Klaspad Academy

Katie has a high profile industry spokesperson, worldwide trainer and conference speaker (including UK, Europe-wide, Russia and China), a high-performing executive with proven international expertise in strategic consultancy encompassing change management and business transformation, AI, marketing, PR and social media. Expertise across all industry sectors with blue-chip brands. Successful campaigns for NatWest/RBS, o2, Accenture, PA Consulting, Orange, Arsenal FC, NHS Trusts etc.

She has formed EMEA Director at Text 100 Ltd, part of Next Fifteen Communications Group PLC and managed a team of 120 staff and revenue of £10M.

Chris Matthews is a Senior Lecturer and is the director of marketing, recruitment and admissions. Based in the School of Business here at LSBU. Prior to joining LSBU, Chris was a Senior Lecturer in Strategy and Business Skills, and Course Leader for Global Business MBA at Coventry University London Campus.

Chris gained his MBA from the University of Hertfordshire in 1991.

Prior to moving into Business, Leadership and Management education Chris enjoyed a successful 35 year career creating, developing and running successful multi-national, leading edge technology businesses, managing operations in the USA, Europe and the Middle East. Chris specialises in developing start up companies and preparing organisations for IPO.

Chris has extensive public sector experience, having also served as a non-executive director for an NHS Acute trust for 8 years, where Chris chaired the Governance Committee, and served as a business governor for his local FE College.

John has 30 years experience of higher education, after beginning his career as a practicing accountant.

He has held a number of senior jobs within a University culminating in the role as academic Head of Department for the Lord Ashcroft International School where he introduced a Bloomberg trading room. John was heavily involved in student recruitment and international academic partnerships and regularly worked in Trinidad, Botswana and Malaysia. John has supervised ten doctoral students to completion.

More recently John has held the position of Director at Fardings Ltd advising organisations on a wide range of HE matters including the management of a doctoral programme in central London. Outside of education he balances his time between travelling, researching family history, his allotment and his young grandson whilst being a long suffering supporter of Ipswich Town FC.

Dr Balan Dass, holds a Ph.D in Adult and Continuing Professional Education from University Putra Malaysia, a DBA from Victoria University , Switzerland, a Master in Education, majoring in Training and Development from University of Sheffield, UK. He also holds post-graduates diplomas in Human Resources Management.

Dr Balan, currently teachers, trains, conducts and consults in the areas relating to behavioural sciences, human resources, training and development, and continuing education. He also teaches at tertiary level conducting classes at DBA, Masters’ and post and undergraduate level as well as professional programs, in the public and private sector universities, and colleges Professionally, Dr Balan is a Life member and was Deputy-President of the Malaysian Institute of Human Resource Management, and a Sr business consultant for many years. He has collaborated well with the many programs implemented at MIHRM for the development of employee competencies at various organizations. Dr Balan is also a frequent speaker at various HR conventions. Dr Balan has also received the ‘Excellent Facilitator’ Award from MIHRM. He is also a Certified HR Practitioner, (CHRP), PROSCI Change, WIAL Action Learning coach and a Trait Personality, UK certified.

Currently he consults on HRM matters and facilitates for University Putra Malaysia and University of Bolton, UK.

Dr Balan Dass spends his free time serving the community through Rotary International and continuously develops himself with Toastmasters International. He can be contacted at: drbd38@gmail.com

Jasdeep Singh has been in the insurance industry for more than 30 years. He has vast experiences in almost all departments within an insurance organization. He started off his career with MBf Insurans Sdn Bhd in 1987 as their Risk Surveyor and moved up quickly to be their Underwriting Manager. He subsequently headed their Management Information System Department and got both the Motor and Fire computer system implemented using the state if the art information technology driven by Sybase on Unix. He was later given the opportunity to run their Kuching Branch and thereafter became the Senior Marketing Manager for all MBf Group related companies with a turnover of RM40 million a year.

He has a degree in mathematics from the University of Malaya and a MBA on Strategic Management from the University of Institute Wales , Cardiff and a MBA on Marketing Management from Cardiff Metropolitan University, UK.

Jasdeep also has AMII professional insurance qualification and was their best student for the course. He currently is lecturing at MII for most of the AMII subjects.

Jasdeep Singh has been lecturing as a part time lecturer at the Open University Malaysia in areas related to Human Resources, Human Capital Development, Marketing and Strategic Management.

Jasdeep Singh is an expert on people behavior and always encourages his peers to execute extraordinary customer services and believes that a motivated and team spirits always ensures the success of any organization. Jasdeep Singh also did a lot of Personal Development Training for both his staff and agents nationwide .

Professor Selvaraj Oyyan Pillay received his PhD in Biochemical Genetics from the Department of Genetics and Cellular Biology, University of Malaya in 1977. He is a trained scientist in the field of animal and population genetics, has worked closely with the Australian Centre for Agricultural Research from 1988 to 2002, and has represented Malaysia in the Steering Committee of the International Network for Genetics and Aquaculture from 1994 to 2004.

Professor Selvaraj was one of the team members of the Antarctica Expedition Team went to the South Pole Scientific Expedition mission in 1992. The Expedition was organised by Akademi Sains Malaysia and the Australian Antarctic Mission.

Professor Selvaraj joined Open University Malaysia in May 2005 to spearhead Institute of Professional Development (IPD-OUM) and the School of Lifelong Learning (SOLL). Since then IPD-OUM and SOLL revenues has grown two folds annually, Professor Selvaraj has led the group on its major strategic initiative to expand into extensive network nation-wide and overseas.