AVK has appointed Paul Hood as its new Chief Working Officer, as the corporate steps up its development in energy options for the information centre sector throughout the UK and Europe.
Hood is well-known within the trade, having served as Managing Director after which COO at Yondr Group, and as International Operations Director/MD (Africa Area) at Pure Knowledge Centres Group. He beforehand held senior engineering roles at Barclays (Head of Engineering, Europe) and JP Morgan (Head of Engineering Operations, EMEA). Throughout 13 years at JP Morgan, he ran the agency’s total knowledge centre infrastructure throughout Europe, the Center East and Africa and managed an working funds of $90,000,000.
A methods/management engineering specialist whose remit has broadened to embody constructing electrical methods, Hood’s background contains planning and administering multi-million-pound engineering budgets, inspections protecting environmental, well being and security, and hearth and loss prevention. He was additionally one of many founders of the Common Technical School (UTC), a community of free-to-attend STEM-focused faculties for 14-19-year-olds.
“I’m genuinely enthusiastic about Paul becoming a member of our staff,” mentioned AVK CEO Ben Pritchard.
“He has an excellent engineering mind, he’s a really logical thinker and he has an actual ardour for working exhausting. Primarily, he believes in what he does. Paul doesn’t simply deliver huge international expertise to AVK, he’s a frontrunner who has executed all of it. With Paul on board, AVK goes to be effectively positioned to play a frontrunning position within the vital infrastructure energy area within the UK and Europe.”
Hood added, “I’ve recognized AVK for 30 years and I perceive precisely the place the corporate has come from and the place it’s going on this extremely aggressive trade. I’m delighted to be working with a number of the most dedicated infrastructure engineers on the planet. I informed Yondr I’d construct them a worldwide enterprise that they may very well be happy with and that’s precisely what I did. I go away that firm with fond recollections having been there from the beginning but it surely’s time to maneuver on and I’m now extremely enthusiastic about what’s in retailer for me at AVK.
“I’ve a status for bringing the entire ‘boots to boardroom’ ingredient of being a COO; I’ve labored as an engineer and I wish to be an enabler for our engineers and take their viewpoint to the board. I’m additionally recognized for investing in folks, getting choices executed and getting issues over the road and I’m actually enthusiastic about my forthcoming journey at AVK.”
