• Alistair Fox
• Director
• alistair.fox[@]expertek.co.uk

Alistair has over 20 years’ of international experience gained from working within the IT, Technology, Utilities and Automotive sectors.

Initially involved in product design in the automotive, industrial and utility markets he then moved into sales and marketing. He was Sales and Marketing Director for a subsidiary of Hanson plc, negotiating JVs in Argentina and China, and managing sales into UK, Europe, North Africa and Hong Kong and later part of the turnaround team for a software and services company. He was Regional Marketing Director for a major telecommunications equipment vendor, moving to Italy and developing alliances with partners such as Nokia, Ericsson and Siemens. On return to the UK he worked with Microsoft before joining Expertek.

Alistair has an MBA from Cranfield University, is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing (FCIM), and a Chartered Engineer. He has a BSc from UMIST, an MSc in Electronic Control Engineering and a Postgraduate Certificate in Environmental Studies.

• Charles Stubbs
• Consultant
• charles.stubbs[@]expertek.co.uk

Charles has over 20 years’ experience working in a variety of roles for major international telecommunications companies. After working in software for GEC Telecommunications, Charles moved into engineering management and oversaw the implementation of Europe’s first Intelligent Network systems into BT and Mercury’s public switching networks. He later occupied positions in product marketing, IT strategy and business management.

In 1999 Charles was appointed Director, Partnership Development, responsible for managing Marconi Communications’ worldwide relationships with Siemens, Ericsson and Compaq. Since 2001 Charles has specialised in producing high quality materials to help companies improve their sales effectiveness and communicate better with customers and partners.

Charles graduated from Cambridge with a degree in Mathematics, later taking an MSc from the University of London, and in 1991 obtaining an MBA from Warwick Business School at the University of Warwick.

• Steven Baker
• Consultant
• steve.baker[@]expertek.co.uk

Steven Baker is an electronics graduate and Chartered Engineer with more than ten years’ senior commercial experience building products and businesses in the high-tech sector.

He has held a range of international marketing, sales and strategy director roles, in both spinouts and established firms, such as Marconi, TTPCom, Motorola and Sagentia. This work has spanned the definition, development and delivery of hardware, software and service propositions. It has brought deeply innovative products to established test and measurement markets, secured product leadership in emerging communication technologies and established new, multimillion-dollar business lines with segment-defining mobile application software.

Much of this time has been spent working across the wireless industry's complex mesh of OEMs, ODMs, silicon vendors, operating system and application software vendors and network operators. As a result he brings particular insight at the often-challenging boundaries where technology, customer and commercial domains meet.