Chris Munro

Current

Operating Partner at Fenway Partners
CEO & President at RoadLink

Past

CEO at Linfox
CEO & President at Inoveris
CEO at Metatec

COO at Metatec International
SVP Strategic Development Worldwide at Exel
MD/SVP Strategy and Development at Exel Logistics
VP Strategy at Exel USA
Managing Director at BRS
Director at NFC, Fuelink
Area Director at Scottish Road Services

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Education

London Business School
The University of Glasgow
Garnock Academy

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Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Logistics and Supply Chain

Chris Munro’s Summary

25 years in company, general management and transformation leadership in United Kingdom, Western Europe, North America and the Asia pacific region.

Deep expertise in reshaping private, public and private equity owned businesses from financial and strategic perspective while developing high performing teams to exceed expectations of stakeholders.Recent focus has been with service, industrial and logistics companies.

Current role as CEO for $500m private equity roll up in intermodal logistics with Roadlink - combining the role with Operating Partner of Logistics Practice with Fenway Partners.Latter role led a rapid transformation of a $1.2bn Australian based family services company to become a leading player in the Asia Pacific region with people, strategy and operational changes. Prior to that completed transformation and turnaround of public company through chapter 11, refinancing and two acquisitions resulting in privately held company sold to private equity group.

Chris Munro’s Specialties:

International financial,strategic repositioning, manufacturing, services,supply chain,operations, consolidations, mergers/acquisitions, public/private transactions, chapter 11 execution.

Previous companies – Linfox, Exel, BRS, NFC, Scottish Road Services, Fuelink, Allied Van Lines, Metatec and Inoveris
Manufacturing, services, logistics - automotive, hi tech, paper, packaging consumer, retail, industrial, chemicals, software, interactive entertainment, media,publishing

Chris Munro’s Experience

Operating Partner

Fenway Partners

(Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)

February 2007 — Present (1 year 9 months)

Middle market leading $2bn private equity group focussed upon logistics and consumer goods franchised building companies.
CEO & President

RoadLink

(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Logistics and Supply Chain industry)

February 2007 — Present (1 year 9 months)

Responsible to the Fenway Partners and investors board for the roll up and rapid growth of RoadLink into the leader in the Americas for intermodal logistics. In addition supporting various boards and fund investment activities as Operating Partner of the fund.
CEO

Linfox

(Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; Logistics and Supply Chain industry)

December 2004 — July 2006 (1 year 8 months)

A $1.25bn privately held 50 year old leading Asia Pacific Services Company compromising of logistics, armed security, property and airports, with operations in 10 countries, 9000 people and blue chip customer portfolio.
• Formed a new Transformational international solutions strategy to enable the company to double in size and geographically expand into new markets and services with target customers – entered China, India and Vietnam. .
• Designed a targeted customer, country, capability acquisition and partnering strategy to form the platform for systematic growth – 2 acquisitions in 12 months in new markets, and created 2 new industry shared service solutions.
• Built a new organization, leadership team and revamped senior management team capable of rivaling the best solutions companies in their market.
• Two year trailing performance highlights a 32% revenue increase, doubling of net contribution and 38% EBITDA growth.
CEO & President

Inoveris

(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing industry)

December 2001 — August 2004 (2 years 9 months)

A $200m private North American niche supply chain solutions company,which delivers solutions for software, publishing, automotive, interactive and hardware customers.
• Formed a new rebranded privately funded company after a 61 day successful chapter 11 which retained all customers and employees due to consistent operational delivery, relationships and innovative solutions.
• Balance sheet restructuring and refinancing of debt and equity infusion from Private Equity Group created an industry roll up vehicle.
• The rebranded company successfully completed its first two acquisitions on the west coast and Canada while launching an industry co-operation group for the first time in history.
• Developed new customer technologies to streamline customer supply chain operations to their retailer or consumer customers.
refinancing.
CEO

Metatec

(Logistics and Supply Chain industry)

2001 — 2003 (2 years)
COO

Metatec International

(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; META; Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing industry)

January 2001 — December 2001 (1 year)

A pioneering international public compnay focussed on blue chip media and content manufcaturing.
- Responsible for sales and operations of a public $120m international CD manufacturing business operating in the US and Western Europe.
-Key activities focused around stabilizing operations and customer retention
-Selling off loss making businesses and underperforming assets.
-Services sold to fortune 500 companies in Media, Software and Publishing Industries.
SVP Strategic Development Worldwide

Exel

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; EXEL; Logistics and Supply Chain industry)

January 1999 — October 2000 (1 year 10 months)

• Reporting to the global CEO of $3.5bn parent company, designed and directed short and long term strategic agenda for the company with new strong international cross-sector functional teams to deliver an aggressive repositioning of customer development and operations strategy.
• Formed global teams which included marketing, strategy, acquisition, product development, global process development plus matrixed Sector VPs of development in UK, Europe, Asia and USA for market business units in Automotive, Electronics, Chemicals, Consumer, Retail and Healthcare.
• Led global teams that successfully rebranded global entity, strategic planning and implemented business development processes with major customer contracts across three geographical theatres which contributed over $500m revenues.
• Key senior member of integration team for $6.5bn global merger with Ocean group and Investor Relations team.
MD/SVP Strategy and Development

Exel Logistics

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Logistics and Supply Chain industry)

1990 — 2000 (10 years)
VP Strategy

Exel USA

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Logistics and Supply Chain industry)

May 1997 — May 1999 (2 years 1 month)

Led the planning and execution of new strategy, services and country entry plans for new amalgamated services company. Operated in USA, Canada, Mexico, Brazil while the company tripled in size in 4 years.
Managing Director

BRS

(Logistics and Supply Chain industry)

1992 — 1995 (3 years)
Director

NFC, Fuelink

(Logistics and Supply Chain industry)

1989 — 1991 (2 years)
Area Director

Scottish Road Services

(Logistics and Supply Chain industry)

1985 — 1990 (5 years)

Chris Munro’s Education

London Business School

MBA, Business Strategy etc, April 1989 — August 1990

Sponsored by parent compnay to go through the specially designed course which majored on international business and organization impacts.
The University of Glasgow

Masters of Arts, Economics and History, 1978 — 1982
Garnock Academy

High School, History and PE, 1975 — 1979