Andrew Geddes
Current positions…
- Director, Andrew Geddes Pty Ltd.
- External Chairman, Six Multi- Discipline Professional Service Firms (all private companies).
- Business Development Coach, selected (carefully!!!) firms.
Prior positions…
- Non-Executive Director - Count Financial Limited (now part of CBA) 2000 – 2011
- Non-Executive Director - Greencross Limited (Chairman since listing in 2005 through to 2014)
- External Chairman - dozens of firms over the last three decades.
Andrew Geddes has been involved with business improvement work with professional service firms and smaller private companies for over forty years. He created one of Australia’s most successful business consulting and training companies in the process (FMRC Pty Ltd in Armidale, NSW).
He was the Inaugural Chairman of Greencross Limited, a veterinary group that was listed in 2005. It grew to become a top 200 ASX company in 2014, before being purchased by private equity in 2017.
Andrew spent twelve months in the late 90s working with accounting firms in the UK and North America. His material was enthusiastically received in these markets. He conducted practice development planning retreats, firm reviews, succession management and specialty service development sessions with firms of all sizes. He also spoke at conferences and seminars on a regular basis.
Andrew now specialises in assisting business owners create Senior Management Teams so that they can further develop their businesses and create succession solutions in time. He is an experienced External Chairman and Business Improvement Coach.
He currently works with both consulting and manufacturing engineering firms, surveying and land development firms, accounting firms, management consultants and IT scale ups.
He has run management skill development workshops for over forty years and is an experienced adult educator drawing on his chairmanship experience, business coaching and executive management positions.