Stuart is a marketer and writer with front-line sales experience.

He served in the RAF working on jet fighters such as the delta-wing Javelin. His business career began with 10 years in the petroleum industry. Fascinated by emerging possibilities for 'retail automation', he was among the pioneers in self-service petrol stations and went on to market electronic card payment systems. He spearheaded special projects for a leading vending machine manufacturer and was European marketing manager with an Australian firm manufacturing quartz crystals and oscillators for professional and military radio.

He paused in mid-career for a psychology degree and since then has carried out numerous business development projects and market 'probes', as a freelance, to evaluate new technologies and guide business decisions. He also lectured in Marketing and Advertising.

Stuart served as a county councillor and Police Authority member in Cambridgeshire, and for 3 years was a regular columnist with an award-winning newspaper. He writes and shoots pictures for magazines and business publications.

He was awarded an Associateship by the Royal Photographic Society in 2000 and produced a millennium photo-documentary book of his local community. A second book, Radio Free Palestine, about the situation in the West Bank, was published in 2007.

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Key Employers
Shell-Mex & BP Group, GEC-Elliott Automation, GKN-Sankey

Music to Stu's ears: a string of ERAs

Key Industry Experience
Oil/petroleum marketing (commercial and retail).

Retail automation, electronic card payment systems, vending and automatic merchandising systems.

Components - frequency control devices for mobile, military and professional radio. 

Freelance innovation research in numerous high and medium technology areas.

Freelance business development projects in various fields ranging from smartcard applications to media skills training.

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Main Areas of Experience
Marketing
Sales management
Industrial market research
PR and advertising agency relationships, promotional planning
Copywriting, journalism, photography

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WRITING/JOURNALISM, PHOTOGRAPHY
# 136 columns (politics & current affairs) and numerous articles in an award-winning newspaper.
# Technical and general interest articles for business magazines including 'Management Today', 'Marketing' and 'Vending International', and consumer photographic magazines.
# Research reports, articles, booklets, product brochures, corporate newsletters, press releases and campaign literature.
# Associate of the Royal Photographic Society (ARPS) in 2000 for ‘Applied' photography.
# 2 books.  
# Columnist, internet news sites such as Redress Information & Analysis, MiddleEastOnline, Cold Type, Palestine Chronicle.

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BUSINESS BACKGROUND
Left school at 16 and opted for a career in sales and marketing...  

Shell-Mex & BP Group:  Selling Power/BP commercial fuels and lubricants in Scotland, managing BP retail interests in Exeter/Torbay and carrying out petrol station forecourt developments 
Automation Devices:  National Sales Manager, electronic self-service systems for petrol stations 
GEC-Elliott Automation: Head of Sales, Advanced Systems Unit - card operated refuelling systems 
GKN-Sankey Vending:  Market Development Manager - spearheaded special automatic merchandising programmes including video vending and phonecard vending 
Hy-Q International:  Marketing Manager Europe - quartz frequency crystals/oscillators/filters for professional, mobile and military radio

Outside mainstream...
Lecturer in Marketing and Advertising, Cambridge College of Arts & Technology 1987-88.
Elected Cambridgeshire county councillor 1993-97. Party spokesman on economic development and police.
Member of Cambridgeshire Police Authority 1993-95.

St Ives Bridge from a microlight

FREELANCE/CONSULTANCY (since 1986) mainly in technology, innovation and business development.
Working on own account and as an associate with a consultancy, evaluating market potential of new product concepts and innovations, helping companies with new product decisions, identifying opportunities and strategies for growth and recommending routes to market. Often involving market probes, relationship building and gaining new business.

Strange company: Hamas 'guardians'

A favourite retreat: Balcary Bay, Kirkcudbrightshire

List of projects available on request

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