McLaren promotes vice chairman of company improvement to COO

John Clark (pictured) has been promoted to Chief Working Officer at international claims providers supplier McLaren. The brand new function locations Mr Clark inside McLaren’s govt management group and underlines the corporate’s continued enlargement of its specialist proposition all over the world.

As COO, Clark will probably be chargeable for main the event and strengthening of McLaren’s enterprise areas, overseeing the corporate’s funding technique and new product improvement, and dealing collaboratively with regional and different C-level leaders to strengthen international partnerships and successfully scale the enterprise.

Since becoming a member of McLarens in April 2020, Clark has performed a key function in remodeling the corporate from a claims adjustment agency right into a broader claims providers supplier centered on complicated industrial and specialty insurance coverage markets.

Beforehand serving as Vice President of Company Growth, Clark led the build-out of McLaren’s forensic and expertise providers globally. His group’s efforts led to 13 profitable M&A transactions, increasing the corporate’s attain in engineering, forensic and investigation, and architectural consulting.

Mr Clark has held quite a few senior roles, together with managing enterprise improvement for international firms. Previous to becoming a member of McLarens, he was Vice President of International Technique for a listed monetary providers firm, Group Chief Monetary Officer of an Australian specialist finance firm and Managing Director of a mid-sized funding financial institution.

Commenting on his wide-ranging remit, Clark stated: “Consistent with our technique to ship higher outcomes for the complicated industrial and specialty insurance coverage markets, McLaren’s enterprise has developed considerably lately, increasing our worldwide footprint, launching new providers and increasing into fully new service traces.

“I look ahead to partnering with the corporate’s completed leaders and sensible technical specialists to proceed to drive the execution and realization of McLaren’s strategic imaginative and prescient.”

In the meantime, chief govt Gary Brown stated: “McLaren is now a sizeable, multi-disciplined enterprise and it is important that our international management displays this and lays a powerful basis for the subsequent part of its improvement.”

“John’s distinctive expertise and experience throughout finance, international scalability of providers, operational effectivity and company improvement will assist McLaren proceed on this trajectory and in the end ship higher outcomes for our purchasers.”

The CEO added: “He’s an distinctive chief who has demonstrated his unwavering dedication to McLaren and I’m delighted that he has accepted this necessary function.”

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