Meet the team

Jonathan is the founder and Managing Partner of Progorex. He is also a Director of another international business, Uspire.

A Chartered Systems Engineer by profession, he spent the first 8 years of his career with Loma Systems (now part of ITW), as a Project Director in the Food and the pharmaceuticals industries.

Jonathan joined Guinness in 1993 as the project manager at the flagship brewery in Park Royal. Over twelve years he had roles in production, supply chain, procurement and project management, ranging from IT, HR services, manufacturing, marketing and sponsorship.

Jonathan has extensive international experience working in North America (U.S.A., Canada & Jamaica), Asia Pacific (Australia, Singapore, Malaysia, South Korea) and  developing markets in Africa (Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, Tanzania, Ethiopia & South Africa).

His last role in Diageo (2005) was Group Procurement Capability Director.

In 2005 Jonathan founded Progorex to help businesses develop and embed best practice procurement strategies, sourcing processes and people capabilities.

Mike is an associate Consultant at Progorex, based near London, and specialises in Capital Project Management.

Relevant experience

Mike is an Associate of Progorex with a background in Project Engineering and Project Management.  He has over 30 years experience within Brewing, Concrete and Aggregates and Pharmaceuticals, delivering multi-million client-based capital projects.

Education, professional training and affiliations

Mike is a qualified manufacturing engineer and is a member of the Institute of Engineers.

Paul is an Associate Consultant with Progorex based in the USA.  Paul has 28 years of global experience in Supply Chain including capital, indirect, direct, and commodity roles for food and beverage, industrial manufacturing, and government/military industries. His broad background has allowed him to provide third party management skills to customer projects to bring forward a designed solution for their needs.

Mark is an Associate Consultant with Progorex and has a background in sales, marketing management development and HR. He has worked for Coca Cola, Sony, Electrolux, SAS, Telenor, Dupont, Harsco,Unilever and Nestle. Mark is also very active in developing talent in sport. He has been an international coach in rugby and the sports psychologist for AIK Stockholm Football Club. Mark is a History graduate from Lancaster University. He is also an alumni of Henley Management College and Templeton College, Oxford. He is a speaker in Change Leadership for Management Centres. He is a member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel Development (CIPD).

Simon has deep FMCG and Drinks Brand Marketing experience and Marketing and broader Indirect Procurement leadership roles in global Drinks, Consulting and Financial Services. His Consulting experience includes working with clients in FMCG, Drinks, Electronics, Telecommunications, Hospitality and Pharmaceuticals. Simon is a member of the Marketing Society and the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply.

Mike has worked internationally, in Europe and W.Africa for more than 10 years. His career started in Operations within Food Manufacturing which quickly developed into larger roles in Operational and Supply Chain Management in Unigate, Pepsi and RHM.

After a very successful Operations career Mike joined the Procurement leadership team within RHM (now Premier Foods and Hovis) in 2004. He developed a center of excellence for eSourcing and Spend Analytics in Procurement for several years alongside delivering significant MRO and Engineering projects. Mike was headhunted in 2008 as the Senior Category Specialist for Operational and Supply Chain Categories working for Proxima in the UK and Europe. During his time at Proxima, Mike delivered significant European and UK based transformation strategies and projects which included developing FMCG Operational/Supply Chain toolkits and creating innovative Stakeholder engagement and Business readiness models.

Mike then took on a client in West Africa and delivered significant change programs within the the Mining Industry. Mike has worked in Indirect Procurement, Marketing Procurement, Packaging Procurement, Production Materials Procurement as well as Engineering Procurement. During his time both at Proxima and within several key clients since, Mike has delivered substantial savings and driven significant, sustained cultural change programs within those clients.

Experience:

Felicity has worked as an office and accounts manager for many years with various U.K. companies and charities.

Key Disciplines:

Experienced in Sage business software, including foreign currencies, VAT, payroll and also Microsoft Office software. Responsible for procurement of printed materials and office supplies. From 2013 Felicity also takes on responsibility for administering the company website including news items.

Areas of relevant expertise:

A background working with the Inland Revenue service and management of day to day Invoicing and accounts payable.

Languages spoken:

English

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Michael is an Associate Consultant with Progorex and directs a group of companies with supply and service operations in Africa, the Americas and Europe.  Working in partnership with global corporate businesses to both identify and deliver savings along the MRO supply chain by reducing item cost and optimizing MRO inventory.

Mark is an Associate at Progorex, specialising in the technical aspects of IT systems. Mark is an IT professional and Managing Director of his own IT services business, which he has run for nearly twenty years. Mark provides consulting to SME’s on IT and data infrastructure management and development.

Christine is our Materials Production Manager, based at our head office in the United Kingdom, and has a background in the design and the production of training materials, working closely with creative agencies and digital printers. Experienced on the InDesign and managing the artwork library. In particular Christine focuses on training pack design, including guidebooks, toolkits, films and Apps and is responsible for the management of our digital supply chain for materials production. Christine has a national diploma in design and studied at Epsom Art College.

Ian is founding director of Paragon21, a consultancy working with organisations that are serious about developing their procurement and category capability. Ian also works with Progorex to develop bespoke procurement capabilities programmes.

David is a founding director of Paragon21 elearning and has developed all the elearning materials that Progorex employ. David’s background in category based procurement has lead to his involvement in the market research for a broad range of indirect categories including industrial gases, packaging materials and ocean freight.

Andrea has 23 years of experience in the Lubricants and Marine businesses of multi-national companies. He was also a Country manager for three years. He is based in Milan and specialises in change management, especially in post acquisition and merger environments.

Charles is based in China and is an associate consultant with Progorex. Charles is a highly experienced FMCG practitioner having spent over ten years in senior commercial roles within Proctor and Gamble Ltd in China. Charles spent much of his corporate career in sales training roles and is a superb facilitator/coach. Charles honed his skills as a consultant/trainer as General Manager with Achieve Global Ltd, a major global training enterprise and as Senior Consultant with Glendinning. Charles continues to train such prestigious companies as Coca Cola, Johnson and Johnson, BP, adidas and others. His cross sector experience is an invaluable training asset.

Mark is an Associate Consultant with Progorex and has a background in sales, marketing and general management , gained through more than 25 years working Internationally , in Europe, North America, Africa and Asia Pacific. He is an expert in business to business customer management, customer experience and third party management and development. He uses this experience to design consulting solutions for global businesses.