Essex Business School Advisory Board
The role of the Essex Business School Advisory Board is:
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To provide advice on the
strategic development of Essex Business School, to include
teaching, research and knowledge transfer;
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To enhance the
reputation of Essex Business School and to promote its
activities through the media and members' network;
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To serve as a bridge to
those organisations and individuals who have an interest in
Essex Business School; and
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To increase external
support for Essex Business School with the aim of securing
additional capital and operational funding for the School.
The Essex Business School Advisory Board
is made up of internal and external members and includes the following external
personnel from the commercial,
public and voluntary sectors:
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Gwyn Jones (Chair)
Gwyn Jones is a businessman
whose areas of expertise are Leadership,
Strategy, Change and, most of all, Execution. He
has applied these in different organisational
cultures: as a serial entrepreneur and as a
board member of large corporates including Tesco
plc, and the Public Sector including the BBC. He
has worked in IT, Media, Retail, Investment and
the Public Sector dealing regularly with the
Chairmen and CEOs of multinationals, and with UK
cabinet Ministers.
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Graeme Proudfoot
Graeme Proudfoot is Head of
the London Office of Invesco, a fund management
group which manages some $600 billion worldwide.
A lawyer by background, after a period in
private practice he joined Invesco in 1992,
serving in a number of law-related roles within
the group, including as Company Secretary of
Invesco PLC (then a FTSE 100 company) and as
General Counsel responsible for the UK and
Europe, Asia and South America.
In 1999 he moved over onto the business
side of the group as Head of Specialist Funds,
subsequently becoming head of the company's
London office.
Aside from financial services, he has
particular expertise in risk and governance
issues, having served as a director of companies
listed in the UK, Ireland and the US.
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Philippa Stokes
Philippa Stokes is an
experienced Human Resources professional,
practised across all HR disciplines, and with
particular expertise in employee relations and
change management. In her early career she
specialised in internal communications and
training and development; latterly she has
worked in senior generalist HR roles.
Philippa has worked with a number of large
household name organisations, in both the public
and private sectors, including Royal Mail and
Centrica. Most recently she spent nine
years with British Airways, where alongside some
intensive industrial relations work with trade
unions, she developed a special
interest in talent management and executive
coaching.
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David Bickerton
David Bickerton is Director of
Communications at BP plc and has responsibility
for internal and external communications
including its corporate reporting programme,
BP's reputation measurement, its extensive
online presence and communications to over
90,000 employees globally. He joined BP from
Interbrand, one of the World's leading brand
consultancies and has over 25 years experience
in the field of brand, advertising and corporate
communications working with many of the World's
largest brands. David holds a PhD in Corporate
Branding and Reputation.
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Neil McArthur
Neil holds an engineering
degree from the University of Essex and has
worked on telecommunications networks for the
last 14 years.
Neil is a founder of Opal Telecom which
was acquired by The Carphone Warehouse Group in
2002 and became its UK Fixed Line division, now
called the TalkTalk Group. After seven years as
Managing Director of the technology division,
Neil became its Chairman in 2009. TalkTalk
Technology operates and develops the Group's
Next Generation Network (NGN) and services. The
NGN is an internet protocol (IP) based converged
network that supplies voice and broadband
services to over 4 million residential customers
and 200,000 businesses – and is the largest in
the UK. He is currently advising the Group on
innovation and new technologies as well as
business opportunities, and is working with
Ofcom as a member of the Next Generation Network
executive.
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