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88 thought it might be time to look for something more stable . Whenever there ’ s a merger , you lose all the best people in your team , who go on to get their own teams . Then you have to build a brand new team . After a few mergers , I thought it looked like I was pretty good at building new teams ,” he laughs . “ Then , Brenntag came calling .”
For the past two years , Stramrood has built an 80-person team across Europe , the US and Asia Pacific focused on starting and accelerating digital initiatives , and infusing one of the largest distribution firms on the planet with sweeping digital change . One of the things that makes the DigiB hub special is its autonomy from Brenntag ’ s wider operation . The hub is set up as an independent entity , giving Stramrood the power to expand his team , oversee HR and develop new policies and processes in the name of finding ways to accelerate the digital evolution of the wider organisation . “ Not a lot of companies have a setup like ours ,” he says . “ A lot of them have a little innovation hub tucked away inside the larger organisation . DigiB
DECEMBER 2019