Ted Brooks and Bob Chestnutt join The Discovery Partnership
April 6, 2010
Ted Brooks and Bob Chesnutt have recently joined the team at The Discovery Partnership. Ted is a Commerce graduate from UCD and is a Fellow of the Chartered Accountants Institute. He has 25 years of experience working in the manufacturing industry in Ireland. Following a period working as a financial accountant he held various production management roles and became General Site manager of a large multifunctional site.
He served for 10 years as a Global Executive Director of Element Six (formerly De Beers Industrial Diamonds), a multinational manufacturing company. During this time he held specific responsibility for the creation and execution of an international strategic review process of all aspects of the business. He also held global Supply Chain management/ IT/and Legal roles at executive level. He has experience in business acquisition, international relocation and business branding.
Bob has over 35 years experience in the hotel, food processing, distribution, retailing, education, professional services and property sectors. He held senior roles in finance with the Kerry Group, Clover Meats, H Williams Supermarkets and Irish Country Meats. At EGB, (controlled by the Irish-American philanthropist Chuck Feeney), as Finance Director and Chief Executive, he operated hotels, a third-level school and serviced offices. He lead the purchase and construction of two hotels and helped launch a senior level Executive Search and Selection and HR Consultancies. He later established a company to operate two hotels in Limerick on behalf of private investors.
Bob is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants, the Institute of Directors and the Institute of Management Consultants.
