ANSA Turnaround, Transition & Interim Management Team

In today’s competitive world, many of our clients find that they need a short and a long term strategy to improve the company performance.  Changing culture and training middle management requires time and very often the company needs an immediate improvement to allow the longer term strategy time to work.

ANSA is able to offer a network of interim managers led by two very experienced  executives, who have operated both at home and abroad at a senior level and have a successful record turnaround and transitional situations.   Either of these individuals would be able to manage your business or department while you train a member of your team to take over for the future. Equally they could provide a solution to your need for short term project management or re-organisation to achieve a profit improvement

Between them Richard Baker and Ian Middleton have experience in a wide range of businesses and have particular expertise in:-

Richard A Baker  B.Sc. C.Eng. F.I.C.M.E

A widely experienced, “hands on” CEO, who has a successful track record in profit improvement and turnaround situations. Fifteen years as CEO and twenty-six years as company director in various FTSE companies.

An energetic leader, Richard works by building a team within the company and giving a clear vision and direction. He wins the respect of colleagues and is equally familiar with the operational and commercial requirements of a business. He focuses on the core needs and sets a plan for their resolution.

Experience includes high volume/low margin businesses, as well as large capital projects for overseas governments.

International experience includes running projects or companies in Germany, France, Austria, Czech Republic, Sweden, Greece, Italy, Spain, Norway, USA, Canada, South America, Trinidad, India, China and South Korea.

Ian Middleton B.Sc.

With an open empowering style Ian has an enviable track record in top and bottom line improvement and has the ability to maximise the performance in any business situations whilst pulling together strong performing teams.

Ian has superb expertise in all business fields (sales, marketing, customer service, manufacturing, finance, HR and logistics) but specialises in business improvement and turnaround of poorly performing businesses or recent acquisitions requiring integration.

Ian undertakes both interim management and consultative roles where there is an urgent need to achieve step and continuous improvements within the business.

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