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2019 Untitled-1 1 01/11/2019 15:56 Untitled-1 2 01/11/2019 15:56 THE MANUFACTURER TOP 100 CONTENTS CONTENTS INTRODUCTORY PAGES Background 04 Foreword by Nick Peters, Editorial Director The Manufacturer 05 Cranfield University andThe Manufacturer by Professor Mark Jolly 07 Manufacturing Directors’ Scholarship with Cranfield University 08 Celebrating Success, by Dan Kirkpatrick, Trust Hunter 11 Judging Panel 12 Judging Criteria 14 What it means to be a member of The Manufacturer Top 100 16 The Pledge 17 THE MANUFACTURER TOP 100 A-Z 18-57 Sponsored by: TOP 100 - profiles with icons.indd 3 02/11/2019 14:45 THE MANUFACTURER TOP 100 BACKGROUND BACKGROUND EDITORIAL WHY? We first had the idea for The that is really saying something. Nick Peters Manufacturer Top 100 in 2013. There Out of the 100 judged to have made Jonny Williamson was a growing recognition, in academic the cut, 20 have been highlighted as Rory Butler studies and parliamentary reports, that Exemplars, people who make a truly [email protected] there was a lack of visible role models exceptional contribution to the sector COMMUNITY MANAGER in industry. every day. Alice Green [email protected] WHAT? The Top 100 was our WHAT’S NEXT? All 100 are response. We wanted to provide catalysts for change. They strive for DESIGNER a showcase for the most inspiring innovation, the newest technologies Declan Stewart individuals in industry, to illustrate and pioneering business models. They [email protected] the enthusiasm and commitment acclimatise, pivot and plunge forward present in modern manufacturing, and as the markets and competition around to underscore the exciting, well-paid them evolve. They are the driving force and rewarding careers that exist in the behind the country’s manufacturing sector. renaissance, and to understand their journeys is to understand why it is WHO? These 100 individuals have truly exciting to be manufacturing in been nominated by customers, team Britain. members, by the leaders and the led, from shop floor to top floor. They are among the very best UK manufacturing has to offer. And given the brilliance of modern manufacturing in this country, 4 TOP 100 - profiles with icons.indd 4 02/11/2019 14:45 THE MANUFACTURER TOP 100 FOREWORD FOREWORD A VERY WARM WELCOME proud of. to carry around with you, but all means we have a 600-strong cohort TO OUR CELEBRATION OF The 100 people we showcase in this these profiles are available online at of ambassadors whose individual and THE MANUFACTURER TOP book are the best of them, nominated themanufacturertop100.com. Invite collective voices carry real weight in our 100 2019. by their peers and judged by our expert people to visit it, particularly when you industry. Help us grow this community panel to be at the pinnacle of individual hear statements such as, “Who wants by watching out for the invitation to It has been a tumultuous year, with Brexit achievement in manufacturing. Among the to work in a dirty old industry like nominate those who you believe deserve forcing many manufacturers to throw 100, our judging panel chose 20 for special manufacturing?” or “Manufacturing? to be in The Manufacturer Top 100 2020. longstanding plans out of the window and recognition. We call them ‘Exemplars’. It’s for boys who can’t get decent jobs Invitations will be sent out in May next start stockpiling for a March 29 deadline anywhere else.” year. that never happened, to invest in expensive I won’t spoil your enjoyment of this book contingencies for a No-Deal disaster that by introducing any of them to you here. I know those statements sound Until then, thank you for your support, (at the time of writing) may still emerge What I would say is that the Exemplars, preposterous to any of us who understand and many congratulations once again to from the December 2019 election, and indeed all 100, offer a remarkably varied what brilliant careers young men and the Top 100! to revisit all the underpinnings of their cross-section of skills, backgrounds and women can fashion for themselves in business they would otherwise have left contributions to our sector. As the best industry, but they do represent how a great unquestioned. among us, we regard them as role models many people in this country think. for the entire country and we will be doing Through it all, they had to rely on their all we can to introduce them to people in So let’s all engage in this virtuous campaign people to keep the whole thing going: schools, government and wherever there to applaud these tremendous examples of individuals, from the shop floor to might be a lack of appreciation for what the spirit that drives our sector, and in so NICK PETERS the board room, whose unwavering careers in manufacturing are all about. doing expose it and them to a wider gaze. Editorial Director, commitment to their business, their The Manufacturer teams and their customers make UK Can we ask you to do the same? A final thought. This is the sixth year manufacturing something we can all be I recognise this book is a bit much in which we have done this, which 055 TOP 100 - profiles with icons.indd 5 02/11/2019 14:45 Image courtesy of Accolade Wines TOP 100 - profiles with icons.indd 6 02/11/2019 14:45 THE MANUFACTURER TOP 100 CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY AND THE MANUFACTURER BY PROFESSOR MARK JOLLY CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY AND THE MANUFACTURER TOP 100 It is undeniable that our manufacturing where manufacturing education, with operational responsibility for achievements. Adding to the successful sector has a lot to be proud of and the research and technology transfer manufacturing and service delivery. It Directors’ offering, the line-up of executive Top 100 continues to provide the vital are core themes. Alongside our long- blends each delegate’s own skills and development courses includes our Services spotlight on its most essential element: standing postgraduate programmes, experience with Cranfield University 4.0 programme that is strongly aligned the best of our people. 2019 marks the Cranfield Manufacturing offers a staff’s practitioner experience of with the current needs of manufacturing sixth year of celebrating our country’s Top series of Executive Education courses implementing operational excellence to leverage Industry 4.0 technologies, 100 manufacturing talent, adding another for developing the careers of talented to help deliver sustainable solutions. such as Internet of Things, Cyber-Physical 100 personalities to the pantheon of the individuals within manufacturing, The outcome is a specific performance Systems, Cloud Computing, Big Data crème de la crème of our profession. such as many of those recognised in improvement plan with measurable Management and Artificial Intelligence. Whatever the backdrop of geopolitical The Manufacturer Top 100 report. Our Return-On-Investment. The application It empowers participants to become turbulence, our talented people continue programmes engage executives to create of the improvement plan can be on any the agents of change on the right path of to provide hope and excitement for a tangible win-wins for them as individuals initiative that delivers performance Digital Transformation and Servitization part of our economy that has always been and for their organisations. They are part improvement. This can range from of Manufacturing, enabling them to build a multiplier of value in both economic of the famous Cranfield no-nonsense the deployment of new equipment or realistic business cases that bypass hype and social terms. Cranfield University as approach that injects the best thought- systems, through resolving operations and deliver what they promise. the educational partner of the Top 100 leadership into actionable plans. HR issues to a plant-wide culture change. remains a staunch supporter and proud Our blended learning approach ensures At Cranfield we understand that getting sponsor of The Manufacturer Top 100. New for 2020 is the launch of the that individuals’ talents are stretched to the top is not the end of your journey – Operations Directors’ Programme (ODP) and fortified to blaze a trail of practical helping you stay on top is what we do best. Manufacturing remains significant for designed to deliver immediate operational the UK economy and sustains more than performance improvement to each five million households. We are still in the participant’s sponsoring company. Over top 10 global manufacturing nations and a period of two one-day assessments the opportunities for rewarding careers and three two-day modules, delegates are plentiful. The yearly showcase of the are coached to develop solutions to Top 100 in our profession is the testament an operations issue facing each of to the real difference manufacturing their businesses in order to create an people are making to so many lives in improvement implementation plan Prof Mark Jolly communities across the UK. based on operations excellence and peer CEng, CEnv, FIMMM, FICME Director of Manufacturing, reviews. The programme is designed Cranfield University Cranfield University is recognised as for senior managers, directors and high one of the UK’s leading institutions potential employees of UK businesses 7 TOP 100 - profiles with icons.indd 7 02/11/2019 14:45 THE MANUFACTURER TOP 100 MANUFACTURING DIRECTORS’ SCHOLARSHIP WITH CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY THE HENNIK GROUP Open to any senior executive MANUFACTURING working in any sector of UK manufacturing and who is named within this or the past three DIRECTORS’ SCHOLARSHIP The Manufacturer Top 100 publications IN