James Thorne

Market Focus Ltd

Phone:    +44 1534 491124

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Fax:          +44 1534 491125

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Ø James specialises in helping organisations to clarify and carry out their business strategies.

Ø Before founding Market Focus, James worked for 14 years at Paris-based training consultants Strat*X. As Managing Director of Strat*X, he was responsible for group strategy, operations, recruitment, quality and business development. He set up subsidiary offices for the company in Boston (1988) and London (1992). 

Ø At Strat*X James also led project teams responsible for the design, development and delivery of action-oriented Management Development programmes for over 50 leading companies across almost every sector of business in over 25 different countries.

Ø A frequent speaker on the subjects of strategic marketing, service quality and brand management, James is known as an inspirational facilitator and is at his best working with senior management and multi-cultural teams.- He has also taught on Executive Programmes at INSEAD, Ashridge, Chartered Institute of Marketing and Management Centre Europe. In 1989 he received Top Faculty ratings at GE's Management Development Center (New York).

Ø James has an MBA from INSEAD (France) and an MA in Modern Languages from Cambridge University. He is bilingual English/French and speaks fluent German and some Arabic.- He now lives, with his wife Christiane and 7 year old son William, on his native island of Jersey in the Channel Islands. His interests include travel, wild animals, cottage restoration and new world wines.