Hello and welcome to the first National Skills Academy Process Industries quarterly Provider newsletter for 2013.

In this issue you can find out about changes within the Academy and exclusive business opportunities for accredited providers, such as the Employer Ownership Pilot with Sembcorp.  We are reviewing the Academy Centre of Excellence status and the results will be published in a later newsletter during the year.  

If you have not already done so, please contact the office to book your review meeting with me.

We have worked hard to make this newsletter useful and informative. As always, feedback around what else you would like to see here is needed to keep this relevant and is always greatly appreciated.

Keep in touch.

Claire Green
Provider Manager

Dr Ian Mains is overseeing the good work led by Penny Bance to further develop the network's commercial relationship with industry. 
Find out more below.

Dr Ian Mains, Commercial Director

Ian has spent over 30 years in the UK Process Industry, gaining a wealth of experience in research and development, manufacturing, PR, marketing, HR, training, development and corporate governance.

After graduating from the University of Salford with a degree in Biochemistry followed by a Doctorate based on research in enzymology, Ian began his career with Boots as Research Biochemist .. read more

This feature is to highlight a provider member looking for partnership and collaboration opportunities from within the accredited network.

David Fraser is Business Development Manager, Process Applications, at Festo Limited:

"For those of you that have met me you will know that Festo is a global process automation company with an associated Training & Consulting division.

We work with clients seeking to improve their productivity through the development of key competences in sales & service, leadership, employee engagement, change management, teamworking, coaching, business planning, production processes and automation technology.

... We are interested in collaborating with other providers where our offers are complementary and discussing how we might work together in the future" ... read more

Q&A session with David Fraser