Scaffolding veteran Des Moore has left Trad Group after three decades to launch his own consultancy.
Moore became chief executive of Trad Group after the £100m business was acquired by Altrad Group in 2013.
Prior to that, he was Group CEO for over 15 years.
He started in the scaffolding trade shortly after leaving school at 15, worked his way up the ranks and became involved with the National Confederation of Access and Scaffolding, where he served as president for two years.
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He created the MOR1X consultancy to share his experience with companies working on the sale or acquisition, with companies preparing growth strategies and with those who need support with organizational changes.
“I’m looking to move forward to expand my career beyond Trad and perhaps do a range of non-executive director type positions, mentoring, consultancy work and so on,” he said. CN.
“I have many years of experience in business development, operational and organizational changes and controls, mergers and acquisitions and start-ups. Really, I’ve gone through the whole range of disciplines, from worker to CEO.
“I want to be able to share my knowledge and experience with ambitious companies for the next stage of their development, be it sale, acquisition, strategic growth or improved profitability.
“I look forward to working with ambitious companies and senior teams to help them set and achieve their strategic goals.”
As a pioneer in talking about mental health in the scaffolding and construction sectors, he spoke about it earlier CN about the mental crisis he suffered at the age of 26.
He is also a supporter of increased diversity and inclusion in traditional sectors.
