James Selkirk

Background

About James Selkirk

I am a highly motivated and financially astute Executive with a proven track record of unlocking the potential of businesses. With a background in a range of diverse and challenging business setup and growth roles in capex intensive infrastructure industries, I am a strong and credible leader with a strategic mind-set capable of rationalising complex situations and creating workable action plans. I thrive in dynamic, rapidly expanding businesses and have worked with a variety of ownership structures including Private Equity. Experienced building and leading high performing teams through complex and ambiguous situations with rapidly changing priorities, I am experienced in businesses that are starting-up, stabilising, integrating, rationalising or undertaking rapid growth. Highly skilled in establishing the corporate governance, I also drive and deliver major cultural and process change for a business to both scale up and create value through greater efficiency, improved service and superior commercial outcomes.KEY ATTRIBUTESStrategic – ability to consider broader commercial and operational impacts of key decisions.Pragmatic – significant operational experience and a high degree of common sense.Leadership – recruit, develop, mentor and manage high performing cross discipline teams.Flexible – maturity and resilience to understand and manage complex and ambiguous situations.Authentic - willing to roll sleeves up, accept responsibility, confident, decisive, able to view situations honestly and objectively.Executive Presence – excellent communication skills to articulate issues simply, clearly and concisely to all levels.Committed – enthusiastic, hardworking and assertive but remaining respectful and professional.