Bob Empson
BSc MBA FIBC FCIM MMRS
Bob Empson is White Maple's founder and Principal Consultant.
He has advised over 170 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. He has worked on every continent (except Antarctica!).
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 Consulting (FIC). 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.
Between 2006 and 2011 Bob was a non-executive director of Ascertiva Group Ltd (the c.£40 million global commercial group whose key brands include NICEIC, the UK certification body for electrical contractors, and NQA, a global management certification provider). He was co-founder in 2006 of Cities in Sound (an online venture producing and publishing tourist audio tours in European cities); the business was sold in 2008. He also has an interest in a specialist training business: Training Professional Guides.
Tel: +44 (0)20 3586 7176
Email: bob at whitemaple.com
