Simon Pierson linkedin.com/in/simon-pierson
Michel Piotrowski linkedin.com/in/michel-piotrowski-44092626 ■ Career history: Head of Automation, Frasers Group, UK Senior Operations Manager, House of Fraser, UK Shipping Operations Manager, Amazon, UK ■ Education highlights: Executive MBA, Warwick Business School, UK MSc, Environmental and Innovative Engineering, EPF Management School, France
■ Career history: Business Transformation Consultant, British Army Headquarters, UK
Senior Information Operations & Capability Assurance Manager, British Army - 6th (UK) Division Operation Centre, UK Senior Manager, British Army - 21st Signal Regiment, UK Engineering Consultant & Military Advisor, Defence Science & Technology Laboratory, UK ■ Education highlights: Executive MBA, Warwick Business School, UK MEng, Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Newcastle University, UK BSc, Communications Management, University of Lincoln, UK
■ Nationality: French
■ Languages:
French (native) English (fluent)
Level 7 Extended Diploma, Strategic Management & Leadership, Chartered Management Institute, UK
■ Career achievements: Successfully implemented over £250 million in new
■ Nationality: British
automation, including partnerships with robotics industry leaders to launch the UK’s first Blackline. Developed an industry leading GTP proposition and took OEE from 50% to 72%. Created detailed specifications for the launch of two fully automated European greenfield locations (circa £350 million), to mitigate the impact of Brexit and develop group capacity in line with multiple acquisitions. Covered end-to-end design, development, and integration. Reduced staff expenditure by £34 million to date, while increasing service level (OTIF) by circa 6%. The continued investment in automation is on track to generate cost savings of circa 45% over the next three years, while increasing service levels (OTIF) from circa 92% to the 99.9% target.
■ Languages:
English (native)
■ Career achievements: Led a team of specialist engineers on operations in
Afghanistan, providing capability and assurance to circa £30 million worth of mission critical IT systems to an organisation of 5,000 personnel. Commended by Her Majesty the Queen for exceptional leadership on operations in 2020. Designed and implemented a novel defensive cyber estimate for deployed military headquarters personnel overseas that targeted low level cyber risk, developing cyber defensive best practice and real-time risk mitigations for deployed UK forces in Afghanistan. Appointed implementation lead on the Defence and Security Accelerator, responsible for aligning innovative technologies and industry proposals to Defence capability. Cited author of defence scenarios, underpinning a £30 million Distributed Analytics & AI project for multi-domain operations.
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