CONTRIBUTORS
A rundown of some of the top business minds who have assisted in putting together the Insurance Business launch issue. JIM SHARPE
SENIOR LECTURER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION, HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL Jim Sharpe is a Senior Lecturer in the Entrepreneurial Management unit. He teaches a second year elective on turnarounds, and the entrepreneurial manager, a first year required course. His interests are in the areas of business acquisitions, manufacturing, B2B niche marketing, turnarounds, pricing, leadership, family balance, large/small company differences, ethics, exit strategies and employee empowerment.
ANTOINE HERMENS
HEAD OF MANAGEMENT DISCIPLINE GROUP, MANAGEMENT CORE MEMBER, CENTRE FOR CORPORATE GOVERNANCE, UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY Antoine M J G Hermens MBA (Macq) fellow of the Australian Institute of Management and fellow of the Australian Marketing Institute, is the executive MBA director at the University of Technology Sydney. Antoine spent the first 16 years of his career as a manager and executive in a range of companies in the retail, car, and tyre industries. In this period he reached CEO of a joint venture company. Antoine is multi-lingual and draws on extensive commercial experience in his role as an academic and advises a number of national and international clients on strategy and alliance management.
DON O’SULLIVAN
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR – MARKETING, MELBOURNE BUSINESS SCHOOL Don O’Sullivan joined the faculty at Melbourne Business School in 2008 from University College Cork, Ireland. Don’s principal academic interest is in the impact of marketing activities on company performance. His research has been published in the European Journal of Marketing, and the Journal of Marketing among others, and his case studies on technology marketing are taught in business schools across Europe. Don is an active member of the Chief Marketing Officers (CMO) Council of the USA. Since 2003 he has led the Council’s Marketing Performance Measurement research program, and is a co-author of the Council’s Report on this topic.
TOM RICHARDSON
MANAGING PARTNER, DELOITTE LEADERSHIP ACADEMY Tom qualified as an accountant, an investment banker, a Master of Business Administration and a strategy consultant before realising business succeeds because of people not Powerpoint. After 15 years as a consultant with Arthur Andersen, Bain International and most recently Deloitte, Tom advised Australia’s leading organisations on operational excellence and growth. Tom identified as a consultant the need for leadership capability to realise performance improvement in business and hence founded the Deloitte Leadership Academy. With over 3,000 Australian business leaders using the DLA, Tom has unparalleled insight into the use of cutting edge techniques to cost effectively and pragmatically develop our future business leaders.
MAARTEN BOS
POST-DOCTORAL FELLOW OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION, HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL Maarten Bos is a post-doctoral research fellow of business administration in the Negotiation, Organisations & Markets Unit at the Harvard Business School. He holds a PhD in Psychology from Radboud University Nijmegen and a BA in Psychology from the University of Amsterdam.
2 | MAY 2012