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Professor of Actuarial Statistics

Richard Verrall is an international expert in the area of statistics in the context of insurance. He frequently gives courses on stochastic reserving for non-life insurance, in which his research is most well-known. He has also provided training for non-statistical practitioners in insurance on how to use statistics in their business, and how to facilitate a dialogue with statistical experts such as actuaries. Other areas of expertise include compensation awards for loss of earnings (the Ogden tables), and forecasting mortality rates.

Professor of Finance

Keith has worked at H.M.Treasury; the Bank of England; the National Institute; Tanaka Business School, Imperial College; and the University of Newcastle. He has been a visitor at the Federal Reserve Bank, Washington, and the Freie University, Berlin. He has undertaken consultancy and teaching in applied finance at various financial institiutions and government organisations.

He has co-authored a number of books on investment, financial engineering, risk management and quantitative financial economics.

Visiting Lecturer: Private Equity

Guy brings to Cass the benefit of over twenty years’ practical experience of investment strategy and alternative assets, and in particular is recognised as a leading expert in the world on global private equity fund investment. One of his books has been adopted as the standard textbook worldwide on this subject, has been translated into various languages, and regularly features as a number one Amazon best-seller.

Guy performs consultancy assignments around the world on setting investment strategy, and integrating so-called “alternative” assets into traditional portfolios. He also provides executive training on how such programmes may be implemented in practice. A list of his recent clients appears on his website. He also holds workshops around the world based on his books, including regular annual events in Mumbai and Taipei.

Guy holds various qualifications and distinctions, including an LLB with honours from King’s College London, and an MBA majoring in finance from Warwick Business School. In addition to his books, he has written for all Europe’s English language pension publications and many other financial and investment titles. His influential monthly column in Real Deals is read by the private equity community worldwide.

Visiting Lecturer: Private Equity

Edgar is managing director and founder of corporate advisory firm Palladian Limited. Palladian advises companies in a wide range of technology sectors on capital raising, acquisitions, venture capital funds, leveraged buyouts, strategic alliances, and other cross-border transactions.

Before founding Palladian in 1993, Edgar was managing director of the Pallas Group, where he led the development and investment activities of the Group's private equity funds in France, Germany, Spain and the US and was CEO of its UK corporate finance and M&A subsidiary. From 1982 to 1989 he worked for Dillon Read in New York, where he founded Concord Partners, Dillon Read's first private equity fund, investing in early-stage companies and selective leveraged buy-outs of technology firms.

He has extensive experience of serving on boards of financial services, technology and telecommunications companies in Europe and the US. He is a member of the Private Equity Advisory Board of the Institute of Directors and from 1996-2001 chaired the High-Tech Working group of the Israel British Business Council.

Edgar has an MBA from Harvard Business School and took a Master's degree in electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology after graduating in engineering science from the University of Texas.

Honorary Professor Mergers & Acquisitions

During his six years at Deutsche Bank, Scott was Global Head of the bank’s corporate venture capital unit, Managing Director of the Investment Bank's Global eBusiness Division and Managing Director of the department responsible for world-wide strategy and new business acquisitions. Scott worked first at Booz Allen & Hamilton Management Consultants for over 5 years and then at Morgan Stanley for over 12 years in New York, Japan, and most recently as co-manager and then member of the board of Morgan Stanley Bank AG in Germany.

Scott has recently co-authored a book entitled Intelligent M&A, a practical guide on how to navigate the mergers and acquisitions minefield.

Visiting Lecturer: Finance

John regularly teaches on both public and client tailored courses, principally in the areas of corporate finance, valuation and risk.

John has industry experience in both banking and commerce.  He was previously the Managing Director of the consultancy division of Union Plc, a London based investment bank and before that worked extensively in corporate finance, consultancy and training throughout the world.

John now runs an international consultancy and training company, Cornhill Consultants Ltd, which provides advice to international banks and large corporate clients, including Deloitte, Lovells and the NHS.

Senior Lecturer in Finance

Sotiris K. Staikouras is Senior Lecturer in Finance at Cass Business School, City University, London. He hold a BSc degree in Business Administration with major in accounting and finance from the University of Piraeus in Greece, an MSc degree in Business Finance from Brunel University in London, and a PhD degree in Finance from Cass Business School.

Dr Staikouras has published over thirty articles in the areas of asset pricing for banks and insurance, financial conglomerates, interest rate risk exposure of financial institutions, bank-insurance interface, stock market volatility and financial modelling. His research has been covered by the media and published in academic journals such as Financial Markets Institutions and Instruments, Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance, The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, Journal of International Financial Markets Institutions and Money, Journal of Multinational Financial Management, Journal of Applied Finance and many others.

Dr Staikouras has worked as a research advisor at London Clearing House and as financial analyst/consultant for other institutions. As a freelance instructor, he delivers training courses for financial institutions. He teaches courses in both undergraduate and postgraduate level in Asset-Liability Management, Equity Investment Analysis, Company Valuation, Risk Management of Financial Institutions, Fixed Income Securities, and Corporate Risk Management.

He was one of the leading members for the restructuring of both undergraduate and postgraduate programmes during 1998-2002. He is the Course Director of BSc IFRM, IAI and REFI, and he also served as Course Director of various masters’ programmes. Dr Staikouras is a member of various Boards and Committees including the Senate at City University.

Dr Staikouras serves as an Associate Editor of Review of Futures Markets, Quarterly Review of Economics & Finance, Accounting & Finance, Journal of Applied Finance, Frontiers in Finance & Economics, European Research Studies Journal, Journal of Money, Investment & Banking, International Journal of Banking, Accounting & Finance, Journal of International Business & Finance, and Risk Management.

Professor of Finance

Stephen joined the Faculty of Finance at Cass in 2007.  He has recent experience as an investment strategist and partner for a private client firm, Firecrest Hambro, and as a Director of the Bear Stearns’ Macro Hedge Fund Global Alpha. He founded and edits a range of publications on global credit with FT Interactive Data.

Stephen has also undertaken consultancy and teaching in risk management and corporate finance at various global financial institutions.

Visiting Lecturer

Janet trained as a management accountant with Brooke Bond Oxo Limited. After seven years in industry, she joined Croydon College as a Senior Lecturer in management accounting and financial management. She set up her own business in 1989 as a freelance lecturer and consultant, specialising in presenting courses in financial awareness and financial reporting for a wide range of clients, including CIMA, the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, The Walt Disney Corporation, the National Lottery Heritage Fund and Norwich Union Insurance.

Janet has also published a number of successful accountancy textbooks, including Accounting in a Nutshell: accounting for the non-specialist, now in its third edition and Management Accounting Fundamentals, now in its fourth edition.

Professor of Information Management

Clive's research focuses on the strategic exploitation of information systems, knowledge management and management learning. He has managed a number of large applied research projects, including a major research project on the IT needs of executives for the Institute of Directors, and the European Union's PRISM study into the measurement and reporting of intangibles. Clive has been one of the leading architects of the ‘electronic boardroom’, involving the use of information technology by executives in meetings. He was named as one of the UK's top 3 "e-tutors of the year" by the Times Higher Education Supplement in summer 2001.

After graduating from Oxford, Clive took a Masters degree in management before training as an accountant, and was Young Accountant of the Year in 1976. Following six years as a director of finance and IT, he moved to the Business School in 1988. He was appointed as the inaugural director of the Cass Business School Learning Laboratory in 2002. In 2003 he was awarded a UK National Teaching Fellowship as one of the 20 leading university teachers in the UK.

Clive is the author of a large number of publications and was a founding member of the Worshipful Company of Information Technologists, the City of London's 100th livery company.

Professor of Strategic Management

Colin has joined Cass Business School as Chief Executive Officer of CassExec. He worked at Warwick Business School from 2003 to 2008, where he was Associate Dean Executive Programmes and Professor of Strategic Management. He served on the senior faculty of Henley from 1974 to 2003, including appointments as Director of Graduate Studies 1989-1998, and Director of Executive Development 1998-2003. He has held non-executive roles both in the UK and Europe, including organisations such as the Henley Centre for Forecasting. He has undertaken research and consultancy with organisations around the world.

His fields of interest and expertise include leadership development and strategic change. He has published research and books in these fields and worked with major corporates, governments and third sector organisations on problems in these fields. He has long experience in the design and delivery of both open and customised solutions and programmes and contributes to corporate events and conferences around the world. His most recent publication is Managing Change in Organisations published by FT Pearson Prentice Hall in 2007 and now in its 5th edition. He is currently working on a book on Leadership Development to be published by Oxford University Press.

Visiting Research Fellow

Robert provides advice to a range of organisations in the fields of organisational change, strategic planning, leadership and innovation. Strategy development programmes are provided to enable managers and leaders at all levels to contribute effectively to their organisation’s future direction. His PhD focused upon the management of strategic change and innovation. Robert also has an MBA (distinction) and is a Fellow of the Chartered Insurance Institute.

Robert is currently working to identify how business leaders create the capacity for innovation in 21st century.

Professor in the Management of Professional Service Firms

Laura started work in investment banking and then worked in a strategy consulting firm. She joined the University of Oxford in 1998 and from 2005 to 2007 was Director of the Clifford Chance Centre for the Management of Professional Service Firms. Her research explores how professional service firms respond to and manage change.

Laura's most recent research focuses on leadership in professional service firms and the challenges posed by new modes of organising professionals, including whether the partnership “ethos” can survive and thrive within alternative legal structures. She is committed to translating her research for a practitioner audience, most recently in her book Managing the Modern Law Firm.

Professor of Strategic Human Resource Management

Veronica specialises in working with large, mature corporations in collaborative research partnerships. She is particularly interested in exploring the challenges of corporate renewal and transformation. Her research focuses on the link between business strategy, HR strategy and change management.

Veronica consults on an international basis, and recent clients include Schroders, Morgan Stanley, the International Monetary Fund and South African Breweries. She is published in various academic journals and her book “Exploring Strategic Change” is in 2nd edition.

Veronica is the founding Director of the Change Management Consortium which sponsors research on change management and acts as a learning forum for senior managers involved in change. Members include Civil Aviation Authority, GlaxoSmithKline, HM Revenue & Customs, Kraft Foods and Ministry of Defence.

Senior Visiting Fellow

Anthony lectures on strategic and change management at Cass Business School. He works with boards on personal and business development, executive coaching and is also a non-executive director for a number of organisations. In the last 12 years he has led major programmes for Cass, working with a wide range of clients including Deloitte, Texaco and Woolworths.

Anthony's non-executive portfolio has included quoted, private, not-for-profit and public sector organisations. He is currently a non-executive director of DCC Energy Ltd and DCC Environmental Services Ltd, Executive Chairman of the Eat in Colour national campaign and a member of the Board of the Fresh Produce Consortium. He also held non-executive positions in the NHS, including in a community and mental health trust where he was acting chairman during a turnaround, in a strategic health authority as vice chairman, and as chairman of an acute hospitals trust.

Formerly Chairman of Emo Oil and a senior executive with Esso, Anthony is currently a member of the Council of the Energy Institute and is a former vice president of the Institute of Petroleum.

Visiting Lecturer

Sionade is an experienced management consultant and a specialist in businesses who see service excellence as a key strategic objective. She has over ten years experience gained in the consumer and business-to-business markets, with significant expertise professional service industries. She has a particular interest in the measurement of complex issues in organisational performance to identify factors for achieving high levels of service delivery. Sionade also has research interests in management systems and information.

Sionade's experience includes consultancy for Allen and Overy, the Bank of Ireland, Barclays, the BBC, the British Council, British Energy, McCarthy & Stone plc, Prudential, Sainsbury's and Virgin Atlantic.

Professor of Organisational Behaviour, Associate Dean and Director of the Centre for Leadership, Learning and Change.

After a childhood career as an operational researcher in BP, he has developed an academic background in organisational behaviour, with an M.A. a PhD from the Universities of Leeds and Bath respectively. His research and consulting interests are in the relationship between managerial living, leading, learning and storying. He has applied these interests through both research and consulting to topics as diverse as why people get angry in organisations, the motivation of middle managers, how people love their organisations into effectiveness, agenda shaping, problem construction, consulting skills and mergers. He is the author of some 90 books and articles on these topics. He won the 2008 IgNobel prize for literature for his paper on indignation in organisations.

He worked for 20 years at the University of Bath, where he was the Director of Studies for what was then the most popular undergraduate programme in Management in the UK. He has also worked for the National University of Singapore, Brunel University, where he was the founding Head of the School of Business and Management, and more recently City University, where he has been Associate Dean for MBA Programmes and then the Head of the Faculty of Management at Cass Business School. This means that he has been practicing leadership in the notoriously difficult field of academia for a long time. He has also held a Visiting Professor role at the Stockholm School of Economics for a number of years. David is a strong believer in the need for new ways of understanding leadership, and has likened much current research and development in the area to ‘searching for the keys to leadership under the lamp post’.

Visiting Lecturer: Strategy

As an independent consultant, Julie has worked with the Shell Group of companies for more than fifteen years.  She advises Shell’s learning teams, directs their in-house executive programmes and researches the business to devise bespoke learning material. Julie has also consulted for the Global Brand team, Strategy functions and downstream marketing companies within the Shell Group.

Other long-term clients include the Daily Mail Group, Fujitsu and Wincanton Logistics. This year she is also working with Morgan Stanley, ABN Amro and Olivier Mythdrama (a Leadership Consultancy).  Her particular academic interests are in evolutionary Psychology and Behavioural Economics.

Visiting Professor in Management and Organisation Development

Laurie McMahon is a Professor in Health Policy at City University, London and Director of Loop2 - He has extensive experience in management and organisational development and change across a broad range of public and private sector organisations both in the UK and overseas.

He is the co-founder of The Office for Public Management (OPM) and before forming Loop2 led their healthcare practice. In his previous lives he was a Fellow of the King?s Fund, a senior consultant in overseas healthcare and in academic settings ran a series of highly successful post graduate management programmes for health care managers and professionals.

His main interests are in strategy development and implementation, organisational design and delivery, engineering large-scale organisational change and the use of behavioural modeling to understand complex ?futures?. Recently he has focused on helping provider and commissioner organizations respond to the introduction of market forces into the NHS.

He is also Policy Advisor to Nuffield Hospitals, Special Adviser for the WHO Office for ?Investment for Health?, a Fellow of the Institute of Quality Management, and a Fellow of the Health Finance Management Association.

Sir John E Cohen Professor of Consumer Marketing

Before joining Cass as head of the marketing group, Vincent-Wayne studied for his MSc and PhD in Marketing at UMIST where he was its youngest Professor. His main research interests are in consumer-behaviour including: Theory of Perceived Risk; customer complaining, retail branding, consumer ethics and consumer confusion.

He has published over 200 articles and papers and has won eight best paper awards, including the prestigious Stanley Hollander Prize, as well as being a regular presenter at international conferences.

Visiting Professor of Organizational Ethics

Roger is a Corporate Philosopher who has a clear purpose in his work. He has devoted his life to help make the world a better workplace.

He has been described as inspiring and challenging, yet also pragmatic, warm and approachable: "He makes you stop and think..."

Roger read History at London University and studied the History of Western Philosophy. He draws on a wide range of professional experience as a banker, a social worker, an executive coach and CEO of a UK subsidiary of Adecco, the world's largest employment agency.

Roger is the author of ethicability® : How to decide what’s right and find the courage to do it. The ethicability® framework has been used or endorsed by organizations as diverse as HSBC, Tomorrow's Company and the Institute of Business Ethics. He is co-founder of the Soul Gym at Worth Abbey (BBC TWO's “The Monastery”); a Director of the Centre for Applied and Professional Ethics; a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts; and a Fellow of the Recruitment and Employment Confederation.

Professor of Decision & Risk Analysis and Director of the Centre for Risk Research, University of Southampton

Johnnie's research focuses on risk taking behaviour and decision making in an uncertain environment. He is actively involved in teaching, research and consultancy in the areas of decision making and risk taking. He has a background in the Lloyd's insurance market, where he worked as a risk financing and assessment executive and was awarded the Lloyds Insurance Brokers Prize. He has been awarded Associateship of the Chartered Insurance Institute, Fellowship of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications, and he holds the title Chartered Mathematician.

Johnnie has published widely in the areas of decision making in an uncertain environment and has been responsible for advising a number of organisations on aspects of risk taking.