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Dr John Byrne - career history John Byrne has been a strategy consultant since 1979. He draws upon a multi-disciplinary background in competitive strategy, corporate finance, economics, law, information technology and engineering to help clients formulate and achieve challenging business objectives. Working in Europe, North America and Japan, John has advised clients such as Matra Marconi Space, Commercial General Union, North West Water, Granada Computer Services, Sweetheart International, London Stock Exchange, Smith & Nephew, Siemens, Zeneca, ICI, Prudential, British Telecom and Vodafone. John has worked both independently and in association with firms such as Monitor Company, Ernst & Young, Kalchas and SIAR. In the late 1980s, John was Managing Consultant in London for Monitor Company, the consultancy established by Professor Michael Porter of Harvard Business School. He and Richard McLaughlin have collaborated on a number of consultancy assignments. John is also a director of a number of private companies. He has high level skills in software development, networking and systems integration, and he was co-founder in 1995 of a specialist e-commerce development firm based in San Francisco. John’s early education was in Italy and the USA. He has a first-class degree in chemical engineering from Syracuse University, New York. He earned both his MBA and his doctorate on international strategy at London Business School, where he worked closely with Profs. Simmonds, Brealey and Dimson. At LBS, Dr. Byrne also devised and taught the MBA elective course in Real Estate. He was Called to the Bar of England & Wales in 1995. In 1979, he was selected for the first Japan scholarship to Tokyo sponsored by the EC, where he worked as a strategic planner in the Office of the President at TDK Corporation. |
