Stephen Hyde

Consultant focussing on SMEs with a portfolio of roles, including NED.

Non-executive director with £80m turnover car, truck and agricultural equipment dealer. Consultant to MD of aerospace fasteners distributor.

Professor in Management Practice 2013-2018, specialising in giving students greater exposure to "real" business.

Finance and Operations Director at Emma Bridgewater until June 2011, bringing out the best from teams with varied skills and backgrounds through good communication, leadership and teamwork. Doubled turnover and tripled profits in three years.

Previously a Finance Director with 25 years experience in commercial finance positions including Investor Relations Director and International Finance Director of Tesco, the leading UK-based retailer and Finance Director of Nord Anglia plc, a fully-listed UK education and children's nurseries business.

*Specialties: *

• General management
• Higher and degree apprenticeships
• Student employability
• Large and small business experience
• Team development
• Mergers, Acquisitions & Disposals
• Negotiating banking facilities
• Project management
• Investor Relations
• Setting up new functions
• European and Asian experience
• Cash management
• Commercial

Education

• BA (Hons) Lancaster University (1975 — 1978)
• Bexhill Grammar School (1968 — 1975)

Companies

• Associate Apprenticeship Tutor Cranfield School of Management (2020)
• Member of College Oversight Board London Churchill College (2019)
• Consultant to Managing Director Swift Aerospace (2016)
• Publicity Manager Herts Jazz Club (2010)
• Visiting Lecturer Birkbeck - A specialist Science, Maths and Arts College (2019 — 2021)
• Board Advisor SynergyMode (2019 — 2020)
• Non Executive Director Haynes Bros Ltd (2009 — 2019)
• Professor in Management Practice University of Bedfordshire (2013 — 2018)
• Board Consultant Konditor & Cook (2011 — 2011)