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Couzens' Business
Advisory Ltd
Registered in the UK as Company
09336732
Specialist Business Consultancy offered by
Couzens' Business Advisory includes: -
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Acquisition Integration
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Directing Global ERP Implementations
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Driving Business Strategy through Enabling Technology
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Directing Professional Services and Consulting
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Executive and Non-Executive Board Positions
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Leading and Directing Large Teams
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Global Experience
Acquisition Integration
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Since early 2012 planned, directed and
executed post-acquisition integration for Puma-Energy in 10 national
downstream oil company acquisitions in Central America, Africa and APAC
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Previous post-acquisition integration
experience includes directing and implementing European, American and
Global acquisitions as a board director of MiTek, and responding to the
Monopolies Commission.
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Ensuring business continuity - minimising
and rapidly recovering any dip in turnover during acquisition
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Reassuring leadership - skill retention,
team focus, team commitment, maintaining productivity
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Defining new strategy, obtaining
commitment to new strategy from acquired company and acquiring company.
Documenting existing business profile
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Matching enabling technology and business
environment to new strategy, to ensure practical details are not an
impediment to executing new strategy
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Change management plan.
Implementing change management plan
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Directing and coaching business process
changes
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Directing ERP changes essential to
support business process changes
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Optimising new business through
leadership and coaching
Directing
Global ERP Implementations
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Directing ERP Implementations from small
to complex global
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Identifying, measuring and delivering
predicted business benefits
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SAP, Microsoft Dynamics NAV and other
major ERP
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Building and directing teams in
challenging countries
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Contracting and optimising the
productivity of consultants and contractors
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Business engagement in all locations at
all levels
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Risk management
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Business continuity
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Business optimisation
Driving
Business Strategy through Enabling Technology
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Business Strategy can only be implemented
successfully when supported by Enabling Technology
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Enabling technologies include banking,
telecom, manufacturing, beverage, engineering, energy, downstream oil,
midstream oil, upstream oil
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Combining business imperatives with a
thorough understanding of enabling technology is essential for success
Directing
Professional Services and Consulting
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7 years as Partner-in-Charge ERP Central
Europe in Deloitte
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Global Product Services Director Misys
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SAP Consultancy Service Leader Coopers &
Lybrand
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Directing Outsourced Support to Ministry
of Transport
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Engineering Consultancy
Executive and
Non-Executive Board Positions
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Experience includes Board Director of
MiTek (Bowater), Board Director of Misys, Partner of Deloitte
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Cranfield University training in
Non-Executive Directorships
Leading and Directing Large Teams
International work experience building teams and businesses includes
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Africa:
Angola (½yr), Tanzania
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America:
Guatemala, Honduras, San Salvador, USA (½yr)
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Asia:
India, Indonesia (½yr), Kazakhstan, Oman, Papua New Guinea, Philippines (½yr), Russia, UAE
(1yr), Vietnam (½yr)
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Australia
(1yr)
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Central and Eastern Europe:
Croatia (½yr), Czech Republic (9yr), Estonia, Hungary (½yr), Poland
(2yr), Romania (3yr)
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Europe:
UK (resident), France (2yr), Germany (½yr), Switzerland (½yr), Sweden
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for Ben Couzens' CV
Key Strengths: -
- Post Acquisition Integration
- from the day of acquisition managing the people, the acquired and
acquiring boards of directors, the high level target strategy, the
linkage between high level strategy and detailed low level business
process and enabling industrial technology, detailed analysis of
essential business process change, change management design and building
and directing a local project team to implement rapid successful change
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Global Impact
- business networked and acclimatised to be immediately effective in
Europe, Eastern Europe,
Russia, Kazakhstan, Philippines, India, Asia, Australia, UAE, USA.
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- ERP Business Software Systems - Enterprise Resource
Planning -
SAP -
Deloitte Partner in Charge SAP ERP in 17 European countries, implemented, supported,
sold $70m fees in 7 years; recruited, trained and directed
team of 100 SAP implementers
NAV
- Puma Global Head of ERP implementing NAV in 260 group companies in 30
countries, particularly Australia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Angola, also
Tanzania, Estonia, Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador
Directed full
project lifecycles including successful go-lives and transition from
deployment to support
- Professional Services & Consulting - Partner Deloitte,
recruited and trained 100 consultants, Senior Manager Coopers & Lybrand,
freelance consultant, Global Product Services Director Misys
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Board Positions
– Board
Director MiTek (Bowater), Board Director Misys
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Industrial Engineer
– Chartered Civil Engineer. Qualified in general engineering.
Experienced in engineering design and project management of construction, structures, energy, telecom, manufacturing,
automotive, beverage, distribution, oil and gas upstream midstream and
downstream
- Large Teams
- Built and directed teams from the smallest to 300+
Supporting Strengths: -
- Oil and Gas Downstream -
ERP SAP Consultancy to downstream Oil and Gas. NAV 30 country
implementation for refining, storage, distribution and retail.
Detailed technical and business knowledge of downstream oil
- Oil and Gas Facilities -
Petrochemical plants, oil fired power stations
- Oil and Gas Upstream -
subsurface integrated studies, project management, consultancy sales, resourcing
- Financial Consultant - certified
as Financial Consultant by SAP Berlin, Senior Manager Coopers & Lybrand,
Partner Deloitte
- Financial Services -
Directed development & support global banking software
- Retail Banking Software -
design, develop, implement, support, sell in 400 banks worldwide
- IS - Engineering Information
Systems - finite element software developer, leading-edge 3D graphics
developer, automated design engineering systems
- IS - Business Information
Systems - business systems developer, bespoke software, packaged software, ERP, SAP,
Microsoft Navision NAV
- IT - Information Technology
- 25
years experience ranging from "hands-on" IT, to IT team management, to directing an
IT/IS staff of 300+
- Engineering Design Software -
design, develop, implement, support, sell - won and directed outsourced
software maintenance for Ministry of Transport
- Structural Engineer -
designed military,
transport, bridges, finite element analysis, theatres,48 storey
building, prisons, hospitals, housing, roof structures
- Civil Engineer - project
manager/engineer for the construction of petrochemical
plants, power generation, bridges, railway, motorways, aviation,
military. Chartered Civil Engineer
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Industrial Technology
– Designed and commissioned automated controls for large industrial
saws. Technical consultancy for Bowater window manufacturing. Design
enhancements for manufacturing of building products. Knowledge of
upstream and midstream oil technologies. Established ITIL support for
downstream industrial fuel delivery systems in APAC
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Manufacturing
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Directed SAP implementation in TRW Automotive Czech. Directed
development of bespoke manufacturing systems for Bowater subsidiary
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Distribution
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Directed NAV bespoke development of distribution module
- Gas and Electrical Utilities
- Implementation of
billing systems for national gas and electrical retail utility companies
- Nuclear Power - IT strategy
- Manufacturing - management,
machine design, software automated manufacturing
- Largest Sale - largest
personal sale was USD $23,000,000 consultancy fees
- Sustained
Sales - USD $70,000,000 consultancy fees targeted, sold,
contracted, delivered, invoiced in 7 years with 30%
profitability
- Target Clients
- Engineered Products, Engineering, Consultancy, Oil and Gas,
Financial Services, Manufacturing, Retail, Beverage, Telecom,
Automotive, Manufacturing, National Government
- Project Management - major Civil
projects, major IT projects, oil and gas consultancy, financial services.
PRINCE2 Certified Project Manager
- Program Management - complex
international systems implementations
- MBA and MA Engineering.
MBA Warwick Business
School Warwick University. MA Engineering Cambridge University.
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