Press release from AdvanceFirst Technologies Ltd - 2011

Charles brings with him a wealth of commercial, operational and technological experience in the B2B eCommerce market. He is already bringing significant value to the business and our clients.

He is an extremely experienced senior retail/wholesale supply chain executive with logistics/stock management, project management and buyer/negotiator expertise and has a proven track record of obtaining results over twenty-nine years of practical experience in retail. At one time he was the Commercial Buying Director at Somerfield (with operational responsible for their Supply Chain)

Charles project managed the fastest ever roll out of EDI in the UK before leaving Somerfield to work in the e-Commerce industry. During his sixteen years in e-Commerce he has undertaken many Business Analyst/Consultant, Project Manager and trainer assignments globally, as well as a number of assignments for some of the UKs biggest food and general merchandise retail and FMGC blue chip organisations such as Tesco, Sainsburys, Co-Operative group, Iceland, Somerfield, Argos, Comet, Cost Cutters, Wickes, T&S Stores, Ocado, Pirelli, Sara Lee, Glaxo SmithKline, Vodafone, Esselte, NCR and TNT.

Charles is a highly motivated individual with a sound commercial/business background and strong interpersonal, facilitation and negotiation skills. He has a proven track record of managing IT projects through the full project life cycle to agreed deadlines and within budget and we are delighted to have him on our team.

Peter Thomas
Managing Director - AdvanceFirst Technologies Ltd