Cornell is a founding partner of Metric Capital, a special situations fund that targets mid-sized European companies and currently manages €2 billion of assets. Previously, Cornell worked for 20 years at international law firm Clifford Chance, after which he was appointed Managing Director at Terra Firma, a leading private equity firm in Europe.
Currently, Cornell is a Non-Executive Chairman for Grant Thornton and Lexington Consultants, as well as a Non-Executive Director for Schroders Ltd, F&C Commercial Property Holdings Ltd, and IE Business School in Madrid.
“Peter brings a wealth of financial and corporate experience to Breedon and we are delighted to welcome him to our board,” said Peter Tom CBE, Executive Chairman at Breedon. “We look forward to drawing on his wide-ranging expertise as we continue to grow and develop”.
The appointment of another non-executive director is expected by the end of the year.
Read the article online at: https://www.worldcement.com/europe-cis/06092018/breedon-appoints-new-non-executive-director/
Optimisation 2020 provides a unique online forum for cement industry professionals to hear first-hand from experts through a series of exclusive presentations from cement producers and industry experts.
World Cement Editor, David Bizley, sat down with Michael Tay, Advanced Analytics Product Manager at Rockwell Automation to discuss his recent article in World Cement.
Entitled ‘Smooth Sailing’, this article explains how machine learning can help save energy, reduce downtime and predict equipment failures, thus enabling the smooth running of cement plant operations.
Dirk Schmidt and Eugen Geibel, KIMA Process Control, discuss how the methods of High-Level Control (HLC) have been used in the cement industry in the early 2000s and control ever more complex closed-loop-controlled processes where standard controllers fail.
