Product category:
Valve positioners and actuators
News Release from: Rotork Controls
Edited by the Processingtalk Editorial
Team on 21 September 2006
Developing site service and retrofit
activities
International valve actuation specialist Rotork Controls has appointed Grant Wood as Service, Projects and Retrofit Director, to develop these activities further
International valve actuation specialist Rotork Controls has 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
This article was originally published on Processingtalk on 4 Mar 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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Grant explains: "Companies including those in the oil, gas and utilities industries are increasingly concentrating on their core business and sub-contracting 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".
Grant'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, Grant 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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