Contributors from the EIIL Industrial Advisory Board

Patrick Thomas - Chairman EIIL Industrial Advisory Board.
CEO and Chairman of the Board of Management, Bayer MaterialScience.
Patrick Thomas kindly contributes to several workshops in both the Leading Profitable Growth and Leading in the Multi-Cultural Environment modules.

Dr Martin Casey, Vice President, Corporate Strategy, Huntsman Chemical.
Dr Casey regularly contributes on several workshops in our Leading Profitable Growth module.

Geoff Bertenshaw is President of Anteryon International, a former Philips Group business specialising in high tech. optical devices, and Non-Executive Chairman of Crossline International b.v. a supplier of precision castings to the automotive components sector. Geoff is formerly CEO of Philips Hard Disc Drive Motors; Philips Optics and Philips Aerospace. He is a contributor to the LPG programme, having recently shared his experience of leading the MBO of Anteryon International on our LPG 2 Business Planning workshop.

Neil Rafferty, Former Global Operations Director of Cisco Systems, and CEO of Easynet. Neil is currently CEO of Portent Business Services, a management consulting company focusing on providing strategic advice and support through securing “growth” investment for small to medium size technology companies (£2m - £10m investment levels). Neil has contributed on LPG 8 Resourcing the Growing Company
 

Guest Contributors from amongst our Corporate and Individual Members

Anthony Byatt, Director of Research ABB Ireland.
LPG 7 Innovating for Growth.

Dr Norbert Finke Corporate Innovation Management, Evonik.
LPG 7 Innovating for Growth
Dr Finke received his PhD in inorganic chemistry from RWTH Aachen. He joined Degussa in 1985. After several positions in R&D and Production he headed the global R&D of a Degussa Business Unit. Since 2004 he is in Corporate Innovation Management responsible for R&D Communication, R&D Reporting and Internal R&D Network.

Andrew Love Director Global Packaging, GlaxoSmithKline.
LPG 5 Partnering for Growth  and MCE 3 Europeans and other Cultures, Preparing for Partnerships

David Gilmour, Commercial Directorate, Northern Ireland Water
MCE 3 Europeans and other Cultures, Preparing for Partnerships, LPG 9 Company Turnarounds and MCE 6 Making Multi Cultural Mergers Work

Paul Douglas Engineering Director Terex Equipment
LPG 7 Innovating for Growth 
Paul's division is a manufacturer of heavy trucks used in the mining industry. 

Ivan Trangez, Director ING Activator Fund, Head of Private Equity ING Western Europe. Former Western Europe Head of Private Equity for ING bank. He is currently Director of the ING Activator Fund, a public/private fund managed in conjunction with the Flemish government in order to help start up companies in the region.
Ivan contributes regularly throughout our Leading Profitable Growth module.

Simon Craig Gray, Deputy Director EU-Japan Centre for Industrial Cooperation
MCE 3 Europeans and other Cultures, Preparing for Partnerships

Paul Bennington, Research Manager, Toyota Motors Europe.
LPG 7 Innovating for Growth, MCE 6 Making Multi Cultural Mergers Work
 
Babette Petterson, Vice President of New Business Development for the Performance Development Business of DSM.
Babette has contributed on LPG 2 Business Planning

Andreas Amling, Industrial Operations-Basic Chemicals, Bayer MaterialScience AG,
MCE 6 Making Multi Cultural Mergers Work

Piet Robbrecht, Power Academy, Fabricom GTI
MCE 6 Making Multi Cultural Mergers Work

Contributors from our Consultant Faculty of Workshop Coaches

For further details of our Consultant Faculty please see our Consultants Directory

Judy Hobrough, BIOSS

John Doerr, McCourts

Richard Northcote, Jiggsaw Communications

Chris Jeffs, CCA Bentham Ltd

Ties van der Laan, Ties Corporate Finance

Paul Galante, Concerto Europe

Steve Price, PCCL

Mark Jenkins, Commercial Catalyst

Jasper Kroon, BP@L

Ian Butcher, Kline Europe

Jonathan Murray

Debbie Rogerson, Market Focus Consulting

Mark Davies, MDA Consulting