O'Rorke steps into breach as Jeans drops Guild role
Mike Jeans has stepped down as the next master of the Guild of Management Consultants, citing time pressures. The new master for 1996-1997 will be Brian O’Rorke, the executive director of the Management Consultancies Association. He will be inaugurated at the Guild dinner on 7 November.
“Mike Jeans has had a change in personal circumstances, and has stepped aside for the good of the Guild, but with great reluctance,” said current master Calvert Markham. “He now becomes a past first warden, which means that he can enter the succession at some future date and offer himself as master, as indeed we hope he will.”
Jeans will continue to work for the Guild, both as a member of the Court of Wardens and the Court of Assistants.
“One of the major achievements of his period of office so far has been as chairman of the Charity Committee, with the result that our charitable status has recently been approved so we can now start building up charitable funds,” said Markham.
“We are very grateful to Brian for volunteering,”he added. “He has been a great supporter of the Guild from its very start and also a figure of some distinction in the consultancy sector, so he’s a very good choice as master.”
O’Rorke commented: “I’m honoured to be master-elect and hope it will be a year of fun for members and myself, as well as being a year of intense activity.”
His plans for the next year include recruiting the heads of major consultancies who are not yet members, recruiting new lifeblood, and ex-management consultants – people like Howard Davies, deputy governor of the Bank of England, Sir John Banham, chairman of Tarmac, and Willam Hague, Secretary of State for Wales.
“The Guild has just become a charitable trust, and one of its targets is to become a livery company, and for that we need to dispense funds to charity in the region of #100,000,” said O’Rorke.
New officers include: George Cox, chief executive for the information services group Europe at Unisys, who will be appointed as first warden; Keith Burgess, managing partner of business integration and practice competence at Andersen Consulting, who will be second warden; Wilf Eaton, chief executive of Oasis, who will be third warden, and John Chadwick, governor of Sundridge Park Management Centre, who will be fourth warden.
