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Roderick Rhys Jones BSc, ACGI, MCIM

Rod

Rod has over 30 years experience in marketing, specialising in the business to business, technical and professional sectors. A founder partner of RhysJones Consultants in 1976, he has particular expertise in e-commerce and IT, developing RhysJones Publishing Ltd business in electronic publishing and interactive website technology. He is currently focussing on the development of ICONdirect.net the website for the international construction and development community. See it at ICONdirect.net.

A member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing, Rod has worked on many projects in the UK and overseas, particularly in market research, analysis and strategy formulation. He also has experience in marketing communications, including the production of marketing guidelines, training in marketing skills, corporate identity management, seminars, to audio-visual and brochure production.

Rod spent a year setting up a new department for fundraising and alumni relations at Imperial College during 2002. He recruited new people, built a new team, developed new administrative systems, launched new and successful events, developed new web services, reinvigorated the Friends of Imperial College and raised seven million pounds in new revenue for the college. He is currently Chairman of Friends of Imperial College organising scientific lectures and visits to the College.

Before forming the consultancy, Rod worked as a corporate planner for GKN Building Services, a marketing executive for Oscar Faber & Partners and as editor of The Consulting Engineer. Rod has a degree in Civil Engineering from Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine and after graduation, worked as a surveyor in the Falklands and in the Antarctic. He is Chairman of the British Antarctic Monument Trust, set up to raise money to create a memorial to those killed in British Antarctic Territory in the pursuit of science.

Sandi Rhys Jones OBE, FCIOB, MCIM, ACIArb

Sandi

Sandi Rhys Jones has more than thirty years experience in strategic marketing and management, communications and training for technical, professional and business to business organisations in the engineering and construction sectors. Since co-founding RhysJones Consultants in 1976, she has worked for a wide range of clients, including consultants, contractors, suppliers, representative organisations, local and national government.

She is increasingly in demand as a chair and facilitator at conferences, workshops and training seminars. She has also developed innovative training and development programmes, acting as coach and mentor, particularly for women in non-traditional occupations.

Sandi is a non-executive director of Simons Group, a construction, design and property company employing some 600 people with a turnover of £188 million. A member of the Audit Committee and of the Strategic Marketing Group, she has helped to establish innovative training and capacity building programmes. Prior to this, she was a non-executive director of Docklands Light Railway Ltd from February 1998 to October 2000, when it became part of Transport for London.

A passionate advocate for engineering and construction, Sandi believes that performance would improve if more women were involved and has campaigned for many years for changes that would attract and retain them. She is Vice Chair of the Governing Body of the UK Resource Centre for Women in Science, Engineering, Construction and Technology, set up in 2004 and funded by DIUS to address the under-representation of women in these sectors following the Set Fair report by Baroness Susan Greenfield.

In October 2008 she was appointed a non-executive director of the Engineering and Technology Board helping to promote the contribution that engineers, engineering and technology make, and to expand the diversity of talent within the sector.

She is a founder member of the Raising the Ratio Task Force at the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, which in six years saw the number of women in the RICS worldwide increase from 10% to 15%. Between 1997 and 2002 she was a trustee and chair of Women’s Education in Building, a charity that trained large numbers of disadvantaged women in the building trades and IT.

Sandi was appointed OBE in 1998 for her work promoting women in construction, became a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Building in 2002 and awarded an honorary doctorate by Sheffield Hallam University in 2005.

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Richard Huxton BSc

Richard Huxton has been an associate of RhysJones since 1996 when he began work on the project to develop the EDITdirect software. He is responsible for the techincal aspects of all internet work and has been instrumental in several projects thanks to his attention to website functionality and appreciation of the bottom-line business benefits of IT. He has worked with RhysJones on numerous websites including the FIDIC International Directory of Consulting Engineers, the British Association of Picture Libraries, Major Projects Association, Housing Role Models, the Best engineering website and others.

Richard graduated in Computer Science from Cardiff University and has worked in a number of senior IT development positions.

Warwick Faville FIMechE, FIQA, MSc, BSc

Warwick Faville joined RhysJones Consultants in 1984 as an associate and since then has undertaken a wide range of marketing, communication and quality assurance assignments and several market research projects in the technology sector. He has more than 25 years consultancy experience, now specialising in patents and the profitable development of new inventions. A chartered engineer, Warwick has a BSc in Mechanical Engineering and an MSc in Applied Mechanics from Imperial College, London. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and of the Institute of Quality Assurance.

Tatham Pearce

RhysJones has had a long-standing relationship with Tatham Pearce, a leading design and corporate communications consultancy. RhysJones and Tatham Pearce have worked together on a range of corporate identity, branding and communications projects for a number of years.

The company specialises in corporate and brand identity programmes, corporate, financial, sales and marketing literature and retail design and packaging. Major clients include Ashurst Morris Crisp, Barclays, Land Rover, RAC, Rolls-Royce and Shakespeares Globe.

RhysJones and Tatham Pearce are together able to provide co-ordinated research-based strategic marketing, design and management services. Through our network of specialists the team can also deliver web technology, photography, translation and other disciplines as and when required, giving access to some of the best practitioners in their fields.

GWA Design Consultants

GWA is a long-established design group working in corporate identity, design for print, new media, advertising and promotions.

The group has extensive experience working with companies in the professional services, technology, food & drink, leisure and entertainment sectors.

GWA has worked with RhysJones on branding for Age Concern, Imperial Cancer Research Technology, Rugby Cement, Balfour Maunsell and Frank Graham. Print work has included various documents and publications for FIDIC, LEIA and BWW. New media design has included website design for FIDIC Directory, Housing Role Models, EDITDirect and Building Work for Women.