Laurence Tanty

Professional Background

12 years CEO/COO multi-country experience with focus on commercial & marketing and a robust track record in manufacturing and supply chain.
16 years B2C experience with Mars and Sara Lee: branding, pricing, multi-channel sales development to large accounts, distributors and large retail.
9 years B2B experience with international packaging businesses (plastic, paper, corrugated board) servicing industrial and consumer customers.
Interim transformation and turnaround, project management, M&A and advisory/Board experience.
Worked for PE backed businesses, listed, family and private organizations all with global reach.
Deep multi-cultural roots, a unique ability to work with and create bridges with different cultures

M&A Expertise

CEO/COO level executive, consultant and board skills applied to listed, family, private and PE backed businesses.
M&A management: due-diligence, acquisition process, merger integration and merger synergy programs.
Lead, design, implement and embed enterprise-wide transformation programs.
Restructure business models, turn-around performance including Commercial/Sales & Marketing, Operations and Supply Chains of multi-country organizations.
Implement lower cost, higher value-add business models and technology & digitally enabled solutions
Transfer of B2C practices to B2B and B2B2C
Market expertise: Packaging (consumer & industrial), Food, Specialty Ingredients.
Languages: English, German, Spanish, French, Dutch

Project Highlights

Relevant experience includes:

Acting as interim sales director at Devro plc, turning around EMEA sales performance to deliver 7% growth in 2017 after 4 consecutive years of decline.
Restructuring loss-making global plastic casing business including production in Czech Republic to deliver growth and profitability in 2019.
Acting as project leader for tripartite post merger integration of corrugated board companies DS Smith, SCA and Otor Packaging in France/Spain delivering €20M in year 1.
Acting as CEO leading the acquisition and merger with Allibert Packaging doubling the size of Linpac Materials Handling globally.
Acting as Interim CEO at Pregis Packaging Europe implementing a turnaround plan that halted the sharp decline in sales and loss of EBITDA.
Accelerated Devro plc’s commercial presence in China and grew sales double digit in emerging markets in South East Asia and Africa.