Rich Coles

Founder & Managing Director

After an early career in the military that developed his leadership and executional capability skills, Rich went on to work at Cadbury and GlaxoSmithKline helping lead and deliver global projects, working in marketing, R&D, supply chain, HR, and IT in a variety of roles, but always working cross-functionally. As lead solution partner, with his continued hunger for learning and continuous improvement, Rich combines his leadership skills and knowledge on delivering complex change at a global and local level with his analysis to seek out the most effective and efficient ways to deliver results through teams, leveraging technology to free up people to focus on the value-add activity.

Since discovering what can be achieved with Smartsheet, Rich re-focussed Prodactive to help businesses unlock significant efficiency gains through enhanced collaboration with workflow automation, increased visibility and transparency to ensure effort is expended on the right priorities, and to unlock the power of data that all too often sits dormant within files where it could be interacting with other data to generate powerful insights or information sharing.