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Oxford, England, United Kingdom

CET is built on the premise that education is the foundation for development. Its purpose is to advance primary and secondary education across the Commonwealth with a strong focus on teacher professional development. CET is an Associated Commonwealth Organization .

Intertek is a leading quality solutions provider to industries worldwide. From auditing and inspection, to testing, training, advisory, quality assurance and certification, Intertek adds value for its customers by helping improve the quality and safety of their products, assets and processes. With a network of more than 1,000 laboratories and offices and over 38,000 direct employees in more than 100 countries, Intertek supports companies’ success in the global marketplace by helping customers to meet end users’ expectations for safety, sustainability, performance, integrity and desirability in virtually any market worldwide.Member of an Executive team delivering record growth in revenue and profit over the ten year period.First ever Group Head of HR for the business . Created the global HR strategy and network to support the growing and changing business. Created and ran the internal web networks to connect and share knowledge globally. Built up the Health & Safety and environmental sustainability strategy and global credentials. Executive co-opted member of the Remuneration and Nominations Committees In 2005 Intertek had a market capitalisation of £1bn and was a collection of businesses rather than a coherent group. Today the capitalisation is over £4 bn and Intertek is firmly established in the FTSE 100 . Growth has been through a mix of acquisitions and organic expansion providing quality and safety and risk services to customers in every business sector, including commodities and trade, manufactured and consumer products, industry and infrastructure.

Paris Area, France

Bureau Veritas is a services and consultancy company for conformity assessment in quality, health, safety, environment & sustainable development. Revenue US$ 1,7 billion, with 20 000 employees in 140 countries. The major worldwide activities were in marine, aviation, trade, consumer products and industries assets & facilities. First Group Head of Human Resources and Internal Communications in the 175 years history of this then privately owned French company. Created and led the progress of HR strategy, processes and the worldwide network of HR professionals.I built up HR from scratch to support the business’s growth.Defined and cascaded the global mission and values to bring together a disparate organization and support the core business model developed in conjunction with McKinsey.Instigated the Bureau Veritas university, focussed around management development and the exchange of good practices.

Paris Area, France & Detroit, Mi

Develop and drive worldwide HR strategy for the 11,000-strong population of managers and technical specialists.Developed the ‘Systeme Ingènieurs et Cadres’ of HR processes to manage that population in line with the ‘5 Axes‘, Valeo’s highly successful leading edge blend of TQM and lean manufacturing.Included 2 years in Detroit reinforcing the US management ahead of the acquisition and integration of ITT Automotive.Restructuring and reinforcing of sales engineering concentrated in; France, USA, Germany and Japan, to upgrade with the changing context and needs of the auto builders, notably on in-vehicle electronics.

CMP Power Division of joint venture FIAT and Alcatel. Grew by acquisitions to be Europe's largest power battery business. In 1995 CEAC was sold to Exide USA.Reshaped and integrated mix of newly acquired and longstanding businesses across Scandinavia,mainland Europe and the UK.

Imaging Division of Ciba Geigy, then sold to International Paper Pioneered and extended Total Quality Management (six-sigma) through all people management policies and practices Initial restructuring & relocation of Ilford UK activities from 3 to one site. Subsequently merging the Ilford, Cibachrome and acquired Horsell-Anitec businesses.

Group Head of Graduate recruitment & training.Previously HR for restructuring steel building products division and subsequent MBO, divestment and closure program.

Program leader & Project Engineer for restructuring and improvements in manufacturing

Institute Of Personnel Development, Human Resources, Student Of The Year 1978

B.Sc 1St Honours, Production Engineering