User:Rosswsi

Ross Wrigley is an engineer who was born in Ipswich, Queensland,Australia on the 3 rd June 1961. He is the youngest son of the late Arnold"Yambi" Wrigley and Mary Theresa Barnes from Oldham,Lancashire. He was educated at Rosewood State School and then Ipswich State High School where he completed his senior year in 1978.

Ross then won a Australian Coal Owners Association Scholarship to study Engineering at the University of Queensland. On graduation he was recruited by Rio Tinto Ltd as a graduate mining engineer at the Coalcliff Collieries Company on the NSW south coast. he then transferred to Hammersley Iron the largest Iron ore producer in the world in charge of grade production,

On the death of his father Arnold on the 7 th August 1987, Ross left the mining world to grow into a business consultant. He joined Alexander Proudfoot Company and was promoted 3 times in his first 3 months. He worked with ABB,Shell, Alcan, Woolworths and the Fletcher Group increasing productivity on average by 20 %.

Ross then formed his own business LSI in 1990 in New Zealand with a former Proudfoot director. During the next 5 years he worked with over 38 companies involving logistics,distribution and customer service improvements