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Stephen Torrington
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Company: British Small Animal
Veterinary Association (BSAVA).
Interviewee: Stephen Torrington.
Job Title: General manager.
The Subject: The BSAVA has implemented
a new financial system to improve its business efficiency
and provide far more accurate information to its 6,000-plus
members.
PERSONAL FILE
NAME: Stephen Torrington.
BACKGROUND: Stephen grew up
in Bristol and started his career as an apprentice lift
engineer, despite an ambition to become a cartographic
draughtsman.
After five years as an engineer working
throughout the world, he secured a job with The Express
Lift Company, part of GEC. This coincided with a move
into management and after being identified for training,
he was placed on a GEC fast-track management programme
progressing into senior management.
After completing the programme, he
made a personal decision to take a Masters Degree at
Bristol University, graduating in 1998 with a MSC in
Business and Finance.
He was immediately head-hunted for
an MD role at a company requiring a major restructuring
and since 1990, has constantly been involved in change
management and restructuring several large companies.
After completing a five-year stint
restructuring a major Dutch marine engineering and standby
power company, and wanting a new challenge, he joined
BSAVA in 2004 in his first venture outside of industry.
The last five years have been spent
gaining experience on how to manage and influence trustees
and volunteers through persuasion and negotiation to
become more commercially focused and to view the charity/association
as a commercial entity while still allowing it to keep
its values and aims.
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