Archie Cameron

About Archie Cameron

As an advisory leader, Archie has worked extensively with C-level executives and their teams to help them transform their businesses and deliver improvements across the value chain, often while introducing organizational change and skills enhancements.By providing a vision for success and hands-on support and mentoring in execution, he has repeatedly experienced first-hand the positive impact of high-performing, collaborative advisory and client teams working together across multiple functions and regions to achieve their objectives.For the past 20 years Archie\'s experience has been in the Automotive and Heavy Equipment sectors, with major OEMs and suppliers. In earlier years he worked in Aerospace and Defense, Energy and Utilities, Food and Beverage (manufacturing and retailing), Leisure and Hospitality, Financial Services and the UK Public Sector and National Health Service. He has a particular interest in customer experience improvement and in aftermarket parts and service delivery.Specialties include:Strategic and business planning at the board level; executive coaching and mentoringExecuting transformation initiatives to achieve a winners profile and supporting metricsSupply chain optimization and supplier improvementsProcess reengineering, performance improvement, cost reduction, and organization redesignDue diligence and post-merger integrationApplication of technology in support of process reengineeringArchie holds a BS in Business Administration and an MBA from the University of Missouri-Columbia and is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales

Experience

1. Partner

   Newport Llc

   Nov 2014 — Present · Detroit, MI, US

   Partner in the Michigan Area practice for Newport Board Group, a partnership of board directors and senior executive leaders with deep knowledge of business strategy, operations, and capital markets. As a unique, national professional services firm, we help emerging growth, middle market and private equity clients navigate transitions and improve performance in three ways. First, we provide technology-enabled advisory, consulting, and executive leadership services to business owners, CEO\'s and other executive management often at the discretion of the board. Second, we provide seated directors and advisors to boards and advisory boards, enhancing board effectiveness. Third, we provide access to the structured Newport Expert Network™, enabling our clients to benefit from the deep domain expertise, executive leadership, and financial and operations experience of the partners in a national firm. Our passion is in helping our clients effectively execute and scale their businesses through the challenges of the growth curve and \"No Man\'s Land\" where they are too big to be small and too small to be big. We help CEO\'s and business owners, who are typically too busy working \"in\" their businesses, work \"on\" their businesses. We also function as operating partners for private equity.

Education

• University of Missouri-Columbia

  BS, Business Administration

• University of Missouri-Columbia

  MBA, Corporate Strategy

Skills

• Management
• Process Engineering
• Consulting
• Strategy
• Management Consulting
• Process Improvement
• Program Management
• Supply Chain Management
• Strategic Sourcing
• Outsourcing
• Change Management
• Start-Ups
• Supply Chain
• Manufacturing
• Customer Relationship Management (Crm)
• Business Transformation
• Erp
• Performance Improvement
• Business Process Improvement
• IT Strategy
• Business Planning
• Business Strategy
• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• Operational Excellence
• Leadership
• Performance Management
• Crm
• Strategic Planning
• Six Sigma
• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Business Process