Mr. Dryden brings over 20 years of experience as a transformation practitioner with a track record of delivering sustainable cost take-out and performance improvement with global corporate and private equity organizations. He has worked as an industry operator and management consultant and brings hands-on experience across the value chains of manufacturing, consumer goods and industrial sectors. He has also held P&L, interim and functional leadership responsibilities. Mr. Dryden leads teams that deliver programs, including manufacturing and operations transformation, sourcing and procurement value creation, integrated demand and supply planning and network footprint optimisation.

Most recently, Mr. Dryden has been leading cost efficiency and operational transformation programs with the leaders of several industrial and biomedical product manufacturers, focused on stabilisation of existing operational activities; embedding operating model; process and capability enhancements across the manufacturing value chain; and driving programs to deliver rapid and sustainable cost reduction in freight management, component pricing and complexity reduction.

Additionally, Mr. Dryden led a team that managed and rolled-out COVID-19 testing and vaccine operations for a U.S. state for 18 months. His team established and managed the entire vaccine supply chain, including procurement, planning, distribution and vaccine administration operations from scratch in a handful of weeks. The operation was the highest performing in the U.S. in terms of first and second doses administered and working capital/inventory turnover. 

Previously, Mr. Dryden led the transformation office for a program with a $10 billion revenue Fortune 500 retailer in the U.S./Canada. The program focused on arresting sales decline through improved store, digital and marketing offerings, and increasing margin through restructuring back-office and operational cost bases. Furthermore, as an interim, Mr. Dryden established the reorganisation and transformation of a U.K.-based FTSE250 engineering business, where the cost take-out and revenue enhancement workstreams drove margins from 20% to 25%.

Mr. Dryden earned a bachelor’s degree in environmental geology from the University of Leeds.