Biographies

Malcolm Berry
Malcolm has a strong reputation in management, earned as a consultant in the UK and Europe to both private industry and government agencies. His career in Information Systems, covered many roles including project manager, systems manager and data processing director.

His later career as an independent consultant spanned twenty years, with over thirty clients in business, government and industry, including names such as ADAS, Cluttons, the Corporation of Lloyds and Glaxo Wellcome. In parallel with this, he was founding Managing Director of Blackberry Estates, a property developer active in residential development in the South East of England and commercial development in the South West. He is now a founding Director in Easyoak Ltd, a family business which specialises in residential refurbishment; and is busily launching a family run Nursery School.

Malcolm has returned to academe as a Visiting Fellow at Reading University Business School, where he teaches Information Systems and Knowledge Management. He is contributing editor to a book on information systems and supervises graduate students enrolled in the Knowledge Transfer Partnership: a collaboration with Industry. He was until recently subject custodian for Management and Information Systems at The College of Estate Management.

Malcolm Berry

Dr Paul Aitken
Paul is subject area leader for Leadership and Change at Henley Management College. Previous roles have included internal and external human resource consultancy in the UK and New Zealand, with a focus on individual and executive team leadership development. Paul is also R&D director for Concordia International, a niche consulting firm specializing in creating deep dialogue tools for generating sustainable business. In the UK he has worked as a Human Resource manager in local government and the post privatisation Utility sector. Consulting assignments in European private and public sectors include SME executive team selection and development, current and future leaders talent assessment and executive team culture shaping for business transformation, particularly in cross-cultural and integrated working contexts. Paul combines teaching with research on executives’ personal values and sustainable leadership, conference presentations, executive learning facilitation, business consultancy, and personal coaching of senior executives. He mentors and supervises MBA and DBA students at Henley, is Lead Assessor for the ‘Certificate in Coaching’ and supervises executive coaches.

Paul Aitken

Maria Argyropoulou
Maria is a research associate in Athens University of Economics and Business/Greece and an associate lecturer in Strathclyde University/Scotland. She is a doctoral candidate at Brunel University/London. She received her BSc and MSc in Kapodistriako University of Athens/Greece and Athens University of Economics and Business/Greece respectively. She also holds an MBA from Strathclyde University. She has worked for Greek and international companies for more than 10 years specialising in operations management and ERP systems implementation. Her work has appeared in journals and conference proceedings. Her research interests focus on corporate governance and IT systems implementation and evaluation.

Maria Argyropoulou

Dr. Dimitrios N. Koufopoulos BSc, MBA, PhD, MCMI, FIBC
Dimitrios holds a B.Sc. degree in Business Administration from the Athens University of Business and Economics (former ASOEE) and an MBA and PhD degree from Cardiff University. He is Fellow of the Institute of Business Consultants, Member of the Chartered Institute of Management and Academic Member of the European Corporate Governance Institute.

He has taught as a visiting Lecturer in both British and American institutions and currently serves as an Adjunct Faculty at Universitas21, as well as at the Hellenic Open University. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the academic journal Corporate Board: role, duties and composition and of the World Journal of Business and Management. Appointed to the Corporate Affairs Committee at the Chartered Management Institute (CMI) in September 2004, Dimitrios is also the Founder and Managing Partner of Gnosis Management Consultants, and an external, independent Board member of the PROGNOSIS SA Market Research, Public Opinion and Behavioural Social Studies as well as a Company Secretary of the EU-MAP Consulting –a specialised Public Affairs and Lobbying consultancy company.

Dimitrios is Head of the Management Research unit at the Athens Institute for Education and Research (ATINER) and Scientific Advisor at International Management Studies. Since January 2007, based on a Memorandum for joined research between Brunel Business School and the Federation of Greek Industries and Enterprises, he is the Research-Co-ordinator of the Hellenic Observatory of Corporate Governance.

Dimitrios Koufopoulos

Themistokles Lazarides (MBA)
Themis is an Economist, and currently he works as a Lecturer in the Department of Information Technology Applications in Administration and Economy at the Technological Institute of West Macedonia, Grevena, Greece. His research interests focus on corporate governance and ES system design and implementation, organisational economics, information asymmetry, power and control equilibrium within the firm and business communications. His work has appeared in the Corporate Governance: An International Journal of Business in Society, Information Management & Computer Security and in various conferences.

Before joining TEI of West Macedonia he has worked as the head of operations for a financial firm for four years. Prior to that he has worked as a consultant and he was responsible for a number of projects.

Themistokles Lazarides

Dr. Scott Lichtenstein
Scott Lichtenstein is a Client Director at Henley Management College and Subject Area Leader in Foundations of Management. Before joining Henley, Scott was a consultant with a market research-based brand strategy consultancy on target marketing. Prior to that, he worked in Belgium as a consultant for Hill & Knowlton International Brussels, a Public Relation/Public Affairs company and in the European Commission’s Enterprise Policy directorate.

Scott lectures, researches and publishes in the areas of Strategic Leadership and Management as well as Corporate Governance. His most recent published papers have been on vision, personal values and shareholder value and integrity, values and the board agenda and the relationship between executives’ personal values and psychological traits.

Scott was born and raised in Oakland, California. Along with his MBA from the Henley Management College, he has a BA in Political Science with an International Relations emphasis from the University of California at Santa Cruz, finishing his General Education requirement courses at UCLA.

Scott Lichtenstein

Dr John Politis
Dr. Politis is a pioneering Faculty and Curriculum Leader of the Engineering Management Program, Higher Colleges of Technology, in the United Arab Emirates, and is a member of a number of editorial boards. His main research area is in organisational leadership, organisational behaviour, knowledge management, creativity and innovation. John is a Teaching Excellence Award Winner, 2004, from the ACBSP Baccalaureate/ Graduate Degree Commission. He is also the Literati Club Highly Commended Award Winner, 2004; and Literati Club Excellence Award Winner, 2002, for his Outstanding Research Papers.

Dr. Politis has earned the following professional qualifications: a Certificate of Technology in Aircraft Engineering from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia; a Bachelor of Engineering from the University of Melbourne, Australia; a Diplom-Ingenieur (Mechanical) from Aristotelion University, Greece; a Graduate Certificate in Enterprise Management from Swinburne University of Technology, Australia; a Master of Business Administration from Century University, USA; a Graduate Certificate on Online Education and Training from University of London, UK; and a Doctorate of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Management from the University of Technology, Sydney, Australia.

John Politis