University of Bath School of Management

Guest speakers from a wide range of organizations and leading academic institutions regularly participate in the delivery of MBA lectures. Our guests contextualize their experience and provide insight across a wide spectrum of business, management and society. Such insight adds another dimension to the on-going dialogue and debate that support teaching on the Bath MBA.

Recent Guest speakers include:

• Lord Ian MacLaurin, Former Chairman, Tesco
• Richard Turner, Former Group Marketing Director, Rolls Royce Plc
• Peter Hawkins, Chairman Bath Consulting Group
• Jonathan Poole, Partner Thring, Townsend, Lee and Pembertons
• Charlie Mayfield, Chairman, John Lewis Partnership
• Neil Holloway, Vice President of Business Strategy, Microsoft
• John Tucker, Company Director/Entrepreneur and MBA alumnus, Hampton Consulting (Financial Services)
• Malcolm Lewis, BEiR, Strategic Value Partners (SVP)
• Gayna Hart, Managing Director of Quicksilva
• Carl Rigby - IBM (1984-92), CEO/Chairman, Portrait Software.
• Dave Richards BEiR, Non-Executive Director and Mentor to high technology start-ups.
• Margaret Heffernan, Entrepreneur in Residence BEiR
• Ian Nicoll - 35 years with BP in business functions, starting at Corporate level and thereafter in the Oil and Gas Exploration and Production business.
• Stephen Kelly, Micro Focus
• Jeremy Jackson, SVP Marketing, Intralinks
• Sandra Pickering, Marketing Consultant
• Brian Ashton, former Head Coach of the England national rugby union team.
• Colin Evans , Hay Group
• Derek Joseph, McGraw-Hill Companies
• Joy Harcup, Harcup Consulting
• Ron Collard, PricewaterhouseCoopers
• David Petrie, Finance Director, Green Sky Systems Ltd, (Formerly a director at PricewaterhouseCoopers)
• Graham Brant, Beyond Asia Capital

The School of Management’s Advisory Board comprises a number of individuals drawn from a range of backgrounds across both the public and private sectors. Members offer strategic advice on issues such as academic development and planning, graduate attributes, employability issues, fundraising and emerging technologies/business practices. The School’s Advisory Board is an important touch point at the interface between academe and external constituencies.