Bob Empson
BSc MBA FIBC FCIM MMRS
Bob Empson (49) is White Maple's founder and Principal Consultant.
He has advised over 150 UK and international organisations across the commercial, public and not-for-profit sectors. His client experience spans global corporations through to partnerships and entrepreneurial start-ups, government departments and their executive agencies, and a wide variety of not-for-profit member organisations and charities.
Bob's career started with British Petroleum in the UK and Africa. He became a management consultant in 1985 when he joined a specialist strategy and marketing consultancy. He subsequently established the strategy/marketing consulting group of a UK professional services firm before joining another major firm to lead its management consulting practice for 10 years. He founded White Maple Consulting in 2002.
He is a former President of the UK's Institute of Management Consultancy, and is a Fellow of its successor the Institute of Business Consulting (FIBC). Bob was educated at the universities of Bristol and Warwick (MBA). He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing (FCIM) and is a Chartered Marketer. He is also a Full Member of the Market Research Society (MMRS). Bob is a tutor on the MBA programme at Warwick Business School.
Bob is also a non-executive director of NICEIC Group Ltd (the c.£30 million commercial arm of the Electrical Safety Council charity) and Co-Founder of Cities in Sound (a new venture producing tourist audio tours in European cities). And he is a Trustee of the Foundation for Assistive Technology (FAST), a charity dedicated to ensuring that disabled and older people have access to innovative, well designed and useful assistive technologies.
Tel: +44 (0)20 8822 3320
Email: empson@whitemaple.net
