Management Committee
NetIKX is run by a Management Committee of people with experience in information and knowledge management, ICT, Human Resources and in business management. Members of the committee are unpaid, giving their time voluntarily.
From 2007 the management committee was elected and any NetIKX member may be nominated to stand for election.
Currently, the Management Committee comprises the following members:
In the year 2007-2008 the Management Committee comprised the following members:
Jane Jennings
Jane Jennings started working for Essex libraries as a junior library assistant in 1966. In the 1970s she thought it was time to think about qualifying and, when her children started school, left work to read history at Essex University. After gaining her degree she took her PGdip lib at the Polytechnic of North London. From here she was appointed to her first qualified post at Suffolk College.
Jane's next post was again with Essex County Council but this time she was appointed to set up a library for the education department. Jane still works for Essex but now has the role of Knowledge Management Co-ordinator. She has recently completed an MSc in Information and Knowledge Management which she thoroughly enjoyed and has found to be very useful in her work.
Mark James
Mark James is currently an internal Knowledge Management consultant working for the Department for Work and Pensions. Mark's specialises in Organisational Development work focussed on Human Resources related aspects of KM, as well as on knowledge sharing. Mark holds qualifications in Management Consultancy, Psychometrics and Coaching and well as being a Chartered member of CILIP. Mark has been a Mancom members of for over three years.
Douglas Milne
Douglas Milne is an information manager with Yell Ltd, who works
exclusively on maximising search and retrieval on the company's yell.com
product. He has extensive information architecture experience, and has
constructed thesauri, taxonomies and controlled vocabularies for a number
of companies. He worked abroad in New York for 6 years constructing
controlled vocabularies for a bibliographic database publisher and on
returning to the UK quickly got involved with the UK information community,
taking up the position of editor for the Industrial & Commercial Library
Group's newsletter.
He is a Chartered member of CILIP. Douglas has degrees in History,
Information & Administrative Management and Librarianship & Information
Studies.
Maria Paola Andreoni
Maria Paola is an experienced KM specialist, with a humanities background and thirteen years’ well-rounded experience. She has managed Knowledge, Content and Information in several contexts, mainly in the Management Consultancy and Financial Services industries and most recently in an NGO. She is particularly interested in change management and the "soft" aspects of managing knowledge.
Stuart Ward
Stuart established Forward Consulting in 1997 to help organisations gain value through better use and management of information and knowledge. Prior to 1997 he held posts of Information Management Director, and then Director of Business Improvement (with responsibility for Human Resources, IT and Quality) at British Energy plc. Stuart is Chairman of the British Computer Society Business Achievement Awards Programme and an Associate of The IMPACT Programme. He also assists police forces with recruitment programmes.
Bob Bater
Bob is Principal Associate of InfoPlex Associates who provide advice and development services in
Information and Knowledge Organization - knowledge mapping, metadata schemas, ontologies,
taxonomies, thesauri, Topic Maps - across all types of organizations in both the public and private
sectors. He is also Director of Development at KnowPlexity Limited, a new company established to
provide high quality e-learning materials in all aspects of Knowledge Management.
Mae Keary
Mae Keary MPhil, Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (FCLIP), and a Member of the Chartered Management Institute, is a free-lance Information/Knowledge Management Consultant, with wide experience gained from managing information services of corporations and public service organisations. Additionally, assignments include advice to small businesses in the private and voluntary sectors, helping them to optimise their use of ICT, and to improve or introduce e-business solutions to their businesses.
Olivia Freeman
Olivia Freeman was Head of Business Information at HSBC Bank. She set up the service from scratch and developed it to become a global service available to bankers and customers.
Olivia works as a freelance trainer, researcher and information management specialist. She develops and delivers training on topics such as strategic planning, evaluating information resources and data protection. She undertakes strategic research, specialising in research for product development and competitor monitoring in financial services.
Olivia is active in professional groups and has held various executive positions. She regularly speaks at meetings and conferences and has published many articles.
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