Rob Wherrett
- Executive Chairman
A senior business change professional who has delivered over £1bn in business
benefits.
Rob has a proven track record in transforming operations and achieving
turnaround through change management, strong planning skills and outstanding
programme governance. He is an acknowledged expert in defining the Right
Problem and developing the Right Solution.
Rob is a
graduate of the University of St Andrews, where he studied Life Sciences.
From an initial career in the City of London and subsequently Retail Financial
Services he moved into Systems and Organisational Development. He then
founded Zymolysis in 1994. Work has taken him into a wide range of
businesses and he is able to bring that broad experience to bear for his
clients. He has worked throughout the UK and Northern Europe, together
with time spent in the USA and Malawi on various client projects.
For a
number of years he was a panel adviser to the UK Government DTI/BERR/BIS on
matters to do with business. He is also one of the UK Assessors for
Management Consultant accreditation with the Institute of Consulting (part of
the Chartered Management Institute).
Client interventions
include: |
|
Royal
Bank of Scotland (Retail) |
Change portfolio
evaluation |
Homebase |
HQ relocation planning |
Home
Office - Immigration |
Business process redesign |
Various
SME Operations |
Business planning &
change |
Prudential |
Regulatory migration |
Aviva |
Project appraisal |
Axa UK |
Dependency management -
Operating System upgrade |
Global
Solar |
Business plan for World
Bank |
Whitbread |
Supply chain scorecard |
American
Express |
Euro introduction and MI
conversion |
GUS Home
Shopping |
Business turnaround |
University of Glasgow |
Project management -
international research |
Intelligent Finance |
Programme management -
prior to launch |
Open
University Business School |
Associate Lecturer -
Creativity Innovation & Change |
Environmental Law Centre (Scotland) |
Organisational planning |
CV (pdf - opens in new window) |