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London, GB

London Area, United Kingdom

• Residents' Management Company serves leaseholders of a prestigious residential estate of 190 flats in London. The aim is to maintain and enhance the estate's value.
• Oversee managing agents, planned preventative maintenance projects, upkeep and maintenance. Develop financial plans, engage residents to foster community involvement and satisfaction, and ensure compliance with.

London Area, United Kingdom

Independent Consultant and Fractional/Interim Executive enhancing operational performance, facilitating post-acquisition integration and strategic project execution for SMEs in PE-owned manufacturing, commercial services, and insurance broking sectors. Citizen of the United States and the United Kingdom, with the ability to work in both countries.

Greater Los Angeles, California, United States

As Non-Executive Chairman, provide strategic guidance and partner with the CEO to drive initiatives to improve operational performance, improve cost structure, and expand with new markets and customers.

Greater Los Angeles, California, United States

Provide strategic guidance, oversight, and support to the COO and management team. Support development and implementation of strategic plan. Monitor company financial and operational performance. Act as mentor and advisor, regularly discussing company's progress and challenges.

Greater Los Angeles, California, United States

A PE-backed Inflight Caterer serving the largest passenger and cargo airlines out of Los Angeles, Indianapolis, and Memphis. Responsible for all aspects, including P&L, operations, business development, compliance, and support functions. Recognized as the top operational hub in the network by the top 3 airline clients.

Greater Los Angeles, California, United States

Greater Los Angeles, California, United States

London, United Kingdom

Led the development of the Finance Transformation roadmap, implementation plan, and business case for an insurance broker formed from 300 acquisitions to eliminate duplication, create scale, and improve management control.

Oslo Area, Norway

NED for a start-up consulting firm specialising in managing data for talent integration in large-scale mergers of equals. Provided input to development of proprietary software platform that visualises and analyses organisations, enabling clients to track organisational changes and make informed decisions about talent integration.

London, United Kingdom

Led post-integration activities for insurance broker during rapid growth, standardised integration process to accelerate M&A cycle and improve visibility, and integrated several multi-million-dollar acquisitions over 18 months.Guided transformation of Finance operations to consolidate resources from 8 sites to 2, leading employee consultation to.

United Kingdom

Embedded resource supporting C-suite teams, executing business change and transformation programmes, implementing operational strategy, restructuring, and operational effectiveness. Responsible for leading the engagement team, achieving client success, and developing additional business. Representative accomplishments:- Led operational turnaround for.

Paris Area, France

For €2.4 billion provider of entertainment video services and home networking devices, worked with Business Units and Functions to improve time to market and cost competitiveness. Results included restructuring HR and a new product development roadmap for the set-top box business.

United Kingdom

Led consulting engagements to develop and implement operational strategy and restructure to improve productivity and growth. Representative accomplishments:- Executed complex statistical analysis of 1M+ transactions for commercial washroom services client wanting to increase customer retention to diagnose root cause of high attrition; created financial.

Glasgow, United Kingdom

Customer contact/call centre operator, with 1300 employees and 2 sites. Introduced Lean Six Sigma and initiatives to improve sales per call and agent retention.

Greater Philadelphia Area

For $600 million building insulation division in $28 billion company, responsible for strategic planning, budgeting, financial analysis, and accounting. Implemented monthly financial performance reporting to drive improvement.

United Kingdom

Lean operational process expert and on-site leader with multiple manufacturing and commercial services clients. Developed, modelled, and implemented lean processes that improved productivity by up to 20%—restructured organisations to optimise costs, resulting in up to 15% savings.

Greater New York City Area

Developed manufacturing strategy for network of three large factories producing $1.1 billion in revenues, including target manufacturing capacity, performance improvement targets, and launching projects to achieve targets.

Glasgow, United Kingdom

Managed a factory/distribution centre with 40 employees that served European markets. Responsible for production, maintenance, quality, cost, and procurement.

Greater Nashville Area, TN

Responsible for designing, building, modernising and start-up of FMCG processing and packaging lines and facilities for operations producing $1 billion in goods annually. Accomplishments included a new Plastic Injection Moulding operation producing 1 billion parts per year and a new UK factory.

Greenwich, Connecticut, United States

Summer intern for 3 years supporting the Director of Construction and Manager of Engineering. Created mechanical drawings to support construction and engineering projects.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba

Nashville, Tennessee

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Mechanical Engineering

Easton, Pennsylvania

Education record

Greenwich, CT