Nigel Adams

Current

• Programme Director - BSc Business Enterprise at University of Buckingham

Past

• Managing Director at Nigel Adams & Company Ltd
• Visiting Lecturer at University of Buckingham
• International Business Consultant at Nigel Adams

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Education

• Lanchester Polytechnic (Now Coventry University)

Recommendations

6 recommendations

Connections

463 connections

Industry

Higher Education

Websites

• My Company
• My Blog

Nigel Adams’s Summary

Nigel is Programme Director of the BSc Business Enterprise at the University of Buckingham, where he teaches, advises, supports and mentors students taking the innovative two year (8 term) honours degree in Business Enterprise.

This is thought to be the only honours degree programme in Europe which offers undergraduate students the opportunity to study for their degree in Business Enterprise, whilst also starting and developing their own company, having "pitched" for "seed-corn" capital from "Buckingham Angels".

Nigel also teaches International Marketing to undergraduate and postgraduate students at the University of Buckingham.

Nigel was Managing Director of Nigel Adams & Company Ltd (http://www.nigeladams.com/) which provided business, management, international marketing, recruitment and other support and advice to the boards of Western companies to help them to establish operations in Central and Eastern Europe and to improve their sales and profitability through outsourcing.

Having more than 35 years international business experience, Nigel has extensive network of business, finance and diplomatic contacts.

Nigel is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing and a Chartered Marketer. He helped to establish in Poland, the first officially recognised branch of Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM) in Continental Europe. He is also Vice Chairman of the East Midlands board of the CIM and treasurer of the Northamptonshire branch.(See: http://cimnorthants.blogspot.com)

For more information about Nigel Adams, please see:
http://www.nigeladams.com
and
http://www.buckingham.ac.uk/business/bbe

Nigel Adams’s Specialties:

Lecturer, adviser and mentor in Business Enterprise at University of Buckingham, England
International Marketing & Business Development.
Specialist in business in Central & Eastern Europe (especially Poland)
Extensive international business, government and diplomatic network.

Nigel Adams’s Experience

• Programme Director - BSc Business Enterprise

  University of Buckingham

  (Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

  January 2008 — Present (2 years 9 months)

  Nigel is Programme Director - BSc Business Enterprise at the University of Buckingham, where he teaches, advises and mentors students taking the innovative two year honours degree in Business Enterprise.
  
  This is thought to be the only undergraduate programme in Europe which offers students the opportunity to study for an honours degree in business enterprise, whilst starting and developing their own company, having "pitched" for capital of up to £5000 from "Buckingham Angels".
  
  Nigel also teaches International Marketing to undergraduate and postgraduate students at the University of Buckingham.

Additional Information

Nigel Adams’s Websites:

• My Company
• My Blog

Nigel Adams’s Interests:

Other Skills: Long-term management experience. Good interpersonal ability. Training and lecturing skills. Attended many management training courses (e.g. management of people, selling skills, problem solving, self-analysis, time management) Computer literate for 35+ years: word processing, spreadsheets, databases, Internet research and e-mail communication. Publications: Article on Corporate Governance published in 1998 in a Polish book. Introduction to Countertrade published in 1990 in the "USSR & Eastern Europe Intelligence Report".

Nigel Adams’s Groups:

Fellow of the UK Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM) and member for more than 30 years,
Vice-Charman CIM East Midlands Board,
Chairman Young Enterprise County Board for Buckinghamshire and Milton Keynes.

•    On Startups - The Community For Entrepreneurs
•    Global Entrepreneurship Week
•    Chartered Institute of Marketing, UK
•    Social Media Today
•    Chartered Marketer
•    SIFE Worldwide
•    Chartered Institute of Marketing members
•    Friends of Poland / Przyjaciele Polski
•    The Kauffman Foundation for Entrepreneurship
•    Chaordic
•    Ecademy - Business Social Network
•    Company Directors Networking
•    National Consortium of University Entrepreneurs
•    Young Enterprise United Kingdom
•    Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing
•    East Midlands International Trade Association (emita)
•    Business Enterprise at Buckingham
•    Bucks and MK Innovation Growth Team
•    Business Scene - East Midlands - How visible are you?
•    Enterprise Promotion
•    HEEG
•    Chartered Institute of Marketing Virtual Branch (Northamptonshire)
•    Energy & Environmental Forum
•    UNION ★ Uniting Networkers International Open Networking ★
•    Amplify.com Users Group
•    Chamber Legal & Financial Special Interest Group
•    Blueberry Training
•    Young Entrepreneur Society (YES)
•    Social Media Marketing UK (#SMMUK)
•    #SMMUK Education and Research
•    Young Enterprise South East
•    Area & County Boards - Young Enterprise South East
•    Ask The Experts, technology

Nigel Adams’s Honors:

A Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM) and a Chartered Marketer.

Elected a member of the East Midlands Regional Board of the CIM in 2004. Became Vice-Chair of CIM East Midlands Regional Board in 2007, re-elected in 2010.

Nigel Adams’s Contact Settings

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• new ventures
• expertise requests
• business deals
• reference requests
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