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Carisma RCT's Board of Directors
The Team
Peter Swanson
Chairman
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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.
In addition to his Directorship of Carisma RCT Ltd he holds various Board positions in both private sector businesses and not for profit organisations.
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Marco's background is in applied research, which he built in universities and research foundations in Italy, Norway and Scotland.
He is the editor-in-chief of "Strategic Outsourcing, an International Journal", which in its advisory board feature the world top experts in the field from the likes of IBM, Shell, MIT, London Business School, etc.
Marco has years of experience as project manager and researcher in several multimillion European and National projects, improving and innovating business strategies and processes related to strategic sourcing and procurement, supply chain design & management and performance measurement.
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In his most recent position, he was the founding manager of the Centre for Business Process Outsourcing, a research centre co-funded by the University of Strathclyde, Highland and Island Enterprise and Vertex. Before coming to Scotland, he was a research scientist in the manufacturing logistics group at SINTEF Industrial Management in Norway, the biggest research foundation in Scandinavia.
As an academic and management consultant, his portfolio spans various industries: automotive, electronics, business and financial services, IT, business process outsourcing, entertainment and hospitality, advertising and media. He also interfaced with both practitioners and policy makers at national and European levels.
His consultancy activities cover feasibility studies, business planning and strategy definition, process improvement projects, and working with Universities to build research centres of excellence.
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.
Marco teaches Supply Chain Operations Management at the University of Liverpool in their MSc in Operations and Supply Chain Management. He is also an approved supervisor at the University of Strathclyde Graduate Business School.
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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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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 a director and shareholder of Carisma RCT, 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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Susie Davison
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.
Joanne Blanusa
Business Development
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Joanne Blanusa is a former senior development manager with Highlands & Islands Enterprise, where she was responsible for business transformation and growth of the contact centre industry in the region. After leaving HIE in April 2008, Joanne set up her own consultancy business, working with a range of public and private sector clients and has joined CarismaRCT as an associate working on business development. She is a highly experienced project manager specialising in business transformation and strategic marketing projects. Her passion lies in how companies, regardless of size, can meld their people, their processes and their technology to improve their future competitiveness.
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