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About TBR's Directors
Managing Director
Andrew Graves
Andrew was appointed Managing Director in June 2006, a promotion that saw him move from managing the consultancy function of the business. Having joined the company in 1993, Andrew has proved that he has the commitment, skills and ability to manage and deliver valuable research and consultancy services, lead a team and contribute to the continuing success of the business through client and business development. His ambition in his new role is to continue to expand the business based upon a UK-wide reputation for delivering groundbreaking research and strategic consultancy. In doing so he aims to build on three characteristics of TBR; a strong commitment to growth, rigour in project activity and recognition that TBR people are key to its success.
Andrew's roles have included;
- Project director and manager on key contracts over the last decade, including our work for Creative & Cultural Skills, the GLA and LDA, significant sector studies in food and drink, logistics, creative industries, chemicals and ICT/digital.
- Key contributions to product development and design, particularly with regard to analysis 'packages' and analytical software.
- Representing the company at conferences, workshops and events, including being a member of the North East committee of the Institute of Economic Development.
Chairman and Director of Research
Emeritus Professor Colin Gallagher
Colin Gallagher was a founder of Trends Business Research and his research into the job creation potential of small firms was ground breaking in the UK business environment. The statistical concept that small firms ensure long term economic growth was a questionable novelty in the early 1980's. He continues to win awards for work at TBR - including the award for best paper at an annual European symposium in Vienna on new business formation strategies.
Colin's achievements and roles have included:
- publication of more than 200 papers and books on engineering, management, and economics,
- Alcan Professor of Business Studies at Newcastle University,
- serving on the University Grants Committee Management Panel, and the Joint ESRC/SERC Research Committee,
- external examiner at London Business School, Henley Management College, Brunel University and Durham University Business School.
- supervision of MBA and PhD students at a number of universities.
Colin qualified originally as an engineer at UMIST and worked for several blue chip manufacturing companies before joining Birmingham University, then later Glasgow University and Newcastle University. Currently he holds the position of Director of Research in the company as well as being Non Executive Chairman.
Director
Terry Bevan
Terry became a Director of TBR in 1998, following the development of a working relationship with the company through his own business advisory service. Terry's career has developed through a number of high-profile positions and achievements.
- He began his business career in international management with Unilever on the UCMDS intake after a degree in Economics and Politics from LSE and University College London.
- Whilst at Unilever he was responsible for the marketing of the largest budgeted food products in the UK at that time (soft margarines). He was appointed as its youngest overseas manager in its largest Subsidiary - The United Africa Group.
- He was Marketing Manager responsible for the supply of all Van den Bergh products to the catering and bakery trades and worked briefly in the Heineken / Unilever Joint Venture Group
- At Wilkinson Sword he became its youngest subsidiary board director and was Director and General Manager of its European operations based in Milan - with responsibilities for factories and subsidiaries and for distributorships with Colgate Palmolive France and Lever Brothers Greece.
- At Arthur Guinness he was involved in the development of the global presence of Guinness non-drink consumer products, as the UK Managing Director for these operations.
- At this point he began his own consultancy practice and invested in other businesses. These activities gave him direct knowledge of the workings of many small and medium sized companies to whom he provided consultancy advice in the UK and elsewhere.
Director
Anna Morgan
Anna is a long-standing member of the TBR team, having joined the company in 1995 and the board in May 2005, where she has a specific remit to ensure that data and product development moves further up the company's agenda. Anna is a statistician with an intuitive interest in the rich information that sometimes lies beyond the scope of statistics. She is a skilled analyst who understands the limitations of data: there is little Anna does not know about official and unofficial data on the UK economy. Since 2003 Anna has managed the data and statistics team and has held responsibility for the development of our unique data resources (e.g. TCR) and our process for managing and analysing such data. In this respect she makes a major contribution to our core business.
Anna also contributed to the research and consultancy projects, where she brings to bear her skills and experience in manipulating and analysing data to build strategic insight. This often involves the bringing together of disparate data sources in creative but robust ways, a process that adds significant value to the services that TBR delivers.
Anna's achievements and roles have included;
- Project Management on key consultancy and research projects across her tenure, including Tourism Impact Assessment for ONE NorthEast and DCMS, Components of Change analysis for SBS, DTI and Scottish Enterprise and the evaluation of the Scottish Business Birth Rate strategy.
- Responsibility for delivery of the 1995-1999 Job Creation in the UK research which continues to be used by central government departments and the European Parliament to develop small firm policy.
- Anna has been a key player in the development of our data resources. This includes strategic acquisition of additional datasets, modelling the UK economy to establish procedures for robust data analysis, and managing contracts with third party developers and researchers to build our modelling capabilities.
