Capita appoints business transformation director

Consultant Capita Symonds has appointed Jonathan Simcock as director of business transformation. He joins the company from industrial catalyst suppliers CRI/Criterion where he was vice president manufacturing. Prior to that he was executive director for major projects at the Office of Government Commerce in the UK government.

Simcock’s role at Capita will involve supporting the company as it works with partners and clients to deliver large scale business transformation and turnaround projects.

At CRI/Criterion he delivered substantial rationalisation of the global manufacturing function and was accountable for commissioning a new world-scale manufacturing plant in Louisiana, US.

Simcock currently has a place on the major projects review group for HM Treasury and is a trustee and board member of the Association for Project Management.