About Your Expert Course Leader

Alan Mellor
Director
RA Mellor Associates, UK

Alan Mellor has been engaged in management training since 1997. He has experience in finance and general management, gained at a senior level. His courses contain a blend of commercial insight, systematic thinking, and an understanding of people, delivered in a very informal and common sense way, with an emphasis on adding value.

Alan has over thirty years’ industrial experience in power distribution and manufacturing businesses. He held a number of financial positions and was for a period of nine years the Group Financial Director of JCB. His career at JCB also included a period of four years as Managing Director of JCB-SCM, a joint venture company owned by JCB and Sumitomo of Japan. Responsibilities included: managing a start-up manufacturing operation by forming an effective team of British and Japanese personnel; establishing a European supply chain to produce Japanese-designed components; managing shareholder and supplier relationships with Japanese companies.

Alan brings international experience to his courses. He has spent considerable time doing business in Japan, North America, and throughout Europe. Alan attended Harvard University Business School in 1989 and completed their International Senior Management Programme, which concentrates on the development of strategic analysis and leadership skills.