Paul McDonagh

Independent Professional combining lecturing in the French "Grande Ecole" system with consultancy/interim management in: international procurement negotiation, international communications. Recent procurement projects in Romania, Hungary, Slovakia, Norway, Finland and currently Switzerland.

World leader in medium speed diesel engines for marine propulsion and on- and off-shore power generation.

I was recruited at Group Communications Manager with responsibility for all internal and external communications for a Group operating in over 40 countries.

After two years in post I was asked to work with the UK Managing Director to negotiate an agreed acquisition in the UK. I was then transferred tointegrate it into the UK operation and, once there, was asked by the local MD to take on management of Finance and Administration ans set up systems and procedures for the expanded company.

On successful conclusion of these tasks I undertook a series of project management and commercial tasks in diferent UK locations.

Base metal mining and development of technology and equipment for hard rock mining and metallurgy.

My role was to support technical sales teams with market research, production of promotional material, advertising planning, researching, writing and producing a quasi-technical customer magazine, planning product launches, press releases, exhibition participation and management of asmall internal team and various external service providers.