Wood focuses on aftermarket service

Rotork Controls as appointed Grant Wood as Service, Projects and Retrofit Director.

Rotork Controls as appointed Grant Wood, 39, as Service, Projects and Retrofit Director.

This new position has been created to focus on the aftermarket service opportunities presented by a rapidly developing marketplace.

Wood explains: "Companies including those in the oil, gas and utilities industries are increasingly concentrating on their core business and subcontracting aspects such as the care of their plant and equipment to specialists in these fields".

"As a world leading manufacturer of industrial valve actuators, Rotork already has unrivalled experience of the maintenance, management and upgrading of installed actuation assets".

"My function is to further develop our services in these areas to ensure that we can fully support and satisfy the increasing demands from our customers on a global basis".

Wood's career experience has equipped him well for this task.

Leaving Imperial College London with an engineering degree he joined Midlands Electricity, becoming Head of Operations for the Severn Region.

Having gained a scholarship from the Royal Academy of Engineering and Sainsbury Management Fellows, Wood left Midlands Electricity to study for a Masters in Business and Administration at the European School of Management in Paris.

Since 1997 he has worked as a management consultant at Coopers and Lybrand, PWC and IBM, focusing on the utility, financial and energy sectors with companies including Scottish Power, London Electricity, Thames Water, Shell and Chevron.

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