Tony: Board-Level Candidate and Turnaround; Mergers and Acquisitions Specialist

Tony is a turnaround, and mergers and acquisitions specialist, with particular international marketing and manufacturing operations experience.

As European Managing Director of the $160 million turnover Engineered Products division of Goodyear Tyre and Rubber Company he was responsible for the formation of a new European HQ in Belgium; oversaw the integration of three acquisitions and the start-up of two manufacturing plants; and initiated and managed the creation of a distribution network in Eastern Europe. And in a succession of very senior appointments at Gates Rubber Company (a $1.5 billion subsidiary of Tomkins plc) Tony successfully managed the turnaround of one $120 million loss- making division; arrested a declining market share and restored profitability to a second division and achieved 40% sales growth, turning a $1 million annual loss into profit, in a third.

Areas of Expertise

• Change management
• Sales and marketing management
• Profit improvement
• Industrial relations
• Business turnaround
• Corporate restructuring
• Company start-ups and closures
• Mergers, start-ups and joint ventures

Tony's Career Highlights

• Managing director for Europe for a division of Goodyear Tyre and Rubber with a brief to grow the business by acquisition and organic growth from $40 million to $550 million.
• As vice president of marketing at Gates Europe NV initiated and successfully delivered measures to achieve 40% sales growth and restore profitability to a $350 million European business.
• President of Gates Canada Inc. – over four years turned the $65 million business round from a loss making, facing possible closure situation, to profit.
• Managing director of Gates Hydraulics - grew and changed the business by forming a new German manufacturing operation; performing a lead role in a Spanish acquisition, recruiting highly skilled engineering teams and introducing TQM throughout the company – all contributing to new market revenues and a sales increase from $12 million to $50 million.

Interim assignments

• Smiths Industries Plc - managed closure of production at a UK site and transferred equipment and processes to an alternate site, whilst maintaining un-interrupted production; managed the sale of a second business unit and took ownership of all personnel management actions, the production process, training, risk management and quality validation.
• Alpha Technologies, Europe – developed three year strategic plan for Europe; completed restructuring of the service organisation, and relocated the European HQ to Germany and Dutch software business within the Netherlands.