Dr Ram Raghvan helps organisations understand the gaps in their strategy using some proprietary models that he developed as part of his PhD. He specialises in creating innovative approaches to develop strategies that yield effective results. An engineer by qualification, ram started working in R&D in a telecom company. He has worked in the telecom and health care sectors. He was managing the bio medical instruments business for a couple of countries. He currently works with many FTSE250 companies senior management team. Ram has over 20 years experience and a depth of experience that covers strategy, marketing and customer management. He has experience of working with numerous blue-chip organisations, including The British Council, NGA, JLT, Microsoft, Centrica, AA, John Lewis , Lloyds Banking Group, O2, Boots, Scottish Water and Tesco. Currently he has clients primarily in UK and India and plans to cross the pond to offer his services to clients in EU and the USA. He is the author of three books one on customer service and two on employees.

Raman Pandya helps organisations turnaround by conceptualising and implementing result oriented strategies. He has been regarded in the industry as an authority on strategic turnaround. Raman in his previous avatars was responsible for launch of many successful brands for Nestle. He firmly established Castrol as the Market leader in lubricants in the Indian subcontinent thwarting competition. Under his able leadership BOC was able leapfrog its performance whilst increasing the effectiveness of its resources. He managed to reduce the manpower of BOC from 1500 to 650 with the unions support whilst steering the company to become the market leader. He has also been the Chairman of AL-Futaim and Managing Director for Zuari cement. Raman has a chemistry background and a masters in people management. He currently heads the Asia Pacific region and has been the key figure in the companies Asia footprint. 

Ben Thompson-McCausland is an executive coach. His business career began at Coopers & Lybrand where he qualified as an accountant, before joining a merchant bank. He was then invited to become Managing Director of London Life, an old-established life assurance company. After six years he was approached to become Group Managing Director of National Provincial building society. Ben works as a consultant in leadership, planning, coaching and the effective deployment of resources. He sometimes describes himself as a corporate Dynarod! Active in the Industrial Society he makes frequent appearances at leadership courses, as well as occasional appearances at: Management Centre Europe; Ashridge College; London Business School; the City University MBA Programme; Tom Peters and other seminars; Moscow School of Political Studies. He delivered the 1985 Gresham Lecture at the City University, and the 1997 John Loxham Lecture to the Institute of Quality Assurance. He was until recently chairman of the British School of Osteopathy, and a director of Harefield Hospital.

Mike O’Shea is the founder and CEO of “The Sales Doctors” a network of Freelance or Interim Sales Managers, Marketing Managers and qualified Training and Development Practitioners. Mike’s credentials include over 25 years of exceptional and demonstrable business success including Senior Management Positions in Sales, Marketing and People Development. Before starting “The Sales Doctors” Mike was employed by organisations originating from the UK, Europe, the Far East and the USA, which has given him considerable exposure to different cultures, markets and personnel for organisations such as IBM, Hamilton’s, Nokia, HP, Dataflex, Curry’s, First Computer, Discomp, British Gas and Wakebourne. Mike started “The Sales Doctors” over 15 years ago. During this time he has successfully completed 100’s of Interim Management or Freelance assignments. He specialises in revising and implementing Business Strategies from a revenue generation and growth perspective. He’s also Conducted Sales Force Appraisals, Devised & Implemented Training Needs Analysis, Coached, Mentored and Facilitated Change

Bill Best is an Executive Coach with an experience of more than 25 years as a business coach. Throughout this time he has focused on helping organisations achieve significant change through the effective leadership and development of their people. Bill has worked in most industry sectors including Banking, Insurance, Pharmaceuticals, High-Tech Products and Services, Communications, Retail, Entertainment, Manufacturing and Consumer Goods. Within each of these sectors he has partnered with the full range of functions from Operations to Finance to R&D to Human Resources. Typically his clients have been Fortune 100 and FTSE 100 companies, but he also has experience working with publicly funded bodies. He has carried out assignments throughout Europe on behalf of numerous multi-nationals. Bill’s work in accelerating the enhancement of organisational effectiveness has focused primarily on the development of leadership talent. This has been achieved through accurate, predictive assessment, as well as challenging and supportive individual coaching and team development. Although a chartered psychologist, Bill is practical and pragmatic; whilst concerned to deliver technical excellence, he measures his effectiveness by the impact his input has on the client organisation’s goals. Previously in his career, Bill held senior roles in two major consulting firms - Advanced Personnel Technology Limited, and Personnel Decisions International. In both roles he was responsible for client and project management, management and development of consultants, business development, and the design and refinement of products and services.Bill holds a Bachelor’s degree in psychology from Bolton Institute of Technology, as well as an MSc and MPhil from Cranfield University