New boss announces boardroom shake-up at listed piling firm
The new boss at listed Nottinghamshire piling firm Van Elle has wasted no time in shaking up the company’s top brass.
These are the first key changes in personnel announced under new chief executive Mark Cutler who joined in August.
John Foster joins as commercial director from Saint Gobain’s glass and facade installations business.
Peter Handley returns to Van Elle in the newly-created role of strategy and business improvement director from Cementation. Handley was a former divisional director in Van Elle prior to joining Cementation where he held various cross-company responsibilities.
The pair will both start at Van Elle in early January.
In Van Elle’s largest business unit, the General Piling division, director Steve Johnson is leaving the Group at the end of November. He is replaced by group construction director David Warner on an interim basis. This follows the appointment of former Eastern director Steve Bursnell as contracts director last month.
Since joining, Cutler has streamlined the operational structure of the £100m turnover AIM-listed Group to five divisions, with the new structure now comprising:
General Piling – open site driven, CFA and rotary piling
Specialist Piling – restricted access, low headroom and ground & slope stabilisation
Housing – residential piling and modular foundation solutions
Rail – foundation and trackbed solutions in the rail environment
Geotechnical Services (trading as STRATA) – geotechnical investigations and testing
Cutler said: “I am very pleased to welcome John Foster and Peter Handley to Van Elle at this important stage of our growth and wish to thank Steve Johnson for his contribution. The company has been through a lot of change over the last couple of years but the new strengthened leadership team and streamlined divisional structure allows us to accelerate our improvement, more clearly focus on our customer’s needs and better integrate our specialist capabilities across all the sectors we operate in.”
