Adam Connolly linkedin.com/in/adam-connolly-acca
Paul Cottam linkedin.com/in/paulcottam
■ Career history: Global Business Development Analyst, Ontic Engineering and Manufacturing Ltd, UK Engineering Finance Business Partner, GE Aviation, UK Commercial Finance Analyst, RWE Generation UK, UK FP&A Analyst, RWE Generation UK, UK ■ Education highlights: Executive MBA, Warwick Business School, UK ACCA, Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, UK
■ Career history: Vice President - Human Resources, Meggitt Plc, UK
Chief People Officer, Fintyre Group, UK HR Director - Europe, Essentra Plc, UK Divisional HR Director, Essentra Plc, UK
■ Education highlights: Executive MBA, Warwick Business School, UK BA (Hons), Human Resource Management, University of Teesside, UK
■ Nationality: British
■ Nationality: British
■ Languages:
■ Languages:
English (native)
English (native)
■ Career achievements: Active involvement in acquisitions, adding over US$28 million of EBTIDA to a business within a 12-month period. This helped the board deliver on its commitments for growth. Redeveloped the cash forecasting process for the Engineering segment within the UK and improved accuracy to within 4%. Successfully managed and led a team through a transition to a shared service centre in Poland from the UK. Managed to keep operational standards and team morale high during a difficult period of change, whilst ensuring all project milestones were met.
■ Career achievements: Led HR workstream activities for 15 separate M&A projects including due diligence and post-acquisition integration, delivering cultural harmonisation and synergy savings totalling in excess of £100 million. Drove operational management improvements with full P&L responsibility, to deliver a turnaround of a manufacturing and distribution business. Resulted in a 93% increase in on-time delivery performance and reduced production over dues by 78%. Led the business agenda on culture, engagement and diversity and inclusivity. Drove the deployment of a high performance culture, delivering year-on-year improvements in engagement with 43% increase in participation levels and 21% improvement in engagement metrics.
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