Bill McCarthy

Bill is a Non Executive Director. He is a trained 'Leader as Coach' and level B BPS accredited psychometrician, and has a number of other active roles within the industry. These include: Chairman of SFL Ltd, a consulting business, Non Executive Director at the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors Independent Appointments Board and Performance Coach for Corus plc.

Bill began his career at P&G.; After two years, he joined Leo Burnett Ltd as an account manager and quickly progressed to become the youngest Board Director of a major advertising agency Davidson Pearce - at the age of 29. After the agency floated Bill was headhunted to be Managing Director of de Monde advertising a subsidiary of Northern and Shell plc, where he also became the publishing group's Marketing Director.

In 1989 Bill changed career and joined the outplacement world at Coutts Career Consultants. Over the following four years he coached over 150 senior and middle managers through career strategy and change. Bill became a regional manager and opened the Leeds office in 1992.

Next Bill joined Sanders & Sidney in 1994 as regional manager of the Midlands and was promoted to the Board as Operations Director in 1996. He was part of the team that acquired a major competitor's outplacement business, which was fully integrated in 1997. As a result of this and a fundamental change in strategy the business, now known as Penna, grew to be the largest of its kind in the UK by 2000.

Bill became Strategic Development Director of the group and in 2005 was appointed for the second time as MD of the Career Consulting business. Bill also served as president of ACP the outplacement industry's trade body in Europe.

Bill is married, lives in North Yorkshire and regularly travels throughout the UK and Europe. He started his career as an advertising and marketing professional and was the first non Oxbridge graduate to be appointed as a Brand Assistant by Procter & Gamble Ltd in the mid 1970s.

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