Humaniq Faces - Michael Mainelli (Professor at Gresham College & Executive Chairman of Z/Yen Group)

Описание: Professor Michael Mainelli FCCA FCSI FBCS co-founded Z/Yen, the City of London’s leading commercial think-tank and venture firm, in 1994 to promote societal advance through better finance and technology. Z/Yen boasts a core team of respected professionals as well as numerous associates, and is well-capitalised due to successful spin-outs and ventures. A qualified accountant, securities professional, computer specialist and management consultant, educated at Harvard University and Trinity College Dublin, Michael gained his PhD at London School of Economics where he was also a Visiting Professor. His PhD was on the application of risk/reward methodologies involving chaotic systems. Michael’s career summary is a decade of technology research, followed by a decade in finance, then two decades at Z/Yen.

Michael served as a Director of Europe’s largest R&D organisation (DERA) leading to two privatisations. Career highlights include:

creating Z/Yen’s Long Finance, Global Financial Centres Index, London Accord, Global Intellectual Property Index, Farsight Award and other initiatives;
developing a £100 million business within the UK Ministry of Defence operating as a senior civil servant (military 2-star equivalent) commercialising defence technology;
growing an accountancy consultancy, BDO Consulting, profitably to 100 people with global privatisation, finance, technology, government, services and NGO clients;
conceiving and producing the first complete digital map of the world in 1983, Mundocart, the as well as the $20 million Geodat consortium cartography project (a 1980’s Google Earth).

At Z/Yen, Michael’s speciality is enhancing the performance of profit-making, charitable and government organisations and investments in conditions of high uncertainty. Michael has worked in the public sector on privatisations and strategy; in the private sector in a variety of industries (banking, insurance, manufacturing, media, retail, utilities, television, distribution) on problems ranging from strategy through information systems, quality, human resources, environmental systems and R&D; and in the voluntary sector on a number of assignments to improve performance. For example, Michael has led our studies of global investment banks’ operations & IT strategy, worked as Chief Technology Officer for a cancer detection technology firm, built a global website to aid young people’s understanding of financial markets through an innovative game and helped the UK Cabinet Office Strategy Unit develop sustainable UK fishing policies. Michael's current research interests at Z/Yen include those of Long Finance.

Michael was awarded the title of Consigliere del Senato Accademico of L’Accademia Tiberina in 2015, designated a Gentiluomo of the Associazione Cavalieri di San Silvestro in 2011, won a 1996 UK Foresight Challenge award for the Financial Laboratory, a 2003 UK Smart Award for our PropheZy prediction software, and was British Computer Society Director of the Year in 2005. Michael’s biggest honour was the Mercers’ School Memorial Professor of Commerce chair (2005-2009) at Gresham College, founding home of the Royal Society where he remains Emeritus Professor and Trustee. Michael is a non-executive Director of the United Kingdom Accreditation Service (UK’s national body for standards and laboratories), Wishbone Gold Plc, an Almoner for Christ’s Hospital School, a Fellow of Goodenough College, and Council Member at City & Guilds. Michael has held numerous advisory posts, for example with Hitachi UK, HM Treasury and BIS/BEIS, as well as sitting on editorial boards for the Journal of Strategic Change and Journal of Business Strategy. He lectures widely around the world and frequently in the UK on our work, e.g. at LSE on IT & Innovation, at Royal Holloway on statistics, at the University of Edinburgh on operations research, at UCL on quantitative finance. Michael is a Freeman of the City of London, Senior Warden of the Worshipful Company of World Traders, and a Freeman of the Company of Watermen & Lightermen He has also been appointed by the Taoiseach’s (Irish Prime Minister's) office to be the international advisor to the IFS Industry Advisory Committee in Dublin.

Michael has published over 50 journal articles, 180 commercial articles and four books. He speaks English, German, Italian, and French poorly, but much worse Spanish and Chinese. All Michael's articles can be read here.

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