Experience & impact

Performance measured in outcomes.

Selected evidence from global rental fleet and capital-asset leadership, regional operations and executive P&L responsibility across complex, distributed businesses.

Centin Baxter receiving the 2025 CEO Performance Award at the 2026 BrandSafway CEO Awards ceremony
BrandSafway CEO Awards ceremony · 2026

Global recognition

2025 CEO Performance Award

Presented at the 2026 CEO Awards ceremony, recognising 2025 business performance at BrandSafway.

2023 President’s Award

Received while serving as Vice President, Global Asset Management — International at BrandSafway.

Selected outcomes

Scale matters. Results matter more.

Selected results across distinct executive, global asset and regional operating mandates. Each measure reflects its own programme and period; the figures are not additive.

1,000+

Employees led in executive operating roles

34 P&Ls

Former global asset remit across 24 countries

$1.3bn

International rental assets under responsibility · 2021–2023

$134m

UK annual revenue responsibility · FY2025

46% → 98%

Historical regional inventory accuracy

60% → 90%

Historical regional on-time delivery

BrandSafway / SGB · 2012–2021

Forming and shoring. Specialist manufacturing.

From 2012 to 2021, I held responsibility for the special steel forms factory in the Middle East alongside my wider remit as Regional Operations Director at BrandSafway / SGB.

My experience spans forming and shoring rental operations and specialist steel forms manufacturing. It combines leadership of distributed equipment and service operations with direct responsibility for a factory — a practical grounding in both rental and manufacturing environments.

Centin Baxter wearing a hard hat and high-visibility vest beside a large curved steel form inside the special steel forms factory
Special steel forms factory · Middle East · Factory responsibility, 2012–2021

Turnaround & transformation in practice

Different mandates require different interventions. These examples distinguish integration and performance improvement from turnaround, and show how people, commercial decisions and operating discipline work together.

01
Brand Access Solutions · Multi-country leadership

UK & Europe — Business Leadership & Transformation

Business leadership across an integrated industrial-services platform, with full P&L accountability and a focus on commercial performance, operations, people and transformation.

Challenge. Bring Lyndon and SGB together as one UK operating platform, with a shared identity and clearer leadership accountability.

Action. Led the integration and rebrand to Brand Access Solutions. Strengthened leadership capability, labour planning and people productivity; introduced structured branch and project reviews, pricing discipline and closer attention to contract margins, procurement and cash collection.

Outcome. An integrated business identity and culture, recognised through the CEO Performance Award for 2025 performance.

  • Integration and a unified operating identity
  • Clear leadership accountability across a multi-country remit
  • CEO Performance Award for 2025 performance, presented in 2026
02
BrandSafway International · Global assets

Global Asset Management — Capital & Returns

As Vice President, Global Asset Management — International at BrandSafway, led the strategy, deployment, utilisation and returns for a $1.3bn international physical rental asset fleet across 34 P&Ls and 24 countries. The international division generated $1bn in annual revenue. In this asset-leadership role, governed $244m of cumulative capex, connecting rental rate and yield, utilisation, product mix and equipment lifecycle to investment decisions. Redeployed idle fleet into demand markets and prioritised capital toward stronger returns.

  • President’s Award · 2023 · VP, Global Asset Management — International
  • $244m cumulative capex governed
  • $9m capex savings
  • Return on assets improved by 1.9 percentage points
03
BrandSafway / SGB · Regional operations

Middle East / Africa / Asia — Operational Transformation

As Regional Operations Director at BrandSafway, led more than 500 employees across fourteen locations in the Middle East, Africa and Southeast Asia, strengthening operating rhythm and common performance standards. The 2012–2021 remit included forming and shoring operations and responsibility for the special steel forms factory in the Middle East.

  • Inventory accuracy increased from 46% to 98%
  • On-time delivery improved from 60% to 90%
  • $5.2m revenue recovery over 24 months; $4.5m revenue uplift
  • Productivity improved 14%; reduced inventory and released working capital
04
Jassim Transport & Stevedoring · Kuwait

PE-backed turnaround. People, productivity and growth.

As General Manager, led a PE-backed logistics turnaround with full P&L responsibility for a logistics business and 1,000+ employees. Restructured operations and maintenance, diversified the customer base and expanded service offerings through regional partnerships.

Challenge. Improve performance and reduce dependence on a concentrated customer base.

Action. Restructured operations and maintenance, improved people and fleet deployment, diversified customers and developed additional services. Aligned management accountability and cost discipline with commercial growth.

Outcome. A broader customer base and service offering, revenue growth in the Kuwait business and sustainable annual cost savings.

  • 87% revenue growth in the Kuwait business over two years
  • More than $2m in annual cost savings
  • Broader contract-logistics, warehousing and equipment-service offerings
05
Abudawood 3PL · Saudi Arabia

Building a logistics platform from the ground up.

Created a greenfield FMCG contract-logistics operation supporting Procter & Gamble. Designed and delivered a 52,000-pallet-position distribution centre, implemented the warehouse management system and built the team and operating controls.

  • Scaled to 300+ employees and $9m annual revenue
  • Handled 3.6m cases per month
  • Achieved 99.5% on-time shipment and 99.9% shipment accuracy

Executive conversations

Leadership for the next stage of value creation.

Centin welcomes conversations with boards, investors, executive search firms and organisations considering CEO, Managing Director, Regional President, COO or transformation leadership appointments.

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