KATIE FERRIER
ACHILLES
KATIE FERRIER
TITLE: REGIONAL DIRECTOR FOR UKI AND MEA
COMPANY: ACHILLES INFORMATION LIMITED
INDUSTRY: TECHNOLOGY / CONSULTING
Katie is a commercially-driven leader with more than two decades of experience in driving growth, transformation and cultural change across global businesses. Her expertise spans M & A integration, operational transformation and customer-centric value creation.
The approach proved incredibly successful from a health and safety perspective, and the platform gradually expanded beyond oil and gas into transportation, infrastructure, government, mining and, nowadays, renewable energy and utilities.
Achilles’ focus has broadened significantly from its origins as primarily a health and safety platform collecting ISO information.
“ It’ s evolved into something much bigger, especially now we’ re collecting data from an ESG perspective,” Katie explains.“ Carbon has actually always been on the agenda – we’ ve been collecting that sort of information for 15-20 years – but obviously the buzzwords have come along and changed that.”
Moving beyond compliance tick-boxes The transformation Katie has overseen reflects broader changes in how organisations approach supply chain management. Achilles has shifted from a sector-based prequalification model to what she describes as“ all suppliers, all risks, all geographies” – making it much easier for organisations to work with them. supplychaindigital. com 85