Peter Cowey

Expertise

Peter helps client teams make innovation work. A business development strategist he has
created, developed and managed business for leading firms, local and global, consumer and
industrial across multiple sectors. This includes working for VC backed firms in an
intrapreneurial leadership capacity, using innovation processes to generate upside potential
from existing assets and infrastructure [as a primary approach]. Now, drawing upon over 30
years’ industry experience and a recent MBA, he works with companies to recharge and realise
their growth potential through innovation management consultancy and interim support. With
his combination of insight, vision and knowhow Peter can work with your team to generate
ideas, shaping and translating the vital few right through to value delivery or, pick up
developments at any point in between.

Peter advises on

• Innovation & NPD, strategy & management
• Business model/proposition development
• Leadership & team working/building/via matrixes
• Transformation through Innovation & Branding
• Marketing; Full Mix, Multi-Channel

Career Highlights

Previous roles

• Project Manager, Byotrol plc
• Business Director, Global Textile Applications, Arch Chemicals Inc.
• International Business Manager, Avecia Ltd [formerly Zeneca Specialty Chemicals]
• Marketing & Business Development Manager, Charles Walker & Co Ltd.
• Consultant, Marketing & Business Strategy, Latham Consultancy Ltd
• Marketing Controller, Alma Holdings Ltd
• Marketing Manager, Grand Metropolitan Brewing Ltd [forerunner of Diagio]
• Market Development Manager, Northern Foods plc
• Operations Supervisor, Christian Salvesen plc

 

Education

• MBA with merit, Bradford University School of Management
• Diploma in Management Consulting, Chartered Management Institute
• B. Sc.(Hons) Geography, University of Aberdeen