ABOUT OUR ENTREPRENEURS UK TEAM Entrepreneurs UK help their clients to research, develop and market entrepreneurship, education, learning and problem solving support for prospective and existing business owners. In order to do this they call on the expertise of many small business and freelance associates working in areas as diverse as broadcast media to business coaching. These associates are proven winners and all have worked with the Entrepreneurs UK directors for between 6 and 20 years. However, there is a full time resource too. In addition to Tony Robinson and Clare Francis (who in 1986 founded the Business Advisory Bureau Limited which now operates under the Entrepreneurs UK brand) there is the leading contribution of this great team:

Nigel Hudson, MPhil., BA, BTech.
Research Director, Stratagia

Nigel has been Research Director of Stratagia Ltd. since its formation.
Nigel has extensive experience of labour market and skills research and is a leading authority on learning and development issues in small businesses. He has written discussion papers for SSDA, papers for the Institute for Small Business Affairs National Small Firms Policy and Research Conference and for the past three years has led the research conducted for the Small Firms Enterprise Development Initiative (SFEDI). Prior to this he was a senior research officer at DfES and managed the research for the National Skills Task Force. He is an Open University tutor, currently supporting a Masters course on the methods and philosophy of social research. As a member of the Social Research Association he is bound by the professional, ethical standards of the Association.

Enda Donnelly, MA, BSc, PGCE
Learning & Skills Director, Stratagia

Enda has been a Director of Stratagia since its foundation and leads its work on learning and skills policy.
Enda has extensive experience of working on skills issues. This includes developing National Occupational Standards, evaluating N/SVQ assessment strategies, creating units for the Framework for Achievement and developing the framework for the Modern Apprenticeship in Design. She is also leading a higher education initiative in Birmingham and the Black Country to increase vocational access and progression routes in occupational sectors that are important to the economy of the region.

She is a member of a QCA reference group linked to the developments in Framework for Achievement (FfA).
Enda was previously Director of the Open College Network West Midlands she has extensive experience in the areas of developing qualifications, units and credit, quality assurance and widening participation.
She is a Council Member of Staffordshire Learning and Skills Council.

Caroline Missing, BSc.
Research Executive, Stratagia

Caroline has experience of a wide range of research techniques including conducting face-to-face interviews, facilitating focus groups, analysing survey data and undertaking desk research and literature reviews.
Caroline prepared and analysed survey data for the major Design Council project and the report ‘Profiling Craft and Design in the UK 2003/4’. She has facilitated focus groups of businesses and conducted face-to-face and telephone interviews.
Her other analytical work and report writing includes assessing feedback from a web-based consultation on the proposed framework for Modern Apprenticeships in design, the review of N/SVQ assessment strategies and summarising labour market intelligence on the food and drink manufacturing industry.
Caroline completed a post-graduate certificate in social research after gaining a first class honours degree. She joined Stratagia in February 2004 after working for Loughborough University Enterprises Ltd. and The Observatory, Nottingham. She is a member of the Social Research Association.

Alex Hudson, BEng
IT Director, Stratagia

Alex is a founding Director of Stratagia Ltd, and is responsible for provision of ICT services both internally and to the company’s clients.
Stratagia's IT work varies from software source code quality auditing, internal IT systems consultation and advice to bespoke web application development. Alex is a specialist in building data and rules-driven web applications that conform to modern standards, user interface design on the web and best-of-breed open source technologies. He has driven Stratagia's development of online data collection and web questionnaire system, which has been successfully deployed in a number of projects.
Alex is the Vice-Chair of the Association for Free Software. Previous professional work included a number of years as the head of Management of Information Services within the Linguaphone Institute, a company known globally as a leader in language tuition products and self-study courses.

David Yates, BSc.
Research Assistant, Stratagia

David joined Stratagia after achieving a first class honours degree in psychology at the University of Sheffield.
His current projects include work for Summit Skills on business skills development support for the construction engineering trades and research on career paths into business support occupations for SFEDI.
David recently completed work on an international benchmarking study into standards for small business start-up and development for SFEDI, funded by the National Occupational Standards Board. This includes identifying examples of good practice in supporting learning and development in small businesses. It has involved extensive Internet searches to identify relevant background material, developing a questionnaire sent by e-mail to experts in seven countries and analysing and reporting the results.

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