Standards Group management team brings significant experience and expertise to fulfill its mission:
- Management team track record of growing revenues / EBITDA well above industry peers, and of commercializing / globalizing operations within the standards industry
- Highly professional acquisition expertise that has achieved consistent and superior returns
Ross Wraight
Ross Wraight is CEO of Standards Group Limited, a company he established in London in April 2010, partnering with one of the world’s largest international investment organizations.
Previously, Ross was CEO of SAI Global Ltd. (ASX: SAI) from 2000 to 2007, completing 17 acquisitions across the world, moving the business to innovative on line and workflow solutions and compliance services, and delivering superior returns to shareholders on expanded revenues and margins. In 2007, Ross returned to the financial services industry as Executive Chairman of CPG Research and Advisory, one of Australia's leading institutional asset advisory firms.
Prior experience also includes: Group Chief Executive of Standards Australia Limited between 1996 and 2003, and senior roles in Advance Bank, Elders Finance Group, NSW Health and Ernst and Young.
Ross has also been very much involved in the standards industry for the past 20 years. Ross is the current President of Geneva-based International Federation of Standards Users (IFAN), which represents the views of industry in international standards forums. He was also the Vice-President (Technical Management) and Chairman of the Technical Management Board of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) between 1999 and 2003. He represented Australia on the ISO Council and its Finance Committee from 1997 to June 2004.
Ross holds a Bachelor of Business (KCAE) Degree from the University of Technology in Sydney. He is a Companion of the Institution of Engineers Australia, a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Management, and a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors a member of the Australian College of Health Service Executives.
Stéphane Bouvier
Stéphane Bouvier has joined Standards Group as Business Development Director in July 2010. Prior to joining Standards Group, Stéphane worked as a management consultant for five years, helping clients in both growth and turnarounds projects. Stéphane focused primarily on the the Transportation Industry and gained project experience in five continents. He is a Bain alumni.
Prior experience also includes strategy work in the network department of Lufthansa Airlines, and finance work at Elf Atochem.
Stéphane speaks French, English, German and Portuguese. He received a degree in Master of Science of the Ecole Management de Bordeaux, and a MBA in Strategy and Entrepreneurship from London Business School/ Columbia University.
Barbara Williams
Barbara Williams joined Standards Group in May 2010. Barbara worked previously in Equity Corporate Access for UK and Pan-European companies at Exane BNP Paribas in London from April 2004. At Exane, Barbara was responsible for both Corporate and Institutional clients. She also worked on the Pan-European Equity Sales Desk at BNP Paribas in London from 1998 to 2004.
Before that, Barbara was an Italian Government Bond Broker for Garban Resources and Cantor Fitzgerald. She speaks French, English, Spanish and Italian.
Barbara went to ASSAS University in Paris to study for a Law Degree.