Bob Gilkes

Current

• Founder at Gilkes Management

Past

• Chairman and CEO at SavaJe Technologies
• Chairman and CEO at Xionics Document Technology
• CEO at Tadpole Technology

• CEO at UCSL Microsystems
• Managing Director Europe at MSI Data
• Mainframe Sales Exec at IBM UK

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Education

• Cardiff High School
• Balliol Oxford
• St John's College Cambridge

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Industry

Executive Office

Websites

• My Website

Bob Gilkes’s Summary

I can point to a history of success, achieving public offerings on both sides of the Atlantic from turnaround and troubled start-up situations, through intuitive strategic marketing and strong leadership from the front. I apply listening but decisive management to rapidly build, or re-build, a balanced corporate team focused intensely on a successful outcome. I believe I apply an innovative, think outside-the-box approach.

• Initial training and management experience during ten years with IBM and Unilever.
• Strong experience of working for British and US investors, public and private boards in Europe and America.
• Twice achieved successful IPO’s from VC turnaround briefs, one in the UK and one in the USA
• Established directors level partnerships for turnaround companies with 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

Languages: English – native. French – strong conversational.
Education: Graduate of Balliol College Oxford, and of St John’s College Cambridge.

Interests: Travel (in earlier days I explored the Abyssinian highlands on foot and circumnavigated the Okavango Swamps in southern Africa), landscape gardening.
I have written two novels.

Bob Gilkes’s Specialties:

In depth experience of international business mostly at Chairman and CEO level in software start-ups and turnarounds and major international Corporations

Mergers and Acquisitions, turnaround and promotion to IPO or sale

Bob Gilkes’s Experience

• Founder

  Gilkes Management

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Management Consulting industry)

  August 2007 — Present (2 years 4 months)

  Interim management with a strong emphasis on re-establishing and executing strategic direction

• Chairman and CEO

  SavaJe Technologies

  (Wireless industry)

  May 2002 — July 2005 (3 years 3 months)

• Chairman and CEO

  Xionics Document Technology

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  1994 — 1997 (3 years )

• CEO

  Tadpole Technology

  (Public Company; Computer Hardware industry)

  1985 — 1992 (7 years )

• CEO

  UCSL Microsystems

  (Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing industry)

  1977 — 1983 (6 years )

• Managing Director Europe

  MSI Data

  (Computer Hardware industry)

  November 1970 — July 1974 (3 years 9 months)

  Establish European Sales and Technical support for the first portable data terminals.

• Mainframe Sales Exec

  IBM UK

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Computer Hardware industry)

  September 1966 — January 1970 (3 years 5 months)

Bob Gilkes’s Education

• Cardiff High School

  1950 — 1958

• Balliol Oxford

  Old English, Colonial Administration

• St John's College Cambridge

  B.A. , Social Anthropology

Additional Information

Bob Gilkes’s Websites:

• My Website

Bob Gilkes’s Interests:

Novelist, traveller and one-time explorer

Bob Gilkes’s Groups:

F.R.G.S

•    North Bridge Entrepreneur Community
•    SavaJe Alumni

Bob Gilkes’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

• career opportunities
• consulting offers
• new ventures
• reference requests
• getting back in touch