Council Biographies
Dr Alan Mawson (Chair of Council and Chair of Nominations and Governance Committee)
Alan Mawson is the Founder and Executive Chairman of Clarendon Fund Managers Ltd, and was a founder director of Electra Innvotec in 1988. He is a director of the general partner and member of the audit committee of the Rainbow Seed Fund, an £8.5 million fund set up to commercialise technology arising from the UK public sector research laboratories, and was a director and on the Investment Approvals Committee of NorthStar Equity Investors Ltd until recently. Alan was Chairman of the Board of the University of Salford's wholly owned subsidiary, University of Salford Enterprise Ltd, which holds the University's investments in spinout companies until becoming Pro-Chancellor and Chairman of the University Council in October 2008. A former consultant with McKinsey & Co, and a Director of Research and Engineering of Wiggins Teape, Alan is an organic and polymer research chemist, holding a PhD from the University of Lancaster and an MBA from MIT (Cambridge, Mass). He is a member of the Court and a Past Master of the Salter's Company. Alan is also a board member of the Salter's Institute that manages a £2m pa educational programme including university Chemistry Clubs and summer schools for 15 year-olds at universities throughout the UK and in Ireland.
Councillor Derek Antrobus (Lead Member for the College of Science and Technology)
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Councillor Derek Antrobus was born in Salford in 1954 and has been a Labour member of Salford City Council since 1979. He has been a member of Council’s cabinet since 2000, initially responsible for finance, administration and information systems and currently responsible for planning, highways, and climate change. Derek serves at a Greater Manchester level as chair of the Planning and Housing Commission, chair of the Red Rose Forest Partnership and various ad hoc planning groups. At a North West level he is a trustee of Community Forests North West. He also chairs the North West Regional Flood Defence Committee. His first degree was from Manchester University and his postgraduate study has been at Salford University, Bolton Institute of High Education and the Open University, for whom he works as an associate lecturer. A keen local historian, he is a trustee of the People’s History Museum and has published A Guiltless Feast, a book about the Salford origins of the modern vegetarian movement.
Mr Mike Appleton (Lead Member Estates from 1 February 2012)
Mike has over 30 years of experience covering both public and private sectors, including property development, major regeneration planning/implementation, senior management, financial and public administration. Currently Mike is Chair of the Fylde Coast EDC seeking to unify economic development programmes in the sub-region .He is also a Board member of the Lancashire Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP). In addition Mike sits on the Homes and Communities Agency assets Stewardship Board and is a member of the Olympic Delivery Authority Planning Committee. Mike also acts as a consultant particularly to public bodies on property and regeneration issues. For example, he is currently advising the Olympic Park Legacy Company on the legacy use of the Olympic Stadium and he has assisted in restructuring a consultancy company. From 2004 to 2007 he established, developed and managed Cibitas Investments Limited (CIL) a special purpose regeneration company with high profile shareholders ING Real Estate, and Stanhope PLC and CP Holdings .Mike remains a non-executive director of CIL. Earlier career included being a Director of English Partnerships, being responsible for a range of regeneration initiatives and managing planning and technical services/project management staff. This included work on major infrastructure provision to allow growth of New Towns, the Millennium Village initiative and Urban Regeneration Companies. During this time he led the Government’s negotiations for the successful sale and redevelopment of the Millennium Dome (now O2) and Greenwich Peninsula. Prior to this Mike was a Corporate Director at Amec Plc, responsible for a range of strategic property development projects and Joint Ventures throughout the UK . Mike has also been an executive director of English Estates, a Management Consultant with Coopers and Lybrand, a Principal in the Department of Trade and Industry and a Lecturer. Non-executive roles have included being Deputy Chair of a Housing Action Trust, and Board member of a Regional Investment Agency, Urban Regeneration Company, Technology Park Company, City Challenge Company, Business in the Arts, Regional Housing Board and several Public/Private special purpose vehicles.
Mr Ian Austin
Ian Austin is a partner, Heatons LLP and is one of the region's leading lawyers having practiced in Manchester for over 20 years. He has specialised in commercial litigation throughout this period and acts for a wide range of companies, institutions and individuals. Ian has extensive experience in dealing with high value claims and, where appropriate, uses alternative forms of dispute resolution (including mediation) to resolve disputes. He enjoys strong links with the Manchester business community and regularly speaks at conferences and events. He is also a keen supporter of The Prince's Trust and has been closely involved in helping to support the trust and fundraising. Ian lives with his wife and children in Mawdesley, Lancashire.
Mr Kevin Brady
Following several years in the telecommunications industry, Kevin returned to education as a mature student studying at Newbattle Abbey Adult College and then Politics and History at Salford University before going on to qualify as a lecturer in Further and Adult Education. He has taught full-time in colleges of Further Education and Adult Education as well as tutoring part-time in University. Between 1990-2000, he held several senior management posts in local Government and was appointed Head of Lifelong Learning Service with Bury Metropolitan Borough Council in 1998. In 2000 he was seconded to the Department for Education and Skills initially to support the national development of Learning Partnerships and then to lead on the Transforming Youth Work modernisation programme from 2001-2002 as a permanent civil servant. He transferred to Government Office North West in December 2002 initially on secondment from DfES. He was appointed to the post of Operations Director, Neighbourhood Renewal, Government Office North West in January 2004. Kevin was appointed as Assistant Chief Executive at Salford City Council in September 2006. As the Strategic Director for the Chief Executives Directorate and member of the Corporate Management Team, he reports directly to the Chief Executive, Barbara Spicer.Kevin's responsibilities include leading for the Salford Strategic Partnership, alongside corporate functions including Strategy,Policy and Performance, Programme Management, Marketing and Communications and Skills and Work. Kevin is currently supporting the Greater Manchester Public Protection Commission and leads the Improving Public Confidence work programme. He is a director of Salford Foundation and Trinity Irwell City Park. He co-chairs the Salford Community Safety Partnership, is the chair of the Salford Youth Offending Board, represents GM local authorities on the GM Local Criminal Justice Board, is an executive member of the Salford Safeguarding Children's Board and chair of the Salford Construction Partnership.
Mr Tony Britten (Lead Member IT)
Tony Britten has recently retired from the position of Director of Financial Crime Management at Co-operative Financial Services that embraces The Co-operative bank, Smile (the internet bank) Co-operative Insurance (formerly known as CIS) and Britannia (following the merger with Britannia Building Society in August 2009). He also has some experience of academic life as he was a junior lecturer and researcher at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth where he gained a MSc in Economics and Marketing before eventually taking up a graduate management programme with Nat West in London. Tony became an associate and active member of the Chartered Institute of Bankers having completed his studies whilst working for Nat West during the late seventies. His move to Manchester came in 1979 when he joined The Co-operative Bank to lead work on banking automation. Tony has enjoyed a very varied and successful career and in the last few years with the Co-operative was involved in the mergers with the insurance business and latterly with the building society. His specific senior roles over the last 15 years have included being Director of Internal Audit and Compliance, Director of Human Resources as well as specific secondments leading work with consultants on merger activity, and major business transformation work including IT Strategy. Tony has spent time on the Board of Northwest Excellence, working with the NWDA and also with the head teachers mentoring programme developed by Business in the Community. In addition, he has presented an internal course for the City University Business School and has always had an interest in the academic world. Tony has been an active member of Council since 2002 and is delighted to be involved at this exciting time in the development of the University. He is married to Jane, a teacher and they have two grown up children.
Professor Martin Bull
Martin Bull is Professor of Politics in the School of Humanities , Languages and Social Sciences. Martin’s main academic interests are contemporary Italian politics, political parties, Europeanisation and democratisation. He was (before creation of the School system) the last Head of the Department of Politics and Contemporary History (1998-99), as well as subsequently Founding Head of the School of English, Sociology, Politics and Contemporary History (1999-2002). During 2002-4 he was a Visiting Fellow and Leverhulme Fellow in the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the European University Institute, Florence.In the period between 2004 and 2010, he served in various capacities including Associate Dean for Research in the Faculty of Arts, Media & Social Sciences (for over five years), Chair of the Discipline Committee (for four years) and member of Senate, of which he became Deputy Chair and Chair of its Academic Audit and Governance Committee in August 2008. Martin was visiting Fellow at the Collegio Carlo Alberto, University of Turin during his recent period of sabbatical leave
Dr Mike Burrows (Lead Member Finance)
Mike Burrows is the Chief Executive of Salford Teaching Primary Care Trust where he has worked since 2001. Originally a Doctor of Biochemistry, Mike has worked in the NHS for 23 years now, principally in the finance discipline before taking on the Chief Executive role six years ago. He is also one of the founding Board members of the Manchester Academic Health Sciences Centre. Mike is currently the Chairman of the Association of Greater Manchester PCTs and co-Chairs the Greater Manchester Health Leadership Group, a partnership working forum with local government in the region. He also has leadership roles in Greater Manchester in relation to Research and Development, Pathology and Neurosciences.
Mr Nick Collins (Lead Member Human Resources)
Nick Collins is a Charted Engineer and an active member of the Institution of Engineering and Technology in Manchester having worked professionally in a number of manufacturing companies around the UK, initially as an Manufacturing Engineer, and subsequently in Works and General Management until he retired a number of years ago from his last position as the Managing Director of ALSTOM T&D Distribution Switchgear in Manchester. He is currently a Lead Member for HR on the University Council and is also a Governor of the Manchester College where he is the Chair of Audit. Most of his professional engineering life was spent at Rugby with GEC and subsequently ALSTOM T&D where he was responsible for the design and manufacture of a range of Vacuum Switches and Interrupters which are used to switch and protect high voltage equipment and distribution networks. Following that he was responsible for the rationalisation of the distribution business of ALTOM T&D which was spread over a number of locations around the UK including two in Manchester which resulted in a profitable multi activity business at just one location in Manchester.
Mr Peter Crompton (Lead Member for the College of Health and Social Care)
Peter Crompton has recently retired from the position of the Principal of Salford City College; the fourth largest FE College in the North West, with a turnover of over £40 million. The College employs 1,000 staff, has 6,000 full-time learners aged 16-19 and over 6,000 adult learners, mainly part-time. Peter studied Physics at the University of Leeds before undertaking a Post Graduate Diploma in Education. In his early career, he taught in high schools in Leeds and Preston for eight years, before transferring to the FE sector as a lecturer in Physics. From 1995, Peter was an Assistant Principal at Runshaw College in Leyland, before being appointed Deputy Principal at Pendleton College, Salford, in 2000. In 2004, he became Principal of Pendleton, where he remained until 2009. Whilst Principal at Pendleton College, he led a doubling of learners aged 16-19 to 3,200, and fought for the college to gain ‘Learning and Skills Beacon’ status in December 2005. The college also won prestigious AoC Beacon Awards in every year of Peter’s Principalship. In January 2009, Peter became the Principal of the newly-established Salford City College, which was formed following merger of the former Pendleton, Salford and Eccles Colleges. Peter was a part-time Ofsted Inspector for twelve years, and Chair of Governors of a Primary School in Lancashire for ten years. Until his retirement Peter sat on the Association of Colleges (AoC) North West Regional Committee, the North West Principals’ Forum, the newly created LSC Capital Reference Group, and became a member of the Council of the University of Salford in 2009. Peter is passionate about putting the learner at the heart of educational decision-making, widening participation and valuing diversity. In promoting the latter he is a champion of multi-faith chaplaincies and the development of strategies to encourage and support ‘elite performance’. Peter is married to Ann and has two grown-up children – Laura, who lives in Monterrey, Mexico, and David who lives in Brisbane, Australia. Peter’s hobbies include being a life-long supporter of Leeds United (and, more recently, Salford City Reds), learning to play golf, travelling, and an obsession with electronic gadgets!
Ms Caroline Dangerfield (President - University of Salford Students' Union)
Caroline Dangerfield is President of the University of Salford Students’ Union and a member of NUS Higher Education Zone Committee. A Lancaster University graduate she is currently studying for her PhD in Urban Regeneration in Salford. Caroline is in her second year as a Sabbatical Officer at Salford and held the position of Vice President Health and Social Care last year. A QAA Student Reviewer she is also a member of NUS Services Limited Purchasing Scrutiny Committee and HEFCE’s Higher Education Public Information Steering Group. In her spare time she is a Cox for the University of Salford Boat Club and was previously the Club’s President for two years.
Mr Tom Doyle (Vice-President Science and Technology - University of Salford Students' Union)
Tom Doyle is the University of Salford Students’ Union (USSU) Vice President for Science and Technology. This is his first year as a sabbatical officer after completing a BSc Environmental Geography course within the School of Environment and Life Sciences. His previous exploits within the university include 3 years as a Student Ambassador, 2 years writing for the Salford Student Direct newspaper, 2 years working with Student Life, a year as Students’ Union Student Trustee and a year as a Student Liaison Rep. Tom has a keen interest in activity groups within USSU having been a committee member of the snow sports team. In his spare time Tom follows as much sport as possible with specialist subjects skiing, football and cricket though he claims to be able to hold conversations about many others.
Ms Julia Fawcett OBE (Lead Member for the College of Arts and Social Sciences)
Julia Fawcett joined The Lowry in June 2002 as Chief Executive and has responsibility for ensuring the operation of one of the largest Millennium funded projects in the UK. Set in the heart of Manchester's waterways, the centre continues to be a catalyst for the wider regeneration of Salford Quays. The Lowry’s galleries display the works of L S Lowry and other contemporary exhibitions. The Lowry has three theatres – the Lyric Theatre which is believed to be the largest stage outside London, the more intimate Quays Theatre and the Studio, a new 150 seat space built to present the very best in small-scale, high-quality drama, comedy, music and dance. The Studio is also home to The Lowry’s community & education activities. There is also a shop, a restaurant, bars and event / meeting spaces. Previously, Julia was Chief Executive of Dynamic Earth Enterprises Ltd - having joined the company in December 1997 as Chief Executive. Here, she had responsibility for the successful delivery and operation of Scotland's largets and most exciting new visitor attraction. Our Dynamic Earth, in Edinburgh's Old Town. This is one of the Landmark Millennium funded projects. It was the first to fully open to the public on 3 July 1999 and quickly established itself as one of Edinburgh's 'must see' attractions. Prior to this, Julia had rapidly risen through the ranks of Grandad Leisure running a number of their commercial attractions.
Ms Felicity Goodey CBE DL
Felicity Goodey is a businesswoman and a former senior BBC journalist and presenter with a passion for regeneration. During her 28 years with the BBC she won national awards for her reporting and regularly presented national and regional news and current affairs programmes. She gave up broadcasting to become one of the first directors of the Northwest Development Agency. Felicity led the team which won the competition to secure the relocation of much of the BBC from London to the North of England leading to the creation of MediaCityUK, the largest privately financed construction project in the UK. MediaCityUK is a globally significant media hub which will employ 15, 000 people. MediacityUK opens in January 2011. She is chairman of the largest urban regeneration company in the UK. Central Salford URC Ltd is delivering a £4 billion private sector financed business plan which is transforming the original city of Salford and making a major contribution to the expansion of the corporate heart of the regional capital, Manchester. She is also Chairman of the University Hospital of South Manchester (UHSM) NHS Foundation Trust, a major teaching and research hospital which treats circa half a million patients a year. She is the chairman of Tourism in the Northwest of England. For ten years she led the team behind The Lowry, Britain’s national millennium project for the arts, an international theatre and gallery complex which attracted to the area more than £450 million of private sector investment and created 5,700 new jobs. She was a founder director of the Unique Group, a communications and broadcast media production company. Past appointments include senior non-executive director of Nord Anglia Plc, the international education specialist, President of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce and Industry and a director of the Manchester 2002 Commonwealth Games. Honours include being awarded the CBE for her services to regeneration in Salford, a number of honorary doctorates and honorary fellow of the RIBA, the Royal Institute of British Architecture.
Mr John Greenough (Lead Member Performance)
John is a Chartered Accountant and a member of the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy. After an early career in local government, John decided to move into the private sector where he worked on a large and varied client portfolio until he qualified as a Chartered Accountant. After qualification he chose to specialise in public sector finance and was eventually promoted to partner in KPMG. As a partner in KPMG, John was responsible for public sector services in the North of England. He was also responsible for all Audit Commission work within England and Wales for a period of four years. His client portfolio included most of the universities in the North West together with a number of local authorities, health authorities, NHS trusts and government departments. At different times he was responsible for the audits of both the University of Salford and Salford College. After retiring as a partner, John acted as a consultant on client care in the London office for a period of five years before retiring fully in 2008. John joined the Council in 2004, became Chair of the Finance Committee in 2005 and subsequently Lead Member for Finance. Since November 2009 John has been Lead Member for Performance. He is a member of the Council Advisory Group, the Nominations and Governance Committee. John is married with two daughters. His leisure interests include sailing and keeping fit.
Professor Martin Hall
Professor Martin Hall is the Vice-Chancellor of the University, having come into post in August 2009. Previously he was Professor in the Graduate School of Business at the University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa. As Professor of Historical Archaeology, he was inaugural Dean of Higher Education Development and then Deputy Vice-Chancellor at UCT (from 1999 to 2008). He is a past-President of the World Archaeological Congress and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of South Africa and of the University of Cape Town. He is an accredited mediator with the Africa Centre for Dispute Settlement He has written extensively on pre-colonial history in Southern Africa, on the historical archaeology of colonialism and on contemporary public culture. He currently teaches and carries out research on the intersection of the public and private sectors, entrepreneurship, and the role of “knowledge organizations” in advancing development in highly unequal societies. Recent publications include “Identity, memory and countermemory: the archaeology of an urban landscape” (Journal of Material Culture 11(1-2): 189-209, 2006), Historical Archaeology (edited with Stephen Silliman; Oxford, Blackwell, 2006), Desire Lines: Space, Memory and Identity in the Post-Apartheid City (edited with Noeleen Murray and Nick Shepherd; London, Routledge, 2007), “Transformation and continuity in the university in Africa” (Social Dynamics 33 (1):181-198, 2007) and “Stitch Wise: Strategic Knowledge Management for Pro-Poor Enterprise on South Africa’s Goldfields” (in The Business of Sustainable Development in Africa: Human Rights, Partnerships, and Alternative Business Models, in press 2008).
Mr Eric Healey (Chair of Audit Committee)
Eric is a Chartered Accountant (FCA) and an experienced business and financial adviser. He is a Non-executive Director of Nichols plc and chair of its audit committee. He also provides independent financial and other consultancy advice to a number of organisations. He was appointed to Council in 2011 and is chair of the University audit committee. Until 2009, he was a senior partner with Grant Thornton LLP and during his career with the firm, held a number of positions, including managing partner of the Manchester office, membership of the firm’s oversight board and chair of the firm’s risk assurance committee. His client work involved, inter alia, lead partner on IPOs and reporting for North West public companies including financial due diligence, public documents and adviser co-ordination. He was also a financial adviser to private company boards, with experience of remuneration committees, business and financial planning, finance raising, private equity, corporate bankers, and acquisition and disposal strategies. In his spare time Eric enjoys most sports, including skiing, cycling, tennis, walking and golf.
Mr Mark Johnson (Chair, Remuneration Committee)
Mark Johnson joined Manchester Airport Group in October 2006 as Group HR Director. Previous positions held include Group HR Director of National Grid and HR Director HBOS Retail Bank. Mark's remit covers Leadership Development and Succession Planning, Learning and Development, Reward and Employment Policy, and Internal Communications. He also has line management responsibility for HR across our four airports as well as running our HR Shared Services centre providing day to day HR support.
Mr Warren Smith
Warren Smith was born in Manchester in 1948 at the former St. Mary's Hospital on Oxford Road, Manchester, opposite the Palace Theatre. Educated on the Fylde Coast, his career started with the District Bank in Spring Gardens, Manchester. He is retired businessman and was appointed a Justice of the Peace in 1983, a Deputy Lieutenant of Greater Manchester in 1985 and High Sheriff of Greater Manchester in 1997-98. Warren was appointed Lord-Lieutenant of Greater Manchester in June 2007. Regeneration is a passion and a thread running throughout his business and public life. His voluntary activities have been focused on social exclusion and the arts as a driver for regeneration. From 1983 to 1993 he was a member of Manchester Council for Community Relations and in 1994 founded Progress Trust which was funded by the Government to develop education, employment and training initiatives throughout the black and minority ethnic communities. In 1992 he became Chairman of the Free Trade Hall Management Company and was founder Chairman of Halogen, the operators of the Bridgewater Hall. In 2000 he became Chairman of The Millennium Quarter Trust which includes URBIS. He was a member of the Architectural Advisory Committee for the extension at Manchester City Art Gallery and a member of the Steering Group that put forward the proposal for The Lowry of which he is an Honorary Member. He is Chairman of Manchester Concert Hall Trust. From 1995 to 1998 Warren was National Chairman of the charity Turning Point, the largest provider of drug, alcohol and mental health treatment services outside the NHS and from 1995 - 2002 he was Deputy Chairman of Mental Health Services of Salford (NHS Trust). In 1993 and until 2000 he was a member of the Greater Manchester Police Policy Committee on Drug Misuse. More recently Warren has been a member of the Advisory Committee for the Appeal to restore the John Rylands Library (£16M) and a member of the Advisory Panel currently raising £6M to refurbish Ordsall Hall. Warren Smith is President of the Council of St John, Honorary Colonel of the Greater Manchester Army Cadet Force and Chairman of Salford Lads' and Girls' Club and, as Lord-Lieutenant, is focusing on projects which recognise the achievements of young people, the growth of the Cadet Forces and other organisations that support young people in their endeavours to become better citizens.
Prof Haifa Takruri-Rizk MBE
After completing a BSc (Hons) in Electronics and Electrical Engineering, Haifa studied for an MSc in Instrumentations and Measurement at UMIST. She was awarded sponsorship from Thorn EMI Flow Measurement to complete her MSc. The company, granted Haifa further sponsorship to pursue a PhD, with a brief to design a novel transducer for the measurement of fluid flow, which she completed in 1990. Since then she has worked as a lecturer in electronics, instrumentations and telecommunications. Haifa's technical research focuses on integrating networking technologies and instrumentation, in particular wireless sensor networks and their applications in intelligent buildings, networked appliances, precision agriculture and energy saving. Currently, she is a senior lecturer at the University of Salford and teaches and supervises projects at all levels including PhDs. Haifa is heavily involved in research and public engagement projects and initiatives that aim at the promotion of science, engineering and technology (SET) studies and careers focusing on addressing the under-representation of women and minorities. In 2009, Haifa was awarded the MBE for her work inspiring women and Black and Minority Ethnic people to take careers in science, technology and engineering.
Ms Ruth Turner (Lead Member for Equality and Diversity)
Ruth Turner is currently chief executive of the Tony Blair Faith Foundation. Ruth joined the UK Prime Minister’s Office in May 2005 as Director of Government Relations, and worked for Tony Blair until he resigned as PM on 27 June 2007. She also assisted tony Blair with setting up the Tony Blair Sports Foundation in November 2007 and is now a Trustee. Prior to that she was an award-winning social entrepreneur. Over 16 years Ruth created and ran numerous social businesses in the fields of homelessness, health, climate change, housing, media and scientific inventions, ranging from micro enterprises to companies with annual turnovers of over £200million. She is a Salford alumna.