Roger Perry
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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