ReWB Contributors

Larry McManis

Larry McManis is a leading FMCG Executive. In 2008, after over 31 years of leadership in global consumer products, Larry founded ThinkWay Strategies LLC focused on improving business results by changing the fundamentals of how a business works. Larry has worked for large clients (e.g., extensive strategic business redesign work in the EU for a global CPG client) and small (aligning employee performance to customer satisfaction in a small pet care business); at the Board level (realigning roles and responsibilities, committees and operating leadership) and in the trenches (identifying and implementing factory floor productivity enhancements).

His experience at Kraft included senior level responsibilities for North American Business Strategy, Global Supply Chain Strategy, Global IS/IT strategy, Global Business Process Simplification, and various other strategic initiative positions. Prior to his work at parent company Kraft, Larry worked in the Oscar Mayer division in strategy, new product development, total quality management, operations, research, and quality. He is the author of two patents: a food processing equipment patent in use in the Oscar Mayer division and an automated tracking process for managing new products in use globally at Kraft. Larry holds a B.S. Agriculture–Food Science from the University of Nebraska and an MBA from the University of South Dakota.

Ahmed Al-Alawi

Ahmed is co-founder and director at GIMG Ltd, a management and finance consultancy based in Cambridge, UK. Ahmed is also an Assistant Director at Phillips.

Prior to GIMG, Ahmed worked as senior scientist at at Genzyme specializing in applying new technologies for building robust chemical processes. In his career, Ahmed has been influential in the pharmaceutical industry where where he was steering committee member of the UK/Eire Process Analytical Technologies Community of Practice. Ahmed has built his career at Genzyme, leading various projects in drug developments for the company.

He has also held positions at Shell International and as an academic at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Along with this, Ahmed works closely with leading universities, organizations and businesses on shaping the future for healthcare and innovation globally. Recently, Ahmed was selected as the Science and Engineering Ambassador for Suffolk and Cambridgeshire.

A creative and influential individual, Ahmed’s education has been widespread. He is a Chartered Chemical Engineer with a BEng and PhD in Chemical Engineering . Ahmed is currently completing his MBA from Henley Business School.

Read Ahmed’s views on the future of healthcare globally here

S Max Brown

In the last ten years, Max has made nearly one thousand presentations in locations all around the world. He’s taken clients rappelling off the Great Wall of China, facilitated at the Parliament of World Religions Conference in Spain, and spoken in hundreds of cities including Athens, Bangalore, Hong Kong, Paris, New York, and Sydney . . . Nebraska.

With his experience in leadership training, speaking, and facilitating around the world, Max brings a global perspective to the challenge of motivating people. Audiences at companies such as American Express, GE, HSBC, and Jones Apparel have raved about his interactive, engaging style. As a result, he travels 200,000 miles per year to deliver presentations to clients around the globe!

Max laces his presentations with stories and examples that inspire people to act. He is consistently given high ratings including an “all-star” recommended speaker designation from the International Association of Business Communicators. Max has a certificate in Leadership Coaching from Georgetown University, a master’s degree in Organizational Learning from George Mason University, and he is a member of the National Speaker’s Association.

He and his wife, Sally, live in Salt Lake City, Utah and they are the proud parents of two amazing kids. Previous adventures include living five years in Shanghai, China.

Listen to the weekly RealRecognitionRadio.com radio programs and meet him on Twitter @SMaxBrown and check out his blog here

Umar Gill

Umar Gill is the founder of Rewiring Business. He has specialist experience in a range of business disciplines including Cross-Cultural Leadership, Sales Management, Strategic Business Planning  and Installing Motivation to Create Effective Teams gained at the top of the sales management profession. More specifically, his work focuses around building and executing strong executive consulting projects that help clients achieve significant sales growth and managing the transition to ensure the highest quality of results. In this role, Umar has worked with global multinationals as well as companies within the FTSE 100, Fortune 500, CAC40 and Private Equity.

He regularly feeds his entrepreneurial spirit with new projects and ventures.  In 2010 he became Founder of Rewiring Business, where he writes regularly on importance of strong leadership, change management, sales effectiveness and employee motivation.

Umar has repeatedly served as a guest speaker at some of the world’s leading Business Schools, offering guidance and understanding to students on a variety of topics related to Leadership, CSR, Achieving Your Potential and Personal Branding.

An alumni of Henley Business School, Umar completed his Masters in International Management.

Read Umar’s latest blog here and look out for his regular articles which are featured from the Consumer Goods Club.

Jim Mintz

Jim Mintz is a veteran marketing professional with many years of experience as a practioner, director and academic.

He is presently Managing Partner at CEPSM and Program Director of the “Professional Certificate in Public Sector and Non-Profit Marketing” at Sprott School of Business at Carleton University. Jim now shares his views on non-profit marketing at Rewiring Business.

Prior to joining CEPSM, he was Director of Marketing and Corporate Communications at Health Canada.

Jim discusses and contributes on practical applications of marketing. His thought provoking and detailed blogs can be viewed here

Haydn Shaughnessy

Haydn Shaughnessy is a leading Innovation expert and a well established writer at various top magazines and journals on personal and systematic innovation. Having spent many years developing and pioneering thought leadership in Innovation, Haydn now brings his views to Rewiring Business. He has worked work some of the worlds leading multinationals as well as think tanks.

Shaughnessy writes on innovation at Forbes.com and works with the Moxie Insight think tank and NGE Think Tank.  He is the co-author of the upcoming book The Elastic Enterprise and a former editor of Innovation Management. His work has appeared at GigaOm, Forbes.com, The Wall St Journal and HBR.org, as wel as many other websites. His consultancy Cogenuity specialsies in developing thought leadership programs for executives.

Haydn presents his though provoking and hard hitting thoughts on change management and innovation here at Rewiring Business. Visit his blog here

Tanveer Naseer

Tanveer Naseer is a business coach who works with small businesses and entrepreneurs to develop new strategies for growth and development that keeps the focus on what makes them passionate about their business.

His writings on leadership and workplace interactions have been featured in numerous publications and industry newsletters.  His blog has been the recipient of several awards and recognitions, including being ranked as one of the top leadership and business blogs.

Tanveer holds a Master of Science degree from McGill University and currently lives in Montreal, Canada with his wife and their young daughters.

You can read more of his writings on leadership and workplace interactions on his award-winning blog at www.TanveerNaseer.com and his blog here at Rewiring Business.  You can also follow him on Twitter – @TanveerNaseer.

Tugba Gunn Sen

Tugba Gunn Sen is an experienced and aspiring business professional who has held various positions in the service industry that includes customer relationship, sales, cost control and purchasing. She subsequently gained her BA (Hons) in International Tourism Management and holds a Master of Science degree in International Management and Accounting from Henley Business School, UK. Tugba is currently pursing a career in supply chain consisting of a range of activities in planning overall level of production output, resource deployment and efficient optimization of prosesses to meet operational strategy, market demand and customer satisfaction.

During her academic period and work experience, she has developed a substantial concentration on the critical discourse surrounding accountability and how to embrace strategic CSR and green supply chain.

In the field of business strategy, her focus is on the globalization of emerging markets and the consequential challenges for firms. With the evolution of the fast growing economies, her principal interest has become the changing economic balance of power and how various institutions determine corporate behaviour.

Tugba now offers her critical thoughts on the international business world in her blog ‘Taking Business Forward’ exclusively at Rewiring Business

Jonathan Lakin

Jonathan Lakin is a thought leader in customer engagement and in particular the emerging fields of big data and game centricity. He is currently developing an integrated platform for the next generation of marketing. This integrated platform combines big data concepts with game-dynamics and an adaptive content engine to drive deep customer engagement.

Jonathan is also CEO and founder of Global Dawn, the brand experience platform. He is a serial entrepreneur, venture catalyst and investor and a partner with Delaro GmbH, a VC fund based in Germany, and spent much of his career working for VC funds to develop or turnaround high potential businesses.

Jonathan began his career in design and communications setting up his own agency in his early twenties to specialize in information design. He then went on to become VP Europe at Whitelight Systems, a market leader in (OLAP) data analytics; when he took on the role as VP-Global Jonathan was responsible for 55% of global sales for Whitelight.

From 2001 to 2008 Jonathan was an angel investor, particularly in the area of image systems. He also co-founded the Rights Marketing Company, an innovative agency that helped broadcasters and brands to transfer popular participatory TV formats to the Web.

In 2009, he combined his experience in data analytics, communications’ design and digital rights in Enrich Social Production, a UK venture-backed start up that created engaging content for major brands by leveraging customers’ social and creative interests

At Enrich Jonathan developed the online talent platform 1Click2Fame. 1Click2Fame surpassed all expectations as a mechanism for engaging audiences, and became the blueprint for Global Dawn’s content and customer engagement platform.

Jonathan has worked with major brands such as Barclays Bank, PepsciCo, Tesco, Waitrose, Unilever and Ford. Read his blog ‘The New Marketing’ here

Adeyinka Adewale

Adeyinka is vision driven professional with an unfliching desire for all round excellence. He is deeply passionate about strategic thinking and innovative problem solving. He holds a first class Bachelors degree in Real Estate from the University of Lagos, Nigeria and also has a Masters degree with distinction in International management from the Henley Business School, Reading.

His interests are in strategic national and continental development as well as the strategies of MMEs in specific regions, especially Africa hence the title of his blog, THIS IS AFRICA.

He aspires in the nearest future to be a notable, globally read author and a renowned consultant to several nations around the globe on sustainable national developmental strategies.

Radu Rachiteanu

Radu Rachiteanu is an experienced project manager in the education sector. Radu has held various positions at AIESEC, the world’s largest youth organisation. IN this role Radu also held roles within the AIESEC sales team. Prior to this, Radu was a Financial Management Coordinator and Trader.

Radu’s core competencies lie in sales, marketing and project management. Since completing his education, which includes a masters in Marketing and International Management from Henley Business School, Radu is now developing a career in Marketing Strategy and Go-to Market approaches within Eastern Europe.

Radu writes on the ways in which the CEE Region has the potential to develop further and on effective and innovative marketing communication methods.

His blog ‘Mastering Marketing Communications’ can be found exclusively at Rewiring Business.

David Masover

David Masover has over twenty years of business-to-business sales experience, including more than eight years in sales management, training, and consulting. He has consulted and negotiated in the United States, Europe, and Asia. David is the author of “Mastering Your Sales Process” which is available at Amazon.com, and is co-founder of Branders.com, the world’s largest online seller of promotional products. David is currently engaged in private sales consulting in Budapest, Hungary.

David writes on sales management, process and execution at Rewiring Business. His blog is called ‘The Process Selling Blog’

David Graham

David Graham represent Deloitte on Rewiring Business. David has twenty seven years experience in operations, marketing and sales in leading, global software and business consulting companies. David has been instrumental in promoting Deloitte Consulting in the digital space and as such, is intimitely familiar with our consulting division’s service offerings.

The Deloitte Blog can be found here and shares the views of various experts from across the South African Region of Deloitte.

Gurprriet Siingh

Gurprriet Siingh presently heads the Organization Development function for the Welspun Group of companies. A self-proclaimed maverick, he has had an eclectic career and now focuses on Organization Development and being a great dad to his two daughters.

He started his work-life as an entrepreneur at the age of 22. Nearly ran his business into the ground twice during his 8 year stint, and learned all his lessons from that experience.

His last 12 years have been all about applying the learning and helping organizations drive change. A subject matter expert in the area of Change, Leadership and Innovation, he has worked both, as a consultant and as an in-company OD leader. He firmly believes in the power of the human spirit and his fundamental advice to organizations & families is to build cultures and practices that free the human spirit. “Unless the spirit is engaged and unleashed, there can be no breakthrough” is one of his favourite themes.

He has worked across a variety of sectors including IT, Pharma, Manufacturing, Garment exports, Energy and Textiles.

You can learn more about him on www.linkedin.com/in/gurprrietsiingh and you will find him an active contributor on twitter @joyandlife and his personal blog http://joyandlife.wordpress.com

Ioana David

Ioana Elena David is a business relationship professional, with a background that includes management positions in Sales, Business Development, Administration, Training and Couching both in FMCG and services across the B2B and B2C markets.

Ioana has also helped build and deliver powerful and effective sales teams, settling and development for sales organisations, competitive analysis, providing best solutions to the issues to make profitable returns across industry. Ioana currently works as a Relationship Manager for a global bank where we is responsible for driving sales and customer services for large accounts.

She has a Professional Certificate in general management delivered by the Open University Business School London, Professional Trainer Certificate and a Master in Engineering Sciences.

Ioana lives by the motto: “If you’re not the first, then at least be the best!”

Imogen Reed

Imogen Reed is a journalist and freelance writer from London, England. She also has undertaken some web design, content writing and editing work for various UK companies.

Her prolific writing is, perhaps, inspired by her experiences gained whilst travelling the world. Few have visited so many unique communities from the big cities of Korea to the tiny villages of Vietnam. Imogen has passed through five continents before eventually settling in England. Before that she had worked tirelessly to save for her travels in New York State, where she grew up with her parents.

Imogen rarely leaves a homeless animal in the shelter and has collected two terriers and an ageing parrot despite living in a small apartment fairly typical for the area of North London she has chosen to settle. Imogen’s life now is not as exciting as visiting the wild lions in Africa or trading with villagers for food in South America but it is still extremely varied. Most well known for her guest blogging work, Imogen tries to experience every topic she writes about which has led her to form new loves such as MMA and skydiving. Imogen has found the exciting, different life she left New York to discover.

Imogen writes on a host of CSR related topics at Rewiring Business.

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