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Taking time in 2024 to focus on a number of personal projects and travel. Open to short term projects and advisory work. Planning to look for something more permanent again in 2025.

Consultancy offering clients insight and support in terms of business strategy and implementation, new business development and growth, M&A due diligence and integration, and business performance improvement. Built on 30+ years of experience in the chemicals, materials and building products industries, working in large, medium and start-up companies around the world.

Chromatic 3D Materials has developed the technology to print with thermosets, a broad class of materials including polyurethanes, silicones and epoxies. The adaptability, durability and resilience of these materials are unmatched by the thermoplastics used in conventional 3D printing processes.

LIGNIA Wood Company is one of the UK’s main manufacturers of sustainable modified timber products for the global construction sectors. At our modern manufacturing plant in Barry, South Wales, using our unique process (patent-pending), we manufacture beautiful and high-performance wood for cladding, decking, flooring and a large range of joinery projects. It's also the proven real wood alternative to Burmese teak for use in yacht decking in the marine sector. Award-winning LIGNIA® takes softwood grown sustainably in temperate plantations and turns it into wood with ultimate durability, matching or exceeding the performance of hardwoods, thus helping to reduce deforestation in some of the world’s tropical rainforests. This modified timber is 'wood made for life' with all the robust advantages of wood as a construction material, and none of the age-old drawbacks such as perceptibility to decay and rotting. Our product range is tested and approved by the world’s leading scientific and regulatory bodies who work with our own leading timber scientists and technicians based in our R&D laboratory in the Barry site. LIGNIA wood is sold through established timber distribution companies world-wide.

Glassolite Group Ltd is a material science company focussed on providing sustainable mineral and ceramic based solutions to improve the world around us.

The Sadara Chemical Company is a recently formed joint venture between Dow Chemical and Suadi Aramco. The joint venture is currently building one of the world's largest integrated chemical facilities and the largest ever built in one phase. Currently responsible for leading the negotiation of a third party joint venture.

Full P&L responsibility for a multiple hundred million dollar European business spanning eleven manufacturing locations and two joint ventures.Led the business through the most severe downturn the European industry had experienced in fifty years. Strategically repositioned the business to capture growth in differentiated market segments whilst improving the competitiveness of commodity segments by successfully restructuring the geographical participation and cost base of the business as well as commercialising two innovative breakthrough technologies.

General Manager for Dow's Building Solutions business in Asia.Re-energised a mature, import based business by re-positioning it into a value added, growth business offering sustainable solutions that address the energy efficiency drive of the Chinese government.-Developed a growth strategy that positioned the business closer to the end users, providing differentiated solutions.-Successfully built a strong, energised, local team, well positioned to capitalize the local opportunities and move the business forward.-Developed strong partnerships with customers, and value chain partners.

Lead a multifunctional, global team of 50 employees in a new business venture. Strong emphasis was placed on nurturing the team’s entrepreneurial spirit within the confines of a large multinational organization, creating a ‘start up’ mind-set.

Led the global sales & operations planning process for a multi billion dollar global business unit, managing the medium to long term supply and demand gaps, optimizing the return on the product/asset mix, and translating the business participation strategy into product and asset needs. Negotiated multi-year global product swaps and purchases delivering multiple 10's of millions of freight savings and avoiding or postponing large capital investments