Here is your quarterly summary of some of the successes of Cranfield alumni:

  • Linda Venables (Fellowship in Manufacturing Management 2004) has been appointed by pwc as its first-ever Chief Supply Chain Officer.

  • featured in women you should know article for being a strong advocate for female and youth empowerment. She is currently a deputy governor of the central bank of Nigeria.

  • Dr. Adesola (鈥淪ola鈥�) Kazeem Adedunta (MBA 2006) is the managing director/chief executive officer of First Bank Nigeria Limited. In this interview, he discusses the future of the bank and trends that shaped the economy in 2021.

  • Dorchester Collection announces the appointment of Mirko Cattini as general manager of Rome鈥檚 Hotel Eden, starting from 14 February 2022. 

  • Vice Admiral Ajendra Bahadur Singh (Master's Global Security 2005) took over as the Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief (FOC-in-C), Western Naval Command. 

  • Shahid Abbas (Master's in Administration and Planning) appointed as the new Director of Transportation in the city of Glendale. 

  • Colin Hughes (MBA 2004) appointed Chief Executive Officer (CEO) for Irish-owned pizza chain .

  • appointed Head of Technical at FPG Amentum.

  • Marc Watkins (MSc Air Transport 1998) anna.aero Editor for six years between 2012 and 2018, has joined Cardiff Airport as its new Aviation Development Manager.

  • and is currently studying a PhD in Manufacturing. Marta is one of the all-female crew members set to visit the Mars Desert Research Station in Utah, USA. She chats to Andrea Gaini about venturing into space exploration, inspiring young women, and her dream of becoming an astronaut.

  • Anthony Jenkins (MBA 1988) discusses starting 10x Future Technologies, his fintech company, within a year of departing from Barclays.

  • discusses his principles of politics and leadership in his role as Senate President.

  • is the new director of human relations at L'Or茅al Portugal.

  • leading strategy at Air-France KLM has left the group, a little over three years after his arrival. Angus Clarke leaves the operational world to return to more financial functions, but still in connection with the airline sector.

  • Current Porsche Motorsport Director will be joining Multimatic Special Vehicle Operations (MSVO) as Director of Performance Engineering on March 1, 2022 to focus exclusively on the development of high-performance vehicles and on Multimatic's motorsport programs, including supplying the chassis for the Porsche LMDh hybrid racing cars and Audi LMDh.

  • named in top India CEOs.

  • awarded SMEStreet Global Women Leadership Award 2021 for her visionary entrepreneurship ventures and initiatives.

  • appointed general manager of the French group, Thales Romania on Saturday 1 January 2022. 

  • appointed as the Deputy Vice-Chancellor in charge of Academic Affairs (DVCAA) at Victoria University. 

  • CDC Group, the UK鈥檚 development finance institution (DFI) and impact investor, announced Kwabena as Coverage Director for Ghana, effective 1 February 2022.

  • Gita Amperiawan (PhD in the School of Applied Sciences 2001) appointed as the new president director of state-owned aircraft manufacturer Indonesian Aerospace (IAe).

  • David Grailey (MSc Postharvest Management 1992) appointed as managing director of the Advanced Manufacturing Training Centre. 

  • Hugo Spowers (MBA 1999) article discusses the new Rasa, the first two-seater hydrogen powered road car built by Riversimple, founded by Hugo.

  • appointed as the new chairman of Baiterek National Managing Holding JSC. 

  • Simon Maguire (Accelerated Talent Development Programme 2013) discusses his company Luxury Family Hotels have turned to glamping to provide customers with a different kind of staycation.  

  • has been appointed as the new CDC Group Coverage Director for Ghana.

  • appointed as UK R&D manager for Global composites expert Exel Composites in Runcorn, England. 

  • appointed Director of Business recovery at British Airways.  

  • Michelle Morgan (BGP 2011) named an inspirational woman in an interview about her experience as an Entrepreneur, Author & Mental Health First Aid England Ambassador. She names Cranfield as being a major factor in achieving her success. 

  • featured in an article recognising women in STEM from Pakistan for International Day of Women and Science. 

  • Chairman of Sapio had successfully conducted their first ever event of selected Investors and Strategic Partners, inviting business, government and financial leaders to present the growth story of Sapio. 

  • Okan Erol (MSc Strategic Marketing 2009) appointed as the Chief Marketing Officer at Yemeksepeti marketing team since working for the company since 2012.

  • appointed as Dean, Faculty of Agricultural Engineering of Sindh Agriculture University Tando Jam for a period of three years.

  • has been appointed as the new chief medical officer at BAT, based at the research & development hub in Southampton. 

  • describes her role as a Process Lead at engineering major Jacobs.

  • is a guest of Man Alive Podcast discussing finding freedom from the inner critic. 

  • discusses moving from the Chief Executive of Aston martin to the company Switch Mobility. 

  • is joining the luxury hotel The Grand, York as the new Hotel Manager. 

  • company StepEX has added Spanish IronHack, Northcoders and French Le Wagon as clients These partnerships allow StepEx to add even more data to further enhance its ability to reliably predict, verify and collect an applicant鈥檚 future earnings by using cutting edge analytics and algorithms.

  • has been appointed as the new head of Air Transat operations commencing 1 June 2022.

  • CEO of Ocean Technologies Group has received the 2022 SMART4SEA Personality Award for taking outstanding action to shape the vision of digitalization within the maritime industry, investing in partnering relationships with key stakeholders and acquiring further capabilities and digital technologies to deliver new maritime solutions. 

  • listed in the first list of Marketers Powerlist 100 published by Marketing Week. 

  • honoured the British Citizen Award in January 2021. 

  • is Turkey鈥檚 new Minister of Agriculture and Forestry. 

  • featured in an 鈥楽trong Female Founders鈥� article sharing her biggest business lessons learnt and what international women's day means to her.  

  • appointed as the new commercial director for Veka. 

  • argues that women are key to unlocking a greener future for our energy needs. 

  • appointed Revenue Delivery Executive at British Airways. 

  • shares her achievements and successes over the years and uses her skills and experience to support many organisations as a board director 鈥� including The Institute of Directors.

  • shares her passion for wastewater treatment, now being the Water and Wastewater Engineer attached to the Programme Planning, Design and Implementation Department of Guyana Water Inc (GWI).

  • Dr Osaren Emokpae (MSc Managing Organisational Performance 2014) appointed chairman of the Wilson Badejo Foundation. 

If you've been featured in the media, don't forget to share your successes with us so we can include them in our quarterly roundup. Email our Alumni Communications team including a link to the web site or press release.

Check out last quarter's summary (October - December 2021) here.