nick Hargreaves

* Position Managing Director/CEO
* 2007/2012 Global Travel internet site
* Location London/Philippines

Successfully launched and established Global travel Website for Homeowners to advertise their Vacation Rental Properties globally. Set up operation with full off shore marketing team in Asia and IT development team in the UK. My Responsibilities included setting all sales/marketing targets and development targets and ensured they were hit. The product proved to be highly successful and is currently the fastest growing website globally in this market sector advertising 1000s properties worldwide. Within a 10 month period from launch successfully negotiated a partnership contract with Global media brand thus ensuring further success of the website and creating it to a house hold brand.
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* Position Managing Director
* 2004/2007 Escalasur Call center /Buenos Aires Stay SRL/ Club647
* Location Argentina

CEO Escalasur my job was to run and expand a small call center from 16 people to 150 people with in a 1-year time frame. During this period I Negotiated contracts with Wanadoo ES then successfully Escalasur counted for 5% of sales for the largest Spanish Internet provide. I played an active role in training managing the sales floor, implementing new team building exercises and had to quickly get to grips with the Argentinean Business law. This company was very successful and was an enjoyable experience. During my time in Argentina I created a travel site that rented apartments directly to tourists that is currently today one of Argentineans strongest tourist brands. I also open a Bar and club again today this is one of Argentina's Luxury Brands. This was a great period for me and I learn so many new skills including a language and employed over 250 people, but I had been there for nearly 4 years and wanted to return home to England which meant the only way forward for me was to sell my business interests. As I played such an active role in the running of them that it would have been impossible for me to run them from the UK.

* Position Managing Director
* 1999 to 2003 Phoenix It recruitment LTD
* Location London

Set up from start an IT recruitment agency dealing with all markets within the IT sector. After 4 months of trading made the decision to open a Contracts division and personally did that along with 1 other person. This division operated across Europe and had PSL status with companies like IBM and Yellow Pages. Within the first 18 months the company had grown to turning over 3.8million pounds sterling and had 65 consultants. Throughout this period I could feel the problems that were occurring with the Dotcoms and decide to open PSR Recruitment Ltd which is an agency that recruited across different sectors including Sales, estate Agency and Management, after successfully pushing that company into profit and establishing it as a standalone company I made the decision that I would like to take some time off and Sold all my interests in recruitment. PSR recruitment still trades today and is now very established in the IT field and number of other markets


* Position It Recruitment Consultant
* Computer Futures
* Location London
I decided that I had achieved all I could with the estate agency and took on a new challenge working for one of the largest recruitment companies in the country as a SAP IT recruitment consultant. Here I gained real selling and negotiation skills and would place permanent positions across the SAP European market Place, after my first 3-month training period I was constantly the highest monthly biller in the company.

* 1994-1997 Andrews Estate agents
* Sales Negotiator - Branch manager
* Location Surrey London
I Started in this position with no sales skill and quickly established myself as one of the highest selling agents in the company. Was promoted on numerous of occasions until reaching Branch Manager at the age of 22 year old and becoming the youngest manager the company had held in 50 years of Trading. There my responsibility changed to where I was responsible for making profit out of a loss-making branch. This was the first time I was responsible for leading a team. Motivating the individuals while keeping costs down and pushing the branch into profit. In my first year in this role the Branch was the 3rd Higest profit making in the Group of 60.