Craig Compton Email & Phone Number

London, GB

• Founded management consulting company focusing on Business Transformation
• Delivered and advised on major acquisition of strategic railhead within the UK
• Advising and formulating company strategy
• Delivering major transformational change within companies as a result of M&A activities, and strategic direction
• Key systems integrator partner of leading UK software houses in the UK focusing on logistics transformation, and ERP type implementations

• Founded to provide consulting and financial strategic advice to companies experiencing growth or change.
• May 2017 – June 2023 Genesee & Wyoming (turnover $3billion) Program Director Change and Transformation.
• September 2018 – Present – Program Director Change and Transformation. Conceptualised, designed and secured a £25million investment do deliver the largest technology change program in the global company’s history.
• May 2017 – September 2018 - Chief Financial Officer of Pentalver Group – acquired by Genesee & Wyoming in May 2017 (Turnover circa $3billion). A container storage and transportation company, circa £140million turnover.
• Responsible for Finance and IT functions.
• Advising the board on integration and change management.

• Upon joining addressed and resolved relationship with Private Equity Investor (Core Capital LLP). Involved in restructuring board and managing all Investor Relations.
• Rebuilt Finance and Credit organisations, removing all incumbents and reshaping functions. Quickly brought in higher quality staff to both resolve back office challenges and also to scale for growth
• Increased financing facilities in first 6 months by 50% to £15million to allow working capital expansion and acquisitive growth.
• Devised strategic planning and thought processes, supported with detailed business intelligence. This enabled the company to redefine its strategy and begin the path to growth. This also gave Core Capital confidence in.
• Over the next two years managed, negotiated and integrated 4 acquisitions taking turnover from circa £90m to over £300million and growing EBITDA from £3m to projected c.£18m with no long-term debt or additional equity.
• Designed the Kelway integration methodology and educated organisation on how to execute successful integration activities.

• As Mercury Interactive until acquired by Hewlett Packard in November 2006
• Responsible for Controllership and Shared Service functions for EMEA, Israel and JAPAC.
• Management of 93 staff servicing 31 entities.
• Global leader on Business Process Re-engineering projects covering SAP/Siebel CRM implementations.
• Developed commercial operating framework to facilitate a commercially viable business and ensure compliance with revenue recognition requirements.
• Managed integration of Mercury into Hewlett Packard, covering issues ranging from legal entity dissolution/merger to organizational management and ‘go-to-market’ strategies.

• Responsible for Financial Controllership of EMEA function (16 legal entities, managing 35-50 staff in 6 countries).
• Managed Sarbanes Oxley project for EMEA from inception to closure.
• Integrated commercial finance activities into legal and field functions to ensure a high class service was provided within finance to both internal and external customers.
• Developed reporting standards and framework, driving 'value add through compliance' concepts. These concepts were adopted worldwide by Mercury.

• Responsible for accounting functions and financial management of 20 legal entities across EMEA, managing 30 staff in 9 countries.
• Managed business planning process for EMEA organisation, conducting business reviews with Senior Executive staff and negotiating on revenue/headcount & expense target structures.
• Successfully turned around accounting functions in EMEA, standardising processes, controls & forecasting and developing Finance staff into strategic business partners.
• Managed integration of Precise Software (1,300 employees worldwide, $750m market capitalisation), including successful business integration, legal/statutory entity merge and tax/transfer pricing management.
• Managed EMEA system development activities, primarily upgrading systems to Oracle 11i.

• Responsible for the development of an FP&A function throughout EMEA.
• Revenue management for the EMEA organisation (approximately $400m annually), including commercial deal review, revenue recognition to US GAAP requirements and all revenue reporting activities to both internal and.
• Managed the sales commission process for EMEA (approximately 1,100 staff, 400 sales staff) from inception of compensation plans to remuneration of staff, including implementation of an automated commission system.

• Responsible for the management of EMEA ERP project for VERITAS software, consisting of merging two European companies in a new location for fulfilment & tax purposes, creating a combined company totalling $400m in.
• Redefining business processes for 11 legal entities, merging entities and sneering all business systems were ready for operation on go-live date.
• Coordinating IT infrastructure developments and application specific developments (Oracle Financials).
• Responsibility for setting up European Treasury arrangement and European Reporting & Management Accounting processes.

• Responsible for the set-up and Financial Management of Northern Region EMEA operations and for coordination of all European Financial Management Accounts.
• Managed UK Finance Department, administering Northern Region and European Executive functions at European Head Office, as well as Financial Management for Swedish and South African offices.