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INITIATIVE AND POLICY TOPICS

Annual Dinner 2010, London

Are you interested in any of the following current issues?

  • The decline of manufacturing in the UK and what can be done to stop it
  • How to ensure the UK develops its full potential for conserving energy and developing new green technologies
  • How to shore up the UK financial system from within

If so you may be interested in the work of the Initiate Action Groups of the Sainsbury Management Fellows.

The Sainsbury Management Fellows' Society comprises 283 Fellows, 220 of whom are statutory directors and senior advisors who support boards of UK and international businesses. The remaining 50 Fellows either hold senior consulting roles or are entrepreneurs, creating innovative technology companies that add wealth and jobs to the UK economy.  In addition, many Fellows hold multiple non-executive director positions, bringing the total number of directorships across the Fellowship to 400.

All Fellows have first degrees from leading centres of engineering education, up to ten years international business experience and their SMF sponsored MBA from one of the world's top ten business schools.

For further information please click on the appropriate link:

Manufacturing

Energy

Finance

Events

  • Thursday 29 Mar 2012
    • From SMF to NED - How to be “the hot prospect”
      IDDAS, the experts in the art and science of board effectiveness and training will be giving a special presentation to SMFs on their Perspective Report, about changing trends in NEDship and how SMFs specifically, can make themselves 'hot prospects' within the context of the changes and how to capitalise on them. Our guest speaker will be Bernard Buckley, a Board level Executive Coach and Consultant with over thirty years experience gained in a wide range of industry sectors, including Telecoms, Financial & Professional Services (including the Legal Sector), Oil & Gas, Media and the Public Sector. Bernard has been executive coach to the chairmen and chief execs of a great number of FTSE 500 companies and has some very interesting stories to tell about how to make the step up to board level. Venue: The Rubens Hotel, 39 Buckingham Palace Road, London SW1W 0PS. Start time 6:30PM. Enquiries to cathy.breeze@smf.org.uk
  • Tuesday 15 May 2012
    • SMF Annual Dinner
      7:00pm at One Whitehall Place, London. Invitations will be sent through the post in February 2012. Would you like to invite your CEO or HR Director? Please let us know and we’ll send an invitation to them. If you have any helpful head-hunter or VC contacts, we would like to invite them as well.

BlogSpot

Mark Winkle

NEDs JUST GOT INTERESTING?

Sunday 05 February 2012
The world of the NED has been moving at a pace, the traditional view of a NED; ex-top executive, one or two board positions after retiring and aged in 'his' 60s, is ... more
 

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