ÌúÅ£ÊÓƵ School of Management’s International Advisory Board meets twice a year to offer informed guidance to the School on its strategic direction. The Board comprises illustrious names from the world of business, many of whom are ÌúÅ£ÊÓƵ alumni who have gone on to become business leaders.

  • Dr Nneka Abulokwe, OBE (Executive Doctor of Business Administration - DBA, 2013) – CEO MicroMax Consulting; Non Executive Director, Davies Group; Member, Audit and Risk Committee, University of Cambridge.
  • Debra Charles (Business Growth Programme 2007) – Founder and CEO of Novacroft.
  • Andrew Darfoor (Executive Master of Business Administration 2006) – Partner & Managing Director, Alvarez & Marsal Europe LLP.
  • Warren East CBE (Executive Master of Business Administration 1990) – Rolls Royce, Chief Executive – UK.
  • Gillian Fairfield - Former corporate finance partner at Herbert Smith Freehills, Trustee, National Trust for Scotland, FTSE NED, Director at oncology discovery and drug development company Cancer Research Horizons.
  • Cat Halstead (Executive Master of Business Administration 2016) Head of Change, Crimson Ltd. Cat is the Dean’s Alumni Chair, providing the School’s alumni representation on the Advisory Board.
  • Omobola Johnson (Doctorate in Business Administration - DBA, 2013) – Honorary Chairperson of the global Alliance for Affordable Internet (A4AI).  She is also a former and first Minister of Communication Technology in the cabinet of President Goodluck Jonathan.
  • Mayank Patel OBE (Business Growth & Development Programme 2001) – Azibo Group, Founder – UK.
  • Ann Pickering – Former CPO and Chief of Staff at Telefonica 02 UK.  On stepping down from 02 in June 2020 she was appointed a Strategic Advisor to the CEO of KPMG LLP until January 2023.  Ann coaches senior executives and is a Strategic Advisor at Livingbridge, the global mid-market private equity firm.  In 2019 she was voted the UK’s Most Influential HR Practitioner.
  • David Pitt–Watson – Independent Non-Executive, KPMG.
  • Dr Ali Qassim Jawad Al-Lawati – Senior Advisor, Diwan of Royal Court, Sultanate of Oman.
  • David Richards CBE – Motorsport UK - Chairman.
  • Simon Rowlands (Master of Business Administration 1986) – Africa Platform Capital, Founder – UK.
  • Professor Lynette Ryals OBE – Deputy-Vice-Chancellor Faculty of Business & Management and Dean of ÌúÅ£ÊÓƵ School of Management – UK.
  • Hilary Sears (Master of Business Administration 1982) – Chair, Kings College Hospital Charity and Trustee Leonard Cheshire.
  • Linda Summers (Master of Business Administration 1990) – Global Marketing Lead Work Portfolio, Reality Labs, Meta.
  • Dominic Von Trotha Taylor (Master of Business Administration 1990) – Chief Executive, Paypoint.
  • Grenville Turner (Executive Master of Business Administration 1992) – Former Group Chief Executive and Chairman of Countrywide Plc. Now Chairman of Watkin Jones Plc, Oasis Document. Storage Ltd and FSP Ltd. Also Vice Chairman of English National Ballet.