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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.

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.

Sandi Rhys Jones OBE, FCIOB, MCIM, ACIArb

Sandi

A passionate advocate for the construction and engineering industry, and in particular the role of women, 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. 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 coach and mentor, particularly for women in non-traditional occupations, and also as a chair and facilitator at conferences, workshops and training seminars.

Sandi is a non-executive director of Simons Group, a construction, design and property company employing 800 people with a turnover of more than £200 million. She has a particular remit to increase and support women in the company, establishing a number of programmes including an innovative mentoring scheme with clients.

Sandi is also Corporate Affairs Advisor to the UK Resource Centre for Women in Science, Engineering, Construction and Technology, set up in 2004 with significant funding by the DTI. She is a member of the Strategic Forum for Construction, with particular responsibility for diversity, and is a founder member of the Raising the Ratio group of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors, looking to recruit and retain more women in the profession.

Sandi's particular interest in the role of women in construction developed during study for the MSc course in Construction Law & Arbitration at King's College London. In her thesis, completed in 1992, she addressed the relationship between the industry's very low representation of women and its reputation for high cost, poor quality, slow delivery, adversarial nature and high levels of death and injury.

She was invited to chair the government/industry working group on equal opportunities in construction, set up following the far-reaching review of the industry's performance by Sir Michael Latham in 1994, which highlighted the lack of women in construction. Her Working Group report Tomorrow's Team: Men and women in Construction can be read on Google Books.

She has continued to campaign for greater gender diversity and performance improvement, taking an active role in initiatives such as the Housing Forum, the Movement for Innovation and Constructing Excellence. She collaborated with Dr Andrew Gale and Professor Marilyn Davidson of Manchester University on two successful projects in the housing sector and also contributed to a major work of reference Managing Diversity and Equality in Construction: Initiatives and Practice.

In 1998, Sandi was awarded the OBE for promoting women in construction and in 2005 she was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by Sheffield Hallam University for her work in this field.

Sandi is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Building, a member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing, an associate of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and a trained mediator.
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. Between 1997 and 2002 she was a trustee and chair of the voluntary sector organisation Women's Education in Building, which trained disadvantaged women in building trades.

Click here for more in depth information about Sandi Rhys Jones and downloadable biography notes.

Read Sandi's Blog to get her latest opinions on constructive women.

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.