Taking the Next Steps: What you need to know about becoming a Company Director
Date: Wednesday, 10 February 2015
Time: 8.30pm Registration and breakfast, 9:00 – 11:00 Seminar
Venue: SGH Martineau, 1 Colmore Square, Birmingham, B4 6AA
Fee: Members £50 + VAT Non-Members £70 + VAT
If you are shortly to become a director or are newly appointed, this seminar is for you. Birmingham Law Society in association with the Institute of Directors presents David Oxtoby of the IoD and Neil Davies of Neil Davies & Partners. David will provide an overview of key duties, roles and legal responsibilities of directors including corporate governance for boards and Neil will speak about director disqualification and what happens when you don’t meet your legal responsibilities. A Q&A session will round up this seminar.
David Oxtoby
David, previously a Senior Lecturer in Strategic Management and Corporate Governance at Wolverhampton Business School, currently serves as a non-executive director with a specialist insurance company and has continued teaching corporate governance part time at Birmingham Business School.
For 16 of the 25 years he spent in manufacturing industry before joining the Business School in 1992, he held board level appointments, including nine years as Managing Director. He has experience of serving on the boards of a family company, of subsidiary companies within a UK Plc and a foreign owned multinational, where he was a member of the European Management Group.
Originally a market researcher, David has experience of setting up two overseas joint ventures and has held personal responsibility for company disposals and acquisitions in the UK. He has wide experience of doing business in Europe.
David is visiting lecturer at two other Business Schools and lectures throughout the UK and abroad, recently in Russia, Nigeria, Hong Kong and the Caribbean. He is a past member of the Council of the Institute of Directors in Birmingham and worked with the Institute to develop and deliver teaching programmes on the Role of the Director and Effective Boardroom Practice.
David conducted his doctoral research into the role of the non-executive director in private companies and has published on the role of company directors and the effectiveness of Boards, especially in the context of family business and closely held companies.
Neil Davies
Neil qualified as a solicitor in 1987. He is a founding member of Neil and Davies and Partners, Solicitors, based in Birmingham. Neil has practised in the fields of Director Disqualification, Insolvency, Restructuring, Commercial Litigation, Debt Recovery and Regulatory matters throughout his career. He has many reported cases across these disciplines.
Neil is an advisory Editor to the leading text on Director Disqualification law and practice, Mithani on Director Disqualification. As a panel Solicitor, he has advised the Secretary of State on Director Disqualification cases and Policy issues for a number of years. For the last 10 years he has returned to his roots, advising directors faced with Director Disqualification problems. He is one of the country’s leading solicitors in this specialist field.
When not at work, Neil enjoys beach and cliff walking and is a keen follower of most sports, particularly rugby and cricket. His Achilles heel is his incurable addiction to Aston Villa, a regular reminder to him (amongst other matters) of why winning is important.