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GREEN PARK ADVISORY PANEL

As part of our approach to exemplary client service, Green Park has established an Advisory Panel of senior executives and advisors from a wide range of sectors, disciplines and backgrounds. The Advisory Panel is available to provide additional input to client assignments, give mentoring or coaching advice to both clients and executives, and also offers advice and networking links to a wide source of business services, finance and networking opportunities. The Panel has the following members:

Mark McMenemy

Mark is an experienced Finance Director with a career spanning Retail and Wholesale in the Food, Clothing, Books and Stationery, Hardware and Footwear industries. Mark was most recently the Group Finance Director for the fashion brands Monsoon and Accessorize who operate around 800 stores worldwide, both in an owned and franchise model.
 
Mark has also served as Finance Director for Clarks Shoes and Mothercare – along with an interim appointment as Retail Finance Director at WH Smith. During that time he has led acquisitions and disposals in both the UK and abroad, corporate restructuring, change management programs and the downsizing of organisations.
 
Mark is a very commercial Finance Director heavily involved with the overall management of the businesses having had line management responsibility for much of the last decade in each company for IT, Logistics, Property and Company Secretarial/Legal functions. He is experienced in both Private and Plc (both FTSE and AIM listed) company boards – giving invaluable insight to different corporate environments.

Why Green Park?
“I wanted to get involved with Green Park for two reasons. Firstly, I have known Steve for many years and really believe that he and Raj can build a very entrepreneurial, fun and successful business – and if I can help them in the process from my own experiences it will be very rewarding.
 
Secondly, there are lots of newly appointed executives who will face all kinds of unknown challenges that to them will seem very daunting. During my career I’ve been through a lot – great successes and also difficult challenges. Hopefully by being available for them to consult with I can make those daunting challenges a little less frightening”

George Wilson

George has almost 35 years experience in HR across all activities and in many senior roles. He recently resigned as Group Human Resources Director for Rothschild. He joined Rothschild in 1999, having spent 2 years as European Head of HR at CSFB. Prior to that, George spent 10 years in HR working on Wall Street with JP Morgan and 10 years with IBM. George is an Economics graduate and is a Fellow of the Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD).

Why Green Park?
“Having worked closely with Raj and Steve in their previous firm, I was delighted to be invited to be an advisor to them in their new venture. Their entrepreneurship, energy, deep knowledge of the resourcing market, together with their professionalism and passion for what they do, will ensure that clients continue to get top quality executives on time and at the right cost"

Danny Davis

Danny is the youngest ever trustee (Non-Executive Director) on the board of the Chartered Management Institute, also residing on their Corporate Affairs Committee.  He is a guest speaker at London Business School on the Strategy and M&A/JV courses to MBA, Exec MBA, Global Exec MBA, Sloan and Masters in Finance programmes.
 
Danny has gained insight into the way teams can perform at the highest levels whilst part of the Home Nations winning England water polo team and during the ten years he spent in the England Squad.  He is an expert in advising on and leading large ($525m) efficiency & business improvement programmes and has experience working with many of the UK’s leading organisations.
 
Why Green Park?
"The Green Park team are experts in ‘resourcing for change’ and as such their approach has a great deal of resonance with the business improvement work we do. I was immediately impressed with Green Park’s willingness to challenge the accepted norms of the resourcing industry and build a proposition that actually delivers on its promises. I am delighted to sit on the Advisory Panel."

http://www.ddavisconsulting.com/

 

 

Jane Perks

Jane is currently the HR Director of The White Company, a leading specialist retailer. She is HR Consultant and established coach with many years of experience working at board level with some of the best known high street retailers, including Asda, Next and Wallis, where she has been instrumental in growth and turnaround programmes.

She now specialises in senior management development, team facilitation and coaching, as well as offering general HR support to senior management teams helping drive the development of people strategies to fulfil business goals.  Jane has a practical and commercial approach with a wide knowledge and experience across all functional areas. Her experience has proved most valuable in customer facing/service organisations as diverse as the private health sector to the wholesale drinks industry.

Why Green Park
“Steve always demonstrates a genuine desire to deliver great service and best value for both clients and candidates alike. Green Park offer a service based on mutual respect, honesty and the building of long lasting relationships.  Their independence allows creativity and innovation, flexibility and adaptability, to be a key aspect of their approach and I am confident that they will maintain their differentiation from the ‘big’ players’"

David Jackson

David is a graduate of Manchester University in Management Sciences, after which he specialised in FMCG marketing with Cadbury's and Bookers until 1988. David set up and ran a fresh food distribution business in 1988 to 1996. Subsequently, he set up and ran Careline Services in 1996, a contact centre business that he is still running today. His specialist areas of interest are IT, as applied in the Telco and Communication sectors. Careline is one of the leading outsource contact centre providers in the UK employing over 1000 staff across 3 locations.

Why Green Park?
“Green Park, I believe, has the potential to become the UK's leading interim specialist. The track record, drive and talent of the business founders impress me. These qualities in my experience are core to any entrepreneurial enterprise. In my capacity as a member of the advisory team I bring 20 years of small business experience in 2 sectors. In both of my start-up operations I have experienced the growing pains associated with the founding of new business. I intend to assist Green Park by bringing these experiences to bear thereby enabling the business to expand quickly, securely and profitably."

http://www.careline-services.co.uk/

Bill Smit

Bill is a experienced Financial Service professional who has managed and developed trading teams in the US, UK, Japan and Singapore.  He has over 30 years experience working within a corporate culture driven by profits, client relations, product development and risk management.  He has worked in New York, Chicago and London and held senior management and/or  board positions in EF Hutton, Prudential Bache, Berisford, LIFFE, LCH and IPE.  He was involved in the early development of regulation in the financial services industry.
 
Bill is a certified coach whose coaching style combines experience and aspects of Rational Emotive Behavioural Therapy. He holds a certificate in Cognitive Behaviour Therapy and is a member of the Association for Coaching.
 
Why Green Park?

"I was able to see Raj and Steve build an interim management business previously. They are professional; their ideas are fresh and they are enjoyable to work with. As interim provision continues to evolve, Green Park will be one of the leaders in the UK market place."

John Gardner

John has over twenty years experience in executive resourcing and talent identification; mainly servicing the more demanding parts of the professional service and technology markets.  After building and selling Talisman Executive Search to Penna, he held a leadership position within the group until 2005. John is widely acknowledged as a genuine thought leader in the areas of executive talent management and recruiting the right leadership asset.  He also adds significant value to a number of corporates as an executive performance coach.

Why Green Park?
“Having seen first hand the passion and commitment Raj and Steve put into each client relationship, I am delighted to recommend Green Park as a firm who's proposition and desire to innovate is perfectly aligned to the needs of corporate clients lacking choice in a rather stagnant yet growing market place.”

Michael Squires

After an earlier career in sales and marketing with Cadbury Schweppes, Michael Squires became an executive search consultant in 1981.  In 1989 he formed is own search firm which was very soon acquired by the Swiss-based international search group, TASA.  Having built a very successful London office, Michael became European President in 1993 and the Chief Executive for the worldwide business in 1995.  TASA Worldwide was acquired by TMP and Michael became CEO of TMP's executive search operations globally. 

Since retiring from TMP in 2000, he has built a portfolio of private equity and non-executive directorships.  He is the Chairman of the European Study Group - a major employers' organisation influencing Brussels and Whitehall on employment legislation.  In addition to his commercial activities, Michael is a Trustee of a number of educational charities.
 
Why Green Park?
“I was delighted to be involved with Green Park.  I have for some time been aware of the great opportunity that exists for a really focused and first class interim management and executive resourcing service.  While the market is large, it is very fragmented across either very small players or minor subsidiaries of large generalist recruitment companies. Green Park is dedicated and passionate about delivering top quality performance and I am convinced the company will enjoy both fast growth and high productivity.”

Richard Finn

Richard Finn is an executive consultant, working at the highest levels in organisations for more than 20 years. He advises multi-national organisations and some UK public sector executives on major change programmes and HR function transformation.

Richard has considerable experience of working in the US and Europe, as well as in the UK, including one year as HR Director for a French Investment Banks’ global IT function.

Richard is well known as a board level strategist, with good influencing and facilitation skills. He also coaches a few senior executives and offers pro-bono services to a number of Third Sector organisations.


Why Green Park?
"The Interim Manager market is becoming very busy. Most providers offer vanilla "body-shop" services, often sourcing relatively inexperienced managers from a data-base.

Green Park differentiates itself by interrogating the client to understand their specific needs, and then searching for appropriate candidates. The process is much closer to that used by Head-hunters, and as a result has a much greater chance of delivering real value to the client organisation."