Your Consultant
Darryl Veenendaal

General Manager

Senior fire suppression and building controls leader with 15+ years’ experience, including turnaround and growth of a c.$200M business; delivered 31% order growth, 41% revenue growth, and doubled branch revenue.

Key Skills & Experience

  • Currently leads a c.$200M fire suppression business across the UK&I with full accountability for strategy, commercial performance, operational delivery, and leadership capability.
  • Strong background across fire suppression, building management systems, critical environments, data centres, and regulated sectors; has also previously held senior leadership roles in fire & security and utilities portfolios.
  • Delivered major growth and turnaround results including doubling branch revenue from £18M to £36M, improving margin from 5% to 32%, and securing approximately £15M of data centre projects.
  • Has led complex life safety systems delivery on flagship major projects and worked across customer environments including data centres, industrial sites, utilities, and other regulated facilities.
  • Core strengths include full P&L leadership, business transformation, growth strategy, commercial governance, operational performance, leadership team development, and delivery of complex programmes

Key Info

  • Ref No
    DV208391-2659
  • Job Title
    General Manager
  • Location
    London

‹ Back to Talent Search

Is this candidate of interest?

If so, drop us a line by clicking below.

Not quite the right fit?

Submit your ideal criteria here and you'll automatically be alerted when we register a new candidate that fits the bill.

Register Candidate Alert