Mark Griffiths is an experienced Board Level Manager with a background in general management and finance roles. He provides leadership with a focus on embracing change and prioritizes customer needs, people's safety, and sustainable business. With experience in construction, manufacturing, and finance roles, Mark most recently served as Managing Director, growing business by 10% annually despite recession. Prior to that, he led a finance function merger, achieving cost savings while maintaining service. Mark has experience operating overseas and focuses on reputational, safety, and environmental risk management.

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26/01/2015
Mark Griffiths
Executive Bio
Mark Griffiths is an experienced Board Level Manager with a background in general management and
finance roles, who provides straight forward, enthusiastic and trustworthy leadership, with a track
record of positively embracing and implementing change. Experience in the Manufacturing, Technical
and Construction sectors is supplemented by strong Financial, Risk Management, Customer and
interpersonal skills. He is genuinely passionate about business, customers, people and their Safety and
creating sustainable enterprises for shareholders.
With experience in the Construction and Manufacturing sectors, including both Capital goods and FMCG,
and in general management and finance roles, Mark’s most recent role was as Managing Director of the
Power Systems business of Balfour Beatty. Taking on this role in March 2008, Mark grew the business by
10% per annum over 5 years despite the recession and won positions on 4 multi-million pound
Frameworks with blue chip clients by focussing on customer needs.
Prior to this role, Mark was Finance Director of Balfour Beatty Engineering Services, one of the UK’s largest
Mechanical and Electrical contractors, formed from the merger of Balfour Kilpatrick and Haden Young,
having previously been the Finance Director of Balfour Kilpatrick. As part of a small team planning and
implementing the merger, Mark successfully moved the Finance function onto a single software platform
in a short time frame, achieving the planned cost savings whilst maintaining the service to the business and
dealing professionally with the people affected. A key part of his role was leading on Risk Management,
focussing strongly on Reputational, Safety and Environmental risk as well as Commercial.
Prior to joining Balfour Kilpatrick in 1999, Mark was the Finance Director of a number of Operating Units
and Sub-groups of GEC including Avery-Berkel, Creda and GPT Business Systems and Payphones. In these
roles he gained experience of operating overseas, both in Joint Ventures (China and India) and
independently ( inc Saudi Arabia)
Mark is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales and has a Post Graduate
Certificate in Management from Coventry University. Whilst in his operational role, with responsibility for
the management of Health and Safety, Mark attended and passed the IOSH Safety for Senior Executives
course. He also has a track record of encouraging the development of new talent through coaching and
mentoring.