Steve Borges

Current

• Founder at Biglight

Past

• Director of Advertising and Direct Businesses at Dixons Stores Group (DSGi)
• Commercial Director at Dixons Stores Group (DSGi)
• Director of Customer Care at Philips Consumer Electronics

• Deputy Director - Corporate Relations at Philips Electronics UK

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Education

• University of Strathclyde
• CIMA

Connections

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Industry

Retail

Steve Borges’s Summary

Steve set up Biglight in 2004, the business has since become a leading provider of impartial ecommerce support & advice to retailers.

From 1999-2004 Steve was at Dixons Stores Group (DSGi) where he held a number of senior roles, before becoming Director of Advertising and Direct Businesses.

Steve began his career with Philips Electronics, where he worked in the UK and France and held a variety of roles in Finance, Marketing, PR and Customer Services.

Steve is a Chartered Management Accountant; he has an MBA from The University of Strathclyde and is an alumnus of the Windsor Leadership Trust.

Steve Borges’s Experience

• Founder

  Biglight

  (Privately Held; Retail industry)

  April 2004 — Present (5 years 4 months)

  Biglight is a leading provider of impartial ecommerce support and advice to retailers, speclializing in strategy development, supplier selection, project management and online marketing.
  
  Over the last 5 years we've helped retailers such as Blacks, Boots, Fat Face, Firetrap, Jacques Vert, Mothercare, New Look, Nike, Ministry of Sound, PC World and Superdrug maximize their ecommerce potential.
  
  Every member of our team has an online retailing background and we don’t sell ecommerce solutions, so everything we say and do is based on experience and we're passionately impartial.

• Director of Advertising and Direct Businesses

  Dixons Stores Group (DSGi)

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; dsgi; Retail industry)

  2002 — 2004 (2 years)

  Responsible for the ecommerce businesses of Dixons, Currys, The Link and PC World as well as the group's advertising and direct marketing activities.

• Commercial Director

  Dixons Stores Group (DSGi)

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; DXNS; Retail industry)

  1999 — 2002 (3 years)

• Director of Customer Care

  Philips Consumer Electronics

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; PHG; Consumer Electronics industry)

  1997 — 1999 (2 years)

• Deputy Director - Corporate Relations

  Philips Electronics UK

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; PHG; Consumer Electronics industry)

  1995 — 1997 (2 years)

Steve Borges’s Education

• University of Strathclyde

  MBA ,

• CIMA