Meridian/MMi UK&EUROPE-Executive Recruitment and Consultancy

Peter Bunn (senior partner)
Peter Bunn started MMi which joined with Meridian in 1994. His career spans a lifetime in direct sales. He commenced his career with Tupperware and since that time has been Managing Director of major companies in the UK and USA. At one stage he ran his own business. Peters integrity and charisma built the business internationally and he is well respected throughout the world of Direct selling and has been recognised with a lifetime achievement award by the DSA UK Peter now serves as senior partner and consultant to MMi.

2011- 20 year accolade for Peter Bunn

Ian Morgan (partner)
Ian Morgan joined MMi in 2003 after 28 years in the direct sales industry. He has held positions as Managing Director of Companies in Japan, Italy/France, Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, and the UK with Multinational companies. He also held operational responsibility for a 3 year period for the European expansion of a blue chip company.
His experience encompasses start-ups, turnarounds and restructuring of major companies.
Ian now manages the London / European office of MMi and liaises with the MMi network of consultants across the globe.

Karlheinz Ossig (Germany)
Karlheinz Ossig was educated at the Cologne University and Studied Political economics and Business administration. His career in direct sales involved three senior executive positions as Vice President of Sales and Marketing with International companies. He established the first Executive Search and Consulting company in Germany, Meridian Deutschland in 1989 which has been successfully serving European and American clients. He is an active member of International committees with the American DSA.

Alessandro Ghidini (Portugal-Spain)
Alessandro joins Meridian after 30 years professional experience with leading Direct Selling companies in United Kingdom, Italy and Spain, successfully covering every aspect of the business: product development, purchasing, marketing, strategic planning, sales management, new markets start up and general management.

With a degree in Economics and a specialization in General Management at the Columbia University he moved into consultancy in 1994 and interim management in 1998 for a long term association with a Direct Selling company active in Europe and Latin America. He dedicated himself to the creation and implementation of successful restructuring of product lines and sales techniques for a sustainable sales and profit growth, opening of new markets and direct management of the business in Southern and Central European countries. Now he is bringing his expertise to Companies willing to expand their activity focusing mainly but not exclusively on the Spanish and Portuguese markets.

Philippe Dailey (France)
Philippe Dailey is currently Honorary President of the French Direct Selling Association (French DSA). Educated at the University of Paris where he studied Law, and the Ecole Centrale des Arts et Manufactures (engineering) he developed extensive experience in direct selling. He has held positions as the French DSAs Chairman and FEDSAs Chairman and WFDSA Associations Service Committees Chairman and for 11 years served as the French DSAs General Secretary. He has been awarded a place in the Hall of Fame for his contributions to the direct selling industry by the World Federation of the Direct Selling Association, WFDSA. He joined Meridian in 2004.

Laurie Mulham (Global Direct)
Laurie entered the Direct Selling industry in 1970 when he was appointed Vice President, AMWAY CORPORATION to plan and Manage AMWAY's International Expansion , "pioneering" International [Distributor] Sponsoring. Between 1970 and 1986 he personally planned and managed new market development in Australia, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Taiwan, U.K., Germany, France, Italy, Japan, Thailand, Korea and China.
In 1987 Laurie elected to utilise his extensive corporate experiences and founded GLOBAL DIRECT CONSULTING SERVICES to become the preeminent services provider in New Market Planning and Development to DSA members worldwide.
Laurie and his associates offer clients 37 years of accumulated wisdom from global executive/corporate and consulting experiences in this industry's international growth with his credo of "a dedication to objectively assessing client's capabilities,resources and options and providing prudent advice".

laurie.mulham@bigpond.com

Stuart Esplin (Australia)
Stuart Esplin has 25 years direct selling experience, holding positions as Communications Manager for Amway Australia, Global Creative Director with Herbalife International Inc., in Los Angeles, and Senior VP - Marketing & Communications with Luxelle International Europe, Ltd. His experience includes the creation of marketing and training tools for independent distributors, and product launch strategies for both start-up and high-growth multinational companies. He is currently providing consultancy services to the direct selling industry with client companies in Australia, US, UK and India.