Seminars for Success: Developing a Business - Speaker Profiles

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John Bailey, Pro-Vice Chancellor at Aston University
 
John is Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Business Partnerships & Knowledge Transfer at Aston University, managing the commercial arm: the Business Partnership Unit. He is responsible for a team of 12 who cater for the needs of both internal and external clients.

John has been in senior management positions at Aston for a number of years having previously worked in industrial marketing for one of the major oil companies.

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Melanie Smart, MD & Founder of Adurasys 

Specialising in B2BSolution Selling, Corporate Credibility and Engineering/ Manufacturing Systems. Originally trained as mechanical/production engineer, moving into IT as manufacturing software consultant before joining board of various SMEs, where she transformed company fortunes consistently winning business against multi-national competition. Her blend of engineering, technical and commercial skills enables her to communicate both technical and commercial arguments. Melanie is currently director of Adurasys.
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Stephen Shepherd, Solicitor (Martineau Johnson)

Stephen is a Solicitor in the Corporate Department at Martineau Johnson specialising in company matters including private equity investments, joint ventures and mergers and acquisitions.  Stephen regularly acts for companies and investors: recent transactions include acting for a national PR company on its admission to AIM and a US based acquirer in the £5.5m acquisition of a UK IT solutions company.



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Mike Ames, Chairman of Crimson Group

Michael is the Chairman and co-founder of the Crimson Group of companies. During the 1990’s he successfully built up a £40m group of IT and recruitment businesses before selling them on to a NYSE listed corporation in 1998.

Michael now devotes most of his energies towards sharing his entrepreneurial knowledge and experience with the corporate world through the Flair Business Coaching Practice.

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Keith Benwell, Director of Cambridge Complementary Healthcare

Keith has vast practical experience as a business owner who has built a large and growing business together with being a training instructor for18 years, Keith is also a Mentor for the University of Cambridge Entrepreneurship Centre, and an NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) Master Practitioner.  A favourite on the local and national guest speaker circuit talking about building a successful business, leadership, motivation, culture and the true value of developing teams.

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