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David Cheesman

Professor David Cheesman is joint Director of Equality in Diversity, an independent research, management and training consultancy, a Visiting Professor at Sheffield Hallam University and a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society. His key skills include social and economic research, programme, project, contract, survey and data management, social research and survey methodology, good practice in tendering, change management, the promotion of a knowledge culture, corporate culture change, promotion of equality and diversity in the workplace and in society, faith-based regeneration, community cohesion, etc. His PhD from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, was on economic development in nineteenth century India and was published by the University in its London Studies on South Asia series as Landlord power and rural indebtedness in colonial Sind, 1865-1901 (Curzon Press, 1997).

From 1990 - 2006, he worked for the Housing Corporation, the government agency which regulates and invests (approximately £1.5 billion per year) in housing associations in England. As its Head of Policy, Research and Statistics, he was responsible for a research programme of about £2 million per year, including the delivery and analysis of major statistical surveys, and for the Corporation’s black and minority ethnic housing policy.

Previously (1985-90), he was a Senior Researcher in the Inner Cities Directorate at the then Department of the Environment, so altogether has over twenty years central government experience of specifying, tendering and managing large external research and survey contracts. He was a Researcher, South Tyneside Community Health Council after a period as a Teacher of business studies.

His management career started at the Lord Chancellor’s Department (1981-85), where he was initially appointed to a unit reporting directly to the Lord Chancellor as minister in charge of public records - preparing a White Paper and advising on the closure of sensitive documents. He subsequently joined the Lord Chancellor’s Management Scrutiny team as part of the Cabinet Office’s centrally directed efficiency exercises to investigate management effectiveness in the Court Service.

You can contact David 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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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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Dean Fell

Dean has managed media operations and provided advice to ministers and government bodies in a number of high profile areas for national and London regional government over the past 15 years, following an early career in marketing.

His experience includes leading the media operation on the Government’s National Identity (Identity Card) Scheme; providing stakeholder and media relations advice for the Police IMPACT intelligence system; and leading on media relations and public affairs for the Criminal Justice Information Technology (CJIT) programme.

Dean led the media campaigns against the public private partnership for the Tube when he headed up the media relations team at Transport for London. He also launched the Congestion Charge for the Mayor of London, as well as leading the campaigns to increase funding for the London Bus Service and the pedestrianisation of Trafalgar Square project. At TfL he reorganised media relations across the company, including integrating London Underground team into TfL,and saving £2 million per year in operating costs.

During the 1990s Dean worked in a media relations role at the Dept. for Employment before moving to the Dept. for Transport lead the media team responsible for the privatisation of the railways. Following the change of administration he delivered media relations in the aviation and marine policy areas and co-ordinated the media relations response to the Southall rail crash. In 1998 he moved to head up the Benefits Agency National press office and subsequently managed communications for Connexions, the Government’s integrated support service for young people,

Working in a wide range of central and local government communications roles across the home affairs, criminal justice, transport and education sectors Dean has successfully delivered strategic business objectives using range of communications techniques comprising planning and delivering communications campaigns, media writing, and effective stakeholder and political relations, marketing, new media and internal communications.

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

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Pat Hill

Pat specialises in scenarios, strategic management and investment risk analysis for private companies, universities, political parties and non-government organisations with a major emphasis on transfer of skills and implementation.

He had over eighteen years with the Royal/Dutch Shell Group of companies. He worked in the coal and chemical businesses until joining the board of Shell South Africa as company secretary and general manager planning. In this position he had responsibility for the production of company scenarios, the five-year operating and capital budgets, the strategic plans and subsequent performance appraisal.

After Shell, he spent two years with the Institute for Democracy in South Africa (IDASA), a non-government organisation. Prior to Shell, he spent six years in management consulting in South Africa and the UK and has held various positions in industry including financial controller of a major quoted transport group.

He has a B.Sc. (Hons) in chemistry (University of Cape Town), B. Commerce (UCT) and B.Proc. (Law) (University of SA). He was Deputy Mayor of the Cape Metropolitan Council and is currently a councillor in the new City of Cape Town Municipality and member of the Finance, Audit and related Council committees.

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

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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Mike Jackson

Mike is a Founder Member and Chairman of www.ShapingTomorrow.com, a unique web based futures, strategy and change management trends portal for corporate innovation and risk management. His specific area of research is sustainable business futures.

He is known on conference platforms speaking on business subjects including futures, sustainability, customer loyalty and retention, business process re-engineering, change management, building strategic visions and values and people motivation and communications, ethics, alliances and corporate governance: he has many published articles on these subjects.

With over 30 years' experience in Business Management in the UK, North America and Europe, he has significant exposure to corporate banking and consumer finance and, latterly, futuring.

Mike was Chief Executive of Birmingham Midshires Building Society between 1990 and 1998, then the UK's 4th largest. As Chief Executive of Birmingham Midshires he achieved a dramatic change for the better in the Society's fortunes moving from near oblivion to a highly profitable, customer led and multiple-award winning business in just eight years.

He was previously a Senior Vice President with Bank of America who he joined in 1986. He held several positions at the Bank which included Head of Europe, Middle East and Africa operations, based in London, Head of Consumer Loans Services and Chief Financial Officer for consumer markets, based in North America (San Francisco). After spells with Hawker Siddeley, the Electricity Boards and the Post Office he began his financial services career in 1973 with Citibank NA as its first overseas process engineer, based in London. He then transferred to Italy, with subsidiary Citifin Finanziara as Chief Financial Officer and Vice President, later moving back to the UK with Citibank Savings as Vice President and Customer Services Director, and subsequently Consumer Banking Director.

He studied at Salford University, Manchester, and holds a Bachelor of Science in Electronics and a U.S. accredited MBA in Operations Research. He was conferred an Honorary Doctorate in Business Administration by the University of Wolverhampton in 1997. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, the Chartered Institutes of Bankers and Marketing and the Institutes of Directors and Management Services, as well as a Companion of the Institute of Management. He is a full member of the Strategic Planning Society, the Association of Professional Futurists and the World Future Society.

He is a member of the advisory board of European Futurists and sits on the Executive Committee of the Society of Genealogists in the UK.

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

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Tony Jefferson

Tony has an MSc in Management Studies, a BSc 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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Jane Langford

As a director of her own company, Jane Langford has advised on strategic direction and marketing, most recently focussing on strategic relationships and customer care across all sectors. Jane has a wide range of business and leadership experience most notably in government, IT, not-for-profit and large complex commercial enterprises. She has personally worked with and led significant change in corporate organisations and, as a marketing professional, used her imagination and analytical skills to build profitable global revenue streams. She is an ideas person who can see them through to fruition either directly or by directing or advising others.

She brings pleasant self assurance and professionalism to her roles, seeking always to bring out the best in often strong-minded individuals and teams, whether as leader or member. Jane’s early voluntary experience as a presenter for Radio St Helena has developed into effective public speaking and thoughtful representation skills.

Jane has worked for ICL, PE Consulting and Hopewell Consutiants

You can contact her 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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Geoff Llewellyn

Geoff is a senior business director with consultancy, general and account management skills gained through leadership of change programmes for large organisations in the public and private sectors.

After academic research in the philosophy and sociology of science at Oxford he joined the Manpower Services Commission and designed the research programme for the Youth Opportunities Programme, before moving on to the BBC where he was responsible for the introduction of the BARB Audience Reaction Service.

Later, in the Post Office Corporation, he established the Marketing Services function for Parcelforce and managed its corporate re-launch programme before doing a tour as Personal Assistant to the Chairman and Chief Executive, Sir Bryan Nicholson. After this he led a programme to introduce a strategic business planning process into Royal Mail and then established an internal marketing and project consultancy business unit before leaving the public sector in 1996 to join Sema Group, moving in to business development and Account Management.

Having managed the DWP, Sema’s biggest account, he started a new function as Government Relations Director before joining Siemens business Services in 2004 as Senior Account Director for the Immigration and Nationality Directorate. After a period as Account Director for major bids on the Lorry Road User Charge and E-Borders bids he left Siemens in 2006 to start his own consultancy – RPM Business Consulting (www.rpmbc.com).

Geoff has a BA in Economics and Social Science from London University, and is a member of the Court of the Worshipful Company of Management Consultants.

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

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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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Colin Mynott

Dr Colin Mynott is a Chartered Engineer, a European Engineer, and a Fellow of the Institute of Directors. A materials technologist by training, he graduated from the London Imperial College of Science and Technology and, for his doctorate, from Cambridge University in 1963.

He worked in and managed manufacturing companies that developed their own products. His career started in the automotive industry in manufacturing systems and engineering at the British Motor Corporation; he then moved on to become The Materials Engineer for Chrysler UK. Then followed a five year spell in international management consultancy. He started his own manufacturing company with two partners in 1973, initially as non-executive chairman and, from 1986, as joint chief executive until its sale in 1989. From 1976 to 1990, he ran a number of medium sized manufacturing companies in the automotive sector. Following that, he was asked to organise the services to manufacturing industry of the UK Design Council as Industry Director, primarily on product development.

Since 1994 he has been disseminating best practice to industry on all aspects of product development, how it should be organised, its financial impact and management. He is joint author of a number of publications on product development.

He also works closely with a number of companies on their product development strategy and its implementation; for example with a leading Japanese car maker in helping improve their European first tier suppliers’ product development effectiveness.

You can contact Colin 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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Nigel Quick

Nigel Quick retired from Arup in 2003 and joined SAMI as an Associate in 2004.

He joined Arup in 1995 as the Director responsible for project management and management consultancy within the firm. He was formerly the Chairman and Managing Director of Mouchel Management Ltd, which he founded in 1986. He spent nine years with contractors on major projects in the UK as an engineer and later as a project manager.

He has been responsible for the management of a range of civil engineering and building projects up to £700M. He has been responsible for management consultancy services to national and local government in the UK, Australia, South Africa and Eastern Europe.

He has a B Sc (Hons) in Civil Engineering , is a C Eng, a Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers, a Member of the Institution of Water and Environmental Management, and of the Institution of Highways and Transportation. He is a Member of the CBI's Modernising Government Committee, of the Construction Industry Council PFI Advisory Panel and the Construction Industry Project Management Task Force. He is a Visiting Lecturer at Reading University and Kings College London.

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

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Bill Ralston

Bill Ralston is president of PGO Consulting, a scenario-planning consultancy located in California, and a board member of SRI Consulting Business Intelligence (SRIC-BI). For over 20 years, Bill has been a management consultant specializing in strategy, innovation, and technology management.

Bill formed PGO Consulting in 2005 to help organisations generate scenarios of the future and provide them with the processes and tools to develop and implement strategies adaptive to changing conditions. Bill is also a consultant to the Foundation for Enterprise Development, a nonprofit organisation established by Dr. J. Robert Beyster, the founder of SAIC (Science Applications International Corporation), and dedicated to helping entrepreneurial scientific and technology enterprises.

In 2001 Bill co-founded SRIC-BI, the consulting and business-research spin-off of SRI International (formerly known as Stanford Research Institute) with offices in California, Japan, England, and New Jersey, and was responsible for managing all consulting services there until 2006. He remains on the board and is managing SRIC-BI’s business development efforts in the Washington, DC, area where he continues to consult on emerging-technology trends and intelligence processes and practices.

Prior to 2001, he was a vice president of consulting and director of the scenario-planning practice at SRI International. During his 16-year career at SRI he worked in many industries around the world, including electronics manufacturing, oil and gas, automotive, engineering and construction, paper, railroad, financial services, and consumer products, and consulted on many issues, including future scenarios, strategy, intelligence processes, technology and innovation management, project management, and environmental, health, and safety management,

Before entering consulting, Bill worked as a senior manager in Europe, the Middle East, and United States in Brown & Root, the large engineering and construction company serving the oil and gas industry. He worked in the marine engineering and construction division in project management, business development, and strategic planning. He received his B Sc in civil engineering from Stanford University and his MBA from Harvard University.

Bill has just published the book, The Scenario Planning Handbook: Developing Strategies in Uncertain Times. He co-authored the book with his colleague from SRI International and scenario-planning pioneer, Ian Wilson.

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

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Tony Romeo

Tony is the principal of Strategic Dynamics, a small consultancy that works with companies to develop and implement strategies to address an ever more complex global marketplace. His clients have included both major multinationals and smaller start-ups, and he has helped with issues ranging from new market entry to business innovation. He has a special expertise in addressing the opportunities and challenges of the emerging digital economy. In 2000, Advertising Age named him as one of their “i20”, the top ‘new economy’ executives in America.

His experience includes more than 15 years with Unilever, where he held various senior positions in the US and Europe. He was Head of Corporate Strategy, where he was a key player in developing and implementing key corporate strategic initiatives, acquisitions and new ventures. He was also the founder and Chairman of Unilever’s Interactive Brand Center, where he led the company’s efforts, on a global basis, to engage in the digital space.

Tony has also been an active writer, trainer and teacher. He has been a Professor at the University of Connecticut and London Business School, and is currently an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Business. He holds a B.A. degree from the Johns Hopkins University and a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania.

You can contact Tony at: 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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Chris Skinner

Chris Skinner is the founder and Chief Executive of Balatro Ltd, an organisation dedicated to understanding the future of financial services. He is known for his regular columns in Finextra and the Banker, as well as other publications, as well as being the author of several books on the industry including Banking in the 21st Century published in 2007 by John Wiley & Company. Since 2006, Chris has been a key contributor to the World Economic Forum’s scenario modelling for the future of the financial services markets.

Chris participates in many other key industry programs including Chairman of the Banker magazine's Technology Awards and a Judge with the Asian Banker's Excellence in Retail Financial Services. He is also a regular contributor to the research firm TowerGroup. Chris is known as an exceptional speaker and is a regular keynote at the world's largest financial services conferences, including SWIFT's Sibos, the Bank Administration Institute (BAI) Conferences in the USA, IIR and IBC in Europe and the Middle East, and the Financial Times in Europe. Through these keynotes, he has shared the stage with leading world figures including Michael Eisner, Richard Branson, Gary Hamel, Lou Gerstner, Meg Whitman and Bill Gates.

In addition to running Balatro he is:

• a Contributing Editor to the Banker;

• a member of the Executive team for the standards organisation, TWIST;

• a non-executive director of Original Solutions in Ireland; and

• one of the four founders of Shaping Tomorrow, the internet portal for strategists and futurists.

Prior to founding Balatro, Chris was Vice President of Marketing and Strategy for Unisys Global Financial Services and Strategy Director with NCR Financial Services. These roles sparked Chris’s specialisation in the future of financial services after he created the Global Future Forum in Unisys and the Knowledge Lab in NCR.

He studied at Loughborough University in the UK, and holds a Bachelor of Science in Management Sciences alongside a Diploma in Industrial Studies. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Management Services, an Associate of the Chartered Insurance Institute and a Chartered Insurance Practitioner.

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

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