Appointment of Global Business Manager for Risk Management Services

Lloyd's Register has appointed Dr Paul Davies as Global Business Manager for Risk Management Services. His role is to lead the growth of risk management services across all sectors and to co-ordinate the activities of all Lloyd's Register's risk management centres of excellence.

Paul joins Lloyd's Register from Vectra Group, where he was Business Development Manager. Previously he was a partner in ERM the environmental management consultancy, where he led the process risk team and directed the development of risk software for the UK HSE. He has also held senior positions at DNV and Four Elements, and is qualified with a PhD in Quantitative Risk Assessment.

Gael Lewis, Director for Energy & Transportation at Lloyd's Register, commented, "With an ever increasing focus on the management of risk, we see this new appointment as key to ensuring we meet our clients' needs. With almost 20 years experience in advising on risk reduction in the process and transport industries, Paul will complement and further develop our existing skills base in this area".

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About the Lloyd's Register Group
1. Lloyd's Register is an independent risk management organisation. The Lloyd's Register Group works to help improve its clients' quality, safety, environmental and business performance throughout the world, because life matters. Its expertise and activities cover shipping, railways, other land-based industries and oil and gas. The Group comprises charities and non-charitable companies, with the latter supporting the charities in their main goal as stated here.

2. The Group provides risk management services across a range of industry sectors, including transportation, oil and gas, utilities, marine and nuclear, from its operations around the world. It provides a systematic application of management policies, procedures and practices to the tasks of identifying, analysing, evaluating, treating and monitoring risk. The Lloyd's Register Group aims to be recognised as a leading and major supplier of risk management products to all the sectors that it serves, as part of the range of services that it offers to those industries.

About Paul Davies
Paul, 42, has a BEng in Mechanical Engineering and a PhD in Quantitative Risk Assessment from the Department of Chemical Engineering, Loughborough University. He worked for seven years in production engineering before changing his career to risk management in the major hazard industries. Paul is the author of numerous papers on the subject covering the process, road, rail and airport sectors. He is married and has two children.

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