Adrian Waters

Experience

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  General Motors

  Sept 1981 - Feb 1987

  Commercial and Engineering Programme
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  Euromotor

  Feb 1988 - Aug 1993

  Technical Director
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  AA

  Aug 1993 - Aug 2007

  General Manager, Technical Centre
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  TS Engineering

  Aug 2007 - Aug 2008

  Managing Director
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  Pera Consulting Limited

  Aug 2008 - Sept 2016

  Manufacturing Advisory Service, Business Manager

  Transport (Automotive, Rail, Marine) and Power Generation (Nuclear, Off-shore wind, Wave) sector specialist

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  Economic Growth Solutions

  Sept 2016 - now

  Manufacturing Growth Manager

  Working as a Manufacturing Growth Manager to deliver the Manufacturing Growth Programme.The Manufacturing Growth Programme is a £9.2m ERDF funded programme focussed on providing support to manufacturing SMEs interested in growth. Established in 2016, the programme is currently looking to work with businesses in the South, South East, West Midlands, Yorkshire and parts of the East Midlands and the East of England.Specialist Manufacturing Growth Managers are in place to offer SMEs the opportunity to undertake in-depth diagnostic processes in order to access grant funding of up to 35% to support the cost of support of projects. Show less

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  Oxford Innovation Advice

  Apr 2019 - now

  Manufacturing Growth Manager at Oxford Innovation Advice

  At Oxford Innovation Advice we provide end-to-end business support that helps economies grow. As a Manufacturing Growth Manager, I support our ambition to help local economies flourish by designing, mobilising and delivering programmes of business support to ambitious businesses, helping them to innovate, develop and scale, and thereby to generate sustainable economic growth for the areas we operate in.