David Carter, MBA -- President/Owner, Scramjet Strategies

David Carter is the owner of Scramjet Strategies, a professional business consulting and coaching company. David works with organizations and leaders who know they can achieve more for themselves and their companies. His clients embrace planning, executive coaching, team building and issue resolution -- all focused on enabling them to achieve higher performance and optimum results.

David helps clients clarify the real obstacles that hold them back, the issues that need to be resolved, and the opportunities leading to sustained growth. He helps them build confidence to make better decisions on the right issues, to achieve greater results with the least amount of resources, and therefore to be more successful.

Background

As President of Scramjet Strategies, David draws on more than 33 years of success as an experienced business executive, entrepreneur, strategist, trusted advisor and dedicated community leader. David's career has taken him around the world living and working in the US, New Zealand and the UK. He has held senior executive positions within the Thomson Corporation, Wolters Kluwer, and Ziff-Davis publishing companies.

David's leadership positions have been in large and small organizations. His track record includes multinational, public and private companies, across many industries, including healthcare, franchised executive suites, publishing and services. Notable accomplishments
have been to:

• Refocus a traditional pharmaceutical publisher to be a commercially viable and market driven electronic publisher. This new focus grew electronic subscriptions to 80% of total revenue and improved Return on Sales (ROS) from -- 5 % to 21%.
• Manage re-design and re-launch of a drug pipeline competitive intelligence database. Worldwide subscriptions increased by 255% within one year.
• Develop and implement a strategic communications plan; and advise on a new acquisition strategy focused on software companies for the Institute for Scientific Information.
• Coach and train for Headquarters Companies, the first franchised system of shared executive suites. Mentored new owners throughout the opening and development of their businesses.

In addition, he successfully founded and developed two businesses: American Trade Exchange, an import and export company, and a PC Systems Development and Training company. These have provided excellent environments to "practice what he teaches."

David's goal is to deliver "best in class" forward thinking and pragmatic business consulting, professional coaching and teaching to privately held companies and their leaders. He brings a unique and powerful blend of clarity, insight, inspiration and different thinking to his clients.

His diverse strengths include leadership development and expertise in management, sales, marketing, business development, and succession and strategic planning. He has helped organizations develop winning strategic business plans and implement results-driven tactics, and led owners, entrepreneurs and senior executives through coaching during times of organizational change.

Associations

David is the coaching partner of Gazelles International for the Greater Philadelphia Metropolitan Statistical Area, and one of only 80 coaches in the world qualified to teach Mastering the Rockefeller Habits and its One-Page Strategic Plan and "best practices."

He serves on the Boards of the Entrepreneurs Forum of Greater Philadelphia and the Philadelphia Center City Proprietors Association (currently Vice President). David is a member of the Greater Philadelphia Senior Executives Group. He is a graduate of the Arts and Business Council of Greater Philadelphia "Business on Board" program which prepares business leaders for Board membership with non-profit arts organizations. This led to David serving two years on the Board of the Wood Turning Center.

Other Activities

David is a Contributing Author for Walking with the Wise II, published by Mentors Publications.

He is an active public speaker and workshop facilitator on current business topics. His speaking engagements have included: Union League of Philadelphia Business Network; Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce Educational Forums; Flooring Plus/JJ Haines Convention, Atlantic City; Financial Executives Networking Group (FENG); Center City Proprietors Association; Midlantic Business Alliance; Philadelphia Commercial Development Corporation; and Senior Marketing Executives of Philadelphia.

Education

David's education includes MBA and BS in Business Administration degrees from Louisiana State University; a Strategic Marketing Management Certificate from the Cranfield School of Management, England; and Advanced Leadership Training by the U.S. Air Force Squadron Officers' School.

Contact David at (215) 732-2230, or email him at dcarter@scramjetstrategies.com, or visit www.scramjetstrategies.com.