Marc Fleetham
Director of Business Solutions at the University of Wolverhampton
Before joining the University of Wolverhampton in 2000, Marc worked in the Steel, Construction and Petrochemical industries as a Business Development/Change Management Specialist. His role involved working on operational delivery plans and formulating corporate direction at a strategic level.
Since 2000, Marc has been employed in the main business facing department at the University, and has been a major driving force in the University's knowledge transfer and business engagement activities. He helped the University achieve the UK national number one HEI position on Knowledge Transfer Partnerships in 2010. Marc also has extensive experience of managing staff, team development and substantial budgets.
Now Director of Business Solutions, Marc manages a team of twenty five staff who work both internally; to develop academic capacity and delivery on applied research, and externally; to generate a wide portfolio of business engagement and income generation activities which contribute to the university’s non-HEFCE income targets. Concurrently, Marc is also the regional manager of a £24million ERDF programme working with eleven other HEI’s from across the West Midlands, delivering over 220 graduate level knowledge transfer commercial projects.
Marc holds a Masters in Business Administration and was a founder member of the Institute of Knowledge Transfer (MInstKT).