Formerly at Lancaster University
Since selling my second business in 2010 I have had an involvement at LUMS including:
I see my role as providing help and support to any aspect of the programmes at LUMS, where my entrepreneurial experience and business qualifications can be usefully employed.
A serial entrepreneur with almost forty years’ experience since graduating from Lancaster with an MA in Business Analysis in 1975.
An early career was in management services with both Campbell’s Soups and London Transport. Work involved production process efficiencies and railway maintenance systems improvements, respectively.
Post Lancaster, during the dissertation phase of the MA, a houseplant and flower import and distribution business was founded. Over twenty years this grew to embrace the wholesale retail and service aspects of the ornamental horticultural sector across nine separate sites in England and Scotland
From the mid-1990s a second start up became a world leader in the highly specialised movement, by sea, of luxury yachts. The client base included major charter companies, as well as many high profile individuals from industry, commerce and the professions.
Both businesses had a substantial overseas dimension.
Each start-up was effected with negligible capital, and involved exposure to the gamut of SME experiences throughout the business lifecycle, via a failure in the first case and a successful disposal in the second.
Also a qualified offshore sailor with over 80,000 nautical miles of experience as skipper, on vessels up to 120 feet, including five transatlantics
Shackleton workshop on Leadership, Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Edward de Bono Thinking Hats workshop
Lecturing on the MSc in Entrepreneurship Innovation and Practice
Tutor on the new venture planning module ENSI309
Tutor on the MSc in Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Practice
Tutor on the MBA
Facilitator on the GOLD non-executive director programme for SMEs
Mentor on the ERDF funded Enterprise Champions initiative
