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Sainsbury Management Fellows (SMFs) work in both large blue-chip
organisations and innovative SME enterprises, many of which are
companies started by the SMFs. SMFs work in a diverse range
of industry sectors including manufacturing, engineering, energy,
finance, IT, telecommunications and technology.
SMFs can provide thought leadership comments and insight on a
wide range of topics, a few of which are listed below:
- Benefits of business education
- Career development
- Start-up business experiences
- Raising business funding/investment
- Business development strategies
- Innovation
In addition to these topics, SMFs can also comment on their
specialist topics - these topics are listed beside their details
below.
Adam Bazire, Vice
President, Business Development, AMETEK: AMETEK Inc is a
leading global manufacturer of electronic instruments and
electromechanical devices with annualised sales of $2.5 billion.
The company has over 11,000 staff working at more than 80
manufacturing facilities and more than 80 sales and service centres
in the USA and around the world.
Specialist topics: Power, instrumentation,
process control, motors, aerospace, industrial.
Sam Cockerill, Founder
and Managing Director, Libertine FPE: Sam is the founder
and managing director of Libertine FPE, a low-cost, high efficiency
engine start-up. Sam is an independent management consultant
and entrepreneur. He consults in the renewable energy sector
for a range of industrial, academic and public sector clients. He
is also non-executive director of Providence Holdings, one of the
UK's major agricultural supply chain management
companies.
Sam has co-authored several published scientific papers
underpinning the sustainability of grain biorefining. He has
co-authored a number of published scientific papers on the
sustainability of biofuels and biofuel feedstocks, and is a named
inventor on several patents.
Specialist topics: Global ethanol market and
pricing dynamics, biofuel/biomass supply chains and sustainability,
renewable energy policy, new vehicle technologies; as well as
business related topics - growth strategy development,
international business development, creative career
development.
Tom Delay, Chief
Executive, Carbon Trust: Previously an engineer with Shell
for 16 years, Tom worked for five years in consulting before
joining the low carbon sector as founding chief executive of the
Carbon Trust. Tom was the first SMF President and one of the first
two Fellows to receive an MBA through the scheme.
Specialist topics: International business
development, creative career development.
Simon Duncan, Chief
Executive Officer, A Shade Greener: A Shade Greener is a
renewable electricity generator. The company promotes solar
energy that is accessible to everyone. Up until now only the
wealthy could afford solar panels, however, new legislation that
came into effect from April 2010, provides the company with
guaranteed income for the electricity its panels generate, enabling
A Shade Greener to fit free solar panels onto any roof that is
suitable. Now nearly everyone can have access to free electricity
all year round.
Specialist topics: Solar PV, installations,
solar power, renewable energy.
David Falzani, Chief
Executive Officer, Polaris Associates and President of
SMF: Polaris offers strategic perspective and analysis,
linking activity to drivers of success; revealing buyer
decision-making process. Polaris works in a variety of sectors
including energy, technology, software and charities; helping
clients with business and financial development, technology
projects, marketing and strategic planning, and general commercial
management.
Specialist topics: Business development,
finance, operations, marketing.
George Fowkes, Owner,
The Clear Alternative: The Clear Alternative performs
critical business development work for young clean technology
companies. Services include market study and research,
business planning and fund/grant raising, sales and project
management, supplier selection and contracting.
Specialist topics: Market analysis and
opportunity evaluation, supplier/partner/client development,
project and interim management, market entry, 'first deal', product
launch.
Graham Hastie,
Managing Director, Bellfield Consulting: Bellfield
consulting provides strategy, operations and rankings advice for
the Higher Education sector.
Specialist topics: Higher education, strategy,
operations, rankings.
David Hardy,
Operations and Technical Director, Envirowales:
Envirowales is a recycler of lead-acid batteries and lead scrap
materials.
Specialist topic:
recycling.
Nick Laird, Chief Commercial Officer, Ceridian
Corporation: A business services company that helps
customers maximise the power of their people, lower their costs and
focus on what they do best. Ceridian's suite of innovative managed
HR solutions includes payroll and compensation, employee benefits
administration, staffing, compliance, HR Outsourcing and
employee assistance programmes, work-life, health & wellness
and productivity management solutions.
Specialist topics: HR, business process
outsourcing, payroll, compensation, employee benefits
administration, staffing, compliance, tax filing, HR
administration, HRO, employee assistance programs (EAP), work-life,
health & wellness, productivity.
Chris Martin, CEO Spirogen Ltd and
Chairman Crescent Diagnostics: A Chartered Director
and highly qualified chemical engineer, Chris Martin took an MBA
as the basis for a successful entrepreneurial career in the clean
tech, high tech and biotech fields. He is Chief Executive of
Spirogen, a clinical stage cancer drug development company and
non-executive Chairman of Sciona inc and Crescent Diagnostics.
Chris is veteran of high tech start-ups and spinning out
technological advances made by academic institutions into
successful commercial companies. He started his career at the
Atomic Research Establishment but his business mind led him into
more commercial roles. After his MBA at the Swiss business
school IMD, Chris led a management buyout of consultancy Marex,
setting up Paras Ltd as a consultancy to assist companies in the
oil industry make sound technology decisions.
Chris set up Xenva as an early stage feed capital company
to work with embryonic companies based on campus research as they
grew. Spinout companies he has worked with include Solcom,
which develops web-enabled systems monitoring and management
systems and Sciona a genetic personalised nutrition.
His interests in corporate finance and fund management include
board membership of the RCM Technology Investment Trust PLC. He
also holds the ICAEW Corporate Finance Qualification.
Specialist Topics: start-up experience,
business funding / venture capital, ecommerce, international
business development, creative career development, women in
business.
Ian Peerless, Owner, Peerless
Engineering Limited and Director IPKA Consultancy
Limited: Ian has spent the majority of his career
working for Shell and Corus in a range of positions including
Operations Director, Strategy Director, Sales Manager and Logistics
Manager. Hi is one of the founders of IPKA Consultancy Limited
which spun out of Shell and which assists board members around the
world to implement change. In parallel Peerless Engineering
Limited pursues new product opportunities. A current project is the
commercialisation of a robot designed for extreme oil and gas
operations.
Specialist topics: Hydrocarbon project front
end loading, subsurface engineering and operations, steel
value chains and strategy, commercialisation of new products,
mergers and acquisitions, driving change through large
organisation
Andrew Phillipps,
Successful Serial Entrepreneur: Andrew Phillipps
is a young entrepreneur whose professional engineering
background and MBA has helped him to make his mark on a multitude
of ambitious and innovative business ventures. Andrew is:
- Co-founder of Active Hotels, the UK's leading provider of
technical solutions that enables hotels to sell rooms on 15,000
sites and through 84,000 travel agents
- Chairman and founding investor of i20 water, a company set up
to save the UK a fifth of the 3.5 billion litres of water it wastes
a day
- Chairman and part MBO of Toptable, the UK's leading restaurant
reservation, review and search site
- Chairman of Greentraveller, a site that helps travellers reduce
their carbon footprint
- Director of Reevoo, a site that houses a collection of
over one million customer reviews on electrical products.
Andrew is currently lecturing in entrepreneurship at INSEAD
and London Business School.
Specialist topics: e-commerce, international
business development, creative career development.
James Raby, Venture
Executive, SEB Venture Capital: The Venture Capital
arm of Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken provides venture capital
investment in early and middle stage media, wireless and technology
companies. SEB is one of northern Europe's leading
banks.
James has spent the majority of his career within the operations
and general management functions of broadcast, media and wireless
services companies including NTL Broadcast (now Arqiva) and VT
Communications within Europe and Asia. James studied for his MBA at
EAP in France in 1995 and was one of the first two Fellows to
receive an MBA through the SMF scheme.
Specialist topics: New media, venture
investment, restructuring, recovery & turnaround, privatisation
& cultural change, innovation & due diligence, finance,
banking, wholesale banking, retail banking, mutual funds, life
insurance, pension.
Bill Sneyd, Founder
and Chief Operating Officer, HomeSun: HomeSun is the UK's
leading 'Free Solar' business - bringing the benefits of renewable
energy to tens of thousands of households. HomeSun makes home
renewable energy commonplace, starting with Solar PV. The company
is breaking down barriers of price and complexity to make it easy
for homes to generate their own energy.
Specialist topics; Solar PV, renewable energy,
free solar PV.
Mark Spence, Founder
and Chief Executive Officer of three businesses:
Mark is a successful entrepreneur with diverse and successful
businesses in engineering, chemicals and mobile
communications. He is chief executive and founder of:
- Telemetrics, which was set up to exploit the revolution in M2M
technology, improving the service for engineers and other personnel
'on the move'
- Cosmetic Rheologies, an innovator in polymer technology for
hair and skincare products.
- Mass Measuring, which provides weighing, conveying and process
control equipment and utilises the same expertise as
Telemetrics
CRL and Telemetrics have won SMART awards for
innovation.
Specialist topics: International business
development, creative career development.
Gordon Wylie, Director, Free Green
Electricity Corporation: Free Green Electricity
Corporation is focused on the free installation and free long-term
maintenance of small scale renewable energy generation systems for
both domestic and commercial property owners in the UK, and on
delivering an attractive sustainable financial return for
investors.
Specialist topics: Renewable energy, solar
power.
