Wood Thilsted, the leading offshore wind engineering consultancy, is pleased to announce the appointment of Paula Thomas, as Wood Thilsted’s Chief Financial Officer.
Paula has spent over 25 years working as a Chartered Accountant across a broad sector of industries including engineering, manufacturing, and services. She has been responsible for building and leading finance teams that have supported the growth and development of a wide range of businesses in expansionary environments such as PE invested, fast growth and restructuring.
In her most recent group role Paula led not just the finance teams of the group but all group level support services from finance to IT and legal to facilities. She was key in raising funding for the purchase of a new site and subsequent sales & lease back, as well as the integration of two manufacturing locations as well as overseeing potential acquisitions while driving profitability across all the businesses within the group.
As a specialist in developing robust systems, processes and reporting that drive efficiency, Paula will work with the Wood Thilsted senior team and project leads to drive performance and best manage Wood Thilsted’s resources as the business continues to develop and expand into new markets.
Wood Thilsted CEO and Co-Founder, Alastair Muir Wood said:
“We are very pleased to welcome Paula to Wood Thilsted at a very exciting time for the business. Paula’s strategic & commercial experience, as well as developing and implementing robust systems, processes and reporting will be key in ensuring we continue to use our resources in the best way to drive growth in established and emerging markets”.
Paula Thomas said:
“The world’s future very much depends on the production of clean energy at scale. I can’t think of a better business than Wood Thilsted to support in delivering on this need. I look forward to working with the whole team to ensure Wood Thilsted has the resources it needs to support this fast growing business across its global markets.”
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