Professional Summary Profile Gordon Whyte

Profile

Gordon Whyte

          Experienced Senior Manufacturing & Supply Chain Executive /Co-Founder

Introduction:

I am an entrepreneurial senior operations executive with broad experience in General, Operational and Change Management of which more than 20 years at international level. I have managed multi-disciplined teams delivering complex projects worldwide in high technology-based businesses, including multinational and start-up businesses

Business experience includes:

• Co-founder/founder of six start-up companies
  

• Hands on experience of managing six business start-ups / SME'S with P&L responsibility.
  
• Strategic business development, with hands-on, face-to-face customer development.
  
• Experienced in M&A and preparation for company listing
• Extensive senior operations experience, setting up new manufacturing operations, and developing outsourced manufacturing services.
  
• Developing business plans and financial modelling and budgeting.
• Leading fundraising both in Europe, North America and the Middle East.
  
• Leading technology transfer and IP / Patent development.
• Establishing and expanding businesses ensuring high profitability and continuous improvement.
• Business focus has been Semiconductor, Electronics, Photonics, Solar / Cleantech, Display technology, Space & Defense projects, IoT devices, and medical devices

Significant achievements include:

• Led manufacturing division to be profitable after two years from start-up doubled revenue year on year before a successful IPO in '96 and subsequent sale to SDLI (USA).
  
• Introduced four new products to the market including the worlds first 10 GHz integrated driver modulator in 2001.
• Launched the world’s first optical ASIC platform for complex optical silicon integrated circuits.
• Set up FLCD micro-display manufacturing operation and electronics assembly ahead of target and budget.
• Co-Founder of a Solar cell manufacturing company.
  
• Leading the implementation of Lean manufacturing and continuous improvement (Lean six sigma) projects across a variety of companies.
• Program management for the European Space Agency contracts, and other commercial space and defence projects.
• Turn-around of electronics contract design and manufacturing business

To conclude: broad international experience, sound knowledge of value-added

Mechanisms in different industries, understanding of all stakeholders

Requirements, customised solution provider, profitability, sales and result orientated.

Email:mrgwhyte@excite.com

Do not give up

 Do not give up



So some comfort to those of us who are job hunters of a certain age, we may have started companies, raised investment, patents issued and given people careers and a way of life, but you still keep getting rejected at the last hurdle of the job hunt steeplechase, well as Jack said here below never give up. If anyone is looking to start a company with some good ideas, get in touch, maybe we can help each other out or not, but at least you will have made a connection that knows what it is all about, and have a great week, or if anyone needs an operations or supply chain executive please feel free to get in touch with me.


 





















  
 
I have been working with some very talented crypto hackers and asked them to decipher some emails I have received from jobs that I have applied for, the quantity is significant enough to make it statistically significant, the results are presented in this infogram.

 

Some help from my friends

Looking for help from my readers, one long term contract and another job offer have just turned to vapour so I am starting to get hungry!!! If anyone can help me out and point me in the direction or put me in touch with someone who can connect me to a senior manufacturing or supply chain opportunity, open to the location other than central London, then when we meet up I will buy you the most expensive Nescafe available at the time. I hope you all had a great weekend.

Faith,Vision and Achieve the impossible.

 Faith,Vision and Achieve the impossible.




We all come to a point in life where we think, that is it I am finished with this, I am going to move on to something else, this is too hard, this business will never go anywhere, sometimes you are correct to move on and leave it all behind and start afresh on a new project, new relationship, a new life. But there are times that you should not give up and you should push on forward and upward, sometimes the breakthrough does not come from the direction you think, (Alexander Fleming ) or it comes from the cumulative effort of many (TI and DLP) but it does happen. The question many as is how do I know when to keep pushing on and when to give up, it depends on a few things- 
Is this your passion/dream? 
Is this life critical / life changing? 
Is this paying the bills? 
What is this costing me? 
What will I lose if I give up? 
What will I gain if I give up? 
Why do I do this? 
What else will I do if I give this up? 


The answer to the question, well only you will really know, but did the seed in the picture know the result of all the effort or did it just move in faith with a vision of something so great it would full its passion to grow no matter the cost. Have a great week and grow

HOMELESSNESS is 24/7 killer

This is not a pure business related post, but it could be, but it is a personal post about a subject that I am passionate and engaged with:-

 HOMELESSNESS is 24/7 
 449 deaths in the U.K. from Oct17 to Oct18 

More than one person per day dies in the U.K. directly caused by being homeless. The true toll is likely to be higher causes of death included assault, drug overdoses, illness and suicide, many showed signs of prolonged starvation. Their ages ranged from 18 to 94 years old, with an average of 49 years old for men and 53years old for women. 

Here is the thing we all can help, corporately and individually, I have some great ideas but lack the resource, many folks have the resource but lack the ideas. It does not take much to change this situation in the U.K. and the ROTW, so I ask that you look at what you can do, many of my connections already will help, but a concerted effort would change things permanently for the homeless. There plenty of local points of contact that can help you to engage, how about teambuilding by helping run a soup kitchen? emergency accommodation for "death freeze nights" I hope you can help and get engaged, and that's it.