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Through
ClusterBridge Alan Hutchison
provides “hands-on” international business development services
to his clients, taking on various roles ranging from “strategic
coach” to “interim manager”.
Alan
Hutchison is a seasoned business development professional, with
hands-on experience of international business building, as well as
restructuring and divestment. He has management, advisory and board
experience with both corporate and private ventures.
He
founded ClusterBridge in 2002, allowing him to bring to clients more than 20 years
of broad technical, operational and commercial “multi-disciplinary” experience,
as well as his extensive international network.
Clients
are mainly international industrial, engineering and technology
companies with the intent to build and grow their business in either existing or new
markets. They are seeking the benefits of
complementing internal resources with external specialists, giving
the flexibility to effectively respond to constant change and
challenge.
Client
projects typically involve:
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Identification &
Validation of Strategic Opportunities
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Technology & Product
Platform Development
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Market Channel &
Supply Chain Development
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Partnership Evaluation
& Selection
During
execution, support activities can include:
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Fund Raising &
Transaction Support
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Partnership Structuring
& Negotiation
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New Business Building,
Integration & Management
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Team Development &
Coaching
For
project execution Alan Hutchison can involve other trusted
specialists in his network from Europe, North America, South East
Asia and the Middle East.
Mandates are conducted with impartiality and discretion.
Alan
Hutchison has an engineering degree from Oxford University, UK and
an MBA from IMD, Switzerland. He has dual British and Swiss
nationality and is able to work in English, French and German.
Following
his undergraduate degree he spent 5 years in Engineering &
Production Management in the UK. He then moved to Switzerland in
1986, and after his MBA worked for 6 years as a Strategy Consultant
developing business, operations and information technology
strategies for multinationals active in Manufactured Goods, Medical
Products, and Consumer Goods. From the early-90’s he built solid
international experience in Business & Operations Management, in
Europe with a supplier of manufacturing systems, and in Asia with an
equipment marketing company.
As an investor Alan
Hutchison is an Advisory Board Member of SourcingParts (www.sourcingparts.com),
a “Platform for Collaborative Sub-contracting” for
build-to-design parts, founded in Switzerland in early-2000. He also dedicates time to international
industrial and economic development initiatives, including:
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Photonics Manufacturers’ Association Council, USA,
(http://pmac.ipc.org);
Steering Committee Member
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APTE Association, Switzerland, a Network for
Technology, Marketing & Investment (www.apte.net);
Head of APTE Photonics.
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European Tech Tour Association, Switzerland (www.techtour.com);
Swiss Tech Tour 2003 – Selection Committee Member; English
Tech Tour 2004 – Advisor.
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Humanitas, Switzerland
(www.educationhumanitas.org),
Education for Human
Empowerment; Board Member.
Contact:
Alan J. Hutchison
ClusterBridge
Chemin de Bel-Air 15
CH-1299 Crans-près-Céligny
Switzerland
Phone: +41 22 990 2742
Mobile: +41 79 373 2991
Fax: +41 22 990 2741
Email: ajh@bluewin.ch
Web: www.apte.net/ClusterBridge
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