Bryan Foss

Bryan is an independent non-executive director (NED) and board level adviser. The majority of his work is in Business-to-Business marketing and sales, including Key Account and partner management, SMB marketing and through-the-value-chain distribution management to employees and consumers. Bryan has a combination of commercial, academic and professional roles including as a B2B Council Member and B2B advisor to the Managing Director of the Institute of Direct Marketing.

He also provides retained board level advice to businesses creating innovative marketing and sales services for industry, these are often technology based and provide solutions deployed by large scale B2B organisations. Areas of operation include market research, customer experience management, partner management etc – in particular helping business boards to understand how the B2B customer views their core purpose and the transition efforts required to deliver the required customer experience and business results.

Bryan is also a Non-Executive board Director at a major UK government department, an Audit Committee member and Chair of Client Standards (for operations accuracy, complaints and appeals). In addition he has been appointed as external adviser to the CEO and programme board of a 3 year £250m Operational Improvement Programme (OIP) project, which includes substantial staff and process change, also web, contact centre and IT systems improvements.

Bryan was previously an IBM worldwide banking board member (board turnover in excess of $45bn pa) and executive working with very large and complex B2B transformation projects especially in US, European, Chinese and Asean companies, where unique and complex sales, service and retention challenges have arisen.

Bryan has co-authored six Kogan Page business books with Professor Merlin Stone and others and is recognised globally for his cross-industry work on key account management, customer insight, customer experience management, marketing and sales technologies and board effectiveness. He continues to write regularly for online publications.

Bryan’s post MBA (City University, London) qualifications include Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing (FCIM), Diploma in Marketing (DipM), Member of the Institute of Direct Marketing (MIDM), Fellow of the British Computer Society (FBCS), Chartered Engineer (C Eng) and Chartered Information & Technology Professional (CITP). In addition Bryan holds the Certified Diploma in Accounting and Finance (CDipAF), is a Freeman of the City of London and Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Marketors and is studying for the Diploma in Company Direction and as a Chartered Director.

Bryan can be contacted at bryanfoss@gmail.com or on 07802 214361, his business website is www.fossinitiatives.com