Credentials Rod Cook BSc FCIPD Over 30 years senior Human Resources experience in high technology multinationals • Built a successful personnel consultancy in biotechnology/healthcare • Helped over 40 start up companies get established • Built HR department supporting company growth from 90 to over 330 employees • Designed and implemented three computerised personnel systems • Introduced the first flexible benefits scheme in the UK pharmaceutical industry • Introduced the first flexible benefits scheme in the UK • Introduced competency based behavioural interviewing • Company representative on external, national committees • Designed and implemented four Job Evaluation systems • Played major role in administering the closure of G D Searle's UK R&D division . • Non executive Director of Oxfordshire Bioscience Network April 1996 - present Self Employed Consultant 1988 - 1996 British Biotech, Oxford Head of Personnel 1986 - 1988 Alcan International, Banbury Personnel Manager 1982 -1986 G D Searle and Co., High Wycombe Personnel Manager 1980 - 1982 Copper Industry Service Bureau, Zambia Senior Personnel Research Officer 1975 - 1980 GEC Avionics, Hertfordshire Personnel Officer 1973 - 1975 GEC Avionics, Hertfordshire Radar Engineer Qualifications (1994) Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (1973) University of London, BSc in Computing and Physics (1988) Personality tester ( Myers Briggs) (1999) Ability tester (Level A of the British Psychological Society) Extensive PC computing skills