manufacturing and engineering roles with GEC and most recently Renold, in both chain and gear manufacturing businesses. He has hands-on experience of a wide range of topics including JIT manufacture, productivity and on-time delivery improvements, ISO 9000 introduction, and multi-site product rationalization.

Whilst heading the Engineering department at Renold Gears, new product introduction, on-site performance analysis and assessment of offshore suppliers, were areas he developed specific knowledge in. Bruce has wide ranging expertise in all aspects of design and production, which has taught him the importance of teamwork and getting the right players in place to make it work. He is a qualified assessor. Bruce heads up our Manufacturing, Engineering and Production practice.

When not getting his hands dirty with all of the above, he enjoys supporting Sale RUFC. He then works off the resulting frustration by, slowly, restoring his 120 year old Victorian house.

Mike Dodds is one of the leading Interim Management providers in the UK, having been the top consultant in three major companies.

After a successful career in senior marketing roles with blue-chip FMCG companies, Mike spent the 1990’s directing company turnarounds, from losses to profits, in different sectors. This in-depth and close-up experience at the management coal face helps him to understand the issues and opportunities facing many of today’s clients.

After a personal career spent achieving step-changes in the performance of a number of organisations, he is a passionate advocate of Interim Management. Mike’s clients particularly value his objective advice on when and how to use Interim Managers to get the most cost-effective benefits.

When Mike is not working, he escapes to his holiday home in south west France. The challenge is not so much a ‘Year in Provence’ but more like a lifetime in renovation! Mike looks forward to plenty more assignments to support the French building industry for years to come.

Prior to joining Brooklands in 2007 Kate held senior management positions and gained international experience in the Defence Industry, working for both the UK Government and private sector. Kate brings a wealth of project management, change management and communication skills to the Brooklands team.

Kate’s passion is in developing and delivering organisational change and high performance culture; it was a natural transition therefore for her to join Brooklands, an organisation that harnesses and promotes the talent of individuals to achieve corporate objectives. It was her fascination with strategic thinking that lead her from her financial career with PriceWaterhouse Coopers and Touche towards the defence sector.

As a former international competitive athlete Kate thrives on a challenge; becoming a Round the World Yachtswoman in 2006 has sparked a passion in sailing and keeping dry and warm!

Prior to entering the recruitment industry 20 years ago, David’s earlier career was in IT management in the oil, manufacturing and automotive sectors, followed by a period in hardware sales in the telecommunications industry.

Starting as a specialist IT recruiter he quickly broadened his brief to general, cross sector Executive Search with a global management consulting firm, before establishing his own practice in the mid 1990s. He has also spent the last 3 years as an Associate of another specialist Interim Provider.

A Scot by birth, he and his family have lived in the West Midlands since the late 1970s.

In recent years, much of his recruitment focus has been in the Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) market, where he has recruited staff for newly launched UK subsidiaries of several North American and European businesses.

When not working or travelling, David is a keen Rugby Union follower. In his younger days, he was a RFU qualified Junior Coach. His claim to fame is having his coaching ‘career’ brought to an abrupt end through injury – inflicted by an Under 15s pack, including his own son!

Simon is a chartered accountant who enjoys helping businesses meet their challenges by providing highly experienced people on a project basis.

Following qualification with the “big few”, Simon worked in the oil industry during the North Sea boom, stockbroking during Big Bang, and an advertising agency during the 90’s recession. After ten years’ experience in commercial financial management up to Finance Director level, Simon specialised in business development with leading mid tier accountancy practices and then built on that experience to offer Interim Executives to businesses on a project basis, initially with one of the other market leaders. Simon heads up our activity with the Oil & Gas market and Professional Practices. He also has expertise in AIM listed businesses.

When he is not out networking, Simon is either nursing his 30 years old campervan through its next MOT or teaching karate with the Japan Karate Association, where he is treasurer and holds a second dan black belt. Consequently David never argues with him.

Richard joined Brooklands in 2007 bringing extensive expertise and know-how in winning new business through directly developing new relationships and harnessing new sales channels including dealer networks and affinity partnerships.

Over the last fifteen years Richard has developed substantial commercial experience in the consumer financial services marketplace. Richard has nurtured successful partnerships with some of the leading names in UK high street retail and has created long-term mutually beneficial business relationships.

Richard’s experience of negotiating at all levels provides a firm foundation for understanding wider business issues and a resolve to ensure the client’s requirements are at the forefront of everything he does. Richard heads up our Financial Services sector practice.

As a family man with teenage children, Richard ensures that his negotiating and networking skills are well exercised and kept up to date.

Simon specialises in commercial sectors such as technology, luxury brands, Private Equity, public relations, building products and energy - in the UK and Europe. He has worked with senior managers from multinationals as well as owner-managed businesses. Latterly he has developed a taste for the Middle East where he is opening the eyes of the telecoms market.

It was just over two years ago that Margaret joined the Brooklands team as Director of Professional Development. As a former Director of Right Coutts Margaret has over thirty years experience in helping organisations to improve effectiveness and maintain their competitive edge through the development of their people.

Margaret is experienced in the design and delivery of training and counselling, coaching and mentoring programmes to a wide variety of public and private sector organisations. The diversity of her portfolio is reflected in the cross-cultural teams Margaret has managed with projects in Western Europe, UK, USA, Hong Kong and the People’s Republic of China (PRC).

The image of professional development being a “pink and fluffy” activity is far from the challenges that Margaret has overcome, for example
acting as a coach of choice for Chase in the Asia Pacific region; and designing an assessment centre process for a major UK FMCG company that enabled them to locate, assess and recruit twenty new graduates in the PRC.

When not clucking over her corporate flock, Margaret is a keen hen enthusiast.