Who we are

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At present, the Oldbury Partnership includes:

Ron Edmondson.

Ron has a set of experiences in the construction industry ranging from component manufacture to major client. This has given him a unique perspective on how performance improvement can be achieved for all parties to the industry.

He is a Chartered Accountant with over 30 years commercial experience, having originally trained and qualified with Deloittes. He has acted in the capacity of Finance Director, Treasurer, Managing Director and Chairman for a number of businesses heavily involved in the construction industry.

He has been an active participator in many construction industry change initiatives and played a key role in establishing supply chain integration as one of the major themes of the Strategic Forum for Construction. He has been a board member of the Movement for Innovation and the Construction Best Practice programme, a founder board member of the Construction Manufacturers Partnering Association and is a co author of the Strategic Forum's Integration Toolkit. He is a director of the Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust, the first UK green field PFI hospital.

Rick Edmondson.

Rick has been Chairman of a number of high quality, safety critical manufacturing organisations, with up to 1000 employees and has a deep understanding of the management process. He is a talented engineer with an aptitude for recognising unnecessary complication. He lectures on "The Nature of Management Failure." As an entrepreneur he has created several independent railway industry businesses involving the challenges of rail regulation and safety inspection.

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