UNIVERSITY EXECUTIVE TEAM (continued)
JAMES KENNEDY Deputy Chief Executive Officer
James is Deputy Chief Executive Officer, having joined Middlesex University in 2016 as Chief Financial Officer with responsibility for strategic financial planning, capital investment and driving strategies to optimise the effective and efficient utilisation of resources and processes.
James has worked in a variety of different sectors, most recently as Chief Operating Officer with an NHS Foundation Trust. Prior to this, James worked for ten years at Thermo Fisher Scientific, a US quoted company, where he held a number of UK and European director level positions.
MARK HOLTON Chief Officer for People and Culture
Mark is our Chief Officer for People and Culture, having joined Middlesex University as Chief People Officer in August 2019.
Previously Mark worked at Coventry University where, as a member of the Group Leadership Team, he held the role of Director, Group Organisation Development. Prior to joining Coventry University, Mark held positions in Consulting, Retail and the Financial Services sector. This included key roles at organisations including Waterstones, Kingfisher Group and Nationwide Building Society.
Mark has an MA in Human Resource Management. He has extensive international experience including, delivery of Higher Education programmes in China, South East Asia, The Middle East, West and South Africa.
SOPHIE BOWEN Chief Officer for Students and University Registrar
Sophie is Chief Officer for Students and University Registrar, having joined the University in 2016 as our Chief Operating Officer. She previously worked at St George’s University of London as University Secretary and Director of Academic Administration and Quality, and has also held a variety of roles at the University of Birmingham. Sophie graduated from the University of Oxford with a BA and MPhil (Research) in Sociology and has an MBA from the Open University. She is Treasurer of the Association of Heads of University Administration and a non-executive Director of the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA).
In her role as Chief Officer for Students and University Registrar, Sophie focuses on the care of our students, and has leadership and responsibility for the systems and processes that impact on them, throughout their ‘journey’, from outreach, marketing and recruitment to ongoing support for students and their experience, and key related academic support processes and systems. Sophie also has institutional responsibility for governance and regulatory compliance.
As Chief Officer for People and Culture, Mark is responsible for leading culture change and communications across the University Community. Mark provides leadership on organisational learning and development, change management, recognition and reward and employee relations, and plays a coordinating role on EDI matters. The role encompasses community and reputational build through effective staff, student, alumni and stakeholder communications and engagement and through policy and public affairs.
James is also a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland and holds a master’s degree from the University of Oxford in Engineering Science.
As Deputy Chief Executive Officer James focuses on the development of a sustainable institution and associated digital and estates infrastructure. James exercises leadership, and has responsibility for finance, data and information management, planning, commercial strategy and market research, estates, procurement, facilities and sustainability and leads a team of Directors of these services.
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