{"id":10723,"date":"2016-11-14T10:21:03","date_gmt":"2016-11-14T10:21:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/?p=10723"},"modified":"2016-11-14T10:21:03","modified_gmt":"2016-11-14T10:21:03","slug":"hamilton-appoints-commercial-and-operations-directors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/hamilton-appoints-commercial-and-operations-directors\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamilton appoints Commercial and Operations Directors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As part of Hamilton Litestat\u2019s plan to expand its business within the UK, the company has appointed Paul Walker as Commercial Director and Paul McCourt as Operations Director.<\/p>\n<p>Paul Walker has been appointed as Commercial Director to continue the company\u2019s growth in established areas and spearhead Hamilton\u2019s drive into new product sectors.<\/p>\n<p>Paul has 30 years\u2019 experience in the industry and joined Hamilton in 2014 following roles at Havells, where he successfully established its Switchgear offering and grew its business in the trade division, and 14 successful years at Electrium, a Siemens company.<\/p>\n<p>Paul McCourt becomes Operations Director, responsible for all aspects of business operations, including infrastructure, technology, process design, organisational development and HR directives. Paul has been tasked with an extensive change management programme over the next 12 months to provide a robust and comprehensive foundation to support Hamilton\u2019s growth plans for the next five years.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to Hamilton, Paul was an independent senior BPM consultant, advising international companies on operational systems and process designs. He also established and ran his own software design company that built workflow system solutions for end users.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are delighted to welcome Paul Walker and Paul McCourt in their new roles in the company,\u201d said Ian Hamilton, Managing Director of Hamilton Litestat. \u201cBoth have a wealth of experience that will be extremely advantageous in helping us to grow the Hamilton business together. Paul Walker has contributed greatly to Hamilton entering the circuit protection sector, which has been well received within the industry. He will be driving the brand in 2017 as a \u2018one-stop shop\u2019 for turnkey electrical wiring accessories in the domestic market. He will be supported by Paul McCourt\u2019s extensive operational experience, which will establish the foundations for this growth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Pictured below: Left, Hamilton Litestat&#8217;s new Operations Director, Paul McCourt, and Commercial Director, Paul Walker.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10724\" src=\"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/Paul-McCourt-262x300.jpg\" alt=\"paul-mccourt\" width=\"262\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/Paul-McCourt-262x300.jpg 262w, https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/Paul-McCourt-131x150.jpg 131w, https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/Paul-McCourt-150x171.jpg 150w, https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/Paul-McCourt-437x500.jpg 437w, https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/Paul-McCourt.jpg 447w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 262px) 100vw, 262px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10725\" src=\"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/Paul-Walker-265x300.jpg\" alt=\"paul-walker\" width=\"265\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/Paul-Walker-265x300.jpg 265w, https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/Paul-Walker-133x150.jpg 133w, https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/Paul-Walker-150x170.jpg 150w, https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/Paul-Walker-442x500.jpg 442w, https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/Paul-Walker.jpg 447w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 265px) 100vw, 265px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of Hamilton Litestat\u2019s plan to expand its business within the UK, the company has appointed Paul Walker as Commercial Director and Paul McCourt as Operations Director. Paul Walker has been appointed as Commercial Director to continue the company\u2019s growth in established areas and spearhead Hamilton\u2019s drive into new product sectors. Paul has 30 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10724,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8,1000],"tags":[254,282,1671,1670],"class_list":["post-10723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-news","category-lighting-3","tag-hamilton-litestat","tag-ian-hamilton","tag-paul-mccourt","tag-paul-walker","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/Paul-McCourt.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10723"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10726,"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10723\/revisions\/10726"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}