Our Partners - Meet The Team
Anne Marie Stannard
With 20+ years experience in the chemicals and manufacturing sector, Ann Marie has held executive positions in a range of companies. She joined Company Growth from Rohm and Haas Scotland Ltd where she was European Operations Director, building on two decades of wide-ranging experience across the chemicals industry. Ann Marie is a highly experienced professional, who has worked at board and executive level within SME's and large multi national organisations. Her roles include Managing Director of Croda Firefighting Chemicals, General Manager PU Foams at Baxenden Chemicals and a range of senior Operation's roles within ICI and EVC.
Ann Marie is highly experienced in steering senior teams to become effective in delivering growth and change. She is a change agent with ability to offer board level strategic direction for a business along with delivering operational level results. Her proven track record of implementing successful change and growth within complex organisations allows her to apply this experience widely.
Beverly Payne
With 25 years experience in the Hotel and Leisure Industry working for Brand and Industry leaders Gleneagles, Malmaison and Macdonald Hotels.
A founder member of the Malmaison team Beverly, was Vice President Operations and Sales before moving to Macdonald Hotels as Managing Director for Scotland. Working at executive level for the last 15 years, Beverly has held Executive Board positions with One Devonshire Gardens, Malmaison Hotels and latterly with Macdonald Hotels, she has been fully accountable for businesses from £20 Million to £55 million.
Beverly has proven experience in her ability to think strategically and creatively to develop business ideas and solutions, to grow businesses. Using her operational and financial experience, awareness of creating brands she is now working with hospitality businesses to improve performance.
Colin Stewart
A career manager and director for almost thirty years in the food sector; involved in manufacturing, retailing and wholesaling with companies such as Geest, Safeway, Watson & Philip and the Lewis's Selfridges group.
Strong strategic development, sales & marketing, performance management and organisational structure experience.
Thirteen years with Company Growth - nine as managing director - working as a non-executive advisor and/or director with a range of Scottish SME's with turnover from £1m to £70m in the technology, software and food sectors. Colin is heavily involved in strategy, internationalisation and exporting (USA and Western, Central, & Eastern Europe) and performance management with companies such as Lightbody, Newell & Budge, Border Biscuits, Findlay Irvine and CALM. Strong links with the financial and legal sectors.
Corrina Davies
Corrina Davies is business advisor providing both strategic and practical support to organisations in defining, planning and successfully implementing business change.
Using leadership, people and analytical skills to guide and support senior teams through diagnosis and prioritisation of the business challenges they face and subsequent development of a strategic direction and results driven action plans.
With an understanding of business drivers, key business processes and organisational design principles Corrina helps organisations translate the strategic vision in to practical management level activities. As the result of an extensive change and project management background Corrina applies a disciplined and structured approach to all aspects from determining the rationale for business change through to planning and implementing.
Corrina has worked with organisations from multiple sectors facing diverse challenges. Her key to success is being able to engage people at all levels to fully understand an organisation and its issues ensuring a holistic, focused and effective solution.
Graeme Scott
Graeme has been supporting executives through business change for more than 20 years. He has worked with small businesses and large international corporations, focusing on companies with complex operations.
He regularly advises boards on; Company & business unit strategy, Their customer-facing model, Product development, Operational improvement, and Organisational development.
Graeme held a senior management position with one of the largest business consultancies where he regularly supported the corporate finance team on pre-acquisition due diligence and on growth plans that involved significant operational change.
He has been asked to support boards across many sectors and on most topics that are core to the operation of the business.
He has:- Led the team that redesigned the operations of an international networks business in advance of the uptake of 3G telephony. Assisted with the redesign of small manufacturing and services businesses where the directors felt that there were opportunities for operational improvement. Improved the organisational focus within businesses by reviewing their products & services and the way in which they design and present their products to their markets. Regularly acted as the facilitator for boards and executives during periods of change and has advised on organisational development.
Ian Cook
Ian focuses on helping clients with the often challenging balance of growth and performance and the need to respond to market and industry challenges. With a background in management consultancy at KPMG and qualified as a Chartered Secretary, Ian has held senior positions in large companies such as Scottish Life and has assisted companies in a wide range of different sectors with clients such as Hitachi Capital, the Scottish Refugee Council and Infosys.
Delivery focused, Ian challenges and assists senior teams to demonstrate that their strategies and plans will result in increased embedded value and profitable returns on investment. He offers a pragmatic and yet methodical approach to drilling down into key issues and facilitating resolution. Ian is often called upon to help clients implement the planned changes through the use of rigorously applied governance, compliance and business disciplines.
He also specialises in helping businesses which are striving to reduce, non-core costs and expenses. A specific focus is whether IT is properly aligned to the business and providing good value for money.
Ian Gillingham
In a business career of 40 years working for international manufacturing companies in the engineering, automotive and electronics sectors, Ian has accumulated skills and knowledge in a broad range of business functions, specialising in finance and operations management, at all phases of the economic cycle.
Receiving his initial management training with Hyster and Glacier Metal, he worked with Leyland Vehicles during a period of great change followed by appointments with Digital Equipment Corporation where he progressed through a range of functional and operational roles to the position of Finance Director and Controller for European Manufacturing and Distribution.
Over the last 10 years, Ian has work with companies in a range of sectors helping organisations achieve sustainable improvement in performance through mentoring and transfer of skills and knowledge.
James Hancock
James works with executive teams to develop the performance, profitability and potential of their businesses. James specialises in helping companies create focussed action plans that deal with today’s issues and prepares them to succeed in the future. He advises boards on developing their strategy, growing their sales and finding smarter ways of doing things.
James has over 25 years experience in general management, sales, marketing, product development and operations. James has held Managing Director roles with Havelock Europa PLC and NCR Corporation. He has also worked for JP Morgan and Lloyds Bank and has an MBA from London Business School.
During his career, James rejuvenated a £35m manufacturing and service business. He also turned around a technology company and sold it to a large French multi-national. In both cases profitability was substantially improved, sales increased, costs reduced and cashflow boosted.
Jim Leggatt
Jim is passionate about the pragmatic implementation of marketing strategies, identifying successful and innovative business growth opportunities and coaching and mentoring senior teams in leadership and
management development.
With over 22 years experience of the Oil and Gas industry, he has held senior positions across the Exploration, Fuels, Lubricants and Energy businesses of BP, including secondments to Mobil and Statoil. Consequently he has experience of mergers, acquisitions, partnerships and alliances across many international business sectors.
Jim has a proven track record of advising and implementing business growth strategies, leading and motivating high performing teams through periods of change and developing some leading edge customer management solutions.
He has recently been engaged in working with a broad range of organisations in Europe delivering Business Development and Leadership workshops which reflect a style of stripping way the unnecessary hype, jargon and complexity that can often surround business growth.
Annette Kemp
Annette has been with Company Growth since 1996 and holds serveral qualifications in Business Administration and Accountancy.
Prior to joining the team Annette spent 10 years as Securities Manager in the stock broker industry in Canada, and, upon returning to Scotland was PA in an executive role. Annette has enjoyed several different career opportunities within business administration across several different industry sectors. This has allowed her to gain a good understanding of business and personal requirements.
Annette has a key role supporting the team to deliver the needs of the clients. She aslo provides internal administration and accounts management. As a central point of contact for clients Annette ensures the client's needs are always addressed.
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