Course Directors

We are proud to be guided by an outstanding team of educational and industry leaders. They include:

Emerits Professor David Faulkner

Formerly Director of Studies, Said Business School, Oxford, and University of the Creative Arts; Fellow of Christ Church, Oxford, Author of Management books published by Oxford University Press. His roles have included: Strategy course Director and Internal examiner of MBA and Member of the Graduate Programmes Committee, Cranfield University Internal PhD Examiner 19931991, Research Fellow and Project Director University of Cambridge Centre for Business Research, and The Judge Institute of Management Studies. 

In 1995 he returned to the University of Oxford where successively Director of the Saed Business School, University of Oxford, and Director of the MBA Programme, Fellow of Christ Church, and Tutor in Management, and Chief Examiner MBA, 2002, and for the BA in Economics and Management.  

Subsequently he was Visiting lecturer/ PhD supervisor/ Examiner in Strategy for the Universities:- Aarhus, Birmingham, Cambridge, Cranfield, Georgetown, USA, Henley/ Brunel, INSEAD, Lancaster, LBS, Oxford, Warwick. 

During the last 15 years he has been Director of Studies and Lecturer in Management at Exeter College, University of Oxford, and Professor, Royal Holloway, University of London, Dean of Magna Carta College and President of Oxford Graduate School.

Jeremy Webster

the founder and managing director of Silver Pebbles Limited, an approved training centre of the Chartered Management Institute since 2006.The firm is based in Aylesbury and provides leadership and management training education and consultancy services to organisations across the UK and abroad. Clients have included local and national government in industrial and commercial multinationals and SMEs in Buckinghamshire. Jeremy also teaches strategy and leadership to undergraduates and postgraduate students in several UK universities. Jeremy is a Chartered Engineer with a background in manufacturing, having also chaired a UK professional body and led a BSI technical committee.

Sandy Saunders

Entrepreneur and Industrial Advisor to the Bank of England and UK and US Investment Institutions, former Member of Council, CBI, the National Economic Development Office, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, Executive Chairman of more than 20 Quoted Industrial Groups, Vice- President Buckinghamshire and Milton Keynes Association of Local Councils, and Chairs the Association for South Bucks, and is a former Mayor of Beaconsfield.

His outside interests include Chairing the Beaconsfield Community Association, the Beacon EVT Bursary Fund, Curzon College, and the London Association of Reserve Naval Officers.

He is also Life President of Brain Tumour Research.