Member of Governing body

Chairman of the Board of Governors at Slindon College from 2019 to January 2024. Prior to that on Governing body.

A retired interim executive with experience in oil & gas exploration and production, energy, distribution, rail, financial services, retail, banking, engineering and construction, agrochemicals and oil and gas.Experience has been gained across a wide range of countries in Europe and further afield, most recently in Poland and France.

San Leon Energy is a specialist oil and gas company with an extensive portfolio of assets across Europe and North and West Africa.

Aurelian Oil & Gas was an exploration and production company focusing on Central Europe. Formed in 2002, it floated on the Alternative Investment Market (AIM) of the London Stock Exchange in 2006. In January 2013 it merged with San Leon Energy plc.

The company provided an affordable, flexible, simple and portable power generation service tailored to satisfy the needs of utility, mining and large industrial customers operating in Sub Saharan Africa and in Asia. In this role in a start-up company, ensured the establishment of human resources policies and practices to enable the company to recruit, motivate, develop and retain staff of the calibre necessary to achieve business goals. Achievements included:• Ensured the selection and development of an appropriate top team and appropriate business development, engineering and technical teams;• Established reward and recognition programmes that were challenging and motivating, and• Contributed to the establishment of the appropriate infrastructure for the creation of the start up company. • Recruited and mobilised a team of staff and contractors to build the first power station in Mauritania, West Africa.

Initially carried out a consultancy role during the acquisition and then became Interim HR Director for the newly created company. This was a result of a merger between LINPAC Materials Handling and Allibert. Based in Paris, this Company operates across Europe with factories in France, Germany; Spain and the UK.

Established a Business Continuity Plan for the Human Resources function, initially at the major UK site of about 4,000 employees and later at other key UK sites.

Rationalised and created Board Reports for the Managing Director and Finance Director. This included designing, creating and piloting a single new management information report replacing multiple existing reports, bringing all key data into a single document. Ensured that the format, layout and content were acceptable to Board members. Introduced the new monthly management report. Set up ongoing procedures for production of regular reports, and reviewed overall Management Information processes making recommendations for improvements.

A series of major assignments over 4 years, covering HR aspects of acquisitions, mergers & integration of companies. The company acquired a series of international businesses with c.2,000 employees in 10 countries. The major objective in each case was to conduct the due diligence and to merge the newly acquired businesses into Balfour Beatty. Achievements included: • Completed due diligence process across all relevant countries, including employment law and Company practice in each country;• Developed full understanding of legal and other frameworks in each country;• Designed senior contracts of employment and reward packages for employees in each country and negotiated with Country Managers;• Developed and negotiated shared service agreements for outsourcing of HR support in each country; and• Participated in discussions and negotiations with Trades Unions and Works Councils;

In a newly created role, the objective was to create a UK function with 50 human resources and training professionals serving over 3,000 employees. Running concurrently with the above, as Implementation Manager the objective was to manage a major change project (budget c.US$2m). The first phase was implementation of a new SAP based Payroll and HRIS system, integrated with the Swiss based Head Office. Subsequent waves related to HR Transformation based on new roles, business partnering and a shared service centre.

Carried out project to establish a formal manpower planning process and system covering up to 7,000 employees.

As Interim HR Director, rebuilt the Human Resources function of Generale Bank and ensured that best practice was introduced. As Head of Integration, project managed all aspects of the merger of Generale Bank and Mees Pierson, including all areas of banking, securities, treasury, credit, finance and administration, information technology, audit, human resources and facilities.

Contributed to the development of a strategy for the Direct business as part of the Society's overall retail strategy using Call centres and centralised processing and developed a Human Resources strategy for the Direct business and the Call Centre in particular.

In this assignment during the flotation process, the role was to establish an HR function for the main operational division of the company and to work with the Director in establishing and developing the top team.

HR Director and Quality Director for distribution division of Ocean Group - McGregor Cory, Cory Vehicle Services and Panocean Storage and Transport.

European HR Director - Brambles Europe including member companies, Cleanaway, Chep and Groupe CAIB. As of Brussels

Management Consultancy in Compensation and Benefits

Personnel Officer in Data Processing Division