Damien Carroz

“I reported directly to Damien as the Industrialisation Director for Asia Pacific. I really enjoyed working with Damien, he put great focus on developing our people and systems to better meet the interests of those we provided engineering services to. Damien was leading a huge engineering team and portfolio of projects across Australia and China, he was great at guiding us through the complexity, but giving us the freedom to flourish. He shared his broad engineering and leadership knowledge, allowing me to grow quickly in what was my first multi-geography management role. I would welcome the opportunity to work with Damien again and will always remember the great times we had leading R&D across Asia Pacific. ”

“Damien joined my team when I was in charge of the Lifespace Business Unit in Asia-Pacific, to lead the R&D Department. In short, he is among the most talented people I had the pleasure to work with. He is very smart, analytical, fast learning and highly knowledgeable but he has also a very effective emotional intelligence to adapt well in any working environment and manage people from different education, background or culture. He took up the challenge to reshape the R&D Department. He had to rebalance the organization from the Pacific to Asia but also grow the overall level of competencies, in particular in China, to reach a level of innovation that would support the leadership position of the Division with new products that had to be innovative, differentiating, competitive. He succeeded in getting the strong support from his organization, recruit talented people and organized his new team while raising drastically the level of competencies. The success of his plan came from his driving it consistently and relentlessly. He has a strong spirit of entrepreneurship and is result driven. He would make sure his team directly contributes to grow the business profitably, with new products that would be successful not only from the technical standpoint but from a commercial perspective as well. He is customer-driven, with a talent to focus on customer values. He could provide an invaluable innovative technical perspective in the development of new products and we could launch landmark products on the market, even in product lines that were considered to be very conventional and conservative, i.e. wiring devices. Damien has a talent to establish trustful professional relationships with peers. He is a great team member and likes to take any opportunity to develop team spirit. He is one people like to do business with. He is influential and highly respected in the team. He is extremely positive, a strong asset in his taking up challenges. Damien is also open, curious, straightforward. I would obviously welcome to work again with Damien anytime. ”