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Brian Williamson is an entrepreneur who possesses the knowledge and experience of both a fast-advancing managerial career in industry and of personal high growth business start up. With an acute commercial awareness and astuteness for determining optimal organisational needs, his focus is on maximising talent to achieve extraordinary success.
Brian (Dip Eng) was educated at Glasgow Caledonian University and embarked upon a successful management career with Weir Pumps. Over the next fifteen years he ran companies at board level within several different industry sectors including Electronics, Heavy Engineering, Construction, Petrochemical, and Oil and Gas. In each of these positions he had full P&L responsibility.
He launched his first company in 1995 in the automotive sector and within three years had reached a £5m turnover. Soon after he sold his interest to his fellow shareholders and started his own Oil and Gas company. This award-winning business was acknowledged for its rapid growth and for its exceptional export achievements. In 2004 Brian sold the enterprise to the management team and during this period he became an active investor spending in the region of £150k in a number of start up ventures.
Brian exited from The Learning Organisation Ltd in 2007. This is a group specialising in training and business start up, the Group helped train in excess of 25,000 people annually and has assisted over 80,000 people start up in business. Brian's interest in this sector began eight years earlier as a volunteer business advisor to one of the Group companies and within one year he had bought into that Company. One year on, he formed a group holding company and was the architect of creating a Group shareholding structure. He took over as CEO in late 1999 and the following year led an MBO. In the last few years Brian has successfully restructured the Group from one with a mediocre performance to one heralded within its industry as a top performer. Brian led the initiative to sell the group companies to allow him to focus on helping businesses primarily based in Scotland build and grow to businesses of scale.
Brian was key in the Management Buy Out and formation of Brightwork limited, a recruitment company specialising in both temporary and permanent placements. Brightwork, with sales of £9m in its first year of trading, expanded turnover to £16m by the end of year two and now employs 30 full time staff and over 1000 temporary staff. Brian is the Executive Chairman of the company. http://www.brightworkltd.com/
Brian is also Non Executive Chairman of Peoplematters who specialise in people and organisational development. http://www.peoplematters.co.uk/
Brian has also launched his own consultancy working with companies and individuals helping them maximise shareholder value.. http://www.tiger-eye.org/
Registered in Scotland. Company registration number SC 160976.
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