PROFILEHighly successful UK and European PLC NED and Audit Chair with ten years’ Board experience gained in growing, international, complex, and innovative organisations across multiple sectors. Talent for shaping a board’s response to unforeseen events, having successfully dealt with several high profile and challenging situations. Passionate commitment to culture change, talent management and DE&I. Reputation for forging strong, collaborative, and collegiate relationships, deepening trust and alignment amongst Board colleagues and the executive team.Chartered accountant with 27 years’ experience in progressively more senior finance roles at BP, ultimately being appointed CFO Global Fuels within Refining and Marketing.NON-EXECUTIVE HIGHLIGHTS AND CONTRIBUTIONS• Proven resilience and ability to respond to extremely challenging situations including crises management, financial restructuring, and business sustainability. • Hands-on involvement in corporate restructuring, including short term stabilisation actions and long-term debt and equity restructuring, working with multiple advisors and management to deliver best possible outcomes for all stakeholders in extremely challenging situations.• Guided and actively participated in developing and refreshing long term strategies at board level, challenging implementation progress and ensuring consistency in strategic and investment choices.• Experience of portfolio optimisation including country and market entry and exits, large scale infrastructure investments and resource allocation. • Navigated Covid 19 pandemic, leveraging experience of acute liquidity crises and financial stress by advocating focus on cash, liquidity, safety, and staff well-being. • Engaged member of Remuneration and Nomination committees ensuring robust succession planning and best practice remuneration polices are followed including recruitment, onboarding and coaching of CEOs and CFOs.• Experience of M&A bolt-on and strategic step-out acquisitions, hands-on in assessing opportunities and business cases, due diligence, deal completion and integration.• Drove ownership and assurance in Sustainability, ESG and Climate change agendas to deliver meaningful ambitions, robust reporting, and performance management.• Experienced in dealing with minority investors including activist shareholders, ensuring potential conflicts of interest are managed appropriately in line with corporate governance standards.• Experience of Euronext-listed market and related corporate governance and regulatory requirements.