Mr. Rose's recent A&M engagements include leading a cost-out program for a global specialty chemicals company, as part of a refinancing program; handling a wind-down program for a business line of a global chemicals company; creating a restructuring plan and defining the associated social process and wind-down options for a European fertilizer company; leading the sell-side carve out of a global specialty-chemical division, focusing on supply chain target operating model design; and running an operational excellence project across five process plants in Europe

Prior to joining A&M, Mr. Rose served as the European Managing Director for SSA & Company’s Private Equity Practice, after holding similar roles at Celerant Consulting and Hitachi Consulting, where he led a complex carve-out and post-merger integration project in the specialty chemical sector. 

In his 20-year chemical-industry career, Mr. Rose led global and regional business units. At Fosroc, he led the $100 million European business through the 2008-09 recession, with major transformations across its operations. At Huntsman, he led the transformation of a newly acquired global $100 million thermoplastics business and its global $500 million PO/MTBE business during a U.S. ban on MTBE. He also has experience in procurement, having led Huntsman Polyurethanes' European and Asian procurement teams and held various technical and strategy roles for ICI plc and Huntsman and a joint procurement effort with BASF in Shanghai to supply major raw materials (chlorine, formaldehyde, and industrial gases) to the BASF/Huntsman MDI JV. 

Mr. Rose earned a bachelor’s degree in physical chemistry from the University Pierre & Marie Curie in Paris, a master’s degree in technology and policy (chemical engineering major) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a master’s degree in engineering from Ecole des Mines de Paris.