Strategic International Advisory Group
Meet the experts who contribute to the strategy and leadership of our Business School.
Our advisory group members
Meet our advisors
Laoise Flanagan
Laoise is a director at Deloitte with over 20 years’ experience. She leads the UK Education Sector team’s focus on organisational resilience and strategy, and the Private Growth team in North and South Europe. She also mentors a significant network across the business.
Laoise is a visiting professor at Manchester Met and chairs the Strategic International Advisory Group at the Business School.
Katie Gallagher, OBE
Katie runs two not-for-profit organisations, chairs the UK Tech Cluster Group and sits on the Digital Skills Council. She is an experienced founder and strategist with over 15 years’ of experience across start-ups, scale-ups, corporates, and public and private sector partnerships.
Silvia Hernandez
Silvia is a Managing Director in Accenture’s Strategy and Consulting practice. She is the European Industries Lead and Global Automotive Lead for Talent and Organisation.
Mark Jarvis
Mark is an experienced Non-Executive Director and former Global and Group Chief Finance Officer with over 37 years of success in driving high-level strategic developments across the global arena.
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Sahib Patel
Sahib is currently the Global Finance Leader for Amazon Business Payments and Lending, responsible for steering the firm’s long-term payments strategy and FP&A function.
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Stevie Spring
Stevie Spring CBE has served on many public, private equity, membership and charity boards. Currently, she is chairman-elect of PRS for Music, the global music rights organisation. She is also an independent non-executive director and chairman for the £11bn turnover Coop Group; a member of the Pladis global advisory board; an investor advisor to two tech companies; and chair of Mind, the mental health charity.
Stevie was named by GQ magazine as one of the UK’s 100 most connected women. She is on Debrett’s list of Britain’s 500 most influential people, and holds an honorary doctorate for services to business.
Tim Williams
Tim is the Chief Executive of Oxford United Football Club. He has over 25 years of professional finance experience, including more than 15 years in sport, media, advertising and entertainment.
View Tim’s LinkedIn profile.