Twenty Plus Ten is a board and executive advisory business founded by Mark Quartermain, Nigel Hobson and myself who worked closely together at a senior executive and board level in a leading, multi-national organisation. We each have over 30 years of deep commercial, operations and finance experience and have a proven track record in leveraging our complementary skillsets to create sustainable value We believe we are uniquely placed to help identify and capture value and manage risk in highly complex environments through tailored, pragmatic and holistic support for senior management and Boards. Our clients are UK based organisations who are facing: a) External challenges from increasing competition, regulation, changing market behaviour and stakeholder ESG demands. b) Internal horizontal or vertical organisation frictions which need to be addressed to ensure everyone is pulling in the same direction to thrive through change.

Fully global multimillion dollar business which underpins the Shell group by trading natural gas, electrical power, crude oil, refined products, chemical feedstocks & environmental products. Also manages one of the world's largest fleets of LNG carriers and oil tankers and supplies all Downstream businesses including 46,000 retail service stations. Around 7,000 employees across 30 countries.

Supporting daily trading activity (hundreds of millions of dollars) for one of the world's largest energy traders plus global logistics for c3000 retail delivery trucks and terminals in around 100 countries. This CFO role combined accountability for the complex global products trading business with accountability for downstream infrastructure (pipelines, depots and marine terminals) including ensuring optimal supplies to the retail network and refineries and integration of two separate fiefdoms.

Global business encompassing all Downstream Supply and Distribution including infrastructure - depots, terminals, trucks, pipelines. $multibillion revenues, 6000 staff.Oversight of global transformation programme to create a single integrated value chain

Vice President Controller, Finance Operations (Manila, Krakow, Kuala Lumpur, Glasgow, London)Division responsible for strategic oversight of Shell’s offshore finance processes. Grew from 1,000 to 5,000 staff, located in Manila, Chennai, Krakow, Kuala Lumpur, and Glasgow during tenure• Appointed to effectively and successfully transition group controls to offshore centres of excellence.