Adrian Waters

Adrian Waters

Commercial and Engineering Programme

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  • About me

    Providing end-to-end Business Support that helps Economies Grow

  • Education

    • University of Warwick

      1983 - 1985
      Business/Managerial Economics
    • University of Bedfordshire

      1981 - 1983
      Diploma, Business Studies and Economics
  • Experience

    • General Motors

      Sept 1981 - Feb 1987
      Commercial and Engineering Programme
    • Euromotor

      Feb 1988 - Aug 1993
      Technical Director
    • AA

      Aug 1993 - Aug 2007
      General Manager, Technical Centre
    • TS Engineering

      Aug 2007 - Aug 2008
      Managing Director
    • 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

    • 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

    • 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.

  • Licenses & Certifications

    • Society of Automotive Engineers

      SAE