We are delighted to announce that we can offer a further 10 places onto the 2012 Mentoring Programme.You will have to be quick though - strict deadline is Monday 6th February 12noon.To apply complete the online application form. NB: The contents of the form is used to help us match you to a mentor.

Shilpi Bhaduri (MA Organisational Management and Analysis) graduated last week at WBS. Her father Raj Badhuri is also a WBS alumnus (EMBA class of 1996).

Steve Barnes (BSC Management 2002 - 2009) was one of the young entrepreneurs featured on BBC Radio Four's In Business recently. He was subsequently interviewed on Radio 2's Jeremy Vine show about Appetise.com, his online takeaway ordering web site.

Austin Brady (DLMBA 93-98) has recently joined The Woodland Trust as head of conservation.

Amrik Bhabra, a key member of the Warwick Business Growth Network, has recently been appointed as the new president of Coventry and Warwickshire Chamber of Commerce.Amrik is interviewed in the latest issue of Coventry & Warwickshire In Business, the Chamber's newsletter.

Ken Sloan (DLMBA 1998-2002) has recently been appointed as the new Registrar for the University of Warwick

Adrian Pulham (PG Diploma, Public Finance and Leadership 2008), Paul Eccleston (DL MBA class of 1990) and Geoff Hook (BSc Man Sci class of 1975) were all featured in various trade media recently

Max McKeown (DLMBA class of 2007) is keenly anticipating publication of his new book The Strategy Book: How to Think and Act Strategically to Deliver Outstanding Results

Jonny Dee (Exec MBA class of 2011) is featured in the Daily Telegraph article about his family run company Swizzels Matlow, now the largest independent family-owned confectionery company in Britain, producing 250 lines of sweets, employing 600 people and with a turnover of more than £40 million a year.

Warwick Finance Societies are making a promotional video and want to incorporate some short clips of recent alumni, with messages to guide and motivate viewers and prospective applicants. It will taken only a few minutes to help them. So, if you work in Banking, Finance, Accountancy or Consultancy and would be willing to support them the team would love to hear from you.

DLA MBA alumna Dr Tripthi Matthew's MBA dissertation (which was awarded a distinction) has been accepted for publication and presentation at the 4th International Conference on Education, Research and Evaluation (ICERI 2011), November 14-16, 2011, Madrid, Spain.

Torkild Thanem (Management Science 1993-1996 and PhD 1997 - 2001) is having a great year..His new book The Monstrous Organisation has been published and he has also been promoted to full professor at Stockholm University effective October 1st 2011.

Professor Mark Taylor, Dean of WBS, talks to Professor Nick Chater about Behavioural Science, Nudge and his work with the UK Government.Nick was also a panel member on BBC Radio 4's Analysis discussing Leadership.

Since applications for our Mentoring Programme opened a little over a month ago, there has been a terrific response. There is a limit of up to 150 new members and for those keen to take themselves further early applications are encouraged. Find out about how the Mentoring Programme can help you.

Katerina Elias-Trostmann (International Business graduated 2010) is organising the Tata Social Enterprise Conference on the weekend of 3 and 4 December in London.

MAIR Alumna Joanne Segars (class of 1986), head of the UK National Association of Pension Funds was interviewed by The Independent about the problems facing the UK Pension Fund industry.

DL MBA Alumnus Ethan Opolion (class of 98) is the subject of a Washington Post article which tells how Ethan and his wife Lisa bought a local babysitting franchise after they were both made redundant last year.

Irene Yong (FT MBA class of 2002) has been made a Partner at Shearn Delamore, one of Malaysia's oldest and largest law firms.

Jim Hey (MBA class of 2007) and current Modular MBA student Liz Hazeldene both feature in recent articles in The Sunday Times following their recent promotions to Board Directorships.

Warwick Business School's LinkedIn group is run from our External Relations Office. Renate Mason, who administers the running of the group, reports that membership has just reached a stunning total of 10,000.

Nigel Pitchford (FTMBA class of 1996) has been appointed as Managing Director of Healthcare Investments at Imperial Innovations Group plc, the technology commercialisation and investment company, with effect from 4 January. Current DLMBA student Angela Nwabuoku has been appointed to the Board of Directors of Transnational Corporation Nigeria.

Alumna Angela Fitzpatrick is celebrating after securing deals to get her own brand of pole and line caught tuna onto the shelves of Asda, The Co-operative, Waitrose, Tesco and Sainsbury's.

Alumna Petra van den Elsen, CEO and co-founder of Akeso Medical Imaging is delighted to announce that the organisation has been successful in securing finance to develop an imaging device for rheumatoid arthritis (RA) disease activity monitoring and control.

Six year old Dylan Carlyon, son of David Carlyon (PG Dipl Police Leadership & Managment 2009-10) has already raised £3536, inspired by his little brother Hari, who has hyper-mobility in his joints so that he cannot crawl or walk. Dylan and his family completed the Three Peaks Challenge in August in aid of the Noah's Ark Appeal for a local Hydrotherapy Pool. They are still fundraising and would welcome donations at JustGiving

17 ex-classmates (and 12 partners) of the full time MBA of 2000-2001 met for a 10 year reunion dinner at the Arden Hotel in Stratford Upon Avon on 10th September.

Theresia Baumker (BSc Mgt Science 92-95) asks for support for her Berlin Marathon run to raise money for the Martha Trust charity

Otto Frommelt (MBA 93-94) takes up a new role with Volvo Trucks Sweden

Curtis Manchoon (Exec MBA 05-10) has been appointed as the new Chairman of the Board of Governors of the University of Trinidad and Tobago.

Current FT MBA student Alia Nurmohamed was interviewed by Charlotte Clarke for the Financial Times's 10 Questions feature.

Sanofi Pasteur MSD has appointed Dr Adrian Kilcoyne (DLMBA 2001-07) as medical director in the UK. He joins the company from Roche Pharmaceuticals Ireland, where he managed a team responsible for medical affairs, pharmacovigilance, regulatory affairs, medical information and clinical research.


Nikitas Pothoulakis (DL MBA 93-99) will take over on 1 September 2011 as the new CFO of Greek food conglomerate Vivartia Holdings SA. He is currently CFO and Deputy CEO of Sfakianakis Group.

Gary Stockport (FT MBA 86-87) was chosen from 90 full-time staff at The University of Western Australia (UWA) Business School for this honour.

The Warwick MBA has been ranked 8th of all the non-US one-year MBA programmes in the world by Forbes Magazine.

This summer, 996 WBS graduands became graduates, and a total of 2,092 people, including graduates, their friends and family members, and WBS staff attended the buffet lunches hosted by WBS in the Rootes Panorama suites. Graduation photos can now be viewed on WBS Flickr pages

The Management Development Month is a four-week promotion for Ghana's Citi 97.3 FM that establishes a platform for business people to learn about practices and trends in management and to enable practicing business people to rethink the practice conduct and general management of their businesses. The series is hosted by the station's Operations Manager and Citi Breakfast Show anchor, Bernard Avle, who holds a 1st Class in Economics from the University of Ghana and an MBA from Warwick Business School.

The Warwick Business Growth Network (WBGN) has held the first of its 'Member Hosted' events at Reabrook Limited, a privately owned company that produces and supplies products to many High Street companies under their own brand names.

Malcolm Watkins and Tony Brealey, joint owner managers, shared their learning experiences from Reabrook's 'growth journey' with fellow WBGN members, who are all SME owner managers from across the Midlands.

Linda Jackson (EMBA class of 1990) is the only female boss of a UK-based car manufacturer. Interviewed for a long article in Motor Trader Monthly, she explains how she has tackled the challenges facing her on her appointment last July.

Nicholas Syme works for UBS and is currently completing an MBA at Warwick Business School. Interviewed by Business Because, he describes his responsibilities at UBS and explains how his MBA is helping him do his job. While an MBA isn't crucial to get into an investment bank, you'll be more competitive for at least some of the roles.

Warwick Business School is delighted to announce the success of our MSc Finance programme in the newly introduced Financial Times ranking of pre-experience MSc Finance programmes. WBS has been placed at fifth in the world overall and ranked as the top UK pure Finance programme.

Brian Pope (MSc Management & Business Studies class of 1974) is Senior Vice President of business development for L-3 Communications / Marine & Power Systems Group. He is profiled in online trade journal Maritime Professional at MarineLink.com. Pope has been influential in the development of electrical propulsion and the development of electrical systems afloat.

Warwickshire-based Educational Charity seeks new Trustees

Deborah Watson (DLMBA class of 1998) is currently working for The Design & Technology Association, a small educational charity based in Wellesbourne, Warwickshire (patron: Sir James Dyson), which would like to co-opt 2-3 people with business experience onto their board of trustees. This sort of involvement is clearly a valuable addition to a CV and brings a different dimension to working life.

Mark Watkinson (FT MBA class of 1994) has been appointed as a Senior Executive Vice President America at HSBC Bank USA. Professor Walter Baets (PhD IROB class of 1989) is to join the Board of the Association of African Business Schools.

Working Capital workshops aim to bring in, share and stimulate creative experiences, projects and ideas: new ways of looking at things differently.

They contribute to Warwick Business School's vision of building stimulating relationships with our creative colleagues across the University and with WBS creative alumni - in digital media, art, film, music and performance.

Born in the US, educated in the UK, current WBS FTMBA student and entrepreneur Will Skillman is bringing safe bio-fuel to homes in South Africa. While running a medical charity in South Africa, he hit on the market potential for a cheap and safe alternative to paraffin cooking oil.

WBS alumnus Jack Broadley (MAOS class of 1999) recently ran the Jerusalem Marathon in 3 hours 52 minutes. He has raised £1,882.00 so far for The House of Hope on the West Bank and would be really grateful for any donations via his JustGiving page

Expedia Inc, the leading online travel company, have recently promoted Lee McCabe (DLMBA 2003-07) to Senior Director of Market Management for Canada and West USA, based in Seattle.

The Advanced Institute of Management Research (AIM) has asked WBS to help publicise its latest initiative.

'The UK has over 120 business schools and these schools invest around £60 million a year on management research. Through their research, business school faculty generate a wealth of materials and ideas and yet it seems that managers often find it difficult and challenging to access these.

Already AIM has taken half a dozen different pieces of research and converted them into tools and techniques designed for immediate use in organisations.

Georgios Halkias (MSc Marketing & Strategy, class of 05/06) brings us up to date with his latest academic achievements.

Alumni Nicola O'Day (BSc Management, 2006) and Christopher Cole (BSc Management, 2006) spoke to prospective undergraduate students at the University Open Day last month.

This alumni address has now become a popular fixture in the Open Day schedule.

Rome-based Warwick and WBS alumni on 21 May met up for the first time and are planning to set up a national group.

Tom Demeester (Modular MBA class of 2010) is planning to relocate to Thailand where he will join his Thai partner who is based in Bangkok.

Tom would like to hear from fellow alumni who have moved from Europe to Thailand and would be prepared to share their experience.