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Carisma RCT - the Leadership Team
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Marco Busi has over 10 year experience working as project manager, consultant and researcher in several multi-million dollar projects, improving and innovating business strategies and processes related to international development, strategic sourcing and procurement, supply chain design & management and performance measurement. In 2007, he founded Carisma RCT and has grown it in three years into an international practice with offices in Inverness, Aberdeen and Parma (Italy).
In 2010/11, Marco led Carisma to join (as the supply chain & project management partner) ZE1 Global, a major Joint Venture Company offering Engineering, Fabrication and Project Management services to the Energy Industry. Appointed CEO by the JV’s Board of Directors, Marco is now tasked with managing the partnership, designing a suitable supply chain framework and growing the business to a targeted £100 Million in the next 5 years.
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Since 2008 he is Editor-in-Chief of the Strategic Outsourcing International Journal (SOIJ), which in its advisory board feature the world top experts in the field from IBM, Shell, MIT, London Business School, etc. The journal has recently won the prestigious Emerald Excellence Award for Best New Journal. SOIJ is subscribed by 6000 institutions worldwide and has attracted over 40,000 downloads to date.
Before setting up Carisma, he was founding manager of the Centre for Business Process Outsourcing, a £1 Million research centre co-funded by the University of Strathclyde, Highland and Island Enterprise, EPSRC and Vertex. Before arriving in Scotland, he was a research scientist in the manufacturing logistics group at SINTEF Industrial Management in Norway, the biggest research foundation in Scandinavia.
In his spare time, he maintains a series of academic roles, being Visiting Professor at various Universities in Vietnam, China and the UK. Marco's background is in applied research, which he built in universities and research foundations in Italy, Norway and Scotland.
His thought leadership is recognised internationally, and his articles published in several international journals, books, trade magazines, industry reports and newspaper (among others, The Times). An expert speaker, he is often invited to chair and present at industry and scientific events around the globe.
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Sidney Dantuma Johnston is Head of Supply Chain, Europe & West Africa for AMEC’s Natural Resources – Oil & Gas division. Sidney is a Chartered Chemical Engineer (University of Edinburgh) and holds an MBA (University of Aberdeen). He has 20 years experience in the upstream oil and gas industry. Sidney has a track record of delivery in various business disciplines, including safety, projects, contracts, change management and supply chain. Sidney has significant experience in, and a passion for business strategy, creating and managing growth, managing change and supply chain matters relating to the UK and abroad. Sidney was in 2010 the Chairman of the Oil & Gas UK Supply Chain Forum and the Chairman of the EIC Scottish Committee and is currently a board member of Energy North. Sidney is also an Editorial Advisory Board member for Strategic Outsourcing, An International Journal (SOIJ).
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Steve is a career Executive with over 20 years international experience, predominantly in oil and gas. He has held various Board level positions in international private and public companies ranging from SME’s up to major corporations with 4000 employees and an 800 Million USD turnover.
An engineer by profession, he has significant experience creating and managing growth, improving corporate performance and directing major projects, both in the UK and overseas.
Companies he has managed have won awards for fast growth, exports and technical innovation. In addition to managing global contracting activities, he has also managed research and development programmes and is named as co-author on numerous international patents in the oil and gas and materials technology sectors.
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He has an intimate understanding of oil and gas industry and civil engineering contracts and is a skilled commercial negotiator. He has a proven ability to cascade safety and commercial culture issues down through his organisation / management teams. An advocate of change management and business improvement he has directed numerous initiatives in the areas of outsourcing and supply chain management.
Politically savvy, he has networked with government leaders and lobbyists across the UK and in the Middle East and Former Soviet Union to facilitate business development in developing markets at home and abroad. In such markets he has worked closely with the major oil and energy companies as a key figure in strategic alliances for the development of both new oil fields and the rehabilitation or enhancement of existing assets.
In addition to his Directorship of Carisma RCT Ltd he holds various Board positions in both private sector businesses and not for profit / charitable organisations.
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Peter Swanson
Advisor
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Peter is a successful entrepreneur with over 20 years experience, as Investor and senior Board Member with various organisations in the oil industry and other sectors.
Companies under his stewardship have won awards for fast growth, both in UK and international markets, and realised profitable exits for investors. An experienced HR and finance practitioner, he has been accountable for the operations of companies spanning the full business spectrum from small start ups through to large organisations with over 1,500 employees.
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A skilled negotiator, he has been involved at high levels with major oil companies (he was one of oil giant BP’s first full alliance partners) and other industry blue chips. His negotiation skills extend beyond commerce to labour relations and he has successfully delivered innovative working agreements in partnership with national trade unions.
He has championed and led various change management and business process improvement projects and has shown himself to be skilled in effecting culture change and personnel development within diverse employee groups.
He holds various Board positions in both private sector businesses and not for profit organisations.
Prof. Bjørn Andersen
Advisor
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Bjørn is Centre Director at the Norwegian Centre of Project Management, Professor at the Department of Production and Quality Engineering at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology and Head of Research at SINTEF Technology and Society, Industrial Management, Productivity and Project Management.
His expertise lie in Performance measurement and management, Improvement of business processes, Benchmarking and Project management
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A global thought leader, he has authored over 200 publications, 27 of which books on topics ranging from Project management to quality management, performance measurement and corporate social responsibility.
He is Editor of the International Journal of Production Planning and Control, associate member with the International Academy for Quality, member of IFIP WG5.7 and also member of the Danish Infrastructure Commission.
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Susie Davison
2010 - Principal Consultant
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Susie, bizarrely, read for a Ph.D in Medieval History at Cambridge before finding her metier as a merchant banker leading some of the major Pharmaceutical and Life Sciences companies multiple acquisitions in the 80s and acting as lead broker to HM Government in the privatisation firstly of Amersham and latterly BP and British Gas.
She also set up and ran the New York investment arms for two major international banks.
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Finding City life losing its appeal after the advent of dual capacity, she returned to the groves of academe leading the first major University business development company in Leeds. In this role she gravitated towards Life Sciences and biotechnology becoming MD of the University’s biotech companies in conjunction with the School of Medicine, LGI NHS Trust and St. James’s NHS Trust whilst also running IT based businesses in Supply Chain mapping and 3D CAD.
However, during this diversion she discovered ERP and moved to the US to found a company to advise businesses on process and Supply Chain change using SAP as the change agent. This she sold to a large consulting firm in order to return to the UK to set up and manage its European ERP divisions. Whilst never losing her passion for history and authoring several papers on Europe in the 12th and 13th centuries she built her reputation as one of the leading authorities on ERP strategy, managing several consulting firms; concentrating principally on Supply Chain aspects and the psychology of change before returning to industry firstly with Amersham (latterly GE Healthcare) and subsequently Smith & Nephew. She managed full life cycle implementations, globally, of SAP and was one of the leading proponents of outsourcing manufacturing to low cost producing countries again using ERP to inspire change.
In addition to her doctorate Susie holds Masters degrees in Human Capital Management, Psychology in the Workplace and an MBA from INSEAD. She is also a qualified accountant (which she will vehemently deny if questioned).
Whilst working for GE, she also became a 6Sigma Black Belt and is a certified LEAN and SCOR practitioner and has SAP certifications in Sales and Distribution and Supply Chain Management.
Bob Macleod, OBE, FRAeS
2009 - Director and company secretary
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Bob Macleod spent 25 years with the BP Group firstly with BP Shipping and then with BP Exploration where he was a divisional manager responsible for BP’s North Sea logistics operations. On leaving BP in 1982 he joined the British Caledonian Group as managing director of the helicopter subsidiary, a position he held until the sale of British Caledonian to British Airways in 1987. Thereafter followed a brief spell as managing director of Scottish European Airways before joining ODECO, one of the world’s largest offshore drilling companies where he became vice president and general manager of European operations.
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Bob left ODECO in 1992 to become a shareholder and director of Vanguard Floating Production Ltd, a company which designed offshore floating production systems operating primarily in Aberdeen and the Far East. After 5 years he left Vanguard and became managing director of the Government owned Highlands and Islands Airports Limited, which owns and operates 10 airports in the Highlands and Islands and from where he retired in June 2005. He then spent two years as chairman of Highland Airways based in Inverness.
Bob is currently vice chairman of the Cromarty Firth Port Authority, a director of the Low Cost Airport Group and a Trustee of the UHI Millennium Institute Development Trust.
Bob was born on the Isle of Lewis and was educated at the Nicolson Institute and Lews Castle College Stornoway before entering the merchant navy as a cadet deck officer. He is a Gaelic speaker and his recreational interests include boats, aviation, music and fishing. He is a Member of the Honourable Company of Master Mariners and a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society, of the Institute of Logistics and Transport and of the Institute of Directors. He is a past chairman of the Highlands branch of the Institute of Directors.
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