Steve Higgins

Current

Director at P Squared Resourcing
CEO at SJH International
General Partner at 2in10 Venture Partners

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Past

CEO at Purple Patch Wireless Ltd
CEO at Ascom IT

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Steve Higgins’s Summary

Steve is an energetic, internationally recognised expert in Middle East and International business with a specific interest in investment, telecommunications, media, recruitment, sustainability and CleanTech.

SJH International Limited is a UK and Dubai based consultancy company that helps businesses accelerate their growth in the MENA region.

Key management skills and related experience include:

Business Start-Up & Development: Proven track record of successfully managing high growth start-up’s and MBO. Creating and implementing strategy; driving innovation; building, developing, leading and motivating teams. Building and developing businesses: high value sales and contract negotiations; building and developing long term business relationships; developing ‘buy-in’ and customer loyalty.

Strategic & operational business management: Main Board experience. Creating and successfully implementing corporate strategy. Forming organisational, product and technology strategies at national and international business levels.

System and Product Development experience: Extensive experience gained over 20 years. Highly experienced in the effective implementation of new technologies and technology strategy.

International business experience: Proven and verified abilities in initiating and developing international business & joint ventures. Skilled in the facilitation and development of international business relationships and strategic partnerships.

Steve Higgins’s Specialties:

Investment, telecommunications, international business development and partnership facilitation, expert in international business specifically Dubai, UAE and Middle East MENA region.

Steve Higgins’s Experience

Director

P Squared Resourcing

(Staffing and Recruiting industry)

April 2008 — Present (1 year 8 months)

P Squared Resourcing provides innovative people solutions to leading businesses in Europe, Middle East and Australia.

P Squared Resourcing specialises in providing high calibre, high potential talent and teams. Operating from offices in the UK, Dubai and Australia in the following Sectors:

IT
Finance
Construction
Oil & Gas
CEO

SJH International

(Management Consulting industry)

January 2008 — Present (1 year 11 months)

SJH International is based in UK and Dubai where it helps organisations dramatically improve their performance.

SJH International is expert in assisting businesses to fast track their growth in Dubai and the MENA region.

Specific areas of expertise include:

Investment
IT & Telecommunications
Media
Sustainability & Green Technology
Energy
General Partner

2in10 Venture Partners

(Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)

November 2007 — Present (2 years 1 month)

2in10 Venture Partners is a UK-based technology venture capital firm with over 100 years of hands-on, global technology marketing and sales experience amongst our core team. What differentiates 2in10 VP is our relationship with our sister business 2in10 Services Ltd (“2SL”) with its track record of initiating rapid growth within the companies that it has worked with since being established in 2005.
2in10 VP is now raising its first Fund of £60m. This will be invested in up to 25 attractively valued, early-stage technology companies in the UK & Ireland.

• Focus is on three related technology sectors in which our team has deep domain expertise, all of which display market growth opportunities through emergence or convergence
o Mobile & Wireless (platforms, applications, infrastructure, silicon, content)
o Energy Technologies (consumption, distribution & power management, energy services, generation)
o Enterprise Software (X-platform optimisation, defense/security, SaaS, 2.0)
CEO

Purple Patch Wireless Ltd

(Privately Held; Telecommunications industry)

October 2002 — December 2007 (5 years 3 months)

Founder and CEO of UK's leading public wireless hotspot company.

Principal Achievements:

Established Purple Patch as the UK’s leading independent hotspot technology company through ‘Unrivalled Business Proposition, Unsurpassed Technology’ strategy.

Created award winning technology architecture.

Increased sales and market share through indirect sales strategy.

Driving internationalisation strategy

Mobility Applications: Overseeing creation of rapid application development (RAD) environment to facilitate diversification and next phase growth.
CEO

Ascom IT

(Public Company; Wireless industry)

1997 — 2002 (5 years )