Board of Directors

Alistair joined BIMM as Chairman in December 2016. A Chartered Engineer with an MBA from Stanford University, Alistair’s early career was in various field engineering, management and research science roles with British Aerospace and then Schlumberger.

Following his MBA, Alistair worked for McKinsey & Company before joining Blue Circle Industries, where he was the Group Strategy Director and then the Regional Director for Asia. He has been the CEO of Hays Recruitment for 13 years and was Chief Executive of Xansa plc. Until November 2015, Alistair was a non-executive director of 3i Group plc.

Professor Mark Hunt is an independent consultant working with a range of Higher Education providers across the UK and abroad. He has over 30 years of experience in leadership and management positions in Higher Education and was Deputy Vice-Chancellor of the University for the Creative Arts for 15 years. He joined BIMM Institute as our Non-Executive Director in December 2016.

As well as being Non-Executive Director at BIMM Institute (Deputy Chair of the Board and Chair of the Audit Committee), Professor Hunt is also Non-Executive Director of Istituto Marangoni, London School of Fashion (Chair of the Board); Non-Executive Director of Sotheby’s Institute of Art (Chair of the Board); a special adviser to Laine Theatre Arts; and a member of the Trust for the Anglo-Portuguese School of London. He was also the inaugural Chair of the Strood Academy until 2018.

Professor Hunt has extensive experience as an academic developer in Art and Design, as a Quality Assurance Agency Auditor/Reviewer for England and Scotland, and as an external examiner within the UK and overseas. He is also a non-local auditor appointed by the Hong Kong Quality Assurance Council (QAC).

In 2002, Professor Hunt was awarded the title of Professor of Crafts Education and elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. In 2015, the University for the Creative Arts granted the title of Professor Emeritus in recognition of his distinguished contribution.

Adam joined BIMM in January 2011, having worked in the Further Education sector since 2008 as Finance Director of an Apprenticeships training provider.

Before moving into the education sector, Adam held a number of senior finance and general management roles with organisations including Travelex Currency Services (Finance Director), DX Services (Divisional Managing Director) and Hays plc (Group Corporate Development Manager & Financial Controller). Adam is a Chartered Accountant and qualified with PwC. He also has an Economics degree from the University of Bath.

Bernard has over ten years of experience in the finance sector. In his current role as Group Director of Finance, he makes sure that a strong financial, strategic and commercial focus is maintained across the group. He first joined BIMM in 2016 as our Group Financial Controller, before being promoted.

Before joining us at BIMM, Bernard spent several years in senior finance roles in the healthcare PR and media sectors. He has also held group finance roles at Barclays Bank and Nuffield Health and trained to become a Chartered Accountant at Baker Tilly.

Bernard also competed as a junior international athlete, winning a silver medal at the Commonwealth Youth Games.

Prior to being a non-executive board director of BIMM, Tony Wadsworth CBE was Chairman and CEO of EMI Music UK and Ireland.

Part of his 26-year EMI career included becoming Managing Director of the Parlophone label, which he re-launched in the 1990s.

The label achieved hits with artists such as Blur, Radiohead, Tina Turner and Queen. His next move to running all of EMI’s UK labels saw global success with artists like Coldplay, Kylie Minogue, the Rolling Stones, the Beatles and more.

As well as being awarded prestigious music awards (such as the Music Week Strat Award in 2008 for outstanding contribution to the UK music industry), Tony was awarded a CBE in 2011 for his services to the UK music industry.

Andy Weltman is Managing Director of APA International (Agency for the Performing Arts) and joined in January 2016 to establish and oversee the UK division. Andy is responsible for the company’s international interests and packaging film and TV projects in the UK and Europe.

Prior to joining APA, Andy was Executive Vice President of Pinewood International, responsible for bringing US productions to the company’s London studio. He was also instrumental in establishing and overseeing Pinewood’s first US facility.

Before Pinewood, Andy served as Executive Vice President for the British Film Commission in the US. Whilst there, Andy worked closely with the UK Government and spearheaded the team that successfully lobbied for the High-End TV Tax Incentive.

Andy’s impressive career spans three decades. He has extensive roots in production and has worked with some of the world’s most iconic directors, such as Peter Weir, Steven Spielberg, George Miller, Wolfgang Petersen and Robert Zemeckis. His filmography includes The Perfect Storm, Dead Poets Society, and Who Framed Roger Rabbit.