Visiting Fellow in Business Practice

Grahame Nix is Company Director and business leader with a background in Project and Operational Management.

He has had wide ranging experience in the Aerospace and Defence Sector, much at an international level. He has held roles as Production Director, Managing Director Operational Support Services and Chief Operating Officer at Marshall Aerospace and Chairman of Aeropeople.

He has led a number of key programmes working with governments and the major aerospace OEMs both in the Civil and Military sectors. He has developed a particular expertise in the development partnered business arrangements and complex service delivery. He has been involved in establishing new companies and with business acquisitions and has led on strategy, improvement programmes and business reorganisation.

In 2011 he started is own company, Cardyke Consulting, which provides consultancy services to Manufacturing, Aerospace and Technology businesses.

He is a Non-Executive Director of two not for profit Companies: EEF Ltd which is the pre-eminent services and representative organisation for UK Manufacturing and TWI Ltd, which is a leading technology and research company based in Cambridge and where he is Deputy Chairman of Council.

He received an OBE for services to the Defence Industry in 2009. He is a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society and is a Visiting Fellow at the Lord Ashcroft International Business School at Anglia Ruskin University.