Visiting Industrial Fellows

Arshad Ali is a seasoned business mentor, consultant, and former senior executive with over 35 years of experience at Pfizer Inc., where he held leadership roles at local, regional, and global levels. An alumnus of Oxford Brookes University (Class of 1983), he holds an MBA, is an MCIPD, a PRINCE2 Practitioner, a Senior Practitioner with the EMCC, and an accredited Business Mentor with the Association of Business Mentors.

Arshad has worked extensively across the pharmaceutical, healthcare, and consultancy sectors, advising organisations on business transformation, leadership development, and strategic change. 

Graham Antrobus is a Chartered Accountant and Chartered Tax Adviser with specialist credentials in business valuation, including ASA, ABV, CVA, CBV, and BVIUK accreditations. He is the Educational Development Director of Business Valuation Institute UK (BVIUK), where he leads education and policy initiatives in valuation practice across the UK.

Graham has over 15 years of experience advising clients on the valuation of private companies, intangible assets, and equity interests in complex tax, transaction, and dispute contexts. His recent work includes share valuations for private equity-backed businesses, carried interest structures, growth shares, and EMI options, as well as valuations for estate planning and litigation.

Jon has more than 30 years’ experience in Marketing and Insight, built across both corporate and consultancy roles. He has worked for major global companies such as Unilever and Kimberly-Clark, and has also served as a communications consultant to Central Government.

He has spent over two decades creating and leading tech-enabled agencies, and brings deep experience as a management consultant, advisory board member and business leader.

At Toluna, Jon holds two core positions: Managing Director and Global Head of Sustainability. He is driven by helping businesses and brands grow through a sustainability lens—using creativity and strategic thinking to turn insight into action, shaping products, brands and communications that deliver value for people, the planet and long-term profit.

Kenneth N. Ivory is a transformational thought hospitality leader, Fellow of the Institute of Hospitality (UK), a Certified Food & Beverage Executive (CFBE), and Food Management Professional (FMP). An Oxford Brookes MBA alumnus, he brings more than 35 years of executive experience across healthcare, senior living, higher education, behavioral health, business dining sectors, and resort food and beverage.

He has held multi-unit and senior leadership roles with Walt Disney World Resort, Elior North America, Sodexo USA, Creative Dining Services, Genuine Foods, Lindsey Management Services, and Perkins Management Services, consistently advancing service culture and operational excellence. As CEO of Ivory Hospitality Group, LLC, Kenneth provides strategic consulting, leadership development, operational assessments, keynote speaking, and interim executive support to organizations seeking to strengthen their hospitality and dining operations. His work blends time-honored service principles with forward looking innovation to help teams excel and grow.

Valerie is a healthcare entrepreneur, Registered Nurse, and doctoral researcher combining clinical insight with business innovation.

Valerie is the Founder and Managing Director of Intelligent Healthcare Solutions, a healthcare service provider supporting pharmaceutical and medical device companies for over 15 years. She is a Registered Nurse with specialist qualifications in Neuroscience and Oncology Nursing, and holds a Master’s degree in Obesity Risks and Prevention. Valerie is currently pursuing a Doctorate in Business Administration, combining her clinical expertise with advanced business strategy.

Mike's initial career was spent in the UK working for High Street food service operations before spending nearly 20 years overseas as a senior executive with the Zurich , Switzerland based gategroup , a global service provider of "above the wing" aviation services. As a SVP, he also served as President of gategroup' Asia - Pacific regional interests from 2009 to 2013 and still retains strong links in the East to this day.

Mike ran an independent consultancy advising on business planning, expansion and core product development helping to steer agendas for SMEs and larger businesses worldwide. He continues to be retained as a senior advisor by the CEOs and Management Boards of ambitious and dynamic businesses across UK , Europe and Asia.

Mike currently provides executive search and coaching support for foodservice , travel and lifestyle brands both independently, and in his capacity as a Partner at The Hayward Partnership. 

Kate’s career spans more than 25 years, beginning in marketing at a UK government laboratory before moving into the publishing industry, where she spent 23 years. During this time, she held senior leadership roles working closely with marketing, editorial, HR, and sales teams, and led global organisational change initiatives. This experience gave her a deep understanding of how people, strategy, and culture interact to drive business performance.

Kate is now a Team and Leadership Development Consultant and Executive Coach, partnering with senior leaders across international organisations, UK SMEs, and the non-profit sector. She holds an MBA, an MA in Coaching, and postgraduate qualifications in Marketing, Human Resource Management, and Psychology.