Bill’s interim management assignments have had several challenging features in common:

• High technology companies
• Concerns about performance / the future
• Need to resolve strategy / future direction

In all three cases the objectives of the assignment were met.

• General manager, US sales and service company, rheometric instruments. Reduced costs to bring the company back to break-even. Identified the strategy and budget for the company. Recruited a successor. (4 months)
• General manager, company engaged in the design, manufacture and sale of RF equipment. When the company was put up for sale, the MD abruptly resigned. The company was sold for the target price, with the resignation of no further employees. Profit targets were met while the sale was pending. (8 months)
• Managing director, company engaged in the design, manufacture and sale of satellite navigation equipment. Doubled the turnover and profitability of the company. Developed the successor MD. (2 ½ years)