Alan Richardson
Visiting Fellow - Entrepreneurship
A Cranfield MBA, Alan holds the Chair of Science in Enterprise at the Royal Institution of Great Britain in London. This is with the purpose of making work and the work-place better understood.
Additionally he divides his work time between advising virtually any type of organisation on its performance ranging from start-ups to the NHS; and Non-Executive Directorships ranging from British Taxpayers Association Limited to the Royal Town Planning Institute.
At PwC (then Coopers & Lybrand) Alan's career kick-started in the 1970s where he was an International Tax Manager, specialising in Energy. Since 1981 when he was head-hunted to join a natural resources consultancy as Oil Analyst he has been a serial working investor earning stakes in a variety of companies, mainly in the TMT sector. In 1984 he co-founded and built a Strategy and Marketing Services concept from a blank sheet of paper to over 200 professional staff with a turn-over of £30 million.
At Cranfield he has lectured and tutored for the Business Growth Programme; the Bettany Centre and Cranfield Health. Published Cranfield research into High-Growth company valuation (1999) resulted in conference speaking engagements in Lyon, Belfast and the Cambridge Enterprise Conference. The London Stock Exchange and ICAEW funded a monograph on City stakeholder strategy (2001) to which he contributed. Other publications include his recent contribution to the McGraw-Hill Book on Skills Training in Research Degree Programmes (2007).Alan has a book on Co-Venturing and Coaching in for publication.
For Professor Richardson's Royal Institution Biog:
http://www.rigb.org/abouttheri/detail.jsp?&id=34
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