Our CIPS tutors
Our tutors come from many different backgrounds and represent a variety of academic, commercial, organisational and cultural experiences. When we enrol you, we will consider all the information you give us so that we can allocate the most appropriate tutor(s) to you. Our CIPS tutors are:
Tony Barnett
Tony is shy. We hope to be able to coax a biography out of him soon.
Roy Davidson
Roy's qualifications include MCIPS, DMS, and MCIM. Virtually the whole of Roy's career from the 1960s has been supply chain related. He joined the then POA in 1963, and has been a member of IPS/CIPS since its inception, and one of their part-time lecturers since 1968.
His experience covers the industrial, local Government and university sectors, during which time he has served on the CIPS Education Committee and designed coursework for students on correspondence courses covering the CIPS programme.
Roy’s latter years of full time employment were as the Purchasing and Contracts Manager for one of the new universities, a role embracing every aspect of SCM in a strategic procurement environment. This included being an active member of the Universities' Purchasing Consortia and the Universities' Purchasing Officers Association, with responsibility for a multi-million pound annual budget.
David Hatherall
David is shy. We hope to be able to coax a biography out of him soon.
Garry Holder
Garry is shy. We hope to be able to coax a biography out of him soon.
Steve Kirby
Steve is a self-employed supply chain trainer and consultant. His early purchasing and supply career was spent working in a purchasing capacity for a number of companies in the West Midlands all involved in the heavy engineering sector. From 1979 until 2002 he was a senior lecturer at Sandwell College in the West Midlands and specialised in teaching all levels of CIPS provision from Certificate level up to Graduate Diploma. His particular specialisation was "pure" purchasing modules, with Stores and Inventory subjects as a secondary specialisation. From 1990 onwards, he was programme manager of CIPS courses aimed both at part-time and full-time students, the latter courses providing Steve with much experience of students from overseas, particularly from Arab countries and sub-Saharan Africa.
Currently a visiting lecturer at Thames Valley University and City College Coventry, Steve teaches CIPS programmes at both Foundation and Professional levels. He has also acted as a visiting lecturer at South Birmingham College, delivering one CIPS Foundation stage module at the college. Under the college’s aegis he has delivered the DMS Project Management module on-site at Powertrain ltd as well as giving some presentations at Powertrain on topics such as International Purchasing and legal elements of Purchasing.
Steve is chief examiner for the CIPS Advanced Certificate modules of Analysing the Supply Market and Preparing and Managing Contracts, and acts as a "contract" examination invigilator for CIPS.
Steve enjoys being a Senior Purchasing Tutor for Cheltenham Tutorial College. In this last capacity, Steve gives distance learning support to students at all levels of CIPS provision and has written study materials for the college. In recent years, Steve has had articles published on the "Students" page of Supply Management (the CIPS journal).
Steve has also recently provided supply chain training in the private sector for Consignia (now Royal Mail), and has carried out CIPS-related training, on behalf of DPSS, for ShellExpro ltd in both Nigeria and Aberdeen. He has also provided ILT training for BMMI ltd in Bahrain and has recently completed an ongoing contract involving interviewing NHS supplies staff, in various parts of the UK, to identify training needs on behalf of PASA.
Finally, Steve also acts as a private tutor for school students specialising in general business studies, French and History.
Steve Parker
Steve is shy. We hope to be able to coax a biography out of him soon.
Joe Rose
Joe has had more than forty years' experience in the administration, shipping and financial aspects of international trade, and has dealt with a wide range of the problems encountered therein.
He has also been both a part time lecturer and home study tutor for more than twenty years, preparing students for the examinations of the Institute of Export and Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply, and lecturing on degree courses also. The subjects he has covered all relate to international trade and include transport and documentation, financing, legal aspects, and international purchasing.
Joe has been responsible for the revision and updating of a number of international trade courses, and is the author of the current CTC course in Finance and International Trade. He has served on the Committee of the London and Home Counties Branch of the Institute of Export in various capacities, and as an Education Officer he organised a students' quiz for more than twenty years.
Joe is a Fellow of the Institute of Export and Associate Member of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators.
Brian Stanbridge
Brian is shy. We hope to be able to coax a biography out of him soon.
John Stevens
John is shy. We hope to be able to coax a biography out of him soon.
Desmond Yarham
Desmond gained his BSc. hons Degree in Applied Chemistry at the University of Salford. He furthered this by gaining a Post Graduate Certificate in Education (credit) at the University of East Anglia. He subsequently achieved his MBA at the University of Warwick and finally his MCIPS with the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply. He has worked within two professional bodies, CIPS and the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants.
Desmond currently has a variety of academic posts. He has been a tutor in Operations Management for the University of Warwick Business School since 1991, a tutor in Operations Strategy in the University of Warwick Business School since 1995, and finally a tutor for CIPS courses with Cheltenham Tutorial College, also since 1995.
Desmond has a number of publications to his name including Selecting the Right Supplier written for Cheltenham Tutorial College (1998), Analysing the Supply Market, written for Cheltenham Tutorial College (1999), and finally Stores and Inventory Management, also written for Cheltenham Tutorial College (2000).
At the College
You can find out more about the people that work for the College on our staff page.
