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BUSINESS EXECUTIVE OF THE YEAR AWARDS 2019 sponsored by Non-Executive of the Year Consultant shares vast experience sponsored by Cup in Japan and the famous rugby World Cup victory in Australia in 2003. He began his business consultancy practice in 2002 after getting requests from business contacts, banks and accountants for help. Since then he has guided many business clients through Winner: Ian Guyler, challenging times but in more recent years developed a portfolio career of Ian Guyler Business Consulting non-exec/consultancy roles with a number of companies. urnaround and of the IVG business). He also has a keen interest in bringing transformation specialist Ian Some of his previous roles have been business and schools together to help in Guyler began his business with BWB Consulting, D-Drill, Qualvis the careers and recruitment of young consultancy practice in 2002 Print and Packaging, ATM Automation, people. This enthusiasm is reflected in and since then has guided Waldeck Engineering. Ian has also an event he is organising and Tand advised many business clients been a trustee and chairman of the sponsoring at the 2019 Leicester through challenging and changing The Lincolnshire Home Improvement Business Festival. times. Agency Charity from 2008 to 2014. Ian said: “Sometimes the role I take He has a financial background His company is called Ian Guyler on will be as non-executive director (FCMA qualified) and wide Business Consulting. which can be as wide or as narrow as management experience and has The 54-year-old from Billesdon – the company wants and needs. helped business leaders to bring their affectionately known as “Guyler” – “In the SME world you’ve got to roll teams together so that they point in the grew up in Milton Keynes before your sleeves up and create a coming to Leicester Polytechnic in the same strategic direction. Ian Guyler (left) was the winner of the relationship with the board and help For a one-man band, Ian has carved early 1980s to do business studies. Non-Executive of the Year Award them improve.“There are always out a big presence on the local After graduating, he joined a sponsored by Choose How You Move. companies out there that you can help business scene which is why he is the graduate training scheme at TI Group, c h a n g e .” worthy winner of this year’s Non- spending three years at its £30 million Executive of the Year Award, turnover subsidiary TI Desford Tubes. sponsored by Choose How You Move. From there he went to Fisons He now wants to strengthen that Pharmaceuticals in Loughborough, presence further with a change of ending up as finance manager for the branding and a new website. Consumer Health Division. Following Many local business people already a take-over and sale of the business, he know him for his charity work with the was offered redundancy which he Lord’s Taverners, his love of Leicester invested in some buy-to-lets in City, the Tigers and the county cricket . team and his years of supporting – and His next two roles as finance director in previous years organising – the and then division financial controller, Leicester team at the MIPIM property were with EMAP’s newspaper division conference in Cannes, France. until the group was sold to Johnston When it comes to work, he prides Press and he took redundancy again, himself on his abilities as a business buying a few more houses. Ian now has consultant supporting the likes of local more than 15 properties in his operations such as John Cheatle – now portfolio. called Schoolwear Solutions – Total He then joined an engineering firm Motion, Bakers Waste, Notts Sports, in Nottingham as finance director, M&E Accident Repair, Blueprint helping to turn it around before taking Interiors, The Inspired Villages Group a career break, following the England (a networking roles using and cricket team to New Zealand then developing his contacts for the benefit heading out to the 2002 football World Runners up Andy Reed OBE, Director, the Leicestershire Cares Board as SajeImpact: Andy was the Labour chairman in March 2015. He was a MP for Loughborough between 1997 founder member of Cares and has and 2010 and is now the director of been on the leadership team. He Saje Impact Ltd. He serves on worked in financial and general various sport and charity boards in a management for the pharmaceutical voluntary capacity. He has a wealth industry for 24 years, including at of experience in government AstraZeneca in Loughborough, relations and sports policy and is employing 1,500 people until 2008 also the founder of the independent when he left to become chief Sports Think Tank. He was chairman executive of the hospice care charity of the Sport and Recreation Alliance LOROS. Simon has held several from 2010 to 2016 – the umbrella non-executive roles, most notably as body for the 320 national governing a member of Loughborough bodies and associations of sport and University’s Council (governing body) is now a vice-president. for nine years. He received the HRH Prince of Wales’s Simon Proffitt, Chairman, Ambassador Award for Business in Leicestershire Cares: Simon joined the Community for 2006-7.