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Joe Adams
Joe Adams, chairman of Academy Group 11, established his own management consultancy Adams & Associates in 1995.  |
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Tim Anderson
Tim splits his time between chairing his own Academy Group, which is based in Leeds and which he has been chairing for 9 years, and other clients for whom he provides individual coaching.  |
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Barrie Barrett
Barrie believes that everybody joining The Academy is looking for something, but it is not necessarily the same thing for each member.  |
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Robi Bernberg
Robi Bernberg, chairman of Directors Forum 3, runs medical device manufacturing company Rocket Medical, and has run LF3 since 2000.  |
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Rakesh Bhargava
Rakesh is an entrepreneur with ownership interest in hotels, hospitals, a nursing home, a technology solutions firm, wind mills and an India focused hedge fund that delivered 114% return from 1/1/2006 to 12/31/2007.  |
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Alan Branagh
Alan Branagh, Chairman of Academy Group 55 & Entrepreneurs Board 20, is an executive and performance consultant and coach.  |
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Phil Brown
Phil jointly chairs Directors Forum 13 with Alan Dean, has his own consulting company and is working with two other start up companies.  |
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Mike Burnage
Mike was appointed as Managing Director in January 2008 following on from his original Commercial role.  |
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Brian Chernett
Brian Chernett is Founder of The Academy for Chief Executives.  |
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Alan Dean
Alan is Chairman of Academy Group 19 and additionally co-chairs Entrepreneurs Board 21 with Peter Hills and also Directors Forum 13 with Phil Brown.  |
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Peter Hills
Peter Hills, is Chairman of Academy Group 18 and also co-chairs Entrepreneurs Board 21 with Alan Dean.
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Karen Humble
Karen is an experienced and qualified marketing and public relations professional based in the North East of England. She jointly owns the license for the North East with Peter Sutcliffe.  |
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Jane Hunt
Jane is an experienced and successful mentor, having focused the last 12 years on executive mentoring and top team development.  |
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Nick Jackson
Nick Jackson chairs Academy Group 16 which covers the full length of Cumbria, from Longtown to Barrow-in-Furness via Carlisle, Penrith and Kendal.  |
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Joanna Jesson
Joanna Jesson jointly chairs Directors Forum 9, Academy Group 42 and newly launched Directors Forum 42 with Phil Jesson. She also co-runs management consultancy Business Pulse,  |
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Philip Jesson
Phil's first job as an Army officer stood him in good stead for a career in sales and marketing that followed. Phil co-chairs Academy Group 42, Directors Forum 9 and Directors Forum 42 with Joanna Jesson.  |
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Doug Leather
Doug Leather is the CEO of REAP Consulting (Pty) Ltd with representation in South Africa, London and Dubai.  |
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Simon Lester
Having "walked the talk" as a member for the last 8 years Simon is well qualified to be a chairman. Simon's Academy meetings are conducted in a serious but lighthearted manner, as he believes that learning should be fun.  |
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Charles McLachlan
Charles McLachlan, Chairman of Academy Groups 27 & 28 and Entrepreneurs Boards 5, 25 & 26 is co-founder of the Transformation Development Partnership.  |
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Jeff Monks
Jeff Monks is chairman of Harold Fisher (Plastics) Ltd, and also an active business angel.  |
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Andrew Morris
Andrew Morris has been a leading figure in the media and events industry for over twenty years.  |
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Guy Norgrove
Guy's background covers both SME and Corporate worlds at the highest level internationally and in the UK and gives him a very well informed perspective of the issues and opportunities faced daily by CEOs and Managing Directors. He is the Chairman of Academy Group 37 and Entrepreneurs Board 10.  |
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Eric Peacock
Eric has been an Academy chairman for 10 years having previously been a member. In that time he has worked with members in grooming their businesses to optimise shareholder value either through listing, trade sale MBO/MBI or dividend flow.  |
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Peter Pritchett
Peter Pritchett is an experienced leader having led businesses, MBO teams and now four thriving Academy groups.  |
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Alan Sanders
Alan Sanders is currently Regional Director for the South of the UK He is also Chairman of the Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability in Putney and is a mentor to a number of SME chief executives.  |
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Mike Smith
Mike has a passion for helping to develop a wide range of businesses which has enabled him to follow a diverse career path.  |
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Peter Sutcliffe
Peter has worked for blue chip organisations for over 25 years and is now passionately focused on supporting SME's to become even more prosperous. He jointly owns the license for the North East with Karen Humble who chairs Academy Group 23.  |
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Richard Tickle
Richard is an experienced and successful business leader having had a variety of careers including eight years as Group CEO of a global European software business.  |
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William Waddington
William Waddington, Chairman of Academy Group 39, was also a founder and still is a member of Academy Group 26. He also chairs Entrepreneurs Board 18.  |
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Pete Yeoman
Pete joins The Academy for Chief Executives as Chairman of the newly formed Gibraltar-based group.  |
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