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This list showcases the top United Kingdom based Director operating in the Training space. If you think a Director is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.co.uk.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Companies House UK, Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Vanessa Eke
Managing Director EMEA of Lingo Systems
Vanessa joined LanguageLine Solutions as Managing Director and Vice President for UK and Europe in 2006. Following her Honours degree in English Literature, she embarked upon her professional career, first training with Peat Marwick in London (now KPMG) and then moving to VNU Business Publications where she enjoyed a successful career spanning sales, marketing and operational management roles. This broad base of experience led to her role of Commercial Director for Financial Times Business where she gained further international and dot com experience. Building upon this base, she was invited to become Commercial Director and, subsequently, Managing Director for Nielsen Media Research UK and AdEx International. Vanessa is a regular speaker at conferences and seminars spanning both the public and commercial sectors.
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About Lingo Systems: Language Line is a translation services provider to the public and private sectors.
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William H. Janeway
Director of O’Reilly
William H. Janeway is a board member of Magnet Systems, Inc. Currently, Mr. Janeway is a senior advisor at Warburg Pincus. Mr. Janeway received his doctorate in Economics from Cambridge University, where he was a Marshall Scholar. He was valedictorian of the class of 1965 at Princeton University. Prior to joining Warburg Pincus in 1988, where he was responsible for building the information technology practice, he was executive vice president and director at Eberstadt Fleming. Mr. Janeway is a director of Fortent Corp., NYFIX Inc., O’Reilly Media, Nuance Communications, and Wall Street Systems, and a member of the board of managers of Roubini Global Economics. He is also chairman of the board of trustees of Cambridge in America, University of Cambridge, co-chair of Cambridge’s 800th Anniversary Capital Campaign, and a founder member of the board of managers of the Cambridge Endowment for Research in Finance (CERF). Mr. Janeway is a member of the board of directors of the Social Science Research Council.
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About Cambridge Endowment for Research in Finance, Cambridge in America, Fortent, Nuance Communications, Roubini Global Economics, LLC, Social Science Research Council, Wall Street Systems: O’Reilly provides technology and business training, knowledge, and insight to help companies succeed.
Richard Oppenheimer
Founder, owner & Managing Director of Appraisal360
Richard is the founder and owner of Appraisal360. It was during his career as a Chartered Engineer in the telecommunications industry that he had his first experience of 360 degree feedback and was an instant convert. He decided to bring together his experience of designing and operating online information systems with his interest in leadership and personal development. And so Appraisal360 was born in February 2006. Richard strives to make the world a better place – and with Appraisal360 he hopes to make people’s working lives that little bit more fulfilling and rewarding. He believes passionately that tools are there to do a job, and not the other way around, so simplicity, clarity, flexibility and robustness have been built in from day one.
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About Appraisal360: Appraisal360 is a leading provider of online 360 feedback tools, off the shelf, bespoke or branded. Training and support too.
Lynda Holt
Director of Appraisal360
Lynda co-ordinates Appraisal360 Practitioner activity, managing corporate projects and supporting clients requiring services beyond our online 360° feedback tool. Services to clients include overall project leadership, management of training and development and feedback facilitation for client organisations and private client coaching. Lynda is responsible for the training and development of our Practitioner Network, areas include project management, 360° feedback facilitation and identifying organisational learning. Lynda is an expert in supporting coaches & trainers to develop their business using 360 feedback and following the success of her latest book ‘Get Out Of Your Own Way’ offers a range of development programmes and mastermind groups to ensure the best coaches & facilitators are working with Appraisal360. Lynda has a professional background in the NHS before chasing her more entrepreneurial dreams of owning her own development business. In 2001 she set up a consultancy company working in the healthcare sector initially with the NHS and then with public & private healthcare organisations as far away as New Zealand. In 2007 she launched Health Service 360 on the Appraisal360 Platform and has subsequently supported industry specialist to create other specific 360° feedback products such as Lawyer360
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About Appraisal360: Appraisal360 is a leading provider of online 360 feedback tools, off the shelf, bespoke or branded. Training and support too.
Simon Lavers
Director of Founder Institute
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About Axigan Limited, Founder Institute: Founder Institute is a pre-seed startup accelerator, with chapters in 180+ cities and a portfolio with $20B+ in value.
Matthew C Martino
Founder & Managing Director of Lets Fly Academy
Matthew Martino (Full Name) – Matthew Mathetes Chihwai Martino born 27 October 1992 is a British Entrepreneur, Film Producer and Author. Educated at Shenfield High School in Brentwood , Martino has always held a passion for writing – He has always focused on educational writing and research. His first book Lets Fly which was published by DM Aviation was well received by pilots and aviation enthusiasts around the world. During his early years Martino showed all the qualities required to maintain proven success.
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About Lets Fly Academy: An online resource academy which was built to provide information and resources to aspiring pilots and aviations enthusiast.
Victoria Rusnac
Marketing Director of Nexford University
Victoria Rusnac is Marketing Director at Nexford University. She is a marketing expert with proven expertise in corporate and start-up growth marketing strategies, including branding, performance and product marketing.
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About Nexford University: A next generation online university providing students with access to quality, affordable, dynamic education.
Chris Whitley
Channel Sales Director – Europe & U.K. of IRONSCALES
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About IRONSCALES: IRONSCALES is the fastest growing email security solution in the world. Powerfully simple email security.
Jon Wardle
Director of National Film and Television School
Prior to joining the NFTS in early 2012, Jon was Director of the Centre for Excellence in Media Practice, the only HEFCE Centre for Excellence for teaching and learning in the media area in the UK. In his role at Bournemouth University Jon was responsible for Bournemouth’s continuing professional development activity at masters level establishing postgraduate partnerships with the BBC, Guardian and Sony Computers Entertainment Europe. Jon also wrote the Creative Skillset ‘Build Your Own MA’ framework. Jon was NFTS Deputy Director & Director of Curriculum & Registrar from 2012 -2017. He was responsible for all educational matters at the NFTS including curriculum development, quality assurance, education enhancement and registry. Jon was appointed Director of the School in August 2017. Since joining the NFTS Jon has developed a number of new courses working in partnership with organisations including Sky, Channel 4, Discovery Networks International, the BBC and Aardman. Jon leads the annual BFI Film Academy, a ‘talent campus’ for 66 of the most talented 16-19 year old filmmakers in the UK. Jon is the author of a number of papers and book chapters on media education as well as co-editor of the book ‘Current Perspectives in Media Education’. Jon is on the editorial board of the Media Education Research Journal, is an executive officer of the Media Education Association and Nahemi, is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and the National Association of Television Production Executives (NATPE), an associate member of BAFTA and an advisor on education to the Royal Television Society. He has a BA (Hons) in Television Production from Bournemouth University, an MBA from the University of Southampton and a Doctorate of Education from the University of Bristol.
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About National Film and Television School: Educating the best creative talent to the highest professional standard for tomorrow’s screen industries.
Trevor Hall
Finance Director of National Film and Television School
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About National Film and Television School: Educating the best creative talent to the highest professional standard for tomorrow’s screen industries.
Stuart Martin
Managing Director of QA Ltd
Stuart has been with QA since 2000, having previously worked in the training and online education space for IBM and then Ten-TV. Stuart joined QA in the role of Account Manager and went on to become Sales Director of the Learning division in 2005 – where he led the sales organisation through the successful mergers with Interquad, Xpertise and Remarc. Stuart has been at the helm of the Learning division for the last 10 years, responsible for the strategy and development of the sales, marketing and delivery functions to enhance relationships with customers and partners. 2018 saw Stuart step across to lead QA Consulting, focusing on enablement programmes that help customers become self-sufficient in the development and support of their technologies.
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About QA Ltd: QA is the UK’s leading training company, providing the complete range of training, talent development and learning services.
Kris Bachoo
Learning Programme Director of QA Ltd
Having joined QA in January 2015, Kris drives forward individual learning and organisational development with passion, pace and integrity. With over 20 years of experience, holding executive organisational development positions and blue chip consultancy, Kris believes the key to shaping and growing organisations, has its heart in leadership development. Her global experience includes the US, Middle and Far East, Europe and South Africa, and her work has been underpinned by continuous professional development in a range of areas, including doctoral research into leadership career pathways.
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About QA Ltd: QA is the UK’s leading training company, providing the complete range of training, talent development and learning services.
Karen Orr
Director of People & Engagement of QA Ltd
Karen joined QA as Director of People and Engagement in 2016, bringing almost 20 years’ experience leading HR teams across a range of retail, services and technology organisations. She holds an MSc in Management Development and Organisational Change from Bristol University and is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development. Karen is responsible for HR strategy and operations across the group and serves as a member of the executive committee. She leads all employee engagement and development activities in addition to compensation, benefits and HR technology for the group.
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About QA Ltd: QA is the UK’s leading training company, providing the complete range of training, talent development and learning services.
Ben Pike
Managing Director of QA Ltd
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About QA Ltd: QA is the UK’s leading training company, providing the complete range of training, talent development and learning services.
Julie Noone
Managing Director – QA Higher Education of QA Ltd
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About QA Ltd: QA is the UK’s leading training company, providing the complete range of training, talent development and learning services.
Mike Brown
IT Director of QA Ltd
Mike has been with QA since 2008 as IT Director, following the merger with Xpertise. He is responsible for building and directing the company’s technology strategy, including the provision of technology to support all forms of learning plus leading teams in application development, IT infrastructure and platform provision. Mike has been involved in the IT training industry for over 15 years during which time he has worked in a number of operational and IT roles.
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About QA Ltd: QA is the UK’s leading training company, providing the complete range of training, talent development and learning services.
Jennie Marshall
Learning Programme Director of QA Ltd
Jennie Marshall is an award winning learning professional (Winner of the 2016 Learning Performance Institute, Learning Professional of the Year Bronze Award), who joined QA in 2010 as a Learning Consultant in the Leadership, Management and Business Skills team. She has gone on to progress through various positions to her current role of Learning Programme Director where she now designs, develops and manages the delivery of end to end learning programmes. She is an experienced and dedicated learning professional, with expertise including management, leadership and talent, and training and facilitation developed within a variety of environments. Jennie has a proven track record of delivering blended, multi modal learning programmes using Learning Management System platforms and in a more traditional face to face setting, is at home with small and large audiences. She is a proven developer of people and is accredited in the use of a variety of tools including Strength Deployment Inventory®, Emergenetics®, Hogan®, Prism® and Worldsview™ as well as being an NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) Master Practitioner and Kirkpatrick Certified Professional (Bronze).
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About QA Ltd: QA is the UK’s leading training company, providing the complete range of training, talent development and learning services.
Aidan Matthews
Learning Programme Director of QA Ltd
Aidan has over 25 years’ experience working in Leadership, Management and Personal Development, both nationally and internationally. He specialises and advises on profiling and psychometric tools such as Hogan, PRISM, SDI and Belbin. He is also a qualified coach and accredited Emotional Intelligence facilitator using Daniel Goleman’s ESCI framework. Aidan is a member of the EBBF, an organisation focused on implementing ethics in organisations.
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About QA Ltd: QA is the UK’s leading training company, providing the complete range of training, talent development and learning services.
Greg Young
Operations Director of Team Satchel
Greg is the Operations director at Show My Homework, the UK’s leading SaaS tool for Schools. Greg has previous experience in various roles including venture capital, business analytics, product operations, product marketing, social community management and financial operations at leading Internet brands Yahoo!, Microsoft and UK based Seed VC Passion Capital.
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About Show My Homework, Team Satchel: Team Satchel develops a range of school software focusing on homework, behavior, classroom management, and teaching resources.
Chris Phillips
Director of Marketing of Team Satchel
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About Team Satchel: Team Satchel develops a range of school software focusing on homework, behavior, classroom management, and teaching resources.
James Elias
Managing Director of AVADO
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About AVADO: AVADO delivers transformative learning that helps businesses gain critical digital skills.
Amy Crawford
Managing Director, AVADO Professional of AVADO
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About AVADO: AVADO delivers transformative learning that helps businesses gain critical digital skills.
Amy Crawford
Managing Director, AVADO Professional of AVADO
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About AVADO: AVADO delivers transformative learning that helps businesses gain critical digital skills.
Francesco Cesarini
Founder & Technical Director of Erlang Solutions
Francesco Cesarini is the founder and technical director of Erlang Solutions Ltd. He has used Erlang on a daily basis since 1995, starting as an intern at Ericsson’s computer science laboratory, the birthplace of Erlang.He moved on to Ericsson’s Erlang training and consulting arm working on the first release of the OTP middleware, applying it to turnkey solutions and flagship telecom applications. In 1999, soon after Erlang was released as open source, he founded Erlang Solutions. With offices in five countries, they have become the world leaders in Erlang based support, consulting, training, certification, systems development and conferences. Francesco has worked in major Erlang based projects both within and outside Ericsson, and as Technical Director, has led the development and consulting teams at Erlang Solutions. He is also the co-author of Erlang Programming,a book published by O’Reilly and is currently co-authoring Designing For Scalability With Erlang/OTP. He lectures the graduate students at Oxford University.
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About Erlang Solutions: We develop and build trusted, fault-tolerant systems that can scale to billions of users. Our strength is the Erlang & Elixir expertise.
Julian Gough
Co-Founder and Director of Genetrainer
Julian is a biotech entrepreneur and world expert in bioinformatics. He graduated his PhD in molecular biology from the University of Cambridge and was a research fellow at Stanford University. He is now a Programme Leader at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge and Professor of Bioinformatics at the University of Bristol. He has successfully started a number of biotech companies.
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About Genetrainer, Mogrify: Genetrainer is a website that provides a personalized fitness plan for users based on their genes.
Rory Curnock Cook
Director of The Profs
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About The Profs: The Profs facilitate school, university and professional level private tuition, educational consultancy and academic mentorship.
Leo Evans
Director of The Profs
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About The Profs: The Profs facilitate school, university and professional level private tuition, educational consultancy and academic mentorship.
Richard Evans
Director of The Profs
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About The Profs: The Profs facilitate school, university and professional level private tuition, educational consultancy and academic mentorship.
Richard Evans
Director of The Profs
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About The Profs: The Profs facilitate school, university and professional level private tuition, educational consultancy and academic mentorship.
Morgan Page
Co-founder & Technical Director of Dual Good Health
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About Dual Good Health: Using virtual reality to train more people how to save lives
Sana Farooq
Director of ELN The e-Learning Network
Sana Farooq is the founder and CEO of ELN The e-Learning Network and we absolutely love her dedication and energy towards the education of children in Pakistan – a very dynamic project! She supports elevate and wants girls to have the same opportunities as men.
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About ELN The e-Learning Network: ELN is a digital learning platform that offers accredited, affordable, and interactive online learning services.
Dave Connolly
Director of Frontline Energy & Environmental
Dave Connolly is Director at Frontline Energy & Environmental. He was the director at HOCHTIEF facility management Ireland before, former director at Richmond Group and was the audit manager of KPMG Ireland .
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About Frontline Energy & Environmental: Frontline Energy & Environmental provides energy and facilities solutions and services for sustainable buildings
Edward Weir
Director of Swale Academies Trust
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About Swale Academies Trust: Swale Academies Trust provides professional development assistance to primary and secondary schools.
David Loseby
Managing Director of Barkers
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About Barkers: Barkers offers a wide range of procurement services tailored to the needs of its clients.
Martin Maya
Director of Amatis Training
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About : Amatis Training provides BCS-accredited business analysis training, consulting, mentorship, and support.
Gordon Hurst
Group Finance Director of Capita
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About Capita: Capita plc provides customer and business process management, and professional support service solutions primarily in the United Kingdom.
Paddy Doyle
Director of Capita
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About Capita: Capita plc provides customer and business process management, and professional support service solutions primarily in the United Kingdom.
Rakesh Bhasin
Investment Director of yourfeed
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About yourfeed: yourfeed is an online platform that connects people to relevant opportunities via their real life skills!
Damien Ducourty
Founder & Managing Director of B9lab
#B9lab is the independent provider of quality education, advice and research about blockchain technology and decentralised applications. Our clients are leading global institutions as well as talented individual developers around the world. I’m an experienced entrepreneur and executive with a track record of bringing disruptive software solutions to market in technology and finance. I like working with groups of talented people to provide tangible and valuable solutions. I always engage ethically and believe that sustainability and accountability can fuel growth. I want to be proud of what I do everyday! Attributes: Hands on, conscientious, strategic, persistent but not stubborn, creative, curious and highly personable, love Win Win, try hard everyday to change the world and resist my biases.
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About B9lab: Upskilling gifted developers for high paying, bleeding-edge jobs whatever their background
Mark Maclaine
Co-Founder & Director of Education of Tutorfair
A tutor for 16 years, and awesome at it. Students are inspired by his energy and enthusiasm. He instils a love of learning which goes far beyond the Maths & Science he teaches. We love Mark … and all his stories. He’s responsible for making sure this works for tutors and is ruthless about vetting tutors to ensure we’ve got the best. Mark is equally passionate about our social mission and ensuring that it really makes a difference.
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About Tutorfair: Tutorfair is a marketplace for tutors that makes great tutors available to all
Pete Kirby
Director of Tutorfair Foundation of Tutorfair
Pete has been tutoring Maths & Science for 7 years and especially enjoys teaching geometry and genetics. He heads up the Tutorfair Foundation which delivers life-changing tutoring to pupils who can’t afford it. And in his earlier years, Pete was a national champion fencer (the swords, not the gardening).
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About Tutorfair: Tutorfair is a marketplace for tutors that makes great tutors available to all
Chris Gibson
Executive Director of FIRST
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About FIRST: FIRST aims to inspire young people to be science and technology leaders.
Sophia Flucker
Director of Operational Intelligence Ltd
Sophia has worked as an engineering consultant on a variety of projects in several countries, delivering data centre design, commissioning and risk and energy assessments. She has worked alongside operations teams to help clients to manage their critical environments. Her experience includes developing low energy data centre cooling solutions, creating analytical and reporting tools, leading teams and business development. Sophia won the prize for Young Mission Critical Engineer of the Year at the Datacentre Awards 2007. She has been an active participant of various industry groups on data centre energy efficiency and has published and presented work in this area.
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About Operational Intelligence Ltd: OI offer consultancy services and training in risk and energy assessments to help clients improve critical facility performance.
David Cameron
Director of Operational Intelligence Ltd
David has 30 years’ experience in the design, installation and commissioning of large scale engineering systems. Prior to joining Operational Intelligence as a Director in 2011, he spent the previous 15 years in a senior management role within a multidisciplinary, international consultancy. His specialism is high availability engineering systems and has an extensive track record in delivering complex engineering systems on time and on budget. He has extensive experience of operational risk analysis having undertaken many studies utilizing Failure Mode Effect and Criticality Analysis (FMECA), Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) and Risk Based Maintenance. He has provided independent advice to clients on energy efficiency of data centres and has been used as an independent specialist on a number of significant failure events. As a project manager he has an extensive track record in delivering projects within a team environment and has the ability to present complex issues in a non-technical way.
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About Operational Intelligence Ltd: OI offer consultancy services and training in risk and energy assessments to help clients improve critical facility performance.
Robert Tozer
Managing Director of Operational Intelligence Ltd
Robert’s wide and extended experience in the Mission Critical Facilities industry working on design, reliability, energy efficiency and commissioning together with his academic achievements have provided him with the theoretical and practical tools to develop innovative solutions. These include free cooling designs, commissioning strategies, air management metrics and data centre energy assessment tools. He is author of over 40 papers on reliability and energy efficiency and refrigeration, has authored several patents on data centre free cooling designs, has written many white papers (in English and Spanish) and speaks regularly at Data Centre Dynamics conferences. He was recently awarded the prize for Outstanding Contribution to Industry at the inaugural DCD LATAM awards. He is a Visiting Fellow at South Bank University and has participated in many technical committees (ASHRAE, CIBSE, BREEAM, The Green Grid, and European Code of Conduct).
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About Operational Intelligence Ltd: OI offer consultancy services and training in risk and energy assessments to help clients improve critical facility performance.
Becky Sage
Director of Acceleration of EDUCATE Ventures Research
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About EDUCATE Ventures Research: Educate serves as a catalyst for the development of EdTech products and services that are supported by facts.
Graham Potts
Director (Technology) of OTT – Online Travel Training
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About OTT – Online Travel Training, Talenetic: Online Travel Training provides innovative, unique, multilingual, and interactive online training to the travel trade globally.
Alastair Barrow
Co-Founder & Director of Generic Robotics
Alastair Barrow has over 10 years’ experience in the fields of haptics, robotics and simulation. Between 2004-2010 he worked as a research associate on simulation projects at the Universities of Reading and King’s College London alongside obtaining a PhD in Cybernetics from the University of Reading. During this time, he developed the technology behind the hapTEL project, a virtual learning platform that used haptics to train clinical skills in dentistry. This became the forerunner to one of Generic Robotics’ key products, SimuTouch. In 2011, Ally joined Dr Fernando Bello’s simulation group at Imperial College London, where he collaborated on a number of clinical training simulators and was awarded a research fellowship to explore the use of advanced haptic technologies. He joined Generic Robotics in 2013 as one of two directors and helped secure funding to propel the development of a range of training solutions combining VR and haptics. Alongside managing the multiple roles involved in running a start-up, Ally acts as Applications Lead within GR where he is responsible for the delivery of the SimuTouch clinical workstation and core software technology.
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About Generic Robotics, Imperial College London, University College London (UCL): SimuTouch is the first general purpose clinical skills training platform.
Ben Dykes
Director of Make Real Ltd
As one of the founding partners, Ben has spent over 10 years overseeing the big picture and plans for our client partners. With a strong commercial head and a technical background, Ben brings the strategic thinking required throughout the life of a successful project. Following an Industrial Design BA from the University of Teesside, Ben started his career in the world of Military Flight Simulation as an engineer at Evans and Sutherland, one of the most pioneering computer graphics companies founded in the 1960’s. Working on a wide range of industry-leading image generator and display system technology, this experience would prove invaluable as Make Real grew as a specialist VR & Immersive business.
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About Make Real Ltd: Make Real make state-of-the-art immersive learning experiences for use at work, at home and on the move.
Robin Scott
Director of Make Real Ltd
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About Make Real Ltd: Make Real make state-of-the-art immersive learning experiences for use at work, at home and on the move.
Francesca Vinti
Director of Development of British Film Institute
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About British Film Institute: British Film Institute is a charity governed by a Royal Charter combining cultural, creative, and industrial roles.
David Parkhill
Director of Finance and Resources of British Film Institute
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About British Film Institute: British Film Institute is a charity governed by a Royal Charter combining cultural, creative, and industrial roles.
Edward Humphrey
Director of Digital & Ventures of British Film Institute
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About British Film Institute: British Film Institute is a charity governed by a Royal Charter combining cultural, creative, and industrial roles.
Peter Russell-Smith
Communication Director of Talk Big Communication Skills Training
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About Talk Big Communication Skills Training: Talk Big Communication Skills Training institute engaged in teaching courses like delivery of engaging webinars, great sales pitches.
Debbie Barrow
Managing Director of Virada Training
Debbie Barrow is the Managing Director of Virada Training, a triple award-winning training company. A key speciality is providing innovative training aimed at the challenges of selling today, providing a service and developing the trust of today’s demanding customers. Before founding Virada Training, Debbie won awards for customer satisfaction when she faced thousands of dissatisfied, angry and delayed passengers during 60 to 90 hour work weeks at overseas airports. She was also for many years, a top sales and service performer, via the phone (outbound and inbound), in-stores and in the field. She continues to research topics including developing credibility and trust of demanding customers today and; the attributes and mindsets of top sales and service performers. This enables delegates to benefit from 25 years of knowledge about creating specific mindsets and developing credibility and confidence using body language, six aspects of voice, ‘conscious’ selling and ‘words that work’.
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About Virada Training: Virada is a triple award-winning training provider, designing and delivering innovative courses in sales, customer service.
Sean Grant
Sales Director of Premier Global
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About Premier Global: Premier Global provides digital and virtual fitness education, personal trainer options, nutrition courses and training services.
Tim Wild
Executive Director of The Cyber Training Centre
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About The Cyber Training Centre: The Cyber Training Centre is a complete employee learning management platform and solution for business.
Tanya Filer
Founder and Director of StateUp
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About StateUp, University of Cambridge: StateUp is building the knowledge and ideas infrastructure for public-purpose technology.
Michaela Reaney
founder and Managing Director of Gradvert
Michaela is the founder and MD of Gradvert. She drives the company’s strategic direction and commercial focus as well as staying close to many of our clients and universities. Michaela has a decade of experience in global talent management and recruitment with FTSE100 organisations. An authoritative figure in the news on education, employability and and policies effecting young people, she takes great pride in driving a brand and organisation that supports the development of professional skills and behaviours in our future leaders.
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About Gradvert: UK’s leading graduate recruitment and training companies
Nigel Beaumont
Financial Director of Salon Promotions
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About Salon Promotions: Salon Promotions works with hair salons to offer them with high-end products.
Ed Calverley
Technical Director of Q3 Media Training
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About Q3 Media Training: Q3 Media Training provides services to the broadcast and media sector.
Danny Taylor
Business Development Director of Smart Apprentices
Danny Taylor is Business Development Director responsible for new client acquisitions. Danny has been involved in the Work Based Learning arena for over 10 years and is a founding Director of Smart Apprentices. Danny is very much a family man and enjoys spending time with his two daughters as well as playing 5 a side football and watching his favourite team Liverpool FC.
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About Smart Apprentices: Smart Apprentices is an award winning, innovative suite of technologies platforms purposely designed for approved training providers.
Helen Wilkes
Group Client Director of Smart Apprentices
Helen Wilkes is Client Director, spending most of her time with customers to build effective relationships and help customers get the most out of their investment in technology. Helen brings to Smart Apprentices considerable expertise and experience having worked with the Oracle Corporation. Outside of work Helen enjoys working with charities and is currently an ambassador for the Samaritans Purse.
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About Smart Apprentices: Smart Apprentices is an award winning, innovative suite of technologies platforms purposely designed for approved training providers.
Darryl Morton
Co-Founder and Director of One Team Logic
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About One Team Logic: One Team Logic provides high quality software, advisory services and training.
Mike Glanville
Co-Founder and Director of One Team Logic
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About One Team Logic: One Team Logic provides high quality software, advisory services and training.
Christianne Davies
Founding Director of AGL Communications
Christianne has worked in communications for 13 years, initially as a copy-writer and then for a management consultancy specialising in communication, before co-founding AGL in 2010. She works with corporates and private individuals; in one-to-one sessions and in groups; across sectors and around the world. It might be helping with an important speech; a leadership transition; an employee engagement project around a piece of change; a refreshed corporate narrative or simply communication coaching to make sure a person or team are being as impactful as possible. Whatever the situation, she’s most interested in finding the human moment that transforms data transmission into something that makes a connection, that changes minds and behaviour, and that works. Clients include Vodafone, GSK, British Airways, Garda World, Lily’s Kitchen, Tyrrells Crisps, Lloyds Banking Group, JCB, Shell, DMGT, Santander and Jaeger Le Coultre. Christianne is a graduate of Edinburgh and Rome universities.
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About AGL Communications: AGL Communications gives people the words, skills and confidence they need to make the most of these moments.
Edward Farquhar
Director of Grace Personnel
With over 15 years of City experience specialising in SMEs, Ed has invaluable experience in guiding and working with management teams.
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About Grace Personnel: Grace Personnel provide recruitment for permanent and temporary office support personnel throughout Maidenhead.
David Horrex
Client Engagement Director of JDP Procurement Services
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About JDP Procurement Services: JDP offers procurement solutions that are established, progressive, and compelling in both the public and private sectors.
Sir Tony Hawkhead
Director of Youth Futures Foundation
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About Youth Futures Foundation: Youth Futures Foundation transforms the youth by unlocking potential and addressing the root causes of adolescent unemployment.
James Cadle
Director of AssistKD
James Cadle has been involved in the management services field for more than thirty-five years, in roles ranging from organisation and methods, through IT development and most recently in business analysis. He currently presents a range of courses in business analysis, project management and consultancy skills and consults with clients in these fields. He is the co-author of several best-selling books on business analysis and project management and is a chartered member of BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT.
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James Cadle
Director of AssistKD
James Cadle has been involved in the management services field for more than thirty-five years, in roles ranging from organisation and methods, through IT development and most recently in business analysis. He currently presents a range of courses in business analysis, project management and consultancy skills and consults with clients in these fields. He is the co-author of several best-selling books on business analysis and project management and is a chartered member of BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT.
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About AssistKD: AssistKD and they have helped to develop the company and its portfolio of services.
Hannah Gore
Learning Experience Director of The Canonbury Consultancy
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About The Canonbury Consultancy: The Canonbury Consultancy provides consultation services and solutions for personal and business development.
Tim Aston
Founder and Director of emoquo
Tim Aston is Founder & Product Director at emoquo.
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About emoquo: Emoquo is an award winning digital coaching app and real-time people analytics platform for everyone at work.
Jamie Paterson
Managing Director of PTM Group
Jamie heads up the board as Group MD providing strategic leadership and motivation to the group board and the wider team. Jamie is an enthusiastic leader and can be infectious with his positivity and ideas. Jamie is responsible for the growth, strategic direction and corporate relationships on behalf of the business. Jamie is an astute business professional and is very much the corporate face of the group, developing relationships throughout the region in the support of the group’s corporate aims and objectives. Jamie is very passionate about the group’s values and the group’s brand and is the unofficial “head of design and all things visual”, often earning him yawns and sighs from board and staff members alike! A Chartered Surveyor by profession, Jamie has been running PTM Group and its previous incarnations since it was founded in 2010. He is currently studying towards an MBA at Durham University and lives in Longframlington with his wife, two children and a goldfish.
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About PTM Group: PTM Group is a specialist group of training companies who deliver high quality vocational training through government funded apprenticeship.
Julia Porter
Partner and Board Director of Data Protection Network Associates
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About Data Protection Network Associates, Origin Housing: Data Protection Network Associates is a data protection consultancy that provides no-nonsense advice to customers.
Katy Cook
Director of Katy Cook
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About Katy Cook: Katy Cook offers executive coaching, training, education and team development, and organizational consulting.
Jennifer Cramb
Founder and Director, Coach and Consultant of Viveka Coaching & Consulting
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About Viveka Coaching & Consulting: Viveka Coaching & Consulting renders business coaching, team facilitation, development, leadership and management development services.
Graham Cherrett
Managing Director, Sales Specialist & Master Trainer of The Longley Sales Academy | Sales & Leadership Training
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About The Longley Sales Academy | Sales & Leadership Training: The Longley Sales Academy empowers sales leaders & sales professionals to make the right call, at the right time, to excel in their careers.
Graham Cherrett
Managing Director, Sales Specialist & Master Trainer of The Longley Sales Academy | Sales & Leadership Training
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About The Longley Sales Academy | Sales & Leadership Training: The Longley Sales Academy empowers sales leaders & sales professionals to make the right call, at the right time, to excel in their careers.
Phil Blewitt
Managing Director of NETA Training Centre
Phil Blewitt is the managing director at NETA Training Group. Prior to joining NETA Training, Phil served as the senior vice president of business development at Site Group International Limited. Before that, he has held various executive positions at Petrofac Training Services.
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About NETA Training Centre: NETA Training is a vocational training provider that delivers a wide range of commercially and Government funded engineering training.
Phil Blewitt
Managing Director of NETA Training Centre
Phil Blewitt is the managing director at NETA Training Group. Prior to joining NETA Training, Phil served as the senior vice president of business development at Site Group International Limited. Before that, he has held various executive positions at Petrofac Training Services.
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About NETA Training Centre: NETA Training is a vocational training provider that delivers a wide range of commercially and Government funded engineering training.
Faye Thomas
Executive Director of Prevista
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About Prevista: Prevista’s ethos supports learners, young person & delivery partners in achieving maximum potential & ensure that success is sustainable.
Bernie Mayall
Director and Independent Consultant of Mayall Management Ltd
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About Mayall Management Ltd: Mayall Management offer help with quality, audit, strategic and business planning, restructuring, networking and commissioning support.
Nathan Pitman
Managing Director of iHASCO
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About iHASCO: iHASCO provides and integrated Health & Safety, HR and Business compliance training platform for SMBs.
Nathan Pitman
Managing Director of iHASCO
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About iHASCO: iHASCO provides and integrated Health & Safety, HR and Business compliance training platform for SMBs.
Victor Beamish
Nonexecutive Director of TOPYX
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Thomas Rennie
Nonexecutive Director of TOPYX
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Ian Lewis
Co-Founder & Director of PSA Academies
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About PSA Academies: High performance international sports coaching & personal development business.
