Prospects 2008 MBA Guide

LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY BUSINESS SCHOOL MBA GERRY BARKER IS PUTTING HIS MBA TO GOOD USE Gerry works for a Dutch company called Doedijns International BV (a leading company in the manufacture of drive technology) as Group Chief Operating Officer, sitting on the Supervisory Board as the Director and in control of operations. As the Managing Director of the UK arm, in addition to Group COO for the global brand, he ‘is in charge of running the UK arm in its entirety’. On a day-to-day basis, Gerry oversees the operations, financial controls, human resource management, marketing, orders and legal aspects of the company, and is in Europe three days a week following group strategy. So not much time for Facebook® then… ‘Doedijns is owned by banks, and meetings are therefore often with quite high-level bankers. Wanting to hold my own, I decided to enrol on an MBA programme to gain a more well-rounded understanding of the business and finance in particular.’ says Gerry. A self-confessed ‘huge fan’ of the Loughborough MBA, Gerry says he enrolled on the Loughborough part-time programme because of its ‘down-to-earth nature and because of the subjects taught’. ‘The Loughborough MBA has been useful for my job – I use module learning every single day. The core modules are of course the ones you have to do, but the electives are interesting and really stretch you; Governments, included the following citation: ‘Through innovative marketing techniques this company has been able to withstand strong competition in the engineering field from abroad, often from outside Europe. The jury were impressed by Doedjins’s innovative marketing, strong R & D, the follow-through of ideas and its excellent staff relations and working conditions.’ Gerry stresses that the award was won because he ‘implemented all aspects of the Loughborough Marketing module into the business’. An old hat at winning awards, Gerry also won a student achievement award for Best Oral Presentation they make you better at what you do,’ explains Gerry. by KPMG last October for his work in helping real-life businesses to maximise the potential of their ideas. Since enrolling on the Loughborough MBA, the company received a commendation from the Netherlands-British Chamber of Commerce and won the 2005 Heineken UK Award. The Heineken award, presented annually by the British and Dutch Due to graduate this December, Gerry is highly impressed by what he has learnt on the programme: ‘The experience has been great,’ he says, ‘and I couldn’t recommend it enough.’ PROSPECTS MBA GUIDE 25

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