Proven success as a senior executive and business coach providing corporate-wide operations direction, focusing on value-added, customer-centered initiatives, technologies, processes and procedures.
Extensive experience implementing lean manufacturing, cost reduction and profit improvement programs within the casting, forging, metal stamping, forming, fabrication and welding industries.
A Metallurgist by profession, has a solid manufacturing background backed with post graduate degrees in business administration, coupled with a wealth of general management experience gained within the fabrication industry, including multi-plant, and multi-product operations at C-Level in Europe, Asia, Canada and USA.
Successfully completed three turn-around assignments, first hand experience of insolvency, six acquisitions and four disposals; and transition from private to public and back to private.
Headhunted to replace investing Directors on two occasions, both assignments completed successfully. Able to demonstrate a history of process-led change management experience in moving an organization to improved performance.