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Expert started his career training with Wiggins Teape in the making of banks and bonds, greaseproof and glassine papers. He then moved to Clyde Paper Company as a production assistant making on- and off-machine wood-free coated grades. For 12 years he was employed in various management roles in the manufacture and development of security papers and banknote with Portals. During his time with Portals, he commissioned and managed, over a period of two years, a paper mill in Pakistan making currency paper.

As pulp mill manager with the Dexter Corporation in the UK, Expert managed a specialty pulp mill for 10 years, manufacturing a range of pulp grades which included abaca, kenaf, sisal and flax. During his time here, new products were introduced and the turnover was increased tenfold. Prior to this, Expert was employed as production manager at Portals making security papers from cotton, linen and ramie. Whilst with Portals, he managed a security paper mill in Pakistan using cotton, sunn hemp and jute waste as raw materials.

During his long career, Expert has always been involved in the manufacture of specialty papers. This has included greaseproof, glassine, vegetable parchment, NCR paper (Wiggins Teape); cast coated paper, milk carton, label paper, on- and off-machine coated papers for printing (Clyde Paper Company); banknote, security, bible paper (Portals); tea bag paper (Dexter); water-marked papers, and bible paper (Kadoma Fine Papers, Zimbabwe).

In 1994, Expert was resident consultant advising a state-of-the-art fine paper mill in Zimbabwe in the manufacture of watermarked papers from cotton linters as the prime raw material. These were delivered to the mill in the raw state and processed into bleached pulp.

Acting as interim general manager, Expert recruited and trained managers and supervisors of a state-of-the-art paper mill in Zimbabwe in the theory and practice of fine paper making and in the basic concepts of quality management. He introduced management systems and improved product quality to obtain continuous production within two months, following a history of intermittent production and unacceptable quality standards. He advised management on the introduction of the international quality standard ISO 9000 and assisted with its implementation. He advised and helped to implement statistical quality control and trained all appropriate employees in the concept. He trained key supervisors in the acquisition of leadership skills. He helped to prepare and introduce written standard operating procedures for the entire process. He recommended a management structure and assisted in the recruitment of senior staff. And he provided advice on export sales and marketing strategy.

He managed the dismantling, packing and shipping of a second-hand papermachines in the UK for re-installation in India.


He successfully conducted raw material supply chain assessments for the World Bank Group in Bosnia and Albania.


He conducted a detailed technical and financial review of all supporting documentation for a new tissue mill in Abu Dhabi.

Expert assisted pulp and paper companies in the Philippines in the sourcing of suitable processing machinery for abaca and grasses.