About Me

MEET PROFESSOR IAN RYDER

FCIM, FIoD, FRSA, FBCS, Portfolio Non-Executive Chairman / NED  

With over 30 years International experience and formerly Director of Global Brand Strategy for Hewlett Packard in California (HP Invent), Ian now has a portfolio which includes NED and Board Adviser roles, consulting on selling businesses, as well as his pro-bono charity work, speaking engagements and guest lecturing. Ian also worked at top level for the British Olympic Association (Team GB) / UK Atomic Energy Authority / Unisys and Chartered Institute for IT. International speaker, author, visiting professor and lecturer(Cranfield, MBS, Reading, Stockholm School of Economics, Thunderbird Arizona and Management Institut de Paris), Ian was also a Global Subject Specialist for Harvard.

Worked extensively with government and education, here in the UK as well as the UAE.

External Examiner for Masters degrees in Strategic Marketing; Management and Management Leadership.

POSITIONS HELD

  • Chairman – several SME’s
  • Board Adviser / consultant – several
  • CEO – Uffindell
  • Deputy Group CEO BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT
  • Global Vice-President – Unisys
  • Director, Global Brand Strategy – Hewlett Packard
  • International Marketing VP – WYSE Technology
  • CTO – British Alcan

QUALIFICATIONS & MEMBERSHIPS

  • Professor in Marketing
  • Degree in International Management, IMD Lausanne
  • Fellow Chartered Institute of Marketing
  • FRSA
  • FIoD
  • Lifetime Founding Director Medinge Group (Brand think tank)
  • Freeman of City of London – Court member of WCoM