Bucks: New University appoints business manager

Paul Gilliam BSc (Econ) MA MCIM has been appointed business development manager for Buckinghamshire New University’s Faculty of Enterprise & Innovation. His role is funded through the Higher Education Innovation Fund’s fourth round of funding (HEIF4).

Following on from a career in industry which included senior marketing positions in the former Reckitt and Colman, GKN Engineering and 12 years as marketing director of Express Dairy UK, he joined Oxford Brookes University’s Business School in 1990. He was their Marketing Director from 1995-2005, concluding his career at Brookes in early 2007, following a two-year secondment to international developments.

Before joining Bucks New University in September 2008, he was employed by the Malaysian university, Limkokwing University of Creative Technology, to help set up and take responsibility for their new London Campus, including being the academic lead, and being involved with their successful expansion into Botswana.

He joins the Faculty of Enterprise & Innovation at Bucks New University to develop further their links with industry, regionally and nationally. Bucks New University have been pioneering specialist sector degree and professional programmes and this appointment is designed to take full advantage of his multi-disciplinary approach to business development.