Bob Axton

Past

• Market Director Defence and Security at Serco
• Director at Serco
• Market Director at Serco Consulting

• Director at Cornwell
• Director Defence Practice at Cornwell Management Consultants plc
• Director at Cornwell
• Defence and Intelligence Lead Principal - Consulting at IBM Global Services
• Director at Admiral Management Services (AMS)
• Public Sector Director at Admiral

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Education

• Royal Military College Science Shrivenham

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Industry

Management Consulting

Bob Axton’s Summary

Bob is a customer focused, energetic and dedicated professional, recognised for delivering results at board level. He is a strong leader who creates trust, and is practised in building and leading rainbow teams, and delivering complex technological solutions to schedule and budget. He has demonstrated the ability to get to the heart of problems and their resolution, applying excellent communication and negotiation skills

He has a good understanding of the business drivers within the Public Sector and the roles that people, process, and technology have to play in delivering pragmatic and cost-effective solutions. He is an experienced Programme and Transformation Manager with an in-depth knowledge of Information Management and Exploitation principles and with proven track record in successfully delivering major Defence and Security IS programmes.

Bob Axton’s Specialties:

• Strong leadership, team building and development skills;
• Client relationship building and business development;
• Able to plan, implement and manage change at board level;
• Business Transformation;
• Information Management and Exploitation;
• Wide experience of working effectively in multi-disciplinary teams;
• Excellent communicator, adept at influencing groups;
• Coaching and Mentoring.

Bob Axton’s Experience

• Market Director Defence and Security

  Serco

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; SRP; Information Technology and Services industry)

  May 2007 — September 2008 (1 year 5 months)

  • Leading Serco Consulting’s Defence and Security Practice (covering the IT strategy, requirements and delivery organisations of the MOD), generating revenues in excess of £10M per annum;
  • Profit and loss accounting for the Defence and Security Practice;
  • Strategy development and implementation for the Practice and Serco Consulting;
  • Leading all people development (recruitment, performance management, development planning) activities for the Defence and Security Practice;
  • Thought leadership in the area of Information Management and Exploitation;
  • Building, through recruitment and development of existing staff, a winning team;
  • Developing and maintaining trusted and lasting relationships with key customer contacts in target accounts;
  • Selecting and developing key business partners for the Sector.

• Director

  Serco

  (Management Consulting industry)

  2007 — 2008 (1 year )

• Market Director

  Serco Consulting

  (Management Consulting industry)

  2007 — 2008 (1 year )

• Director

  Cornwell

  (Management Consulting industry)

  2003 — 2007 (4 years )

• Director Defence Practice

  Cornwell Management Consultants plc

  (Public Company; 51-200 employees; Management Consulting industry)

  May 2003 — April 2007 (4 years )

  Practice Director, Defence - Cornwell Management Consultants plc, with P&L responsibility for delivering Defence Sector targets as well as the development of new services and sales strategy.

• Director

  Cornwell

  (Management Consulting industry)

  2003 — 2007 (4 years )

• Defence and Intelligence Lead Principal - Consulting

  IBM Global Services

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Information Technology and Services industry)

  January 2000 — March 2003 (3 years 3 months)

   Practice Leader, Defence and Intelligence Sector - IBM Business Consultancy Services - Member of the IBM Global Services Public Sector marketplace management team with responsibility for building key client and internal IBM relationships in order to grow, win and deliver profitable Systems Integration/Applications Development (SI/AD) business in the Defence and Intelligence sector to high customer satisfaction standards. He was responsible to the Public Sector Market Place Executive for full profit and loss accounting for the Defence and Intelligence Practice.

• Director

  Admiral Management Services (AMS)

  (Management Consulting industry)

  1988 — 2000 (12 years )

• Public Sector Director

  Admiral

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  January 1988 — December 1999 (12 years )

   Director, Public Sector where he was responsible for the business direction, and full profit and loss accountability, of Admiral Computing’s Public Sector Division (Central and Local Government, Defence and Intelligence Community). The Division had 120 staff running up to 30 projects with values ranging beyond £2M.

Bob Axton’s Education

• Royal Military College Science Shrivenham

  BSc (Eng) , Systems Engineering , 1972 — 1975

Additional Information

Bob Axton’s Interests:

Information Management and Exploitation, Business Transformation, Programme Management, Relationship Management, Account Management,

Bob Axton’s Groups:

CEng MIET

•    Royal Signals
•    Homeland Security
•    www.SecurityClearedJobs.com
•    Intellect Defence & Security
•    Cornwell Alumni
•    National Security & Resilience Group

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