Wall Colmonoy Makes Management Changes

The manufacturer adds an experienced operations director with an aerospace and automotive background and a new chief financial officer with a track record of delivering effective change programs to drive profitability and value creation.

Wall Colmonoy Ltd. (Pontardawe, UK) announces that Steve Leahey is their new operations director, with a skill-set honed primarily in the aerospace and automotive sectors.

Leahey is an experienced senior management executive with a track record for developing and implementing business and operational improvement strategies. As a trained Black Belt, he has achieved operational excellence through the application of Lean and Sigma Continuous Improvement methodologies.

Leahey demonstrates a strong, hands on, people-centric leadership style. He facilitates agile team-based organizations with a strong customer focus and builds lasting relationships based on integrity and consistently high performance.

Wall Colmonoy also welcomes Philip Tilston as part of the European team as the new chief financial officer, as he joins the executive team with over 25 years of finance experience in manufacturing industries.

Tilston positions have included deputy managing director and chief financial officer for Turtle Wax Europe and finance director for Akcros Chemicals, a subsidiary of Akzo Nobel. He is a chartered accountant and holds an MBA from New York Stern School of Business. Tilston has a proven track record of delivering effective change programs that drive profitability and value creation.

Wall Colmonoy combines over 70 years of engineering technology with a progressive, visionary outlook as a global materials engineering group of companies engaged in the manufacturing of surfacing and brazing products, castings, and engineered components across aerospace, automotive, oil and gas, mining, energy and other industrial sectors. www.wallcolmonoy.com