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Three senior managers are to jointly lead the International Business Leaders’ Forum (IBLF) after the death of founder and chief executive Robert Davies.
Adrian Hodges, Mike Patterson and Ros Tennyson, all directors of the IBLF, which promotes responsible business practice across 90 countries, will assume the role until a new chief executive is appointed. They had run the organization together for a short time while Davies was suffering from cancer. Davies died in August at the age of 56 and a memorial service is expected to be held in London this month.
He was one of the early movers in the current wave of corporate responsibility and set up the IBLF with the Prince of Wales in 1990 after a spell as deputy chief executive of Business in the Community (Bitc). Davies led the IBLF until his death.
Baroness Ashton, leader of the House of Lords, who worked with Davies at Bitc, said he was a ‘shy, introverted soul’ but also a ‘dynamic entrepreneur who taught all of us to think beyond our own horizons’.
Mike Williamson, Shell’s vice-president of sustainable development, said Davies was ‘an inspiring person’, while Chris Tuppen, BT’s head of sustainable development, called him ‘a great advocate for responsible business who will be sorely missed’.
Michael Spenley, the Littlewoods head of ethical sourcing and chair of the UK network of the United Nations Global Compact, said that his strengths were ‘great warmth and generosity of spirit as well as great charisma and gravitas’.
Before joining Bitc, Davies had co-founded Youth Business International, a charity that now works in 40 countries and has helped more than 17,000 young people to set up in business.
He also had a hand in establishing National Energy Action, a UK body that helped improve energy conservation in four million homes, and spent some time in television, producing educational programmes for Channel 4.
At the IBLF he put his strong belief in the value of industry collaboration into action, using the organization’s influence to set up a series of partnerships between business and civil society.
Adrian Hodges, Mike Patterson and Ros Tennyson, all directors of the IBLF, which promotes responsible business practice across 90 countries, will assume the role until a new chief executive is appointed. They had run the organization together for a short time while Davies was suffering from cancer. Davies died in August at the age of 56 and a memorial service is expected to be held in London this month.
He was one of the early movers in the current wave of corporate responsibility and set up the IBLF with the Prince of Wales in 1990 after a spell as deputy chief executive of Business in the Community (Bitc). Davies led the IBLF until his death.
Baroness Ashton, leader of the House of Lords, who worked with Davies at Bitc, said he was a ‘shy, introverted soul’ but also a ‘dynamic entrepreneur who taught all of us to think beyond our own horizons’.
Mike Williamson, Shell’s vice-president of sustainable development, said Davies was ‘an inspiring person’, while Chris Tuppen, BT’s head of sustainable development, called him ‘a great advocate for responsible business who will be sorely missed’.
Michael Spenley, the Littlewoods head of ethical sourcing and chair of the UK network of the United Nations Global Compact, said that his strengths were ‘great warmth and generosity of spirit as well as great charisma and gravitas’.
Before joining Bitc, Davies had co-founded Youth Business International, a charity that now works in 40 countries and has helped more than 17,000 young people to set up in business.
He also had a hand in establishing National Energy Action, a UK body that helped improve energy conservation in four million homes, and spent some time in television, producing educational programmes for Channel 4.
At the IBLF he put his strong belief in the value of industry collaboration into action, using the organization’s influence to set up a series of partnerships between business and civil society.
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