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| Name | : | David Davies MIRM |
| Location | : | David is based in Newbury, Southern England, and is available for assignments in the UK and internationally. |
| Specialisation | : | • Reputation and brand risk management, including crisis preparedness, crisis simulations, identifying and monitoring critical issues, brand performance
• Dynamic Crisis Management, a structured decision making and recording process for the heat of a crisis
• Holistic risk management and high level risk management strategy, cutting across the corporate and risk silos to map and manage the dynamic risk influences at a corporate, country, division or project level
• Embedding Risk Management and making it work at every corporate level
• Risk management training including interactive training, simulations and coaching
• Supplementing compliance: Modelling, understanding and managing all of the organisation’s risks alongside and interacting with compliance processes
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| Additional Info | : | • David is winner of the BIIBA/Insurance Age Risk Manager of the Year award for his work in designing and introducing integrated risk management strategies into UK local government.
• He created a Dynamic Crisis Management system for crisis and issues management.
• He has designed several risk management information and risk performance management systems for both private and public sectors.
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| Experience with Industries | : | • In the private sector David's experience encompasses food and drink processing and distribution, brewing, logistics, parcel delivery, manufacturing from computer chips to automotive, travel, energy, environmental services, retail, engineering design, financial services, insurance companies, IT and telecommunications.
• Public sector experience includes national and local government, higher education, the police and regional development authorities.
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| Experience with Countries | : | He has extensive experience in Europe and the USA. |
| Clarification | : | He has spoken at and chaired Risk Management seminars throughout the world, and has written many articles on risk and corporate governance for many business and Risk Management publications. He was Risk Management editor of The Computer Law and Security Report, for which he still writes regularly, and wrote the risk management section of Sweet and Maxwell's Encyclopaedia of Information Technology Law. |
| Email | : | Contact David Davies |
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| Name | : | Christopher Luck BSc, PhD, CEng, FIChemE. |
| Location | : | London /Southeast. Available for client work worldwide. |
| Specialisation | : | Over 25 years experience in strategic and operational risk management for major organizations – mainly multinationals. Development and implementation of leading edge strategies and methods for risk identification and assessment, risk control and risk management. Development of risk management structures for major organizations. Implementation of processes to ensure compliance with corporate governance requirements including The Combined Code/Turnbull Guidance.
Review and Audit of companies risk management processes including specific areas such as Environmental, Health and Safety management systems. Included substantial due-diligence work related to mergers and acquisitions.
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| Additional Info | : | Responsible for establishing risk management policy and processes throughout the global operations of Diageo plc (formed by the merger of Guinness and Grand Metropolitan.) This included implementation of a consistent approach to the identification, assessment and control of all forms of business risk.
Substantial experience both in corporate risk management roles and in senior consultancy roles working mainly for international/multinational companies.
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| Experience with Industries | : | Experience of most industry sectors, but in particular: -
Oil & Gas, Petrochemicals, Food and Drink, Transport (rail/air),
Pharmaceuticals, Power Generation/supply (conventional and Nuclear), Steel, Manufacturing, Pulp & Paper, automotive components, Glass Production and Service Industries.
Client organizations have included General Electric, TRW, Allied Signal,
Johnson & Johnson, BP, Shell, Exxon Chemical, British Gas, Network Rail, The Body Shop, Philip Morris, Steel Authority of India, Aramco, etc.
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| Experience with Countries | : | UK, Europe including Eastern Europe, North America, Saudi Arabia, India, Australia and The Far East including Hong Kong, Singapore and Japan. |
| No. of Years Experience | : | 25 years experience in the Risk Management field involving senior positions both in Industry and Consultancy. |
| Clarification | : | In recent years, has focused on business risk management in it widest sense. Has hands on experience of risk evaluation for major process plant, establishing corporate Health & Safety Functions, environmental management and risk assessment. |
| Email | : | Contact Christopher Luck |
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| Name | : | Graham Kent BSc, FCA |
| Key Skills | : | Receivables risk management and transfer and its role within sound enterprise risk management. General business management including finance. Business re-engineering, strategy development and implementation. Risk reviews. |
| Location | : | UK |
| Additional Info | : | A Chartered Accountant and experienced managing director with directorships in companies in credit insurance, debt collection, information and invoice discounting & factoring sectors. Held management responsibility for operations, underwriting, group finance and group secretarial matters at listed plc level.Carried out strategic review of state-owned insurance business in Central Europe. Completed feasibility studies, and negotiations of subsequent acquisitions.Authored module on business risk management for a post-graduate diploma.Held position of Chairman of the technical committee of the International Credit Insurance and Surety Association. |
| Experience with Industries | : | Credit insurance and related sectors, together with all industries that are buyers of credit insurance and other receivables management services. |
| Experience with Countries | : | Worked within UK, French, Belgian and German groups. UK, North America, Hong Kong, and the Czech Republic. Extensive international relationships. |
| No. of Years Experience | : | 10 years auditing , 19 years credit insurance, receivables risk management and financing, |
| Email | : | Contact Graham Kent |
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| Name | : | Timothy Yeates MBA. ARM |
| Key Skills | : | International risk management consulting, providing solutions and advice in risk management, insurance and risk financing for many types and sizes of organisations. |
| Location | : | UK. |
| Specialisation | : | Has most recently worked with several leading corporations and governments around the world on innovative responses to risk challenges ranging from national disaster management policy and insurance scheme implementation to programme structures that integrate risk control, insurance and alternative risk financing.
His relationship-based approach is very much committed to building a limited number of high-value partnerships with clients and offering them access to a broad international network of risk experts who offer the necessary team ethos to manage risks creatively and effectively. A key part of this approach is to transfer knowledge to client organisations, either through formal training courses or as part of everyday open contact.
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| Additional Info | : | Most recently was Principal and Senior Vice President of a leading risk consulting organisation, where he also trained several hundred of their European managers as part of the teaching faculty for strategic risk consulting activities. Previously has worked at senior levels in a variety of insurance broking, reinsurance/captive management, risk financing and business development roles. He has spoken at several international conferences.Has a particular interest in promoting the under-developed facet of opportunity as part of effective risk management and has experienced this in areas such as innovative contract tendering, development work with the World Bank and Commonwealth institutions, people development and strategic liability management.
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| Experience with Industries | : | Strategic advice, risk assessment, retention programmes, international insurance broking services and captive management for sectors as diverse as Financial Institutions, Automotive, Chemicals/Pharmaceuticals, Electronics, Oil, Paper, Leisure, Food/Drink, Media and Retail. |
| Experience with Countries | : | Over last 12 months has worked on projects for most continents: Europe, US, Asia, Africa/Middle East. Fixed base is UK but mobile-working is typical. He was based for many years in France and Luxembourg working for French and international companies. |
| Languages | : | Fluent French, studied German, worked briefly in Spanish. |
| Email | : | Contact Tim Yeates |
