David Molian BA/MA Diplome MBA
Senior Lecturer Entrepreneurship
David Molian is Director of the Business Growth & Development Programme - BGP, the UK's largest programme for ambitious entrepreneurs. He has been involved with entrepreneurship education at Cranfield since 1998, and has mentored numerous fast-growth businesses. For several years he also led the enterprise electives on the Cranfield MBA programmes. Within the Bettany Centre he leads initiatives in executive education and, with Professor Andrew Burke, is joint director of the Coutts Private Banking Academy Entrepreneurs Programme.
David trained in consumer goods advertising and has been personally involved in the founding and sale of three businesses. He has served on the faculty of Imperial College and, as visiting faculty, at INSEAD and London Business School. David was educated at the universities of Oxford and Aix-en-Provence, and holds an MBA from Cranfield School of Management. For a number of years he advised corporate development and training senior management within Unilever plc, directing programmes across business divisions in numerous markets.
Currently he advises the UK government's national Business Link service, and has been retained by Scottish Enterprise. He has also advised npower on their Challenger Brands survey (2007) and contributed to the Vodafone Working Nation report (2008). He chairs the Board of the Cranfield Management Association and is a member of the Advisory Board of Peter Leach LLP, the leading UK firm of family business advisors. For a number of years he was on the selection panel of the Coutts Family Business Prize. As of March 2010 he sits on the Advisory Board of Cranfield School of Management.
David has published extensively on issues involved in marketing and business start-up, and is a prolific author of cases. He has contributed a number of pieces to the Financial Times and other leading business publications. In 2002 (with colleague Robert Brown), he was awarded the EFMD case-writing prize for his study of Hotel Chocolat, a Sunday Times Fast Track 100 company whose MD attended the Business Growth Programme in 2000. That success was repeated with the IViewCameras case in 2005 and yet again in 2009 with Pacific Direct, with co-author Robert Brown.
E-mail: d.molian@cranfield.ac.uk
Blog:
http://davidmolian.blogspot.com