Credentials

Rod Cook BSc FCIPD

Over 30 years senior Human Resources experience in high technology multinationals

• Built a successful personnel consultancy in biotechnology/healthcare
• Helped over 40 start up companies get established
• Built HR department supporting company growth from 90 to over 330 employees
• Designed and run the premier remuneration survey for the UK BioIndustry
• Designed and implemented three computerised personnel systems
• Introduced the first flexible benefits scheme in the UK pharmaceutical industry
• Introduced competency based behavioural interviewing
• Company representative on external, national committees
• Designed and implemented four Job Evaluation systems
• Played major role in administering the closure of G D Searle’s UK R&D division .

April 1996 – present Self Employed Consultant

1988 – 1996 British Biotech (in FTSE 100), Oxford – Head of Personnel

1986 – 1988 Alcan International, Banbury – Personnel Manager

1982 -1986 G D Searle and Co., High Wycombe – Personnel Manager

1980 – 1982 Copper Industry Service Bureau, Zambia – Senior Personnel Research Officer

1975 – 1980 GEC Avionics, Hertfordshire – Personnel Officer

1973 – 1975 GEC Avionics, Hertfordshire – Radar Engineer

Qualifications* *(1994) Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development

(1973) University of London, BSc in Computing and Physics

(1999) Test user occupational, Ability (old level A of the British Psychological Society)

(1988) Test user occupational, Personality ( Myers Briggs) (old level B)

Extensive PC computing skills