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International Consulting Expertise

At International Strategy Solutions Limited, we have broad and deep expertise across many international industry sectors and regions of the world. We draw on this experience base to help you beat your competition and produce excellent returns. We are not trapped in any single industry sector’s traditions. We bring together perspectives from a wide range of international industries and business models. In this way, you can see what others don’t. And, importantly, we seek out a practical course of action, not an abstract conceptual model so you get better results, faster.

Our capabilities have been developed through years of international corporate and consulting experience providing solutions for the most difficult, fundamental problems facing our clients in their international operations and development.

Mark Armitage, Director, International Strategy Solutions Limited

Mark Armitage holds a degree in Russian Studies from Leeds University, an MBA degree from Bradford University School of Management and is currently working towards a professional Doctorate in Management (DBA) at the Bradford University School of Management. His research interests are focused on UK business operations in Central and Eastern Europe and Russian Federation.

Before setting up his own management consultancy business, Mark had 12 years international management experience working in over 65 countries for a large UK Plc and hi-tech US Corporate. He operated extensively in Central and Eastern Europe, the Former Soviet Union, Middle East, Africa, South Asia and Western Europe. He has worked at ministerial level within the public sector and at senior management levels within the commercial and retail banking sectors. His last line management position within De La Rue Plc was as Regional Managing Director Cash Systems Division with responsibility for Africa, Middle East and South Asia where he had full P and L responsibility for three operating companies based in South Africa, India and UK. His corporate experience also includes business planning and implementation as Commercial Director of a start-up company supplying business-to-business information communication technology solutions to both the public (health) and private (retail) sectors. He has worked as a Managing Consultant in the Public Sector within a medium-sized Management Consultancy firm, and was part of the senior management team responsible for business development within Europe, Middle East and Africa for a high-technology start-up business within the NCR Corporation.

Mark set up International Strategy Solutions Limited in 2003.  Assignments since that time have included: management and delivery of a bespoke 3-Day International Strategy Review programme to each of 75 North West UK businesses within a four-month period, ongoing delivery of specialist advice and business support for Central and Eastern Europe and Russian Federation on behalf of UK Trade and Investment (UKTI) North West to over 75 businesses, delivery of the International Strategy Review programme to over 60 businesses for UKTI North West (programme ongoing)and long-term supply of a Regional Business Advisor for a major ERDF project managed by the UK Government North West Development Agency (RDA) to provide international management consultancy support to North West UK SMES.