J-P Martins joins AFRY Management Consulting in London

AFRY Administration Consulting has introduced the appointment of J-P Martins as a senior principal in its London workplace. He joins the mining, minerals and metals crew.

Headquartered in Sweden, AFRY Management Consulting is a European consulting agency specialising in engineering, design, and advisory companies. The agency has a world attain, with 53 workplaces all over the world, together with presences within the China, India, Australia, the US, and the UK – with greater than 19,000 consultants serving shoppers with infrastructure, business, vitality and digitalisation tasks.

J-P Martins joins AFRY because it encounters rising demand from shoppers in supporting the batter worth chain. Wanting forward, he’ll advise the agency’s world mining, minerals and metals business shoppers, with an extra concentrate on the battery worth chain.

Saara Söderberg, vice chairman at AFRY, stated, “We’re delighted that J-P has joined our crew. J-P brings with him in depth expertise and can develop our consulting propositions for shoppers within the mining, vital metals and battery supplies worth chains from mine to product. For our shoppers, this implies performing extra successfully, contemplating decarbonisation and sustainability points, in addition to the strategic asset footprint.”

Battery producers might want to safe dependable sources of uncooked materials and gear whereas additionally making daring strides in direction of sustainability so as to meet global demand. A mix of elevated mining and recycling along with extra new manufacturing vegetation might be required.

Martins’ work at AFRY will embody technique, markets, enchancment (revenue and sustainability) and main capital tasks. More and more, his work will concentrate on recycling and circularity, decarbonisation, and the alternatives and challenges thrown up by vitality transition.

To do that, he’ll draw on greater than 30 years in technique consulting, and in business. Over that point, he has led capital tasks, transformation, decarbonisation, and M&A tasks – throughout spells with Rio Tinto, the UK’s Nuclear Decommissioning Authority, and consulting corporations Boston Consulting Group, Bain & Company, and Companions in Efficiency. He has additionally taught strategic problem-solving and consulting expertise at London Enterprise College and ESADE – and in early 2021, he was programme lead technique guide for the NHS Test and Trace app.

Talking on his arrival at AFRY, Martins stated by way of his private LinkedIn, “It is nice to be assembly extra of the AFRY Administration Consulting crew! I’ve a lot higher alternatives to supply built-in help due to AFRY’s wonderful engineering and multi-sector providing from research via design to supply. Sitting in conferences this week and evaluating our consumer checklist and challenge pipeline with others I’ve seen just lately, truthfully, we’re much better positioned to help the vitality transition with confirmed capabilities throughout a world crew. Whether or not you need to decarbonise your online business or develop into the alternatives being thrown up by the transition, we might help!”