GFG Alliance Appoints Mr Neil Barrell as COO
Global industrial group GFG Alliance has appointed Mr Neil Barrell as its first Group Chief Operating Officer. Mr Neil will take up the new role on 1 January 2020 from within the organisation, after joining GFG Alliance as the global head of integration and performance earlier this year. Initially, Neil’s focus will be on bringing GFG Alliance’s Liberty Steel businesses across the globe into one consolidated Liberty Steel Group, which was launched by Sanjeev Gupta at the World Steel Dynamics conference in October. As part of this consolidation, GFG is committed to enhancing governance across its worldwide organisation, and to move towards broader financial transparency. Mr Neil will also have responsibility for business transformation and integration, operational improvement, asset performance, business intervention and restructuring across the wider GFG Alliance.
Mr Neil, 49, has many years’ senior management experience, including nine years at senior management level, leading businesses in steel, aluminium and the automotive sector. He joined GFG Alliance in June from international accounting and consultancy firm Grant Thornton, where he was a senior partner as head of UK manufacturing and industrials, and the firm’s global automotive leader.
Source : Strategic Research Institute