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 .
- Non executive Director of OBN
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