Who’s Who at BiS Henderson Logistics & Supply Chain Recruitment
BiS Henderson Senior Management Team
Andy Kaye – Chief Executive Officer
Andy is a graduate in Business Studies and Marketing. He joined NFC as a management trainee and undertook a number of roles with NFC and Exel before joining the Storehouse Group. At Storehouse he implemented the strategy to merge the supply chains of BhS and Mothercare and launched the fulfilment solution for Mothercare.com.
His career at Storehouse culminated in his appointment as Director of Logistics. Following the sale of BhS, Andy was involved in a dot.com start up briefly prior to founding BiS in 2000.
Andy has led the development of the BiS business and its merger in 2008 with George Henderson & Partners to form BiS Henderson.
Mark Botham – Chief Operating Officer
As a graduate of Liverpool University, Mark spent his early career in distribution operations and third party roles, rising quickly to run distribution operations at Allied Breweries and Christian Salvesen. He joined IBM as European Logistics Planning & Projects Manager. He was subsequently head hunted to join EMI Music as Logistics Director and then became Logistics Director for Allders Department Stores where he set up the home delivery operation.
Mark then joined Cabouchon as Supply Chain Director where in addition to setting up the physical distribution infrastructure, he was responsible for customer service, tele-order collection, purchasing and supply chain management.
In 1995 Mark joined George Henderson & Partners becoming Managing Director some 3 years later. Mark was instrumental in the merger with BiS in 2008 and has conducted senior executive appointments for a wide and diverse range of clients.
Victoria Mountain – Director
Victoria worked for 7 years in Personnel Operations management in the hi-tec sector with ICL before joining MRI as an Executive Search Consultant where she set up a highly successful Supply Chain and Logistics Practice. Specialising in search, her intuitive and resilient approach to identifying only the best talent in the market place has ensured her success across market sectors including retail, manufacturing, 3PL and consultancies over the last 14 years.
She joined BiS in 2004 and was instrumental in the creation of its permanent recruitment practice.
Victoria was appointed to the position of Director in 2007 and continues to drive the business forward, with a strong emphasis on providing only the best service to our clients.
Larry Woelk – Director, International & Business Development
Larry was born in Dodge City, Kansas. He has university degrees in Mathematics and French as well as an MBA. He has spent almost all of his career in Europe and has held senior executive and board level positions with Airborne Express, BAX Global, John Menzies, LEP International and Pinkerton Security.
Larry has run companies and divisions in supply chain security; logistics operations and communication; 4PL management and freight audit and pay processes. His advice has been sought by some of the largest forwarders and integrators in the world and his network of contacts spans the globe.
Bashir Khan – Director, Public Sector
Having graduated in Chemical Engineering from University College, London University, Bashir worked in a variety of technical roles. He then studied for an MBA at Manchester Business School and started working in the distribution industry with TNT in their contract distribution division.
He has since held a variety of commercial and analytical roles across the distribution and logistics industry, gaining experience of a wide range of sectors.
For the last four and a half years he has worked in Transport for London, where he was one of the team that has been pioneering urban freight strategy through the policies identified in the London Freight Plan.
Bashir joined BiS Henderson in 2010 to continue the company’s growth in the public sector.
Gary Sewell – Director
Gary has had an extensive career in logistics management across a variety of sectors within both 3PL and in-house operations. His early career was with Whitbread following which he held senior management positions with both Hays Distribution and Exel Logistics before joining TDG. As Business Director for TDG, Gary was responsible for a £30m sector employing 500 staff across a diverse range of customer contracts and operating centres.
Gary joined BiS Henderson at the start of 2007 as a Senior Recruitment Consultant and has been instrumental in placing high quality candidates. At the start of 2011 Gary was promoted to Director in recognition of his ongoing contribution to the company and his work on the recruitment of an entire new management team for a major fulfilment centre in South Yorkshire. As part of the Senior Management Team, Gary will be helping to develop the strategic direction of the business.
Shaf Ali – Senior Consultant – Interim
Shaf graduated with a 2:1 Honours degree in Multimedia Communication & Web Design. He started his early career in the logistics and freight forwarding industry working for SK Global in South Africa where, as Operations Manager for three years, he ran the export operation for numerous mining and minerals organisations in delivering product to China, Korea and India.
Returning to the UK, Shaf established a successful interim supply chain and logistics practice for nearly five years and then joined BiS Henderson as a senior consultant to help further develop the interim division.
Shaf works with various organisations in the retail, manufacturing and 3PL sectors specialising in providing interim managers across the areas of business change, programme and project management. Shaf has a vast network of contacts across several sectors and has an approach that is personal, individual and entirely face to face.
Hilary Rundle – Senior Consultant
Hilary began her career in Sales within the international courier and mail fields before establishing an Executive Search based recruitment consultancy in 1993. For 17 years, Hilary and her team serviced a wide array of clients within the express, mail, sameday and freight markets. Hilary has built a strong reputation as a skilled headhunter and established a quality database of exceptional and talented individuals from within the sector.
Hilary joined BiS Henderson in 2010 to continue offering quality service to her long standing client base and to assist in the development of the International Division.
Sandra O’Toole – Senior Consultant
Sandra’s first role was as a Store Personnel Manager in retail, specialising in green field new store openings nationwide. She worked with George Henderson & Partners, before launching her own business where she spent 10 years building strong relationships with clients and candidates across a range of industry sectors.
Sandra has extensive experience in supply chain recruitment, managing teams of recruiters and working on senior roles in a pure search environment, and has built a reputation as a dedicated recruitment consultant with an excellent work ethic who goes the extra mile to match candidates and roles.
Carley Preece – Consultant
Carley comes from a background in property negotiation and administration in the film production sector. Working for the company for 3 years, Carley started as a Researcher before progressing to the role of Consultant at BiS Henderson.
Carley searches for middle and senior management candidates across the supply chain and logistics industry for both interim and permanent roles.Carley has managed assignments with a number of organisations in Retail, Manufacturing and 3PL and has been instrumental in the delivery of the Unipart Barnsley project.
