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Roger Perry  Executive Director

Roger has consulted to a wide range of industries including: R&D; Defence; Manufacturing; Finance; Airlines; Telecommunications; Government; Supply Chain; Retail; and Information Technology. Roger has been an assignment Director and Steering Committee member on over 30 transformation assignments. He spends much of his time as a Director focused on ensuring successful organisational change, with demonstrated and quantified returns.

Prior to joining the Bevington Group Roger was a Group Senior Executive with the ANZ Bank, responsible for financial performance management (Head of Group Performance Management), as well as being responsible for major project governance (Head of Group Project Centre of Excellence). Immediately prior to this he ran ANZ Ventures – a strategic venture capital arm of the ANZ bank. He is also an experienced public company Director having sat on the Boards of a range of companies including E*TRADE Australia, ANZ International Ltd (Singapore) and Bevington Consulting Pty Ltd.

Roger has a B.Sc. (with Honours) from Manchester University, a Master of Commerce (with Honours) from Melbourne University, and a Graduate Certificate from the AGSM. Roger is also a graduate of the Institute of Company Directors (Order of Merit).

Diana Perry Executive Chairperson

Diana has a wide experience helping client staff to achieve sustainable bottom line and customer service changes. Her large, high performing clients include Visy Industries, Komatsu, AXA, GE Capital, Shell International and the Transport Accident Commission.

She is responsible for the ongoing development of the XeP3 tool which is used by organizations internationally and in Australia to map and manage their business processes. The tool has developed under her sponsorship to integrate process modelling, change and issue management, balanced score card and procedure and documentation management to its basic mapping and measuring capabilities. The XeP3 tool has recently been adopted by CSC as a core element of the BPM program.

Before her present position she gained her line management experience in IT, Sales and Marketing and Call Centres. She holds a Marketing degree from the Melbourne Graduate School of Management and has a joint honours degree in accounting and computing from Manchester University.

Tom Bevington Non-Executive Director

Tom Bevington is a partner in Bevington Group and its sister company Bevington Process Management Tools. He has experience in both technical and management roles in IT and was CEO of an international computer services organization with operations in 49 countries.

He is a specialist in Business Process Management with experience of over 200 change programs. Clients have included GE Capital, ANZ, Commonwealth Financial Services, AMP, AXA and Tower. He has been one of the key drivers behind the development of the XeP3 business process management tool. The tool, which provides easy to use facilities for mapping, measuring and project managing business outcome focused change, has recently been licenced by Shell International for managing their worldwide process change and standardization agenda.

Tom is a former partner in BCG and ATKearney and is a regular speaker on BPM with the ACS, CPAs, CEDA. He holds a number of board appointments.

Tim Wells Director - Methods Group

Tim is a Consulting Director with the Bevington Group. He is a leading technical expert in process reengineering, restructuring and change management whose major clients include: Austrade; Autoliv; CSC; Department of Defence; Visy; Bartter Steggles; IAG; ANZ Esanda; GE; and Westpac. He has delivered outstanding results in a variety of difficult change environments, ranging from back office to factory floor. Tim has been promoted internally within the Bevington Group over a number of years and many assignments. Prior to joining the Bevington Group he had a technical and Project Management background with Telstra, with a specialist expertise in national network operations.

Tim has a Bachelor of Engineering with Honours from Melbourne University, and a Masters in Business Administration from the Melbourne Business School.

Glenn Davies Associate Director

Glenn Davies, an Associate Director with the Bevington Group, has worked for or consulted to some of Australia’s largest Corporations. Prior to joining Bevington, Glenn was Managing Director of Steggles Foods, where he successfully oversaw the transformation of the company. Previous senior management experience has been gained from employment with such organisations as Bartter Enterprises, Goodman Fielder, National Foods and Mobil Oil. Glenn has consulting experience gained from working on assignments for Lion Nathan, Shell, Dairy Farmers and Time Inc and experience in policy advice during his time as Executive Director of the Australian Dairy Products Federation.

Glenn holds a Bachelor of Economics (with Economics and Accounting majors) from Monash University.

Jim Swinden Associate Director – Healthcare

Jim is an Associate Director with the Bevington Group with responsibility for healthcare. His career in health management spans 29 years, comprising senior management positions in both public and private sector hospitals and covering a broad range of settings including specialist, teaching and rural hospitals as well as policy development and advocacy.

In his five years as CEO of Freemasons Hospital, Jim oversaw a significant organisational transformation that resulted in a substantial turn-around in the hospital’s financial position which was followed by its sale in 2006. A key element in the turn-around was the engagement of staff in the process of performance improvement.

Prior to Freemasons Hospital, Jim was an Associate Director with KPMG where his assignments included strategic planning for public and private hospitals as well as State and Commonwealth health authorities. Jim has also held CEO positions in the public hospital system and with a national for-profit hospital group.

He has a B. Ec. and M. Admin. from Monash University, is a CPA and a Fellow of the Australian College of Health Service Executives.

Simon Kelland Associate Director - Sydney

With his background as a senior executive in both small and large organisations in the financial services sector, he has wide experience in developing and coaching executive teams and individuals to deliver growth in a competitive business environment.

Simon is passionate about helping people reach their full potential and his successful development of a number of high performing executive teams over the years count as his most satisfying experiences in business.

As well as leadership and management positions, in the past 20 years Simon has worked in a variety of senior roles including strategic planning and business development, sales, product development, structured finance, risk management and relationship management. Such a variety of roles in a number of companies, each with a different culture and market position, has given Simon deep insight into the realities of modern executive life – balancing the need to generate shareholder value with the need to build individual and team leadership based on shared values whilst maintaining a healthy and common sense approach to life and work. No easy task!

Some of Simon’s executive roles have included Executive Director of Project and Structured Finance at ANZ Investment Bank in Sydney, General Manager of Strategy and Business Development at ANZ Bank’s specialist finance company, Esanda, Managing Director of Esanda Fleet Partners, Chief Executive Officer of ComputerFleet Management, named as one of the BRW Fast 100 companies in each of the two years Simon held that role, and Associate Director in the Investment Banking Group at Macquarie Bank.

Simon has consulted to a range of leading companies in the financial services industry in Australia and New Zealand and he is an adjunct faculty member at AGSM where he teaches in the area of strategy implementation. Simon is a Chartered Accountant, a Member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, a Trustee of the Committee for Economic Development of Australia, holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Tasmania and has completed executive programs at IMD in Switzerland and Stanford University Graduate School of Business in the USA.

Simon is based in Sydney.

Brian Plowman Executive Director of UK Operations

Brian Plowman is the Managing Director of DevelinBevington based in the UK. A Graduate Engineer his early career was in Production Engineering appointments in the UK and Europe culminating as Managing Director of a number of manufacturing businesses.

Brian is a specialist in Business Process Management and has led many significant change programs including many of the UK's banks and insurance companies, British Aerospace, Courage, Lyons Tetley, Geest, BT, Avon Rubber, BBC, National Health Services, DHL, Marks & Spencer, Waitrose, BP, Astra Zeneca and a number of Universities.

Brian is a regular Master course presenter at professional institutions including Chartered Institute of Management Accountants and the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England & Wales. He has authored a number of books on process improvement and profitability analysis and modelling.

Brian has had a long standing association with XeP3 having worked for a number of years with Tom Bevington on the approach to documenting and analysing business processes.

St.John Cameron President, ASIA

St.John is the President of Bevington Process Management (Asia) Ltd which provides support to clients in Asia out of it’s Hong Kong base of operations. He is a seasoned Management Consultant having worked on assignments throughout Europe, Southern Africa, North America and Asia in the last 18 years. His clients have covered a broad spectrum of industries from Insurance and Banking, Transportation, Mining and Primary Metal Manufacturing, Shipbuilding, Automotive and Heavy Engineering, Food & Beverage and Pharmaceutical production, to Telecomms, Utilities and other service organisations.

Prior to setting up the Asia hub for the Bevington Group, St.John spent many years working with Proudfoot Consulting originally as a Consultant in 1991. He progressed through most key roles in the organization, including Project Manager, Business Review Lead Analyst, Account Executive, VP Business Development UK, VP Business Repeat Europe to take up his previous role as President of Greater China based in Hong Kong in 2005.

Prior to joining Proudfoot he was a British Officer in The Corps of Royal Engineers, serving with The Queen’s Gurkha Engineers in Hong Kong, Nepal and Belize. With a Banker for a father he grew up, living in many different and interesting locations such as Aden, Baghdad, Doha, Colombo, Karachi and Kuala Lumpur.
He went to school and university in the UK and holds a BSc, and an MBA from Henley the Management College. St.John is married with 2 daughters.

 

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