George Fildes
George Fildes currently speaks on Falconbury’s HR Executive ‘Mini MBA’ and the Falconbury Executive ‘Mini-MBA’
- What are your main subject areas of expertise?
Finance - What Falconbury events are you involved in?
Mini Executive MBA & HR MBA and in-company finance programmes - What was the most important event in your working life?
Making the decision to form my own business and leave the comforts & trappings of corporate life - What companies or business do you admire the most?
Virgin, Apple, Singapore Airlines, Sainsburys & John Lewis - Which leaders do you admire?
Justin King of Sainsbury’s - What famous quote has most inspired you?
Birds fly because they think they can! - What management or leadership book has most influenced you?
Good to Great by Jim Collins - Which book are you reading at the moment?
The Age of Unreason by Charles Handy - Which management myth would you most like to explode?
Those at the top of the business know where the gold is buried! - How do you relax?
Golf, golf & golf!
John Ansell – Consultant
John Ansell is currently involved in Falconbury’s ‘Pharma Mini-MBA for the Elite Manager’ and the ‘Pharma Mini-MBA’
Read some of John Ansell’s articles below:
- What are your main subject areas of expertise?
Pharmaceutical – strategy, business development & international marketing - What Falconbury events are you involved in?
Pharma mini-MBA - What was the most important event in your working life?
Joining Glaxo. - What companies or business do you admire the most?
Lundbeck, Gilead - Which leaders do you admire?
Fred Hassan (Bausch & Lomb), John Lechleiter (Eli Lilly) - What famous quote has most inspired you?
In the long run we are all dead (John Maynard Keynes) - What management or leadership book has most influenced you?
“Marketing” by Philip Kotler - Which book are you reading at the moment?
“Why Nations Fail” by Acemoglu and Robinson - Which management myth would you most like to explode?
The product life-cycle. - How do you relax?
Playing tennis.
Martin Amison – Partner
Martin Amison is currently involved in Falconbury’s Oil and Gas Contracts School
- What are your main subject areas of expertise?
Energy sector projects (drafting, negotiating and legal advice for oil, gas and power generation) - What Falconbury events are you involved in?
Oil and gas legal training - What was the most important event in your working life? Personally: appointment as a partner of Trowers & Hamlins in 1987 and Professionally: drafting negotiating and bringing to signature the project agreements for the first independent power project in the Middle East (Manah in Oman in 1994)
- What companies or business do you admire the most?
Trowers & Hamlins - Which leaders do you admire?
The Queen - What famous quote has most inspired you?
The only quotes I can remember are cobwebs from O Level English Literature revision circa 1975
“Upon the waters of the end; upon the sea of death; where still we sail; darkly for we cannot steer and have no course.” - What management or leadership book has most influenced you?
I have wasted my time reading that type of literature - Which book are you reading at the moment?
Death in the Afternoon – Hemingway - Which management myth would you most like to explode?
That management actually matters. What really matters is getting the work in, getting it done and getting paid for doing it. - How do you relax?
Skiing and racing a Caterham car.
Bill Perry – Senior Partner
Bill Perry is currently involved in Falconbury’s Reinsurance Contract Wordings and Disputes
- What are your main subject areas of expertise?
(Re)insurance law, mainly property and casualty, with an emphasis on fine art. - What Falconbury events are you involved in?
I lecture at your Reinsurance Contract Wordings seminar regularly - What was the most important event in your working life?
Winning for AGF in the famous AGF/Wasa v Lexington House of Lords case on ‘back to back’ reinsurances - What companies or business do you admire the most?
Bloomberg - Which leaders do you admire?
HM has done a great job. - What famous quote has most inspired you?
England expects that every man will do his duty. - What management or leadership book has most influenced you?
How to make friends and influence people - Which book are you reading at the moment?
Becoming Enlightened, by the Dalai Lama - Which management myth would you most like to explode?
That these appalling team physical events help foster or demonstrate teamwork and/or leadership. - How do you relax?
I read a good book and listen to Rachmaninov
Guy de Speville
Guy de Speville is currently involved in Falconbury’s Oil and Gas Contracts School
- What are your main subject areas of expertise?
Legal issues connected to onshore and offshore international Oil & Gas activities - What Falconbury events are you involved in?
Speaking at “Understanding, Negotiating and Drafting Oil and Gas Industry Contracts 16-18 Jun 2014” in London. - What was the most important event in your working life?
Qualifying as a solicitor in 1997 and, more recently, being involved in some relatively large onshore M&A deals and operations relating to ‘unconventional’ assets in the US and subsequently in the UK. - What companies or business do you admire the most?
Companies that do things right, take a long term view, and treat counterparties, stakeholders and the environment with respect. - Which leaders do you admire?
Leaders with the qualities mentioned regarding companies above. - What famous quote has most inspired you?
Difficult to go wrong with ‘Carpe Diem’ and Rudyard Kipling’s ‘If…’ - Which book are you reading at the moment?
Armadillo by William Boyd - Which management myth would you most like to explode?
That management is a science - How do you relax? Any combination of: breathe out, go for a bike ride with my sons, go for a run, sail, play golf infrequently, go to the theatre, share a meal bottle of wine with my wife.