Ryan Miles in place for Heidelberg’s top UK job
March 5, 2019The head of Heidelberg’s South African operation is lined up to take over in the UK, and will move north during the summer.
Gerard Heanue is on course for his personal #Hexit at the end of March thanks to the announcement that Ryan Miles is to take over as managing director of Heidelberg UK.
“He is the one I proposed to take over a long time ago,” says Heanue. Miles has been in charge of Heidelberg’s South Africa operation, which like Scandinavia, reports into the UK. “When he took over in South Africa, he inherited an ageing workforce in sales and service and has revitalised that workforce by bringing in new ways of doing business based on relationships and on the selling the ROI and a more modern approach.”
Miles, like Heanue and George Clarke before him, is an accountant by background and qualification. Aged 43, he is only part way through his career, but has already been finance director of Kodak in South Africa and chief operating officer of business services group, Itec SA. He will be replaced at the head of the Johannesburg operation by his financial director.
