Chris Perfect
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William (Willie) Wells
Working with Chris has always been a pleasure. Whether it be M&A activities or Ethics and Compliance, Chris has always been extremely helpful, knowledgeable, and courteous. Chris is a great leader and a consummate professional who leads by example and expects the same of his team. Chris's attention to detail is unmatched. I miss working with Chris and some of our conversations which often led to talking about each other's families. Chris is a very caring, thoughtful, and family-oriented person with ethical and moral values at the highest level. Any organization would be fortunate to have Chris or to use Chris's services in a consulting role.
LinkedIn User
I have had the pleasure of working with Chris since I took over as Vice President of Strategy & Development for Wood’s specialist technical services (STS) business in 2015. In this role I worked with him on strategy and growth projects in the Americas. Although Chris was in a different business unit, he was of great help with my North American key objectives. Always willing to provide the support of his team and to share advice Chris helped me to connect with the right audience in the M&A community in the US leading to a number of successful relationships for my business unit. Chris is smart, creative and brings a ‘can do’ approach to everything he’s involved in. This has no doubt allowed him to successfully transition between a range of high-profile roles within Wood, including a spell working directly for the CEO. Also central to Chris’s success, I would suggest, is how he conducts himself; Chris is modest, has a ready sense of humour and genuinely cares about those that he works with. Chris would make a great addition to any business looking to make the most of growth opportunities, navigate change or effectively manage risk
William (Willie) Wells
Working with Chris has always been a pleasure. Whether it be M&A activities or Ethics and Compliance, Chris has always been extremely helpful, knowledgeable, and courteous. Chris is a great leader and a consummate professional who leads by example and expects the same of his team. Chris's attention to detail is unmatched. I miss working with Chris and some of our conversations which often led to talking about each other's families. Chris is a very caring, thoughtful, and family-oriented person with ethical and moral values at the highest level. Any organization would be fortunate to have Chris or to use Chris's services in a consulting role.
LinkedIn User
I have had the pleasure of working with Chris since I took over as Vice President of Strategy & Development for Wood’s specialist technical services (STS) business in 2015. In this role I worked with him on strategy and growth projects in the Americas. Although Chris was in a different business unit, he was of great help with my North American key objectives. Always willing to provide the support of his team and to share advice Chris helped me to connect with the right audience in the M&A community in the US leading to a number of successful relationships for my business unit. Chris is smart, creative and brings a ‘can do’ approach to everything he’s involved in. This has no doubt allowed him to successfully transition between a range of high-profile roles within Wood, including a spell working directly for the CEO. Also central to Chris’s success, I would suggest, is how he conducts himself; Chris is modest, has a ready sense of humour and genuinely cares about those that he works with. Chris would make a great addition to any business looking to make the most of growth opportunities, navigate change or effectively manage risk
William (Willie) Wells
Working with Chris has always been a pleasure. Whether it be M&A activities or Ethics and Compliance, Chris has always been extremely helpful, knowledgeable, and courteous. Chris is a great leader and a consummate professional who leads by example and expects the same of his team. Chris's attention to detail is unmatched. I miss working with Chris and some of our conversations which often led to talking about each other's families. Chris is a very caring, thoughtful, and family-oriented person with ethical and moral values at the highest level. Any organization would be fortunate to have Chris or to use Chris's services in a consulting role.
LinkedIn User
I have had the pleasure of working with Chris since I took over as Vice President of Strategy & Development for Wood’s specialist technical services (STS) business in 2015. In this role I worked with him on strategy and growth projects in the Americas. Although Chris was in a different business unit, he was of great help with my North American key objectives. Always willing to provide the support of his team and to share advice Chris helped me to connect with the right audience in the M&A community in the US leading to a number of successful relationships for my business unit. Chris is smart, creative and brings a ‘can do’ approach to everything he’s involved in. This has no doubt allowed him to successfully transition between a range of high-profile roles within Wood, including a spell working directly for the CEO. Also central to Chris’s success, I would suggest, is how he conducts himself; Chris is modest, has a ready sense of humour and genuinely cares about those that he works with. Chris would make a great addition to any business looking to make the most of growth opportunities, navigate change or effectively manage risk
William (Willie) Wells
Working with Chris has always been a pleasure. Whether it be M&A activities or Ethics and Compliance, Chris has always been extremely helpful, knowledgeable, and courteous. Chris is a great leader and a consummate professional who leads by example and expects the same of his team. Chris's attention to detail is unmatched. I miss working with Chris and some of our conversations which often led to talking about each other's families. Chris is a very caring, thoughtful, and family-oriented person with ethical and moral values at the highest level. Any organization would be fortunate to have Chris or to use Chris's services in a consulting role.
LinkedIn User
I have had the pleasure of working with Chris since I took over as Vice President of Strategy & Development for Wood’s specialist technical services (STS) business in 2015. In this role I worked with him on strategy and growth projects in the Americas. Although Chris was in a different business unit, he was of great help with my North American key objectives. Always willing to provide the support of his team and to share advice Chris helped me to connect with the right audience in the M&A community in the US leading to a number of successful relationships for my business unit. Chris is smart, creative and brings a ‘can do’ approach to everything he’s involved in. This has no doubt allowed him to successfully transition between a range of high-profile roles within Wood, including a spell working directly for the CEO. Also central to Chris’s success, I would suggest, is how he conducts himself; Chris is modest, has a ready sense of humour and genuinely cares about those that he works with. Chris would make a great addition to any business looking to make the most of growth opportunities, navigate change or effectively manage risk
Credentials
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Certified Merger and Acquisition Advisor (CM&AA)
Alliance of Merger and Acquisition AdvisorsApr, 2021- Nov, 2024
Experience
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Concept and Perspective, LLC
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United States
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Business Consulting and Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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Owner and Principal Advisor
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2020 - Present
Helping organizations to grow, develop and to navigate complexity, change and risk. Providing pragmatic advice and practical support with: - Strategic and Business Planning - M&A Program Planning & Execution including target pursuit, negotiation, due diligence, closing, integration planning & execution, synergy mapping and delivery - Leadership Team Development and Alignment - Corporate Development including new market entry, channel selection and joint ventures - Growth Analysis-Synergy Mapping-Financial Modeling - Risk Analysis & Mitigation Planning (primarily qualitative) - Managing organizational change - Team Development & Effectiveness - Digital Marketing Strategy Find out more at: www.conceptandperspective.com Show less
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New Zealand Trade and Enterprise
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New Zealand
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International Trade and Development
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700 & Above Employee
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Beachhead Advisor
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Jun 2020 - Present
In June 2020 I was appointed to New Zealand Trade & Enterprise's (NZTE) Beachhead Advisor Program. As a Beachhead I work with NZTE to provide New Zealand businesses: - Pragmatic advice and an objective perspective -Advice on the realities of doing business in the US - Market (esp oil & gas; engineering/construction) and cultural insights - Perspectives and expertise to help shape business direction - Mentoring in the realities of starting and growing a business in the U.S. A highly engaging and rewarding role that allows me to indulge one of my main passions: helping NZ companies and Kiwi entrepreneurs to grow internationally. Beachhead advisors are private sector consultants with expertise in exporting or entrepreneurship. NZTE engages Beachhead advisors to assist customers when they have a need, challenge or strategy to be developed. Show less
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Wood
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United Kingdom
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Professional Services
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700 & Above Employee
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Director - Ethics & Compliance Improvement (Global)
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Apr 2018 - Mar 2020
In April 2018 I took over management of Wood’s fledgling global ethics and compliance improvement program. A key responsibility of this role was to provide strategic leadership to the implementation of obligations under a 2017 Administrative Agreement US EPA and Dept of Interior including managing Wood's interface with debarment officials and an independent monitor. I led a cross-functional project team that delivered Wood's successful exit from the agreement in February 2020. In addition, I developed and managed a broader program of ethics & compliance program development/improvement focusing on high-risk, high-complexity areas such as ‘commercial intermediaries’, fraud risk management, prevention of tax evasion and third party due diligence. Show less
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Director - Strategy & Development Services (Wood, Asset Services Americas)
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Oct 2017 - Apr 2018
Following Wood Group's October 2017 acquisition of Amec Foster Wheeler I was chosen to lead the strategy & development services team responsible for strategic and business planning, market analysis and M&A for Wood's 'Asset Services Americas' (ASA) business. ASA supports business in the Oil and Gas, Chemicals, 'built environment', Power, Process and industrial sectors. Collectively, those business employ more than 15,000 people and have annual revenues in excess of $3bn.Achievements:- chosen to lead a project to identify, track and facilitate potential revenue synergies between legacy Wood Group and legacy AFW- designed and initiated a strategic review process covering all of business units Show less
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Manager, Strategy & Development (Wood Group, Asset Life Cycle Services West)
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Jul 2016 - Oct 2017
I led a team of seven supporting business leaders Wood Groups 'Asset Life Cycle Services', a business that covered in engineering, construction, operations and maintenance service lines across the Americas (and sometimes beyond!). My key successes in this role were:- integrating the two teams to create a high functioning strategy & development team- shifting the team focus from primarily M&A to providing a more holistic internal strategy and development service covering strategic and business planning, market analysis, joint venture, acquisitions and disposals- refocussing the team market analysis's efforts, pivoting from being primarily reactive to primarily proactive, providing a much more bespoke product designed to provide key insights that inform and shape business decisions- developing a global chemicals strategy for the whole of Wood Group- chosen to deputize for the President of Strategy & Development at Group-level strategy meetings Show less
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Global M&A Manager (Wood Group Mustang)
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Oct 2014 - Jun 2016
After a year successfully supporting Wood Group's CEO in Aberdeen, I was asked by Mustang (Wood Group's $1.5bn revenue US-HQ'd engineering business) to move to Houston to lead their Mergers & Acquisition program. In this dymanic role I led a team that worked with Mustang's six business units on the 'soup to nuts' of acquisitions: from developing the acquisition strategy, through target identification and pursuit, to operational due diligence and integration planning and, eventually, integration execution. Achievements in this role included:- developing (from scratch) a structured, rigorous and consistent acquisition process. A key element of this was to ensure that a sound strategy underpinned the pursuit and evaluation for all targets- building a broad 'hopper' of acquisition targets; made more than a dozen offers over ~2 years- leading the acquisition of Automated Technology Group (2015) and Ingenious Inc (2016)- supporting acquisitions by Wood Group sister company including the Infinity Group and Kelchner Inc (both 2015)- developing a suite of tools with which to more effectively evaluate acquisition targets and plan integration- introducing a structured acquisition risk assessment process (now standard on all acquisitions) Show less
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Secretary to Group Executive Committee (John Wood Group PLC)
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Nov 2013 - Oct 2014
In 2013 I stepped into a role newly created by Wood Group's CEO , Secretary to the Group Excom. The primary purpose of the role was to help the CEO improve the effectiveness of the Group's Executive leadership team, and to lead/support a broad range of projects delegated by the CEO of other leaders.This role, a great 'stretch' assignment, had a large number of facets including: developing content and structure for Excom meetings, revising the Group DoA, helping to organize the Group Leadership conference, advising on Corporate Governance and acting as liaison between executives across the Group on various strategy projects.Achievements in this role included:- Successfully embedding a more effective and focussed leadership decision making process for the Excom- Part of the core team that managed Wood Group's initial private placement - with $375m raised Show less
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Senior Legal Advisor (John Wood Group PLC)
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Jan 2010 - Nov 2013
I joined Wood Group as a senior member of its corporate legal team at the start of 2010 . This role saw me advising executive leadership team and business management across the group on broad range of corporate and commercial matters including M&A, treasury, joint ventures, corporate governance, contract/legal risk management.Key accomplishments in this role were:- Re-wrote the Group’s contracting procedures policy to take account for changes in the corporate risk profile/appetite- Led legal due diligence on 2011 acquisition of PSN; led transaction closing process (~$955m transaction value)- Acted as lead counsel on numerous other acquisitions and joint ventures including acquisition of SgurrEnergy (2010) and Intetech (2013)- Provided legal and commercial support on numerous corporate treasury projects including renewal of $800m ‘club’ bilateral revolving credit facilities; cash pooling projects in the UK, Australia and North America- Developed and delivered a training program on trade credit instruments- Successfully completed Wood Group Management Development Program (2012) Show less
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Mills & Reeve
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United Kingdom
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Law Practice
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700 & Above Employee
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Solicitor
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Sep 2004 - Dec 2009
Legal counsel advising small and large corporate clients on a wide range of transactional, governance and regulatory matters - Worked on numerous private company acquisitions, disposals and joint ventures with transaction values from ~$1m to ~$200m - Selected for secondment to Martin Hu and partners, a Chinese law firm in Shanghai, China (2009) - Selected for secondment to Construction Industry Training Board (2008) and Wood Group (2008-2009) Legal counsel advising small and large corporate clients on a wide range of transactional, governance and regulatory matters - Worked on numerous private company acquisitions, disposals and joint ventures with transaction values from ~$1m to ~$200m - Selected for secondment to Martin Hu and partners, a Chinese law firm in Shanghai, China (2009) - Selected for secondment to Construction Industry Training Board (2008) and Wood Group (2008-2009)
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NIOK Foundation
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Hungary
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Non-profit Organizations
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1 - 100 Employee
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Volunteer
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Jun 2004 - Aug 2004
NIOK is a Budapest-based foundation that works to strengthen the civil society in Hungary through the work of non-profit organizations by empowering them in terms of capacity building. In 2004 is spent three months as a freelance volunteer provide support and advice to the NIOK team of a wide range of program and development initiatives. That work included writing English language news articles and interpreting EU legislation relevant to the foundation's work. NIOK is a Budapest-based foundation that works to strengthen the civil society in Hungary through the work of non-profit organizations by empowering them in terms of capacity building. In 2004 is spent three months as a freelance volunteer provide support and advice to the NIOK team of a wide range of program and development initiatives. That work included writing English language news articles and interpreting EU legislation relevant to the foundation's work.
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Education
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1993 - 1996
University of Canterbury
Bachelor of Arts with Honours, Political Science -
2001 - 2003
Leeds Metropolitan University
Post Graduate Diploma in Law, Commendation -
1991 - 1992
AFS Intercultural Programmes New Zealand
AFS scholar - Hungary, full year program
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