Ian is a true global leader. He is highly professional, very supportive, full of new ideas and knowledge which he proactively shares with others across all organizational levels. I always found his market intelligence insights very helpful.
"zapfactory was a critical part of the due diligence team, analyzing a multi-billion $ global M&A opportunity in the chemicals’ space. The contribution in terms of expertise, contacts, teamwork and availability was excellent. Ian's sense of urgency, and ability to prioritize key contribution drivers, as well as identifying potential enterprise risk considerations, resulted in an excellent process outcome that was important for our valuation considerations.”
Ian has several unique and impressive capabilities. He is a visionary person that can not only direct an entire department to greater performance, but also inspire managers and all levels all subordinates to deliver on their goals, develop their careers and want to continuously improve. He doesn’t avoid tough decisions. He creates a work environment that genuinely gets the synergy out of diverse teams of employees. He is totally focused on the quality of a business, i.e. outstanding commercial results and higher growth
Ian has a great breadth of business expertise coupled with outstanding interpersonal skills. He has led complex change management issues across global businesses. The success of these ventures has been assured based on his clear understanding of the issues at hand, his exceptional communication skills and his passion and drive.
Ian was a valuable member of the LM management team and with his significant cross-functional and global business experience, he was often able to simplify complex global issues and guide his peers regarding important long term commitments. I enjoyed working with Ian. He was consistently rated above average in his performance appraisals. We have agreed to use him as a consultant during 2014, which shows the respect we have for his talents.
I recommend Ian as a great leader with a strategic, visionary and global mind, strong drive and great ability to find new innovative ways.
He is an experienced leader with strong interpersonal skills and human insight – combined with great humor.
Ian combines creativity with good business judgment.
Ian was one of the most energetic, innovative and accountable leaders I had on my team at Dow. He consistently engaged in change management without losing sight of the ongoing operational aspects of our function (not a minor point).
In addition to meeting or exceeding all of his goals, Ian set the leadership standard in the manner in which he designed the reorganization of his portion of the Strategic Sourcing Center. He has extremely strong business skills – knows what makes money for the company and I was thrilled to have him on my team!
Ian has strong commercial acumen, excelling in both sales-side and buy-side of supply chain. I remember how he challenged us to build capacity and re-design supply chain to introduce a brand new product in mass production in China and Brazil in a record breaking speed. It was fantastic experience in terms of time-to-market and cost targeting. He has in-depth knowledge and a wide network in the composite industry and hence extraordinary market intelligence which have been helping us on the sourcing side as well.
I first started working with Ian at a time when my former business and his were having problems properly cooperating for mutual gain, instead of narrow singular interests. His calm, measured and always intelligent approach, coupled with his extensive business experience, allowed us to re-align our respective teams into developing a far more empathetic and collaborative relationship, adding significant value to both organisations and the establishment of ground breaking industrial developments. A real pleasure to work with.