David Rodwell

David Rodwell

BEng Civil Engineering, Dip Project Management, MAPM

David founded XecPro Services in 2020 following a 21-year career with AMEC working in the UK and overseas and, more recently, 5 years working for National Grid Gas (NGG).

During his career, David has held senior operational and commercial positions applying his expertise in setting business strategy, business planning and growth, business management, programme and project management, commercial management, business transformation and business turnarounds.

Whilst at AMEC, David project managed a variety of utility, energy and construction projects ranging from consultancy, contractor works & services and turnkey design and build capital projects of values ranging up to £500 million. Geographically, David has worked across Bulgaria, Turkey, Romania, Bosnia and Serbia for 6 years and also spent 12 months in South Carolina working within the PMO of FluorAMEC project managing Iraq reconstruction projects.

At his time with NGG, David developed a growth strategy and executed a business growth plan for their internal contracting division, doubling turnover whilst maintaining +20% EBIT contribution. This was achieved in less than 4 years using a combination of securing new contracts, modernisation and transformation of the business by implementation of several improvement projects, improved workforce utilisation and the introduction of an apprentice scheme to mitigate a workforce demographic issue.

Trained in agile and scaled agile methodologies, David was appointed the Product Owner of the cost management transformation project for NGG in 2019. This project introduced a new cost library, end-to-end business cost management processes and controls and a new asset taxonomy based on ISO14224. The transformation project delivered a management procedure and asset management process to heighten the level of cost intelligence across the business. The subsequent improvements which allowed NGG to make better decisions on asset intervention selection, was estimated to deliver between £30 to £40 million of TOTEX reductions over RIIO 2. In addition, David was responsible for providing the cost justifications and presenting unit cost information to Ofgem to support the RIIO2 business plan worth £1.5 billion of regulatory income to NGG.

David now provides a wide range of business services to the energy and utility sectors via XecPro Services offering the skills and expertise he has acquired to help organisations deliver better business outcomes. For more information on these services please visit https://www.xecpro.co.uk/services.

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Len Taylor

Len Taylor

Having operated in many market sectors (power, petrochemical, renewables, pharma and oil and gas), Len is able to bring the benefits of operations/technology transfer across sectors to increase business performance for international companies operating in both the UK and overseas. He has worked within owner operator companies (both in operations and manufacturing) and EPC organisations (with multinational offices for project delivery and design).

Roles in these sectors have been at senior management levels including C-Level, focusing on business strategic direction/implementation, and new market and product development. Len is currently engaged as Northern Powerhouse Sector Specialist Offshore Wind and Renewables for the Dept for international Trade.

As a Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, ex Regional Board member of the EEF (now called Make UK), and ex Regional Chair of the ECITB, Len is a highly qualified and experienced person; his knowledge and experience is focused through consultancy activities to SME’s and larger organisations.

Len’s considerable business experience means he is able to offer support in any business environment, be it through directly supporting the management team through coaching and mentoring, through to facilitating an organisation to develop strategies and address key business challenges. Organisations benefit from his expertise in business transformation, operational improvement and strategy, delivered from a perspective of experience, common sense and pragmatism.

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Mike Cunningham

Mike Cunningham

Director and Founder

Elevate Your Business Ltd

Mike is an independent Business Advisor with over 40 years diverse experience delivering Operational Excellence and Strategic Business Development, within Halliburton’s upstream drilling business.

• Led global digital transformation initiatives, ensuring the successful global deployment of SAP & CRM, impacting all Sales & Operations functions.

• Helped to manage the cultural change, following the merger of Dresser & Halliburton, designing and implementing Halliburton’s business workflows.

• Recruited and developed personnel, building leadership capacity up to Vice President level

Following the merger between Dresser & Halliburton Mike was the Middle East Regional Manager for Operational Excellence, responsible for the organisational and cultural change required to implement best practices and business processes throughout the region.

As a functional manager for the global digital transformation, deploying SAP & CRM, Mike was responsible for identifying global best practices and integrating these into our SAP & CRM systems. Updated workflows, covering all aspects of business, were then integrated into our organisations and business processes. The changes were communicated to Global & Regional Management teams, to ensure commitment and KPIs were agreed, to track compliance. These deployments successfully transformed Halliburton’s organisation and business processes to create value through increased visibility of key data and operational excellence.

As Global Manager for Market & Business Strategy, based in Houston, Mike advised the Global Management team on tender opportunities contracting strategies, and asset requirements. Mike also supported management in Red Team Reviews and in the development of annual strategic business plans. A key change in contracting was from discrete service contracts to full integrated service well construction contracts. These major contracts involved creating mutually beneficial alliances with different Product Service Lines and third party vendors. The Drilling Services Division had a global turnover of circa £600m in a very dynamic industry requiring continuous change management.

As Country Manager Mike established successful businesses in major geomarkets, including Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Egypt, Indonesia & Nigeria with direct responsibility for contracting, P&L, balance sheet and cash flow management for Halliburton’s Sperry Drilling Services product line.

Mike developed a reputation for driving results, & strategic changes, creating the strategic and financial roadmaps required to obtain authentic buy-in from the board while creating an understanding that through good governance and authentic commitment, change does happen.

Mike has a B.Ed (Geology & Education) from Lancaster University & attended many internal training schemes in Halliburton, including:

• Advanced Profit Centre Management.

• SAP implementation - Accenture Consulting

• CRM implementation - Microsoft Dynamics

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Chloe Richards

Chloe Richards

Owner Six1Seven Brand Strategy & Communications

Good communication is crucial to the success of any company, project or campaign. It could be a requirement to keep teams engaged and updated on changes or initiatives or provide a plan for regular project updates or even a managed recruitment campaign.

Chloe has over 25yrs of marketing and communications experience, working for both corporate organisations in the transport and engineering sectors and for international marketing agencies working on business to business, internal communications, PR, social media as well as consumer facing campaigns, both digital and print.

In 2018, she launched Six1Seven Brand Strategy & Communications to help businesses get clear on the best way to articulate their key messages and reach their audience, whether that’s their own customers or employees. She helps her clients create powerful business stories that have a clear position and message, connect with their customers to grow. The services she works with clients on are:

• Defining marketing strategy for organisations

• Identifying & articulating key messages to connect with the right audience

• Developing communications plans to be delivered by clients

• Acting as a trusted advisor to senior lead teams on marketing & communications

• Delivering campaigns and plans on behalf of clients

Chloe is always mindful of the business objectives for each project and success criteria is monitored on the commercial success of a campaign. This is so that she can ensure that the communications are having a direct and positive impact for clients.

Client testimonial:

“Chloe has a listening approach, finding out what’s going on in the business. Her efforts actually translate into the bottom line, she is outcome orientated and has a very commercial view.”

Tracey O’Keefe. Managing Director Hospice Quality Partnership

Following her graduation from Leicester University Chloe completed her Certificate in Marketing (CIM) and has taken several courses in brand and digital marketing and social media trends to continue to be a trusted advisor to her clients.

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John Bradshaw

John Bradshaw

Dynamic experience business leader and consultant, with a successful track record of leading Business Development, Operational Leadership, change and delivery, in both contracting and consultancy environments across a diverse range of highly regulated industry sectors, from privately owned SME’s to large multinational corporations.

A strong business acumen and demonstrated capacity to optimise all operational aspects of growing a business by striving to improve quality, productivity, and efficiency and through work winning. Trusted leader and business partner adept at mentoring and coaching individual managers to build team’s abilities and support attainment of agreed indicators related to financial and operational performance.

A professionally qualified Chartered Engineer, a Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and a former member of the process industries division of the IMechE. A BSi certified 6Sigma Black Belt and has successfully instigated and delivered a number of major organisational change programmes based on Lean principles.

A wealth of transferable skills and experience gained across the Nuclear, Infrastructure, Engineering and the Built Environment. With a flair for seeing beyond the obvious, possesses a rare capability of being a strategic visionary, but equally able to translate that into practical application and delivery.

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