Company Personnel

Chris Turner, Managing Director
The principal of Business Advantage, Chris Turner has over 20 years sales, marketing and management experience in ‘high tech’ industries. During his career he has worked for a number of multinationals including IBM, ITT and Honeywell. He has considerable first hand experience of the international distribution of high-tech products, and of developing/implementing winning competitive strategies.

Chris' direct general management experience includes the successful development of a distribution company of technical computing products to become the largest company in the sector in the UK, while achieving above industry average productivity and profitability.

Chris has undertaken a range of board advisor and interim executive management roles, including a period as the worldwide Marketing Director for an IT systems supplier, and as the Managing Director for a subsidiary of Lockheed Martin in France.

Chris’ client experience has included the analysis, review and development of overall corporate strategy and specific competitive strategies, marketing and business planning, company restructuring and change management, as well as profit improvement programmes, benchmarking, and developing distribution and customer service strategies.

Chris has a first degree in Accounting and Business Studies and a Masters degree in Marketing. He is also a member of the Institute of Directors, and the Chartered Institute of Marketing.

David Eaton, Sales and Marketing Director
David has over 20 years sales, marketing and general management experience in the IT sector. For the last 9 years he has worked for Business Advantage as an international marketing and business consultant.

David is a Chartered Marketer, holds a Diploma in Marketing, and is currently reading for an MBA.

Sue Hannay, Research Services Director
Sue has worked in the international market research industry for the past 20 years and was formerly an Associate Director of NOP (the second largest market research company in the UK). Sue has experience of a diverse range of market research data collection techniques, across a wide variety of different types of survey. Sue is a member of the Market Research Society.

Company Personnel

David Eaton, Sales and Marketing Director David has over 20 years sales, marketing and general management experience in the IT sector. For the last 9 years he has worked for Business Advantage as an international marketing and business consultant.

David Eaton, Sales and Marketing Director
David has over 20 years sales, marketing and general management experience in the IT sector. For the last 9 years he has worked for Business Advantage as an international marketing and business consultant.