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George
Hosking
An economist, accountant and psychologist, George
specialises in acquisition analysis, corporate restructuring,
profit improvement and international strategy. Before forming
Cameron in 1983 he had many years experience as a senior line
manager in European food and chemical businesses and as a strategy
adviser to a wide range of international businesses. He has been
Commercial and Purchasing Director of an international chemical
company and Executive Chairman of an international computer software
company. He is an experienced Non-Executive Director. George
has advised major American, European and Japanese corporations
on strategy in over 60 different industries in over 35 countries
worldwide.
George believes that a very important part of effective
strategy is the objective identification, or confirmation, of
the critical factors and dynamics determining success in a given
industry at a given time. Here the reputation arising from his
analytical work has led to his appointment as an expert witness
in legal cases involving RTZ, Courtaulds, Kingfisher and Sky,
amongst others.
He is a corporate turnaround expert who has led
many successful turnarounds, adding tens of millions of dollars
to the bottom lines of international companies. His turnaround
expertise was acknowledged in his original career with Unilever,
from whom he received a special award for success in turning
around loss making businesses.
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Ita Walsh
Ita joined Cameron in 1985, and is a Director of Cameron Consultants. Her consulting
work with Cameron has ranged across many industries and included assignments
in Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, the
Netherlands, the Philippines, Switzerland, Thailand and the United States.
Ita is an experienced practitioner of Cameron's Cogent methodology for improving
corporate profitability. She specialises in measuring the indirect impact of
factors on companies profitability, e.g. through building traffic, retaining
key customers and adding volume, and plays a key role in strategic advisory work
with clients to determine the optimum shape and size of their product ranges.
Her second area of work is as a strategy consultant and advisor on corporate
organisation structure and on styles and methods of communication within senior
management teams, and between companies and their customers, partners and suppliers.
Amongst her projects for multinational clients she has studied the key success
factors allowing for successful organisational performance in some of the most
outstanding companies in Europe and the USA.
An experienced coach of Chief Executives and a recognised expert in team building
of Boards of Directors, Ita's international work on cross-cultural issues has
been published and commented on in European management journals and newspapers
such as the Times and Daily Telegraph.
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John Turnbull
An experienced technology, research, manufacturing
and strategy consultant, John gained extensive international
line management experience with BP Oil and BP Chemicals. Among
positions of responsibility he held were Production Manager
of a petrochemical works in the UK, Business Manager of a global
plastics business (based in Switzerland), Director of BP Chemicals
responsible for Asia Pacific region, President of BP Chemicals,
USA and Deputy Chief Executive BP Chemicals. He has served
on various Boards in the Far East, France, Germany and the
UK and the USA.
John has been an Associate Director of The International
Forum which runs an international senior executive-level programme
for Wharton Business School in the University of Pennsylvania.
He has served as a member of the Council of the Institution
of Chemical Engineers and is a fellow of the Royal Academy
of Engineers.
John's international consulting experience spans
acquisitions, benchmarking, competitive analysis, the impact
of globalisation and international management and business
practice. He has a particular strength in the overview of complex
international businesses.
John first worked with Cameron in
1994, since when he has carried out acquisition studies and
manufacturing and engineering profit improvement projects in
Belgium and the UK, and advised on projects in the USA, Scandinavia,
Holland and Germany.
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ASSOCIATES
Keith Anderson
A former senior staff member of Arthur D Little,
based in London, with over thirty years experience of consulting
to management in both private and public sectors, Keith works
mainly in the development and implementation of international
strategies and in identifying and remedying barriers to change.
He
has conducted numerous strategy process assignments in a wide
range of manufacturing and service sectors, working closely
with management teams to ensure involvement and ownership of
the resultant strategic decisions and direction. The insights
from this work are also a key reason for the strong reputation
he enjoys with investor groups and debt providers for strategic
audits and competitive risk assessments.
Keith has an honours
degree in chemistry from the University of Oxford and a post-graduate
diploma in economics, finance and marketing. He has also attended
seminar courses in the MBA Program at Harvard University and
is a long-standing member of the Strategic Planning Society.
He
is fluent in French, Spanish and German and moderately fluent
in Italian. He has worked extensively in all the major countries
in Western Europe, and has first-hand experience of North America,
Australasia, Japan and about 15 countries in the developing
world.
Since 1988 Keith has carried out strategy, marketing
and profit improvement projects for Cameron in Austria, France,
Germany, Italy and the UK.
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Liam Fahey
Liam Fahey is Adjunct Professor of Strategic Management
at Babson College, USA. He is co-founder and a principal of
Leadership Forum, Inc. His areas of specialisation centre on
competitive strategy, and macro environmental and competitor
analysis.
His research has appeared in many publications including
the Strategic Management Journal, the Academy of Management
Review, Journal of Marketing, Journal of Business Strategy,
Long Range Planning and Harvard Business Review. He is the
author or editor of eight books and over forty articles. His
most recent books include: Learning from the Future: Competitive
Foresight Scenarios (1998), Competitors: Outwitting, Outmaneuvering
and Outperforming (1999), and The Portable MBA in Strategy
(2nd ed, 2001).
Liam has consulted with many international manufacturing,
service and non profit-making organisations and has delivered
executive education and development programmes in the United
States, Asia, Australia, Africa, and Europe. He is a frequent
presenter of Competitor Analysis programmes for Management
Centre Europe.
A Director of Cameron Consultants since 1990,
Liam has advised Cameron on acquisition, competitor analysis
and strategy projects in the USA and throughout Europe.
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Alain
Guihard
An Associate of Cameron since 1987, Alain is a Franco-British
Economics graduate with extensive line management experience
first in market research and later in marketing management
roles in multi-national corporations, including Henkel, and
as European Marketing Director with Pepsico. Based in France,
Alain conducts market research and marketing consultancy projects,
and can assist in all practical matters relating to the management
and administration of companies in France.
Alain has carried
out acquisition search, acquisition analysis, acquisition due
diligence, market research and marketing strategy projects
for Cameron in Belgium, France, Germany and the UK. He is bilingual
in English and French, and also speaks German.
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ABOUT
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