Bourne Grammar School

Owner

Sleaford, England, United Kingdom

Bullion Dealing - I love this sector so much.  It takes years to get close to the real buyers and sellers and even then, you find they are very set in their ways and when neither side yields great deals fall away.  But persistence wins through in the end.

Self-employed

Jaguar Nova is a vehicle set up to help Green-Tech start-up companies looking for funding, guidance, help with their Go-To-Market strategies etc.  We can not only fund them, but also engage by sharing their offering out to a raft of Linkedin connections across the Globe.  Jonathan has spent a long time connecting to the right people in the renewables sectors at senior levels, so that when the right product comes along for them, the introduction is made and the business grows exponentially.  Jonathan genuinely has over 35 million Linkedin connections to third level now, and that is a powerful tool

Jaguar Nova LLP

Senior Partner

Far IR heating systems, Solar PV, Biomass, Waste to Energy, Wind Turbines, Energy Storage and large scale renewable district heating, and Urban regen projects.  Renewable emerging technology development, and energy internet thinking.  If it is new and helps reduce Carbon, I advise on it and install it, or help to fund its development.

Jaguar Energy

Managing Director

1.	Reviewing energy savings and renewable applications for a large Council on multiple large properties with occupancy rates from hundreds to thousands.  This involves Infra-Red, Solar PV, Hydro and Biomass2.	FAR IR heating systems and potentially solar PV to power it across a large housing stock that extends to nearly 55,000 homes with a HA3.	A new wind/tidal power system requiring investment taken to TATA development labs4.	An 18 month development process for an “all embracing” solution to identifying and marketing solar PV rooftops, domestic, social and commercial.5.	A £3.7Billion urban re-development project where we have been invited to look into the energy saving/renewable side.6.	Looked at a pallet manufacturing yard to assess the viability of drying their own wood.  Ended up selling a £260k biomass boiler and two kilns to show a payback period of less than a year and a half with a spreadsheet I wrote specifically for them.7.	FAR-IR heating systems in a major rail network company owning multiple stations etc,8.	A roll-out of FAR-IR heating panels, (with some disguised as paintings) across a National organisation.9.	A multitude of blocks of flats across several HA’s to have Biomass plants installed using ECO funding to cover the infrastructure changes and an ESCO model across the plant room negating and necessity for investment by the HA/Councils.10.	Organising and managing a think tank of very smart leading-edge technology developers, Energy Internet Group (EIG)  to be able to offer complete “off grid” DC run households, and to get whole communities to sell their surplus PV generated power in a virtual system via smart BMS systems and metering to next door neighbours, or highest bidders.

JAG Solutions

Affiliate for RTTG and Renewables Consultant

NSA was an interesting lesson!!!  I worked 70 - 80 hour weeks, and delivered all I said I would re sourcing funders for Commercial, Social Housing and Domestic, directly, or doing all the ISR's, spreadsheet, business plan creation, jumping through loops etc that had to be done to help source funders, all within five months based on a promise of shares etc etc... You've heard it all before!!!  And then.....Well, he's living in Cyprus and doing very well, and I was left to start again.  But as they say, "there is no failure...Only feedback" (or learning as I like to say)...Ouch!

NSA Electrical & Solar Ltd

Commercial Director NSA Electrical and Solar Ltd

I was a director of a company set up by myself and two other NLP Trainers (though it has grown considerably now) to offer NLP based training and development in the Corporate sector.  This training is specifically focused on the REAL business world, by people that have spent many years in different positions in the Corporate sector.  It covers areas such as business facilitation, conflict resolution, modelling etc can show people how to elicit buying strategies of customers and using this to encourage transactions beneficial to their organisations.  It shows people how to build rapport with clients within seconds of meeting them, and is recognised by leading businesses as a high and immediate ROI based investment.  Also asked by the ex FD/MD of Dell Europe to help him source funding for a brand new social media website which is now successfully running and we remain close friends.

QNLP

Director NLP Trainer & Master Practitioner for Business

In this role, I drew on years of experience from managing individuals, to working in an advisory capacity in the education sector, and have set up my stand as a  specialist consultant in the technology and BSF arenas.  I engage at the highest levels and because of this often advise and mentor senior decision makers.  This has also developed into a sub business where I find companies for sale and mediate between potential buyers and sellers.

Jaguar Executive Ltd.

Director

I worked as an IT solutions sales consultant.  I identified emerging technologies, partnered it with relevant bespoke software and produced IT solutions for vertical markets (high margin business).  I also focused on (due to the attraction of a revolutionary new PC in a desk called i-Desk) the education sector, developing solutions using the i-desk as a core product, tablet PC's wirelessly linked to projectors and conventional whiteboards, by using interactive whiteboard emulation software on the tablet devices.  In this area I built up a huge understanding of how to sell into the education sector, now used in qualifying candidates who claim this same knowledge.

Sole Trader

JAG Solutions is a sole trader vehicle for the considerable opportunities Jonathan has identified for beyond the box idea’s VC/Angel fund raising etc. Projects here ranged from setting up a virtual sales team for RSL (a Logistics company) wanting more customers, his private NLP customers, being asked to find £54.5 million of VC funding for a vitrification site to be built that would take toxic waste from ground-fill sites and create a safe, zero-leaching building material for coastal defence, roads etc. Jonathan also worked with a number of high profile technology companies on an interim role basis covering key area such sales, training, development and consultancy.  He has also helped several technology start-up companies with their business plans, sourcing of funds etc.  And spent six of these years heavily involved in solution sales to education.Projects have included;Sun Microsystems – Development work for internals across various UK sites on client communication and enhancing customer satisfaction.	Unimatic-info Tech Ltd – Consultancy and Training - Created several compelling telemarketing scripts for the telesales team. Coached a sales team to overcome objections and use SPIN techniques. Identified and closed opportunities with EDS, FPD Savills, Kone Plc and the MOD with a combined £1.2million value.  Time Computers – Consultancy, Sales and Training - A nine month contract covering retail training, the set-up of their corporate sales division and the introduction of a “beyond the box” mobile proposition.  EDS – Special project involving ruggedized tablet PC’s cameras and embedded GPS information for select group of soldiers to use.  He was also involved in the DII Project with some emerging technology he was working with.  I-Desk – Development of the Sales strategy including generating and closing £752,000 of systems to Education establishments.

Self Employed Entrepreneur

I helped start up this computer software training and consultancy business with my former wife from scratch.  Once up and running, I then worked on bringing in business whilst also working full time for other businesses in an IT sales capacity.  I recruited companies such as The Environment Agency, British Gas Transco, Pearl Assurance, Perkins, The Nottingham Chambers, Ergo, Castle Cement etc

Elite Training Solutions Ltd

Sales Director

I started as a portable product specialist, training 100+ internal telesales account managers on the USP's of our range of products, and advised on telesales scripts based on increasing margins.  I also presented to large audiences at shows, seminars on the current and emerging technologies that would be pivotal to both current and future business strategies if correctly implemented.  I was subsequently transfered to the BDM role whereby I secured and managed accounts like Hays, Kone, FPDSavills, Bevan Ashford, Brintons Carpets Powergen

Gateway Computers Inc

Sales

I started here as a Technical Services Manager, running the laptop build and repair department including the field service side.  After a year of this, and with a dramatic reduction in the DOA figures, I moved into sales, and single handedly secured Ergo's placement in the DSS catalogue as prefered supplier whilst simultaneously managing the ICLMC politics (brick walls!!)  I also set up and trained resellers, sold to Data General and numerous corporate accounts.  Was head hunted from this role to Gateway due to DSS account

Ergo Computing

Sold automotive aftermarket products to end users (garages) to Motor Factors, and to distribution (Cummins).  Great people, lovely company, was growing my area exponentially, but rewards were inadequate for someone wanting to make serious income.  Would still be there now had it not been for the poor rewards!!  Really sorry to hear Ted Baker had passed away, he saw something in me, to take me out of electronics and into sales and that takes guts.  As did the recruiters that didn't throw my application in the bin even though I had no ticks in boxes, and that is why I now do recruitment with a difference

Robert Bosch

I ran a business repairing everything electrical.  TV's video's stereos, car stereo's washing machines etc etc.  Also installed house alarms and car alarms.  Over doubled my RAF salary whilst in Germany converting english TV's and Video's to receive German sound and vice verca (for those interested, the sound carrier on German transmissions is half a Megahertz lower on 5.5Mhz instead of 6Mhz used in the UK, and band pass filters fitted then, only let the relevant carrier frequency through).  Biggest two challenges were firstly to convert a handheld casio LCD TV by breaking up the conversion circuit and fitting all the pieces into a tiny 3 inch x 3 inch case, and to repair a huge TV that had been dropped with the main circuit board broken in pieces.  I bonded the circuit board together, replaced any surface mount components that had broken off etc and bridged every cracked pcb track.  It was a great challenge and probably why I now need glasses!!!!!

JAG Electrical

1983 and 1984 at RAF Cosford.  1984 - 1987 RAF Coningsby.  1987 - 1991 RAF Wildenrath. 1989 for 6 months Falklands.  1991-1992 RAF Benson.  1992-1994 RAF Wyton. Spent every possible minute doing day release courses to do with anything electronic.  Became qualified electrician, TV/Video service engineer, did software programming and played every sport possible, several at station level.  Cracked 1.5 miles in under 7 minutes, did 2.2 miles in under 11 minutes

Jonathan Gilbert

Jonathan Gilbert