CMI South West

Sarah Preedy MCMI

Dr Sarah Preedy is a Senior Lecturer in Business and Enterprise at Plymouth Marjon University and has designed and led the undergraduate Business programmes at the University since 2017. Prior to joining Marjon, Sarah worked at University of Plymouth teaching across several Business modules and leading on an extracurricular enterprise programme to support young entrepreneurs.

Sarah’s research interests are in enterprise education and her publications examine how students learn through in and extracurricular enterprise activities. Sarah is passionate about bridging the gap between academia and policy and her work on enterprise education was recently published in the All Party Parliamentary Group report on Enterprise Education (2018).

Sarah is a Fellow of both the Higher Education Academy and Enterprise Educators UK.

Stuart Young FCMI

After a career as a Royal Navy Engineer Officer, including appointments at sea, as a liaison officer with the US Department of Defence in Washington and programme management roles in procurement and logistics, Stuart Young joined Cranfield University in 2008 and is head of the Centre for Defence Acquisition.

Stuart is responsible for the delivery of a range of management courses and MSc programmes. His research interests include the Government-Industry relationship, complex programmes and decision-making.

Lois Farquharson CMgr FCMI

Dr Lois Farquharson is the Deputy Dean for Education & Professional Practice in The Business School, Bournemouth University.  She is an experienced leader with a demonstrated background in the higher education sector and business engagement. Skilled in leading and managing change and organisational development, Lois believes in the value of positivity, appreciative inquiry and kindness in dynamic organisation/industry contexts.

Lois has undertaken research and knowledge exchange projects focused on these areas with various organisations including the NHS, IiP Scotland, Police Service, Higher Education Institutions and small businesses.

As a strong professional, Lois is a Chartered Fellow of the CMI, an Academic Fellow of the CIPD, and is certified to deliver the Strengths Deployment Inventory (TotalSDI) to support individual and team growth.

Terry Corby CMgr CCMI

News this summer at the CMI is that Terry Corby has been appointed as Chairman of the South-West Regional Board.  Terry knows the region and its challenges and opportunities well. He has lived in Cornwall for the past 20 years and has spent a career in growing businesses large and small. Today he combines a career that includes Interim CEO/CMO roles, with his NED roles and is also a professional coach to several CEOs and senior executives. He is currently towards the end of an assignment as Interim Group Marketing Director at Medacs Global Group plc – helping them to to create a more customer-centric organisation and culture. Prior to that he was the founding CEO at the successful healthcare workforce start-up – Ryalto. He was also a partner at the growth and innovation consultancy, The Foundation. In Cornwall, he also took on a leadership role at the Eden Project – where he helped set up an Advisory Service for business and government focusing on re-imagination, inspiration and insight.

As a change leader, Terry is at his best when helping boards or organisations lead and work through significant change. His experience in senior executive roles spans 25 years at KPMG, Accenture, American Express and Sainsbury’s. Terry served as a Partner on the UK Board of KPMG with annual revenues of £1.7bn and 11,000 employees. Before that, Terry was a Partner and a member of the UK Executive Board of Accenture UK & Ireland, a 12,000 employee organisation with annual revenues of £2bn.

Terry also served for several years as a Board Director at the government funded agency, South West Screen (now part of Creative England) and as Chairman of the Cornwall Film & Television Board, both dedicated to the development of the creative media sector. Terry was also a Founding Director of The Talent Foundation, a not-for-profit organisation focused on helping individuals and businesses develop through human talent. In Cornwall, he is a Governor of Truro School and also Chair of Governors at Roselyon School. In addition, Terry is a Non-Executive Director of the Ironbridge Gorge Museums Trust – with its 10 museums and 35 historical sites.

Terry’s Board responsibilities have involved leading major transformation and change – both within organisations and in repositioning their brands within the marketplace and with clients. His experience includes global responsibility for marketing, business development, reputation, communications, culture and employee engagement, research and knowledge management. He also led the development of thought leadership at Accenture for over 10 years and initiated the High Performance program of research that has been at the core of Accenture’s market positioning.

Terry is a Fellow of the Royal Society for the promotion of Arts, Merchandising & Commerce (FRSA); a Fellow of the Strategic Planning Society (FStratP); and became a Companion of the CMI in 2006.

Alexander Chikhani CMgr FCMI

Alex is the Director of Business Development for TrueSpeed – an UltraFast Internet Service Provider based in Bath. The role is incredibly dynamic due to the nature of the sector coupled with the young age of the company. This sees him continually seek new opportunities for the business, forging strong relationships with a range of communities, whilst overcoming a great deal of ambiguity.

He is a Veteran of the RAF and has a degree in Law, Logistics Management, and a Cranfield University MBA.

Hanne Kroger-Knight

I am a Lecturer in Marketing at the University of Plymouth and lead both undergraduate and postgraduate modules which include modules such as Digital Marketing, Innovation and New Product Development as well as Consumer Behaviour. Moreover, I am a visiting lecturer at the National School of Business Management in Colombo, Sri Lanka where I teach a module called Current Issues in Management.

I also guide both postgraduate and undergraduate students through their research dissertation both in Plymouth and at our partner University in Venlo, The Netherlands. As a researcher, I am interested in sustainability and I am aiming to make a business case for companies to be more sustainable.

My professional background is in digital marketing where I have worked mainly in the field of content management, email marketing and social media marketing. American Marketing Systems Inc. is one of the businesses I have worked for.