The new appointment is based on Pierre's impressive performance record in a number of key senior management and board level leadership roles, the company stated. He has over 26 years of multinational business experience in a variety of roles and diverse markets including automotive, consumer electronics, appliances, mining, nutrition, oil & gas, adhesives and coatings.
His career to date has spanned technical, commercial and management consulting positions, initially with blue chip companies ICI, Ashland and BASF, working in chemicals, automotive and speciality coatings based in the UK, USA, Germany and France, then nine years in China since 2006. During his time in China, Jean-Claude became president of the global division of Beckers Group, a Partner with HEJUN Management Consulting, and most recently was the managing director of EMS Group, China up until this new appointment at Scott Bader.
Pierre's qualifications include a master's degree from ITECH-Lyon engineering institute for plastics, textiles and composites in France, a PhD in organisational systems from Saybrook University, and an MBA from Hult International Business School in the USA.
Philip Bruce passes on the responsibility of leading Scott Bader with the business in good shape for the future, having steered it through the extremely difficult business climate from 2008-2011, a period that many economic commentators regard as the most serious crisis to hit the global economy since the Great Depression.
Bruce has taken the Scott Bader Group from a largely EMEA regionally dependent business back in 2005 to its current $287 million annual turnover global position today.
