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Your Partners
You work with a high calibre team of senior
managers from a variety of line management and consulting
backgrounds. Our senior team have extensive experience assisting line managers in delivering rapid and sustainable performance improvements.
Leadership Team
SKIPP WILLIAMSON - Managing Director
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- Operations leadership in metals (steel, aluminium,
zinc, lead), mining, pulp & paper and light
manufacturing
- McKinsey & Company, 14 years leading performance
improvement work
- Expertise in performance, Lean and cultural turnaround
- Delivered substantial results in North America,
Europe, Africa and Australasia
- BE Civil (Hons), MPhil Mgt. (Organisational
Behaviour) (Oxford), MSc. Geotechnical Engineering
(MIT).
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North America
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KEITH RUSSELL
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- Operations expertise in mining and
metals (zinc, lead, copper, nickel,
alumina, aluminium, gold, coal),
pulp and paper, oil and gas and
telecomms
- 30 years consulting experience
including BCG and Booz Allen
Hamilton
- Global experience in Europe,
America, Asia, Australia and New
Zealand
- Master of Business Administration
(Stanford University), Arjay Miller
Scholar (top 10%) and a Harkness
Fellow.
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JOSEPH SOCOLOF
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- Expertise in Lean, Six Sigma, MOS, mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance and business development
- 13 years of strategy and operations consulting at Mckinsey and Partners in Performance; five years of line management experience; and five years corporate finance / private equity experience
- Master of Business Administration (Duke University); Bachelor of Economics (University of Illinois).
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Europe / Commonwealth of Independent States
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MATTI KARINEN
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- Deep expertise in business transformation and turnarounds. Led major turnarounds in airports, agribusiness, pulp & paper, metals and mining
- 18 years consulting and business improvement experience including McKinsey & Company and Mercer
- Delivered results in Europe and Asia
- Master of Business Administration (Stanford), Master in Management (Helsinki School of Economics); BA in Business Systems.
- Speaks English, Finnish, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Indonesian, Russian and German.
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SERGIO GONZÁLEZ ANDIÓN
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- Delivered results in mining, energy, steel, cement, petrochemicals, consumer goods and retailing
- 20 years consulting experience including McKinsey & Company and Bain & Company
- Global board level and senior management experience in industrial and retailing sectors
- Bachelor of Science in Electro-Mechanical engineering (Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico) and Master of Business Administration (Louvain University, Belgium)
- Speaks English, Spanish, Portuguese and French.
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Asia
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IAN WOODS
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- Joined Partners in Performance in 2005
- 10 years consulting experience including 5 years with McKinsey & Company
- 10 years in senior management roles in Consumer Electronics, Telecommunications Equipment and Telecommunications Services
- Extensive experience in Australia, Asia, North & South America
- MBA from Australian Graduate School of Management; Bachelor of Business – Queensland Institute of Technology.
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MICHAEL SPENCE
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- 11 years line management in Asia and North America starting up new plants and turning around underperforming businesses
- 15 years consulting delivering bottom line results through operational improvement in CAPEX-intensive industries across 45 countries with a focus on S.E. Asia-Australia in the last eight years
- Former Head, S. E. Asian Operations Practice at McKinsey & Company (won 2006 competition to launch new service line with “McKinsey Execution Services”)
- Expertise in chemicals, construction, maintenance, mining, mining services, offshore oil and gas, and petrochemicals.
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South Africa
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STEVE BROWN
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- Director and co-lead of PIP’s African Business
- 7 years’ consulting and leadership experience with PIP
- 20 years’ experience in line management, including CEO and GM positions in manufacturing
- Delivered substantial results in open cut and underground operations including gold, coal, nickel and iron ore. Also metals refining, port and rail operations and planned shutdowns
- Deep expertise in mining turnarounds in Australia and South Africa
- Masters in Business Administration from Cranfield UK, Diploma in Marketing, and a Bachelor of Engineering (Honours, Chemical).
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NIGEL SUTHERLAND
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- Over 35 years experience working in the
resource sector
- Experience as chairman of a major metal refining company, board member for seven major mining companies in South Africa, corporate advisory, senior management roles for a global resource company including both Operations, Marketing and Treasury
- Delivered results in South Africa, Australia, Namibia, India and UK
- BSc Engineering (Metallurgy) (University of Witwatersrand). MBA (University of Cape Town)
- Fluent in English and Afrikaans.
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GARETH HUCKLE
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- 12 years senior management consulting experience
- 15 years in the mining industry holding various operations management and senior executive positions
- A partner with Monitor Group, consulting to blue-chip clients across a variety of international markets, industry sectors and business challenges
- B.Eng (Hons) in Mining Engineering (Leeds, UK) and MBA (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa).
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Australia, New Zealand and Oceania
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MICHAEL HUGGINS
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- 17 years consulting and industry experience including McKinsey & Company
- Specialises in transformations, operational improvement and capital optimisation in the heavy industrial, infrastructure and resource sectors
- Led major turnarounds in mining, manufacturing, resources, industrial goods, logistics and services companies
- Deep expertise in commercial due diligence and working with private equity firms including some 40 CDD engagements in Australia including some of Australia’s largest public to private deals
- Extensive work in sales force effectiveness with industrial, manufacturing and service businesses
- BE (1st Hons) (Manufacturing & Material Engineering) (Uni of QLD), PPE (Oxford, Rhodes Scholar).
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IAN WOODS
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- Joined Partners in Performance in 2005
- 10 years consulting experience including 5 years with McKinsey & Company
- 10 years in senior management roles in Consumer Electronics, Telecommunications Equipment and Telecommunications Services
- Extensive experience in Australia, Asia, North & South America
- MBA from Australian Graduate School of Management; Bachelor of Business – Queensland Institute of Technology.
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JAMES BRIDGERS
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- 20+ years’ consulting experience in the United States, Europe, South America and Australia
- Expertise in cost reduction and restructuring
- Delivered results in banking, insurance, manufacturing, publishing and mining industries
- Dual Bachelor degrees in Economics and Business Administration from Trinity University, United States.
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DAVID DAY
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- 18 years Commercial and Investment Banking
- 3 years McKinsey & Company, 10 years performance
improvement work
- Delivered results in steel, zinc, wood products,
pulp & paper, coal, iron ore, gold
- Expertise in operations throughput, heavy vehicle maintenance
and sustainability of change
- Delivered results in Australasia, New Zealand,
Hong Kong, Europe, USA
- MBA (AGSM), Master of Conservation Biology, Graduate Diploma in Quantitative Marine Science, Graduate Diploma in Applied Finance from
the Securities Institute of Australia.
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MICHAEL SPENCE
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- 11 years line management in Asia and North America starting up new plants and turning around underperforming businesses
- 15 years consulting delivering bottom line results through operational improvement in CAPEX-intensive industries across 45 countries with a focus on S.E. Asia-Australia in the last eight years
- Former Head, S. E. Asian Operations Practice at McKinsey & Company (won 2006 competition to launch new service line with “McKinsey Execution Services”)
- Expertise in chemicals, construction, maintenance, mining, mining services, offshore oil and gas, and petrochemicals.
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ANTHONY PURSEY
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- 25 years consulting and operations
experience
- Consulting experience includes McKinsey
& Company
- Industry expertise includes automotive
manufacturing, food products, IT services,
telecomms and heavy manufacturing
- Led OE automotive business through
challenging cyclical downturn
- Rapidly grew bus body business following
acquisition
- MBA from Wharton (Thuron Scholarship), with
Distinction (1985) and a Bachelor of Science at
the University of Sheffield (1980).
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ROB AITKEN
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- 10 years consulting experience including
McKinsey & Company
- Operations expertise in manufacturing,
industrial processing, oil and gas, mining
(gold, coal, copper), dairy, healthcare and
financial services
- PH.D., Mechanical Engineering.
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South America
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PABLO SPINADEL
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- 20+ years’ experience in Management and Operations as well as in Consulting and Coaching delivering results throughout the globe (North and South America, Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania)
- Experience in Resources, Mining, Technology, Telecommunications, Manufacturing, Services, Finance, Utilities, and Governmental sectors
- 20 years consulting including McKinsey & Company, UNIDO and IBM, Worldwide Responsibility of the Wholesale Distributors segment at IBM Corporation
- Professor (Operations, Project Management) at the MBA, Universidad de San Andres
- PhD in Technical Sciences (Maximum Honours - Tech University of Vienna), MBA (McKinsey), Electronic Engineer (Universidad de Buenos Aires)
- Speaks Spanish, German, English, Portuguese, Italian and French
- In the last 4 years he has delivered +15 BUSD of value to Latin American clients.
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IGNACIO DI BARTOLO
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- Delivered results in mining, energy, steel, and financial sector
- 20 years consulting experience including McKinsey & Company and Accenture
- General Manager of Unisys for Argentina, Chile and Uruguay
- Industrial Engineer from the Universidad de Buenos Aires.
- Speaks English, Spanish and Portuguese.
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PIP CENTRAL
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IAN WOODS
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- Joined Partners in Performance in 2005
- 10 years consulting experience including 5 years with McKinsey & Company
- 10 years in senior management roles in Consumer Electronics, Telecomms Equipment and Telecomms Services
- Extensive experience in Australia, Asia, North and South America
- MBA from Australian Graduate School of Management; Bachelor of Business – Queensland Institute of Technology.
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