Professor Nigel Adams is the Director of the Buckingham Enterprise & Innovation Unit (BEIU), which is in the Vinson Building at the University of Buckingham in the UK.
As Director of the Buckingham Enterprise Hub, Nigel encourages an enterprising and innovative approach across the university and the region. The Enterprise Hub not only welcomes enterprising students, graduates and staff, but also local people interested in starting their own businesses. The Hub also offers bookable Hot-Desks and a Meeting Room to members of Buckinghamshire Business First.
Nigel also mentors, encourages and supports students, alumni and staff developing innovative businesses, ranging from a new type of family game (Blurrb), to a project to help prevent NEETS (young people “Not in Education, Employment, or Training”) before they become NEETS.
Until May 2011 Nigel was also Managing Director of Nigel Adams & Company Ltd, which provided business, management, international marketing, recruitment and other support and advice to the boards of British companies to help them to establish operations and improve their sales and profitability in Central and Eastern Europe. See “Archive” link above for more information.
Having about 50 years of international business experience, Nigel has an extensive network of business, finance and diplomatic contacts. This network, along with more than 12 years of experience developing and running a leading experiential entrepreneurship education programme, means that he can help students and others running start-up businesses to develop an entrepreneurial mindset.
Nigel is a life member and 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. For many years Nigel was the Vice Chairman of the CIM East Midlands Regional Board.
Nigel Adams Website & Blog 