Andrew Powell

Andrew Powell was appointed Managing Director People & Change Division (also known as Human Resources) in June 2009. Andrew’s responsibilities include; driving the people and performance agenda across Colt, leading all strategic change programmes for the wider business, re-branding & re-launching the colt business to the internal employee base and wider external market place, ensuring colt has the optimum operating model and building a sustainable HR business that leads the organisation.

Recently Andrew has also taken on the leadership of the Colt Country organisation and its shared service centre capability globally.

Before moving to People & Change, Andrew was Interim Managing Director of Operations, leading Colt’s largest organisation and responsible for the Colt customer experience from order to service support. During this challenge he took Colt from delivering its worst ever business performance across service delivery and customer experience back to a ‘market competitive’ and in some GEO’s a ‘market leading position’, within ten months.

Prior to this Andrew was Interim Managing Director of Colt’s Major Enterprise Division. There he delivered a transformation programme which contributed to colt delivering its best ever business results. Andrew joined Colt in October 2006 as head of Colt Professional Services leading the European Professional Services Transformation programme.

Prior to joining Colt, Andrew held a number of leadership roles across varied market verticals working primarily in private and venture capital investment. Before this, Andrew spent twelve years with the Royal Signals as an Electronic Engineer and five of those years serving with the Special Forces.

In his spare time, Andrew is a sports fan. His passions are football, where he has played at semi professional level, rugby and boxing (all three sports he represented the armed forces at). He also enjoys spending time with his family, running and fund raising for children’s charities. In 2008 he completed the New York marathon carrying a 35lb rucksack on his back and raising over £7,500 for charity.