Edward Hickman

Edward Hickman has more than 20 years experience as a consultant and as a commercial business manager operating at Board level with business development, change management and operational transformation experience. His career spans a range of sectors including financial services, executive recruitment and occupational health.

An economist by training and graduate of York University, Edward specialises in business strategy, business opportunity modelling, assessment and validation, and sales and marketing strategy and capacity development.

In his spare time Edward enjoys golf, shooting and cycling and London life including theatre and exhibitions. He has a keen interest in all things Spanish, including food and wines, other cultural aspects and the language

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Neil Stanworth

Neil Stanworth has close to 30 years' experience as a consultant, a civil servant and in a variety of sales and business development roles in the public services industry.

A graduate of Cambridge University, Neil’s previous employers include both consultancies and major business services and outsourcing companies. He specialises in market strategy and analysis, sales and business development support, organisation assessment and change programme design and implementation. He has particular sectoral expertise in business services, outsourcing, technology, public sector (central government, local government, health and social care, and education) and defence.

Outside work Neil plays the electric guitar with enthusiasm but limited ability, and enjoys cooking and wine.

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Eileen Robinson

Eileen Robinson has 13 years consultancy experience and more than 20 years’ experience in total in providing strategic business advice designed to help organisations change the way they do business, improve their performance and meet their objectives. A graduate of Liverpool University, Eileen has wide experience in business and market review across both public and private sectors and has particular expertise in social policy areas including social housing, education, health and social care.

When not at work Eileen enjoys reading and the theatre and the more energetic pastimes of cycling in Germany and helping out at local beer festivals.

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Mark Lovell

Mark has led the strategy for the growth of A4e Ltd from start up to a company employing 3,000 people over the last 16 years.

He has a keen interest in the import and export of best practice and leverages learning from the best organisations in the UK and overseas. His current projects involve effective policy development across a range of government sectors, practitioner and customer engagement in service design and effective investment/return models to underpin value for money public service delivery.

He is a former board member of Sheffield’s Local Strategic Partnership and Governor of a local Community College. He is currently a Non-Executive Director of Sheffield’s PCT and Yorkshire Forward, Yorkshire’s Regional Development Agency, and Chairs the CBI’s Education and Children’s Services Panel. Mark has an MBA from the University of Sheffield and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

He enjoys playing football, reading and walking his three dogs. He also helps entrepreneurs and business people start up and diversify their companies in his spare time.

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Roy Newey

Roy leads A4e's international development where he has played a key role in the successful exportation of A4e's welfare to work policy, liaising with senior politicians and policy makers, as well as local community groups and programme beneficiaries, in Israel, France, Germany and Poland.

He was previously Deputy Chief Executive of Merseyside TEC and Business Link which he led for seven years. He became a non-executive Director at A4e in 2000 and played a significant role in developing A4e's approach to delivering business support services under the Business Link brand.

In these roles Roy has put his practical experience and success in business. He set up his first business in 1982 at the age of 22 and built it over the next 10 years to two restaurants, two florists, wholesale butchers, wholesale fruit and vegetables and a coffee shop and bakery. When he sold the business its turnover had reached £5m and he employed 450 staff.

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