Brown & Chase is a member of the Horton International Group

Brown & Chase (part of Horton International Group) is a search and HR Advisory firm, specialising in C-suite and executive roles.The B&C HR Advisory practice is co-led by Caroline and Steve Rowe, bringing many years of in-house HR leadership experience to meeting client's strategic people and culture transformation needs.Key area's of expertise include:- People planning: HR Strategy and workforce planning - Teams: building and accelerating High Performing Teams - The Employee Experience: EVP and engagement - Leadership and Talent: attraction, development, retention, succession - People & Culture: organisation design and transformation

Head of HR, Fujitsu Oceania, with responsibility for: - People & Culture: deployed strategies and programs designed to accelerate business performance, including restructure & workforce optimization; capability development & effective change management - Mergers & acquisitions: leading HR due diligence, delivered on 3 company acquisitions (first successful M&A in over 10 yrs in Oceania), with laser focus on cultural integration - Culture transformation: accelerating organisation transformation through a strengths and values-based approach, leading with refresh of performance management and manager capability/ accountability - Executive leadership & talent: refresh executive talent (80%) with improved talent succession pipelines; partnering to build high performing and engaged leadership teams - Employee Experience: delivering on the Employee Value Proposition (‘moments that matter’), building innovative well-being initiatives, ensuring alignment between programs and messaging - Well-being and safety: delivering on critical staff safety requirements and well-being commitments, prioritizing psychological safety through a rigorous combination of consistent and frequent communications, manager empowerment and policy refresh Operational excellence: delivering on-going productivity improvements through simplification, automation, offshoring and recruitment outsourcing

Head of Human Resources for HP Inc., with dual responsibility for: 1) Company Separation: led HR and employee separation for HP Inc. across Asia, with responsibility for ~20,000 employees across 15 countries, who were moving to HPI. HR headcount, direct 30+, extended 130 2) Business HR leader, supporting region Sales President and leadership team. 3,000 employees, US$10+bn revenue Responsibilities included building and executing the People strategy, in line with business priorities, and ensure the business was ready for going 'live' with the new company, 'Day 1'

Dual responsibility: 1) LASER PRINTER DIVISION: Global business HR partner for Laser Printer R&D division, supporting Senior Vice President, with 3,500 employees, ~$11bn revenue. Responsibilities included:- Deployment of comprehensive workforce strategies to support business turn-around - China Technical Development Centre: strategy to support off-shoring from USA with aggressive hiring plan over 12 mths - Culture and Engagement: comprehensive strategies, in order to elevate performance and engage employees 2) CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICE:Business HR partner, to the new CTO for the PC & Print business (~ 350 employees)Strategic partnership to source and launch new team, build strategy and vision. Initiatives included unique business models to accelerate incubation of new products

Relocation to WW HQ, following business restructure and merger of HP PC and Print business.Global COE lead responsible for TALENT AND LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT portfolio. Total employee based ~45,000 employees. Key responsibilities included:- Talent Strategy - design and launch new talent and leadership strategy for new business, within 60 days- Executive leadership - selection and development - High potential Development- Culture assimilation and acceleration - New business incubation (CTO Office, Mobility Business)

EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) HR leader for HP PRINT SALES business (3,000 employees, $10bn business)Responsibilities included: - Large scale business restructure: organisation design and executive selection- Employee Engagement: delivered comprehensive engagement strategy in partnership with Gallup- European Workers Council: dialogue and approval for workforce strategies with HP Co European Workers Council

Relocation to Switzerland.Global HR business partner for new business start-up, EMERGING MARKETS ORGANISATION (EMO) supporting Executive Vice President (EVP) who had been tasked to implement a new business model designed to increase HP presence in small, emerging markets (60+ countries)

Director of Human Resources, responsible for all CORPORATE FUNCTIONS within Asia Pacific Japan (~5,000 employees). Responsibilities: - EDS acquisition: integration for all Functions across the region, with priority focus on cost optimisation, talent selection and culture alignment - Malaysia Off-sourcing: development of global Finance off-shore center, supporting global workforce

Dual Hat: Region Talent & Leadership Manager and HR Business Partner for, HP Services, Asia Pacific & Japan (~27,000 employees). Responsibility included:1) Asia Pacific and Japan Talent and Leadership COE lead2) HR Business Partner for HP Operations