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Andrew Black

Andrew has extensive experience in the field of investment analysis, valuations, & value based management. The author of two books, "In Search of Shareholder Value", and "Questions of Value" (published by Pearson). These look in detail at the issues surrounding value based management and their links to the financial markets. In "Questions of Value" themes around the impact of stricter corporate governance regulations are considered. He is also the Managing Director of Building Value Associates Ltd, whose clients include Volvo, the Design Council, Air New Zealand, Qantas airlines, BP & the MoD amongst others. He is currently a visiting lecturer, at the Warwick Business School, part of Warwick University.

He worked for several years as a Director at PricewaterhouseCoopers heading a department that developed and implemented approaches to shareholder value analysis. This included developing a model called “ValueBuilder”. Prior to this he worked in several financial institutions and banks as a global investment strategist, economist and equity analyst. The institutions include Commerzbank, MM Warburg, and MeesPierson.

He also worked as an economist for Unilever and the DTI, as well as being a parliamentry research assistant for then Minister of Overseas Development.

He holds a Ph.D and an MSc in economics from London University, and BA in economics from Sussex University.. Prior to this he held positions as a research fellow at the Science Centre in Berlin, where he did research on industrial economics and the automobile industry and at the Max Planck Institute in Starnberg. He has spent many years linking economic thinking to business analysis. He is also a keen sailor

You can contact Andrew on: enquiries@samiconsulting.co.uk

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Malcolm Cooper

Malcolm Cooper is Head of Research at the Centre for Cities, and independent urban policy think-tank. He has more than 20 years research and research management experience, most of it gained within the Square Mile. Most recently he was Head of Research for the City of London Corporation, responsible for a research programme covering a wide range of competitiveness, regulation and regeneration issues impacting on London and on the City and UK-based international financial services industry. Previously he spent a decade in equity research in the investment banking sector, specializing in European emerging markets. He has also worked for the Research Board of the Institute of Chartered Accountants, and taught history at the Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Malcolm holds a Bachelor of Arts with First Class Honours in History from Dalhousie University, a Master of Arts in History from the University of Western Ontario, and a D.Phil. in Modern History from Oxford University. He was also Research Fellow in History at Downing College Cambridge.

You can contact Malcolm on: enquiries@samiconsulting.co.uk

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Geof Cox

Geof is an international consultant in organisation change and management development with over twenty years of experience as the principal of his own consulting company, New Directions Ltd. He works with public, private and not for profit organisations and specialises in whole system facilitation – using approaches such as Appreciative Inquiry, Open Space and World Café – and workshop design and delivery. He is qualified to administer FIRO-Elements.

He has a B.S.Sc from the Queen’s University of Belfast, is a chartered member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, a fellow of the Chartered Management Institute and a member of the Association for Management Education and Development. He works globally, with extensive experience in Western, Central and Eastern Europe, the Middle East, AsiaPAC, North America and Africa.

Earlier in his career, Geof worked as a line and HR manager with Esso Petroleum, working in such diverse roles industrial relations, distribution management, training, IT systems, organisation development, sales and purchasing. During his final years with Esso he designed and managed a number of major organisation change projects and management development programmes.

Geof is the author of "Ready-Aim-Fire Problem Solving" (Oak Tree Press) and co-author of "50 Activities for Creativity and Problem Solving" and "25 Role Plays for Interview Training" (Gower) and has contributed to a number of books, study guides and articles on management. He edits a regular newsletter: "Cuttings", is a joint Editor of "Organisations & People" (the professional journal of the Association for Management Education & Development) and was the founding editor of "Management Scotland". He is a partner in Learning Consortium, a pan-European network of consultants which provides professional development for their members and intensive interpersonal skills programmes for clients.

You can contact Geof on: enquiries@samiconsulting.co.uk

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Tony Diggle

Tony Diggle has been an independent consultant and writer since the mid-1990s, with a particular interest in the future and the major global issues man currently faces.

He was formerly Head of Research at the corporate investigators Kroll Associates (U.K.) Ltd. Other former employers include Baxter Healthcare Ltd., where he developed a systematic approach to strategic information requirements, the BBC, where he did research for television for six years, and Oxford Polytechnic (now Oxford Brookes University).

He has a BSc (Hons) in Library Studies from Loughborough University, an MBA from Manchester Business School and has recently been undertaking an MS in Futures Studies at the University of Houston (by remote learning).

You can contact Tony on: enquiries@samiconsulting.co.uk

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Professor Ian Jones

Ian Jones is a consultant in Corporate Governace and Business Ethics to the IoD and ING in addition to his teaching and research commitments at Oxford and Cambridge Universities, and has a client list ranging from the UN and EU to the Norwich and Peterborough Building Society and EDF.

He has been responsible for MBA programmes at City University, London and the European School of Management, after starting his career in Marketing at Unilever in Belguim. He has a Ph D from London Business School, is FRSA, and is a Sloan Fellow. He is fluent in French.

His books on Business Ethics (with M G Pollitt) are:
"Understanding how Issues in Business develop" Palgrave, 2002
"The Role of Business Ethics in Economic Performance" Macmillan, 1999

You can contact him on: enquiries@samiconsulting.co.uk

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Tony Jefferson

Tony has an MSc in Management Studies, a BSc in Economics, is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a Visiting Fellow of Cranfield University.

His career spans the private and voluntary sectors with spells at British Steel Corporation, British Gas, Leeds Permanent Building Society and Halihax Building Society.

His experience at the leading edge of learning, organisational development and high profile recruitment has given him an in-depth understanding of business-focused HR and a track record of transforming organisations by understanding key issues & levers and their utilisation, enabling managers to thrive during periods of major upheaval. He drives change through people, by creating and leading high performing teams.

You can contact him on: enquiries@samiconsulting.co.uk

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Elizabeth Lank

Elizabeth Lank is an independent specialist who works with private, public and voluntary sector organisations to help them improve efficiency and effectiveness through greater cross-boundary collaboration and knowledge sharing. She has recently published a book on collaborative working across different organisations, entitled Collaborative Advantage: How Organisations Win by Working Together (Palgrave Macmillan 2006).

After completing the INSEAD MBA degree in 1986, Elizabeth joined I.T. services company ICL (now Fujitsu Services) and held a number of strategic organisational development, management development and internal communication roles (including leading ICL’s Mobilising Knowledge programme for five years) before setting up her own business in January 2001. She spent the early part of her career working for the European headquarters of an American computer company (Exxon Office Systems) in Geneva, Switzerland. A Canadian by birth, she graduated cum laude from Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts in 1980.
 

Elizabeth is co-author of the book The Power of Learning - A Guide to Gaining Competitive Advantage (IPD 1994), written as a practitioner’s guide to building ‘learning organisations’. She has published a number of articles on collaborative working and knowledge management and collaborated with Amin Rajan on the research report ‘Good Practices in Knowledge Creation and Exchange’ (CREATE 1998). She is a member of the international editorial boards of the Journal of Change Management and Knowledge Management Review.

Elizabeth is an expert evaluator for the European Commission’s Directorate General for Information Society. She is a Faculty Associate at the Institut d’Administration des Entreprises (IAE) in Aix-en-Provence, France and has been a visiting lecturer on the U.K. government’s Cabinet Office Top Management Programme, at INSEAD, London Business School, Henley Management College, Solvay Business School in Brussels and the Berlin School for Creative Leadership. She is also a regular speaker, facilitator and programme director at public and in-company management conferences.

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Dr Nicholas Miles

Dr. Miles is an economic planner with extensive experience formulating and implementing area based economic development and regeneration strategies.

He has been involved in a number of visioning and scenario-building exercises and strategic planning programmes for cities, regions and public sector organisations, including North Staffordshire, the West Midlands, the Tees Valley, The Luton and Dunstable growth area, Norfolk, and the “three cities sub region” (Derby, Nottingham and Leicester) in the UK, and, Shanghai in the PRC, and St Petersburg in Russia.

Dr Miles has also worked on a number of projects focusing on sustainability including environmental due diligence for bankers, environmental strategies for cities, waste management and recycling studies and the economic underpinnings of the move towards “sustainable solutions”, namely solutions that reduce client risk, improve value added, and enhance market impact in as sustainable manner as possible.

He has increasingly worked on capacity building and change management for governments, partnership based development strategies and institutional strengthening measures in relation to economic development and environmental programmes and projects.

You can contact him on: enquiries@samiconsulting.co.uk

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John Milner

John Milner's career spans over 30 years in the IT industry. His early years were spent with ICL where he started as a trainee in the late 1960’s, a long period with Racal/GlobalCrossing followed and he recently completed 5 years at the University of Cambridge where he was the Management Information Services Director.

His career has focussed on project management and board level Technical Director (CTO or CIO) roles, in both development and enterprise application environments. He has specialised in large scale system integration and has implemented organisations and methods compliant with defence and ISO standards for Quality Systems and with ITIL and PRINCE2. He is familiar also with the Capability Maturity Model developed by Carnegie Mellon. He has worked in both private and public sectors.

In his roles as a Technical Director he has gained considerable experience of strategic and corporate planning with fellow board members as well as skills in systems development methods, professional services and complex commercial negotiations both as supplier and as customer. He has an excellent track record in building and motivating high performance teams.

He has worked on business cases and early life set up of “start up” companies within the Racal group.
Significant recent achievements include:
London Underground Radio Systems PFI
Development and implementation of the University of Cambridge MIS Strategy

John Milner is a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Information Technologists in the City of London, Fellow of the British Computer Society, Chartered IT Professional and Fellow of the Institute for the Management of Information Systems

You can contact John at: enquiries@samiconsulting.co.uk

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David Pearce

David Pearce worked in Shell’s scenario planning group during the turbulent years of the late 70s and early 80s. The remainder of his 30 year career with Shell ranged from long term business development to the day to day management of a large industrial unit. As a director of Shell UK Oil during the late 80s he was responsible for one of Shell’s UK refineries. From then until taking early retirement in 1996 he was Business Development Director for Shell International Gas responsible initially for Africa and Latin America and later for the Asia Pacific region.

Since leaving Shell he has practised as an independent consultant employing his scenario and strategic planning skills; generally in natural gas or related fields.This has been a period of change in gas and similar utilities as issues of liberalisation, regulation and globalisation have been addressed.

David has worked on projects for most of the major oil companies and for many of the newer investors in this field such as the multi-utility companies and banks.

You can contact him on: enquiries@samiconsulting.co.uk

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Adam Scott

Adam Scott is a Senior Research Fellow, Department of Management, University of St Andrews. In 2000, he was appointed to the UK’s new Appeal Tribunals, to handle appeals in competition cases. He also acts a consultant and as a mentor. At St Andrews, he studies and uses scenario planning as well as leading courses on teamwork, constituency management and regulation. He has been involved in scenario planning in the public, private and educational sectors and in two national scenario exercises and he has acted as a facilitator in workshops to refine both issues and scenarios.

Until his appointment under the UK’s new EU style Competition Act, Adam had also been working with telecommunications regulators and economists in the European Commission, UK and in Ireland. Called to the Bar in 1972 and a Fellow of the Institution of Electrical Engineers, Adam’s past includes twenty years in senior positions with British Telecommunications plc (BT) and its predecessors, studies in engineering science, economics, law, theology, management and behavioural sciences and a 16 year parallel stream of reserve military activities.

You can contact Adam Scott at: enquiries@samiconsulting.co.uk

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Jonathan Soar

Jonathan Soar is an ICT consultant and a qualified coach. Originally a software engineer by training he has spent twenty years in the IT industry at director level, mostly involved with banking and finance.

Jonathan joined SAMI as an Associate in 2003 to assist with business development and to provide strategic consultancy. He is also a professional Executive Coach with The Parallax Partnership (www.parallaxuk.com) and a certified NLP practitioner.

During his time with SAMI, he has completed the successful sale and execution of scenario planning consultancy and a workshop for Nationwide Building Society, and helped facilitate a scenario planning session, "The Future of Management Consultancy" jointly with the Strategic Planning Society. He has investigated the use of scenarios in the context of managing operational risk according to Basel II and the Sound Practices Guide. More recently, he was part of the five-man SAMI team who produced the ICT Infrastructure report (due for publication in February 2009) for the City of London Corporation.

Between 1990 and 2003, he ran his own software company in the Square Mile which specialised in providing consultancy and software development services to banks. Clients included Standard Chartered, Standard Chartered Grindlays, NatWest, WestLB, Citigroup and J P Morgan Chase.

Jonathan has a BSc. (Honours) in Philosophy and Economics from City University, London. He is the Panels Warden of the Worshipful Company of Information Technologists and Chairman of its Charitable Operations company. He is a Member of the British Computer Society and also speaks fluent French.

You can contact Jonathan on: enquiries@samiconsulting.co.uk

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Phillip Tovey

Phillip was group Innovation Manager for Fujitsu ICL, before moving to the Royal Mail group and developing the Innovation Lab. During this time he also worked with Reading University to develop Innovation Works and was a founding member of the EC Open Futures project, a project looking at the role played by the physical environment on creativity and collaboration.

He now works as a consultant in the area of ‘Creativity and Innovation’, and has worked with a number of public and private clients on workplace change and the use of space.

Phillip has a BSc in Business Development and a background in design and technology.

Phillip combines design thinking with business process through a range of offerings.

You can contact Phillip on: enquiries@samiconsulting.co.uk

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Dr Suzy Walton

Suzy is a Chartered Director, Chartered Scientist and Chartered Occupational Psychologist. She has a portfolio of board roles and over a decade’s experience in central government.

Suzy works as a non executive director on the boards of organisations across many sectors including Birmingham Children’s Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, the University of Westminster; the Council for the Registration of Forensic Practitioners; the Internet Watch Foundation and Combat Stress. She also sits on various government committees including the National DNA Database Ethics Group and the National Specialist Services Commissioning group which oversees a budget of c£3.2 billion for treatment for rare and specialist conditions.

From 2000-2004 Suzy led strategic futures work in the Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit.

More recently she served in the Prime Minister’s Delivery Unit and from 1996-2000 she served as a military psychologist in the Ministry of Defence. She has also completed a 6-year term as a lay member for the Bar Council’s disciplinary committees. As an academic, Suzy has published over twenty papers mainly on social policy and mental health.

Suzy’s early career was a producer, editor and presenter for Sky News, LBC Radio and the BBC. She also had a three year stint playing the juvenile lead in the West End hit Children of a Lesser God. Her website is www.suzywalton.com

Suzy holds a first class honours BSc degree, an MSc and a PhD in applied psychology (suicide). As well as being chartered in three professions she is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine, a fellow of the RSA and a member of Equity. Suzy has 4 children ranging from age 3-20 years.

You can contact Suzy at enquiries@samiconsulting.co.uk

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Molly van der Weij

Molly van der Weij’s career covers a broad path of applying her professional skills and knowledge as visual artist to a wide range of areas. She has worked many years as illustrator, author, and as educator on several Art and Fashion Academies in the Netherlands and Germany, after getting her art degree. She has worked since 2000 at the Telemedicine Future Lab, of the Norwegian Centre for Telemedicine (NST: www.telemed.no), with the design and visual communication of potential applications of information and communication technologies for new telemedicine services.

Molly was Leader of Telemedicine Futures Studies at NST, working with the conceptualisation and visualisation of possible futures, providing a platform for collaborative and multidisciplinary future thinking, and conducting several scenario development projects. Molly was Chair of the TTeC06 Programme Committee of the annual, international Tromsø Telemedicine and eHealth Conference (TTeC), entitled “Beyond Tomorrow”, held in Norway in 2006 (www.telemed.no/ttec2006).

Molly uses her artistic skills and knowledge on the visual language for the exploration, communication and development of complex or abstract ideas, e.g. systems, visions, knowledge, strategies. Her interest lies in the synergy of science, technology and art. She offers this expertise to clients through her UK based VisualArt Consultancy.

You can contact Molly at:enquiries@samiconsulting.co.uk

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Peter Whittle

Peter is a highly effective business leader with demonstrable record of delivering profitable change and sustained growth in challenging service and manufacturing environments, in the UK and internationally.

He has held P&L responsibility for multi-million turnover businesses – from £60m at Eutech Engineering to £400m at Tioxide Group and has shown consistent success in diverse autonomous leadership roles within the ICI Group underpinned by functional expertise in sales, marketing, M&A and operations.

Latterly, as Board Director and Head of Strategy, Tarmac Group Limited ($4.6 billion turnover division of Anglo American plc) he led an overhaul of Tarmac directing a comprehensive strategic review; initiating, driving and leading the subsequent organisational, commercial and operational improvement programmes.

Initially, he transformed the strategic review process and culture from a routine annual task to a substantive analysis of how to take the business forward. He drove decisions on key priorities and portfolio choices with regards to territories, businesses and products.

This led the implementation of 8 discrete change programmes including restructuring the global business, transforming the customer enquiry to cash processes in the UK and establishing operational and safety improvement processes. He set up appropriate infrastructure to manage the complex and large-scale operation – chaired steering groups, sub-committees and project groups; and employed external consultants to assist with several of the initiatives (project teams often 50+ in size and direct project costs of £several million).

At Tarmac he also managed, with P&L responsibility, the Middle East, India and China activities.

He currently has a part time interim position as an Executive Director of The Met Office where he is establishing the marketing function including market segmentation, product portfolio management and NPD processes and is contributing to the shaping of corporate strategy and climate and science strategy.

Peter has BSc Honours (2i) in Physics - Bristol University, Diploma in Marketing - Chartered Institute of Marketing and is an Accredited Mediator for the Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution,

You can contact Peter at:enquiries@samiconsulting.co.uk

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Chris Yapp

Chris Yapp has been in the IT Industry since 1980. Most recently he was Head of Public Sector Innovation.

Before that he held a number of roles at Honeywell, ICL and Hewlett Packard.

He has a long standing interest in all aspects of innovation and creativity.

He has been involved in Public Sector IT for the majority of that period and has been involved in many policy and advisory groups on strategic and management aspects of IT. His major areas of interest include e-learning, health and local government. He has been involved in many projects around the creative industries and economic regeneration.

In the third sector Chris has worked on issues including social entrepreneurs, the Digital Divide and IT and disabilities.

Chris is a Patron of NACE, and a Trustee of world e-citizens. Chris is also an Associate of the think tank, DEMOS, and a former Director of the Internet Society of England. He is a past Trustee of the School for Social Entrepreneurs and the British Committee of the UK-Canada colloquia. He is a frequent public speaker and writer on the e-agenda. His most recent publication is “Personalization of education in the 21st century” .

You can contact Chris at enquiries@samiconsulting.co.uk

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