Peter Hutchinson

Peter was a key part of the team that transformed the ailing ICL into Fujitsu Services, a major player in the IT and business services market in Europe from 1996-2008. A graduate in Engineering from King's College, Cambridge, Peter spent the first 14 years of his career with the Mars Group in a variety of IT, Planning and Finance roles including 3 years working in the USA. He then moved into the retail sector where he was Systems & Logistics Director for Superdrug Stores plc and latterly Systems and Supply Chain Director for B&Q plc, both within the Kingfisher plc group. Peter took his first MD role when he joined ICL (later formed into Fujitsu Services) in 1996 and substantially improved the performance of the Maintenance and Support business in the UK. From 1999-2002, he ran the £675M Operational Services business covering all aspects of IT Infrastructure Management, turning it from loss to profit and adding 8 margin points to the bottom line. In 2002, he led a major change programme which restructured the whole company around a new and much simpler business model that led to improved customer satisfaction, margin and cash generation. Peter set up and ran the leveraged delivery function in the business taking responsibility for delivery, productivity and offering development, about 11,000 people and a wide range of company assets. In this role he drove a productivity improvement of 25% over the two years following the restructuring. Subsequently he became Managing Director Public Sector for Fujitsu Services. Peter sat on the Industry Board of “e-skills UK”, the organisation responsible for the development of IT skills within the UK workforce. He was also a Trustee Director of the £3b ICL pension fund. Being a member of the faculty at Merryck and Co enables Peter to support business leaders and their businesses achieve major change and build sustainable futures. Peter is married with 3 grown sons. His interests include playing jazz, studying and teaching tai chi.