LEADERSHIP TEAM

Francis Harman

Group Chairman

Francis is InC Blue’s Group Chairman, based in Michigan USA. He is also responsible for overseeing InC Blue activities in the Baltic Rim region.
He has managed companies and operations and delivered professional services in many industries and many countries including USA, Canada, Australia, Great Britain, China, Kazakhstan, Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, etc.
Originally an Andersen/Accenture consultant, he served many large multinational corporations. Assigned to the Global Headquarters in Chicago he developed control methodologies for the Firm based on best business practice.
After time as a senior financial executive with Shell he became a profit improvement executive for a giant company restoring acquired companies to profitability.
He was then CEO of a diversified ASX listed company with operations in multiple countries.
He co-founded InC Blue and specialized as a turnaround CEO for troubled companies. He also works with high growth companies, often as CEO or financial advisor. He has been a Senior Advisor to Australia’s Minister for Economic Development, Trade and Tourism and to the Vice Chief of the Defense Force.
He has presented many executive training programs to senior people in corporations and government, and to the most senior military leaders.

Inessa Shundeeva

CEO Baltic Rim

Inessa is British, with a senior professional qualification from England as a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Certified Accountants.

Her early career was with Ernst & Young where she was as an audit executive working with multinational companies mostly in the consumer products industry. She was involved in piloting the firm’s new worldwide audit methodology.

She then worked with a number of companies, including Cadbury Schweppes and Diageo, as a Business partner in risk and control, creating corporate risk and control standards and building capabilities to achieve them. She closely worked with corporate functions and business entities worldwide, including Europe, Africa, Asia Pacific and Latin America.

Inessa joined InC Blue in 2010, continuing to work with multinational companies. This included setting up risk and control framework, corporate training programs on risk and control and presentations at corporate conferences. She moved to Finland in 2013 to manage the company’s Baltic Region head office in Helsinki.