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As the Principal of Harvest Consulting, which he founded in early 2007, Jim has extensive industry experience both as client, agency boss and consultant. Jim's early career was in Unilever on brand management. Subsequently he organised a management buyout of Lonsdale Advertising which he built into a group before selling to the then publicly quoted company KLP , whose Head Office Jim was asked to join as Deputy Chairman of the Communications Division.

A spell as a Board Director of McCann followed where he was responsible for running all the promotional marketing and non-media advertising operations of the company. Jim then joined Results International as the 3rd member. Over a period of eleven years, 10 of them as MD, he helped build Results into the best known and largest marcomms consultancy and M&A practice in the UK. He has initiated and advised on many of the best known deals in the industry in recent years.

Well known as a conference speaker, writer and industry commentator Jim is now specialising at Harvest in corporate development, particularly all aspects of M&A, helping clients with growth strategies, grooming, exit planning and value realisation.

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