Bob Gilkes has created rapid growth companies through turnaround leadership, achieving public offerings and sales, on both sides of the Atlantic. These successes are achieved by intuitive strategic marketing supported by strong leadership from the front. He applies a listening management style to build decisive, balanced corporate teams which are intensely focused on a successful outcome.
He has an outstanding marketing track-record and mature financial leadership, raising significant investment capital over many years in Europe and USA. Gilkes has twice achieved successful IPO’s from VC turnaround briefs, one in the UK and one in the USA.
After five years split between both Oxford and Cambridge Universities, he worked for the British Government in overseas administration, in sales and management for IBM and in Unilever for several years as a senior manager. This background experience is of significant help in establishing director-level partnerships for turnaround companies with major international corporations such as Nokia, Canon, Ricoh, Toshiba, Fujitsu, Hewlett Packard, British Telecom, France Telecom, T-Mobile, GE, Martin Marietta, LGE Electronics, the US Department of Defense, Motorola, Vodafone and Sun Microsystems.
A full CV is available on request.