London, England, United Kingdom
An accomplished, results-driven Chief Financial Officer with international experience at Board level in European, Asian, American and African business environments, with proven experience in Private Equity backed MBO’s and successful Company disposals. Demonstrated the ability to develop business operations and processes to enable growth in both revenue and profit through the assessment, development and measurement of key drivers, particularly within geographically diverse business operations in the service sector. Specialties: • Private Equity and M&A • Bank / Investor refinancing and pro-active covenant management • Strategy development and implementation • Investor relations • Driving efficiency through process improvement • International, multi-site service sector businesses • Managing international treasury • Working capital improvement
RED is a private equity backed specialist SAP resourcing company, focussing on contract and permanent reruitment on a worldwide basis with revenues of £80 million. RED has 8 global offices, 200 employees and a network of over 500,000 SAP professionals.
Mill Digital Media (“The Mill") is internationally recognised as a leading visual effects Group with operations in the United Kingdom and the United States with revenues of £40 million. The Group’s core products are the provision of high-end visual effects for television commercials and film and the management and distribution of client digital assets. The Group was acquired by 3i in 2001 and succcessfuly sold to Carlyle in 2007.
Coutts Consulting Group was an international consulting group focussed on outplacement with fee income of £63 million with operations in twelve countries, predominantly in Europe, but including Japan and Canada. The Group was quoted on the LSE until 1999 when a management buyout was undertaken successfully with the support of 3i. The Group was disposed of in a trade sale in 2002.
Promoted at a time of rapid growth and change for the Group which was in the process of an MBO and de-listing and subsequently with the further development of operations in Japan and Continental Europe as well as the UK