ALLIANCE MBS - Key Persons
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- Senior Lecturer in Health Management
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- Senior Lecturer in Enterprise & Entrepreneurship
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- Lecturer in Accounting and Finance
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- Senior Lecturer in Marketing
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- Emeritus Professor of Practice in Corporate Financial Reporting
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- Lecturer in Management Science
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- Senior Lecturer in Service Systems & Digital Business
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- Group Personnel Director, Tesco: Global
As Chief People Officer at Tesco, Alison is responsible for the development of 500,000 colleagues in diverse businesses across 12 countries, and for ensuring that Tesco has the capability, culture and capacity to deliver its strategy and growth ambitions.
After studying Chemistry at The University of Manchester, Alison worked in manufacturing before joining Tesco as a Personnel Manager in 1999. She was promoted to Stores Personnel Director in 2000 and then led 'Future', a major change programme which improved the way workload and teams are organised in stores.
During those years, Alison juggled her work commitments alongside studying for an MBA from Manchester Business School - for which she received The Guardian's "Women in Management" scholarship.
From 2003 to early 2011, Alison served in a number of senior operations roles within the UK business. In 2006, she was Tesco's first female Operations Director, and subsequently ran the company's UK Support Office.
In May 2009 she joined Tesco Bank as a Non-Executive Director and in January 2011 she was appointed Group Personnel Director, becoming a member of the Executive Committee in March that year.
Since December 2013 Alison has been a Non-Executive Director for Carillion and was made Chair of its Remuneration Committee in June 2014.
After studying Chemistry at The University of Manchester, Alison worked in manufacturing before joining Tesco as a Personnel Manager in 1999. During 22 years at Tesco, she worked in operations, people management and change. For 10 years she was a member of the executive committee, as Chief People Officer and then Chief Executive of Tesco Asia. Alison led Tesco Asia through turnaround and its successful sale to CP group. She left Tesco in 2021 on completion of the deal.
Alison has an MBA from Alliance Manchester Business School - for which she received The Guardian's "Women in Management" scholarship.
Amin was born in Cairo and lived in Moscow and Kuwait where he studied at the New English School. After graduating as a software engineer from Imperial College, he joined IC-Parc, an industry-funded research centre at Imperial, where he spent the early part of his career applying Artificial Intelligence techniques to business challenges of large corporations.
In 1997 he embarked on his career in emerging markets equity asset management initially in London, at United Bank of Kuwait and HSBC. He moved to Dubai in 2004 to set up and manage asset management divisions at the National Bank of Dubai, Shuaa and Arqaam Capital.
Since 2017, Amin has focussed on FinTech through start-up mentoring and angel investing. He serves as adjunct staff at Alliance Manchester Business School where he teaches Global MBA courses, and is a member of the advisory board of two Universities in the UAE. In 2018 he founded Life Skills Oasis, a company focused on technology-enabled learning.
He holds an MEng. in Software Engineering and a PhD in Artificial Intelligence from Imperial College and an MBA (Finance) from Alliance Manchester Business School.
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- Distinguished Professorial Fellow
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- Professor of Innovation Management & Policy
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- Senior Lecturer ( Healthcare Management )
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- Emeritus Professor of Accounting and Finance
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- Lecturer in Organisational Psychology
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- Professor of Health Leadership
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- Director of Teaching and Learning
- Senior Lecturer in Marketing
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- Professor of Employment Relations
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- Professor in Employment Studies
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- Head of the Division of Management Sciences and Marketing
- Professor of Operations and Supply Chain Management and Head of Management Sciences and Marketing Division
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- Lecturer in Management Science
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- Senior Lecturer in Comparative HRM and IRs
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- Lecturer in Financial Technology
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- Lecturer in International Business
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- Research Fellow ( MIOIR )
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- Professor of Accounting & Finance
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- Professor of Business Information Systems
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- Professor of Innovation Management and Strategy
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- Director of Executive Education
- Professor of Marketing
Antony Potter Head of the Division of Management Sciences and Marketing Stuart Hyde Deputy Head of School, Head of the Division of Accounting and Finance Bryan Lukas Director of Executive Education
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- Lecturer in Human Resource Management
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- Distinguished Professorial Fellow
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- Senior Lecturer in Finance
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- Senior Lecturer in Operations and Critical Systems
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- Lecturer in Management Accounting
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- Senior Lecturer in Accounting
Daniel started his career creating software in Japan, before returning to the UK to start a career in financial services at ICAP. He spent his next ten years in Foreign Exchange across the world with such leading firms as Citibank and UBS. After taking a career break to complete his MBA in 2018, Daniel joined Greensill as one of their earliest employees, and held a succession of senior roles as that fintech raised capital and blitzscaled. Daniel is now involved as an investor and in a number of other capacities with various fintechs, and is passionate about finding the next opportunity for disintermediation in finance.
Daniel graduated from the Full Time MBA program in 2018, and remains involved with the school as a course adjudicator, guest speaker, and mentor. He joined the advisory board in 2021.
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- Professor of Organisational Psychology
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- Senior Lecturer, Organisational Psychology
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- Manager, Manchester Institute of Innovation Research
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- Professor of Technology and Organisation
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- Honorary Visiting Professor
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- Lecturer in International Business
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- Chief Business Officer at Cureteq AG
Dr Sarah Holland is Chief Business Officer at Cureteq AG, a biotechnology and asset management company based in Switzerland. She originally completed her Manchester MBA in 1998 and has spent more than 30 years in the biopharma industry.
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- Lecturer in Comparative and International Business
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- Professor of Operations and Critical Systems
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- First Chief Executive of the Greater Manchester Combined Authority
Born in Cumbria of Irish parents, Eamonn attended English Martyrs High School in Hartlepool before moving to Manchester to study English and American Literature at Manchester University, graduating in 1982 with a 2:1 Double Honours. Later that year Eamonn began his career in Local Government as a Clerical Officer in the Housing Department of Manchester City Council working in the Miles Platting area, then moving to the Moss Side and Hulme office in 1983 and the Town Hall in 1985 before taking up Area Manager roles in Longsight and Langley (an "overspill estate" built by Manchester in Middleton as part of the City's strategy to create Garden Suburbs to house communities displaced by slum clearance after the Second World War).
In 1990 Eamonn moved back to Hulme and Moss Side to help manage the Hulme City Challenge programme, a radical strategy to remedy the catastrophic failure of the system built estates that had been built in the 1960's through a programme of demolition and rebuilding that saw the area transformed both in physical and social terms. A core element of the strategy was to guarantee every resident whose home was demolished an affordable new home in Hulme, a promise that was kept.
Eamonn took over the direction of the whole of the city's housing capital programme (overseeing the transformation of the Alexandra Park Estate, Monsall and Hacking Street in Cheetham as well as the first phase of investment through stock transfer) before moving, in 1997, to Sheffield as Director of Housing and Operational Services under the leadership of Bob Kerslake, who went on to be the joint head of the Civil Service before his elevation to the Lords.
In Sheffield, Eamonn was responsible for the regeneration programmes at Norfolk Park and Park Hill before returning to Manchester in late 1999 to take on the role of Director of Housing and Community Services. Then Deputy Chief Executive serving under Sir Howard Bernstein.
As Deputy CE Eamonn worked on a range of projects including the creation of the Housing Market Renewal programme aimed at reinvigorating neighbourhoods whose economies had failed and left residents stranded in homes of no value. He also led a wide range of services and projects including the development of the city's brand strategy ("Original Modern") with Peter Saville and the first Manchester International Festival which followed the success of the 2002 Commonwealth Games.
In 2008 Eamonn joined the newly established Homes and Communities Agency as Deputy Chief Executive with responsibility for the Northern Regions and national programmes including the Thames Gateway and Coalfields before moving to Stockport as Chief Executive in 2010 where he led the physical regeneration of the town centre and the modernisation of the council and public services. Stockport led the way in the creation of integrated commissioning of health and social care as a national Vanguard and as part of the GM devolution agenda.
In 2017 Eamonn was appointed as the first Chief Executive of the Greater Manchester Combined Authority with responsibility for Transport, Waste, Health and Social Care, the office of the Mayor and Police and Crime Commissioner, Fire and Rescue and Strategic Planning and Investment.
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- Eddie Davies Professor of Enterprise and Innovation Management
Eddie Davies, OBE, CBE, was born in Salford in 1946 and educated at Farnworth Grammar School followed by Durham University, where he read Mathematics.
After graduating, Eddie joined Avon Rubber as a Production Engineer, then Scapa Group as subsidiary Finance Director, Project Manager (Brazil) and Assistant Group Managing Director.
In 1984 Eddie formed Strix Group as Managing Director. The company became the world leader in the supply of control systems for domestic water boiling appliances, notably kettles, and in 2000 Eddie was awarded an OBE for Services to Industry. He sold 50% of Strix to HSBC in 2000, and the majority of the remainder in 2005. In 2006 Eddie left the company after serving as Chairman for seven years, during which Strix gained four Queen's Awards.
His most inspirational original thinker is Albert Einstein: "His insight into the highly complex world of mathematical physics really fired my passion for mathematics."
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- Professor of Accounting and Finance
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- Honorary Senior Research Fellow
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- Senior Lecturer in Healthcare Management
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- Professor of Occupational Psychology
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- Senior Leader Apprenticeship
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- Professor of Innovaiton Studies
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- Professor of Consumption and Society
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- Professor in Information Systems
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- Professor of Project Management
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- Co - Chief Executive of Habitas Opportunity Capital
- Co - Chief Executive, Habitas Opportunity Capital and Partner / Executive Vice President of Investments and Acquisitions, Forte Real Estate Development
Fabio Di Prima is the Co-Chief Executive of Habitas Opportunity Capital. Fabio is also a Partner and the Executive Vice President of Investments and Acquisitions at Forte Real Estate Development, where he is responsible for the identification and evaluation of investment opportunities, including the oversight of due diligence efforts undertaken in the property and site analysis process. Mr. Di Prima also manages investment funds that seek to invest in job-creating real estate projects, through a highly-complex fund formation process. He also handles transaction negotiations and oversees the company's closing activities and investor relations.
Over the past decade, Fabio has served in leadership positions at several organizations of different sizes operating across multiple industries, including the $14 billion merger between Fiat and Chrysler Group. Additionally, Mr. Di Prima is still serving as Managing Director of Silver Sky Global Capital, a multi-strategy private equity firm that actively invested in several infrastructure projects in North America and that holds an interest in Habitas Opportunity Capital.
Mr. Di Prima holds a joint MSc in Financial Economics from the University of Turin, Italy and Universidad San Pablo CEU in Madrid. He also holds an MBA from Alliance Manchester Business School, Manchester, UK. He is also active in a number of businesses and non-profit organizations including serving on the board of the Italian Chamber of Commerce for the UK and as President of EB-5 Italy, the leading Italian EB-5 organization.
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- Senior Lecturer in Operations and Supply Chain Management
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- Lecturer in Business and Accounting Law
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- Lecturer in Employment Studies
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- Professor of Innovation & Sustainability, SCI Director
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- Professor of Organisational Psychology
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- Finance ( Senior Lecturer in Finance )
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- Senior Lecturer in Accounting
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- Vice Dean for Research ( Faculty of Humanities )
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- Honorary Professor of Organisation Theory
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- Professor of Project Management
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- Lecturer in Information Systems and Supply Chain Management
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- Associate Professor
- Associate Professor of Accounting at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Hans is today Associate Professor of Accounting at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business where his research interests cover international accounting harmonization, mandatory IFRS (International Financial Reporting Standards) adoption, and transparency regulation in financial and non-financial markets. Hans completed his PhD at MBS in 2008 with a thesis that looked into IFRS adoption and its particular impact across the EU. He says he was particularly drawn to MBS because it had excellent financial information databases. "It is a definite differentiator that Manchester has compared to universities on the European continent, and also compared to Asian universities which, for the most part, don't have anything like this. What is also important is that the knowledge to actually understand these databases is here in Manchester."
Hans remembers building up some excellent industry contacts during his time in Manchester. "From my PhD research one of my big personal selling points was that I could then understand the context of these regulatory issues outside of the US, and particularly across the EU. My work had particular appeal to US business schools because, at the time, the US was thinking about adopting some of these standards. After completing my PhD I came to Chicago armed with a lot of institutional knowledge about how these standards had worked in Europe." Today Hans continues to look at regulation and the impact of regulatory disclosure, and has started looking at its impact on industries such as healthcare.
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- Lecturer in Health Management
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- Director for Social Responsibility
- Professor of Marketing
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- Senior Lecturer in Accounting
Ian King has been Business Presenter for Sky News since April 2014, during which time he has interviewed two-thirds of the FTSE-100's chief executives, along with countless other leading figures from the world of business, finance and economics. Prior to that, he was Business & City Editor of The Times and, during 25 years as an award-winning financial journalist on national newspapers and television, has also worked for The Daily Telegraph, The Sun, The Guardian and The Mail on Sunday. Prior to becoming a financial journalist, Ian worked as a business analyst for the Midland Bank Group (now HSBC UK) in the City of London for three years.
Brought up in Bristol and in Devon, Ian has an honours degree in History from The University of Manchester and a postgraduate diploma in newspaper journalism from City, University of London. During his time at Manchester, he took a year out from his studies to serve as the elected Editor of Mancunion, the University of Manchester Students Union newspaper.
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- Senior Lecturer ( Associate Professor ) in Marketing
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- Senior Lecturer in Human Resource Management
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- Senior Lecturer in Banking
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- Senior Lecturer in Healthcare Management
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- Professor of Innovation Policy and Strategy
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- Lecturer in Health Management
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- Lecturer in Management and Organisational Studies
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- Professor of Information Systems and Digital Transformation
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- Senior Lecturer in Accounting
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- Senior Lecturer in Employment Studies
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- Professor of Decision and System Sciences
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- Professor / Director of the Work and Equalities Institute
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- Chairman in Operations Management
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- Professor of Organizational Analysis
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- Executive Director
- Professor of Strategy
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- Honorary Senior Research Fellow
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- Senior Lecturer in Enterprise
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- Eddie Davies Professor of Enterprise and Innovation Management
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- Senior Lecturer in Innovation and Sustainability
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- Senior Lecturer ( Healthcare Management )
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- Professor in Decision Sciences
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- Honorary Senior Lecturer ( Teaching )
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- Senior Lecturer in Accounting & Finance
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- Professor of Financial Innovation
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- Lecturer in Organisational Psychology
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- Lecturer in Health Management
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- Senior Lecturer in Strategy & Entrepreneurship
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- Senior Lecturer in Enterprise
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- Head of Marketing and Communications
Katie is a Partner and UK Head of Internal Audit & Risk Services, KPMG LLP. Katie was educated at Bolton School before studying for a Management Sciences degree from The University of Manchester (formerly UMIST).
She joined KPMG's graduate training scheme in Manchester in September 2000, qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 2003, was awarded her Fellow status in 2011 and promoted to Partner in October 2014.
Katie is an active supporter of KPMG's Network of Women and leads on a number of Women in Business initiatives across the UK. As a young female partner and mentor, she knows the importance of senior role models to help encourage talented, ambitious women to stay and reach the top in KPMG.
Through the firm, Katie's involvement with Bolton School continues. Having established the scheme over six years ago, she continues to develop and lead KPMG's flagship work placement and sponsorship programme with them.
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- Head of School
- Head of Alliance Manchester Business School
- Professor
Ken McPhail is Head of Alliance Manchester Business School and Professor of Accounting at The University of Manchester. He was previously Deputy Head and Research Director at Alliance Manchester Business School. Before this, Ken was Vice Dean for Social Responsibility (2014-2017) within the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Manchester. As Vice Dean, Ken oversaw the strategic development and implementation of the University's distinctive social responsibility agenda across five schools, 36 disciplines, 18,000 students and 1,800 academic and support staff. In addition, Ken also sat on the University's Social Responsibility Governance Group, chaired by the Vice Chancellor and Principle.
As Vice Dean for Social Responsibility, Ken delivered a new strategic relationship between the University and Greater Manchester City Council with a co-funded Economic Advisor to the new City Mayor. He was involved in the New Strategic Inclusive Growth Unit partnership with Joseph Rowntree Foundation and the Prize-winning "Policy @ Manchester" platform for turning research into impact. He initiated the New Ethical Grand Challenges program and facilitated the Sustainably Challenge delivered to 5000 new students in 2016.
Prior to joining the University of Manchester, Ken McPhail was the Head of School at La Trobe University Melbourne. Ken was responsible for managing a complex departmental structure with staff across five campuses and was active in delivering the biggest change management process in the school's history. Ken was also the Chair of the Business School's newly established 2017 Committee tasked with blue-sky thinking around delivering the universities strategic vision and beyond.
Preceding his role at La Trobe University Melbourne, Ken was the Director of Undergraduate Studies and The Scottish Centre for Professional Ethics at the University of Glasgow. His role involved managing some major changes in undergraduate provision across Glasgow University. Ken was also part of a team that secured grant funding of £50,000 to establish a Scottish forum for Professional Ethics.
Ken's roles have involved liaising with key professional bodies, professional service firms and other institutions, including The Institute of Chartered Accountants in Scotland; The Chartered Institute of Bankers of Scotland; the BBC; The Scottish Science Centre, The Royal Academy of Edinburgh, The General Medical Council, the Law Society, The Association of Certified Chartered Accountants.
Ken's work is focused on various aspects of accounting ethics and corporate accountability. He has a PhD from the University of Dundee and a MA (Honours) in Accountancy & Computer Science from Heriot-Watt University.
Ken is a Chartered Accountant having qualified with Arthur Andersen where he became a partner and subsequently moving as a partner to Andersen Consulting (which became Accenture). After leaving Andersen Consulting Ken pursued a career in a series of executive roles of UK listed companies: Finance Director then Group Managing Director of Corton Beach plc (a manufacturing and distribution business); Group Finance Director of Alfred McAlpine plc (international construction, house building and quarrying group); Group Finance Director of Albright and Wilson plc (global chemical manufacturing group); and, Chief Financial Officer of Tomkins plc (global manufacturing group in the industrial and automotive sectors).
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- Professor of Health Policy & Management
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- Professor in Science and Technology Policy
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- Professor of Accounting and Finance
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- Honorary Senior Research Fellow
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- Senior Lecturer in Organisational Analysis and International Management
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- Senior Lecturer in Healthcare & Public Sector Management
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- Lecturer in Accounting and Finance
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- Lecturer in Organisational Psychology
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- Professor of Decision Science and Systems
Lisa Ronson - Chief Commercial Officer
Lisa is the commercial director for high-end property development firm Ronson Capital Partners, one of Europe's leading property development companies. Her family has long-standing ties with the University stretching back over 25 years.
The Gerald Ronson Foundation, set up by her father, property developer Gerald Ronson CBE, has been a generous supporter of the University, while Lisa currently serves as a member of Manchester Business School's Advisory Board, counselling the school on its strategy and engagement with business.
Since graduating with an honours degree in management sciences in 1990, Lisa has forged a successful career in several sectors, first in banking and latterly in real estate, as well as devoting a significant amount of time to charitable and philanthropic causes.
On graduating in 1990, she got a job at BZW Investment Bank in London, specialising in South East Asian equity sales covering the UK, European and US financial institutions. She spent eight years at the bank, including two years in New York, before returning to London in 1998 to take up the role of commercial director at Heron International, the property development business founded by her father. Heron has developed more than one million sq. metres of commercial and retail property and around 15,000 residential units in the UK, continental Europe and the US.
Lisa now leads the interior design, branding, marketing, PR, sponsorship and advertising for Ronson Capital Partners developments, as well as the leisure portfolio of Heron International, which includes major developments in Spain. She is a great supporter of the University and has returned to speak to undergraduate students about both the property development and marketing sectors.
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- Senior Lecturer in Health Management
Prior to the combined University's Foundation in 2004, Lord Alliance was a generous supporter of the School of Management at UMIST. Other previous giving priorities at the University have included the Law School, cultural assets, and international research partnerships across Life Sciences and Medical and Human Sciences.
He was made an Honorary Fellow of the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST) in 1988 and an Honorary LLD from the Victoria University of Manchester in 1989. Lord Alliance was also made an Honorary Doctor of Law from the University of Manchester in 2016.
Today the drivers of the Manchester economy are the University and the airport. Manchester has always welcomed and created entrepreneurs. When I first came to the city I was simply driven by the need to make a living. But as my own business grew, I increasingly saw how important education was. My father always said that from your pocket money you should spend a third on yourself, give a third to charity, and save the other third. This was the culture I was brought up with and I have always tried to follow it. Businesses are just as responsible to their communities as individuals, regardless of their size" Lord Alliance, interviewed by Alliance MBS in 2015
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- Senior Lecturer ( Associate Professor ) in Leadership ( Healthcare )
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- Professor of Marketing and Strategy
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- Deputy President and Deputy Vice - Chancellor
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- Senior Lecturer in Decision Sciences and Business Analytics
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- Professor of Science and Innovation Dynamics and Policy
A Cambridge graduate with an MBA from Manchester Business School, Marian's background as a senior business leader means she brings commercial acumen to the role of Director UK Regions for the Department for International Trade.
Marian has worked on behalf of major blue chip companies, charities and government, defining organisational direction and designing and delivering short and long-term commercial strategy. She was made a Board Director in 2001 for planning and then setting up the international division within a Greater Manchester research firm.
Subsequently a Senior Vice President in a top 15 research firm she ran a business division conducting research and advice contracts for multinationals such as DuPont, Caterpillar, Mars and Oxfam. She then founded her own lifestyle business which worked for clients in locations ranging from Sakhalin to Birmingham Alabama. After three very successful years of trading she experienced, at a very personal level, the impact of the banking crisis.
Her career in advising clients on internationalisation began in Istanbul, where she provided research and advice to help Eveready, Mercedes and Avon Cosmetics understand how to operate in the Turkish market.
Since January 2013 she has been working for the Department for International Trade, initially leading Global Operations and the Northern Powerhouse and now as the Director for English Regions, a national role focussed on growing the UK economy by helping high potential businesses learn and grow through doing business overseas and high quality global businesses create wealth by investing in the UK.
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- Head of the Division of People, Management and Organisations
- Professor of International Business and Innovation
Ken McPhail Head of School Nikolay Mehandjiev Director of Research Mario Kafouros Head of the Division of People, Management and Organisations
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- Head of the Division of Innovation, Management and Policy
- Professor of Strategic Management
Anna Goatman Director of Teaching and Learning Hongwei He Director for Social Responsibility Mark Healey Head of the Division of Innovation, Management and Policy
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- Professor of Financial Technology ( FinTech ) & Information Systems
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- Enterprise Academic and Start - Up Visa Coordinator
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- Emeritus Professor of Finance and Accounting
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- Lecturer in Organisational Psychology
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- Senior Lecturer in HRM and Employment Studies
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- Lecturer in Management Accounting
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- Senior Lecturer in International Business and Management
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- Senior Lecturer in Marketing Management and Strategy
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- Lecturer in Accounting and Finance
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- Senior Lecturer in Strategy and Innovation
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- Emeritus Professor of International Finance
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- Emeritus Professor of Information Systems
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- Professor of Information Systems, Management Sciences
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- Professor in International HRM and Comparative Industrial Relations
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- Senior Lecturer in Management ( Strategy )
Mrs Wendy Mayall, Former Chief Investment Officer, Unilever graduated with a BSc (Hons) Management Sciences 1979, and an MSc in Business Finance in 1981. She received the Outstanding Alumnus Award in 2000.
After graduating , Wendy began her professional career in 1982, when she was appointed Investment Manager at Thorn EMI. In 1984, she joined US-based investment firm Rogers, Casey & Barksdale Inc where she held a number of positions including Managing Director, Director of Research and Principal. She was one of the founding partners of Stamford Associates in 1987. Wendy re-joined Stamford Associates in 2011/2012 to help the firm develop its future business strategy.
In 1995, she joined Unilever's Corporate Pensions Division and in 1996, she was appointed Chief Investment Officer of Unilever's UK pension fund. In 2012 she joined Liverpool Victoria as Group Chief Investment Officer. She also sat on the Board of the Liverpool Victoria General Insurance Group. Wendy has held numerous non-executive roles, including as Chairman of the Investment Committee and Trustee Board Member Director of the Mineworkers Pension Scheme (2006 - 2009); Director of Newways Childrens' Charity (2005 - 2011); Trustee of Caravan - the National Grocers' Benevolent Fund (2005 - 2010); Board Director of Aberdeen UK Tracker Fund Plc (2012 - ); Investment Committee Member of the Liverpool Victoria Employee Pension Scheme (2014 - 2015) and Investment Committee Member of Mann Bioinvest Ltd (2014 - ).
In 2011 Wendy was named as one of Financial News' 100 Most Influential Women in Finance, EMEA.
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- Senior Lecturer in Information & Decision Systems
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- Lecturer in Management Sciences
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- Professor of Healthcare Management
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- Lecturer in Employment Studies
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- Director of Research
- Professor of Enterprise Information Systems
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- Senior Lecturer in Finance
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- Professor of International Business
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- Senior Lecturer in Accounting
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- Emeritus Professor of Accounting and Finance
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- Professor ( Chair ) of New Infrastructure Development
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- Lecturer in Comparative and International Business
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- Senior Lecturer in Finance
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- Senior Lecturer in Innovation and Entrepreneurship
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- Emeritus Professor of Accounting
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- Senior Lecturer ( Assistant Professor ) in Marketing
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- Professor of Digital Innovation
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- Professor of Accounting, Governance & Society
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- Lecturer in Accounting and Finance
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- Professor of Psychometrics
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- Senior Lecturer in Finance
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- Senior Lecturer ( Associate Professor ) in Information Systems and Data Science
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- Professor and Chair of International Business
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- Professor of International Business
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- Professor of Innovation Management and Policy
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- Lecturer in Decision Cognitive Sciences
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- Research Associate in AMBS Data Visualisation Observatory
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- Lecturer in Operations Management
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- Lecturer in Accounting & Finance
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- Senior Lecturer in Business Economics
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- Senior Lecturer in Decision Sciences, School Business Engagement Lead
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- Retired Chairman of the Financial Accounting Standards Board: BA ( Econ ) Accounting and Finance
Robert H. Herz, retired Chairman of the Financial Accounting Standards Board: BA (Econ) Accounting and Finance
Robert H. Herz CPA, CGMA, FCA, graduated in 1974 with a BA (Econ) from the School of Accounting and Finance at The Victoria University of Manchester, which became part of MBS in the 2004 merger. He was awarded the Outstanding Alumnus Award from The University of Manchester in 2006 and an honorary Doctorate of Law in 2007.
Robert was Chairman of the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) from 2002 to 2010 and was one of the original members of the International Accounting Standards Board. He was a partner with PricewaterhouseCoopers for many years; this included serving as audit partner with numerous major companies, as head of the firm's Corporate Finance Advisory Services, as senior technical partner, as a member of the firm's US and Global Boards, and as President of the PricewaterhouseCoopers Foundation. Robert has chaired a number of professional committees, including the IFAC Transnational Auditors Committee and the AICPA SEC Regulations Committee. He has served on numerous public policy commissions, testified many times at congressional hearings, and authored or co-authored six books and over 50 articles and published papers. In addition, he is a frequent speaker at major financial reporting and business conferences, and is a member of the Accounting Hall of Fame.
Robert's current activities include serving on various boards of directors and board committees, for example Fannie Mae, Morgan Stanley, Workiva Inc. and the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board. He sits on the advisory boards of AccountAbility and Manchester Business School, is a member of the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) Audit Committee Chair Advisory Council, and is a trustee of the Kessler Foundation.
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- Professor of Organisational Psychology
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- Honorary Lecturer in Labour and Employment Law
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- Lecturer in Management Science
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- Senior Lecturer in Organisational Strategy and Business Ethics
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- Senior Lecturer in Organisational Psychology
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- Head of School Operations
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- Senior Lecturer in Health Management
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- Professor of Organisational Psychology
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- Professor of Work Psychology and Wellbeing
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- Professor of Economics and Management of Innovation
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- Chairman and Senior Partner, KPMG: BA Economics
As chairman and senior partner of KPMG, one of the ‘big four' accountancy firms in the UK, Simon holds one of the most important roles in the UK accounting industry, while he is also a member of KPMG's global executive board.
A corporate debt adviser by background, Simon joined KPMG in 1998 from NatWest - where he was the global head of debt structuring - to establish KPMG's debt advisory practice which advises companies on their loan negotiations with banks and bond investors. Simon says he looks back extremely fondly on his time in Manchester, where he studied the BA Econ from 1979 to 1982. He particularly recalls "inspirational" teaching which he still draws upon to this day. "I still find myself remembering pearls of wisdom from my studies which focused a lot on the big themes and the future of the accounting profession. Today, more than 30 years later, I am literally living these real issues at the sharp end." Simon says thinking about these issues at the very beginning of his career - something that was not particularly obvious at the time in academic circles - gave him the perfect grounding. "I feel like I have spent my whole business life growing into what my degree taught me. A big part of my role today is reflecting on the big themes in the profession, and it resonates with what I was learning at the time." He says the analytical skills he developed at university have also put him in good stead. "Looking back, the technical aspects of the degree were very important to me too, that ability to sift through vast amounts of information."
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- Senior Lecturer in Marketing Management & Strategy
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- Retired Chief Executive of Tesco: BA ( Hons ) Management Sciences
Sir Terry Leahy, retired Chief Executive of Tesco: BA (Hons) Management Sciences
Anyone who owns a Tesco Clubcard possesses the brainchild of Sir Terry Leahy, one of Manchester's most notable business alumni. He created the revolutionary loyalty programme while he was CEO of Tesco, but it wasn't his only supermarket success - he also increased the company's market share from 20% to 30%. His achievements didn't go unnoticed either, as he won a handful of fantastic awards during his tenure. These included Britain's ‘Business Leader of the Year' 2003, Fortune European Businessman of the Year 2004, and Most Influential Non-Elected Person in Britain 2007, according to the Guardian Unlimited Politics panel.
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- Senior Lecturer in Accounting
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- Reader in Comparative and International Business
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- Senior Lecturer in Employment Studies
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- Honorary Reader Leadership & Public Policy
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- Senior Lecturer in Employment Studies
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- Deputy Head of School, Head of the Division of Accounting and Finance
- Professor of Finance
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- Emeritus Professor of Accounting
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- Emeritus Professor of Accountability & Management Control
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- Senior Lecturer in Enterprise & Entrepreneurship
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- Senior Lecturer in Finance
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- Professor of Accounting and Finance
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- Professor of Management Accounting
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- Professor of Financial Management
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- Lecturer in Human Resource Management / Employment Studies
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- Lecturer in Management Sciences
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- Lecturer in Management Science
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- Senior Lecturer in Accounting & Finance
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- Professor and Chair of International Business
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- Teaching Associate in Management Science
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- Senior Lecturer in Management Science
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- Professor of HRM and Employment Relations
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- Lecturer in Human Resource Management
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- Chief Executive of Swiscot Group: Executive Education - High Value Managers
Vikas was born in Manchester and founded his first company - a website - at the age of 14. He is now an experienced award-winning entrepreneur and strategist who has built businesses in diverse sectors internationally. He is also an advisor to numerous entrepreneurs, businesses, and organisations globally.
He is CEO of Swiscot Group, a textiles and commodities trading company. He is also the founder of Thought Strategy (a consulting firm and investment fund) and holds board-level advisory roles in commercial and charitable organisations. Since 2015 he has been Chairman of FutureEverything, an award-winning innovation lab for digital culture, and a Member of the UK government's Industrial Development Board.
He is President and board member of TiE UK North (part of the world's largest entrepreneurs network) and frequently speaks and lectures at entrepreneurship events around the world (including the MIT Global Startup Workshop and the RICE Business Plan Competition).
He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Manufacturing and Commerce, and a Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute. Alongside his business interests, Vikas is Visiting Professor of Entrepreneurship on the prestigious Lisbon MBA (with MIT Sloan School of Management) teaching at Católica (Lisbon) and Nova School of Business and Economics.
Vikas is also a respected speaker, and multi-award winning writer. In his journal, ‘Thought Economics" he has interviewed many of the world's most influential thinkers. He is on the Editorial Board of the Chartered Alternative Investment Association and is a columnist for British Airways Business Life. He is regularly called upon to provide commentary and opinion.
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- Senior Lecturer in Accounting
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- Lecturer in International Business and Management
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- Professor in Organisational Psychology
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- Lecturer in International Business
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- Professor of Asian and Comparative Management
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- Professor in Decision Sciences and Business Analytics
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- Lecturer in International Business
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- Assistant Professor in Accounting & Finance
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- CEO, Map Sciences Chief Strategy Offficer, Imperial Healthcare Institute CEO, Prime Strategy Consulting Group
After graduating from Alliance Manchester Business School's Full-time MBA, Ziad started his career in 1981 with Booz Allen & Hamilton Inc, the global management consultants and worked on assignments in North America, Europe and the Middle East. From 2001 until his appointment as the CFO of Arabtec Holding PJSC in 2008, Ziad was involved in private equity investments, buyouts and restructuring activities in Europe, the Middle East and North America.
From September 2008 until March 2013, and as the CFO of Arabtec PJSC (the largest listed construction group in the GCC), Ziad successfully managed Arabtec's financial and repositioning strategy during the most difficult economic crisis to hit the region, and in the worst hit sector without any new capital increase. Ziad was the face of Arabtec in the media and successfully managed relationships with regulators and stakeholders. Arabtec's listed shares were the most traded shares in volume and value on the DFM and the share price increased many multiples during his tenure. Ziad received public recognition and various awards for his successful efforts in restructuring Arabtec PJSC and in containing potential reputational damage to the DFM and the UAE financial markets. The various successive management teams that followed his departure did not achieve similar results, and the company never reached the previous successes achieved by Ziad, although hundreds of millions of US dollars were invested as new capital in the company.
Ziad joined the Dubai-based Fakih IVF Medical Group in April 2013 as CEO and turned the business, which started as one small clinic with two doctors in Dubai, into the leader in its sector in the UAE. The Group employed over 250 medical staff and provided the full range of medical fertility, obstetrics and gynaecology care, as well as embryology and genetic laboratory services across the UAE. In 2015 Ziad negotiated the sale of the business to NMC Health (a UK listed company) at a valuation exceeding $500 million.
Ziad now runs his own advisory group as the founder and CEO of Prime Strategy Consulting Group, a boutique strategy and restructuring consultancy. The Group advises regional and international clients (including major private and listed companies, family offices and investment funds in the GCC and Europe) on strategy, restructuring, investments and divestments. Ziad and his team usually take a leading role in operational and financial audits prior to making investments, or after, to ensure that the operations and strategy adhere to the current and future guidelines and targets of all stakeholders. Ziad usually maintains his personal involvement either as a Board member, a Board advisor on strategy and operations, or as a member of the various governance committees, like the investment committee, the audit committee or the selection and remuneration committee.
Ziad was voted The Revolutionary CFO of the Year in 2009. He won an award for Excellence in Finance in 2010 and was named the Most Admired CFO in the Middle East in 2011. In 2010, Wall Street Journal listed him among the top 20 influential non-royal decision makers in the UAE. Arabian Business listed him in 2012 among the top 500 most influential Arabs in the world, and in 2013 and 2014 among the top 50 influential Brits in the UAE. Ziad was awarded the Middle East CEO of the year in the Healthcare Sector in 2014 by CEO Middle East magazine.
Ziad is a known public speaker and author. His book Intelligent Learning: Competing in Systemic Chaos offers an approach to learning and managing speedy changes, to be able to survive and succeed, in the continuously changing business environment.