Kamran A. Beg was previously the Head of UK Strategy and Business Development at WorldCom, a global telecommunications enterprise. Prior to his role with WorldCom, Kamran was a management consultant providing consulting expertise, predominantly to blue chip organisations, in a number of areas, including corporate strategy, leadership, knowledge management, change management, innovation, financial modelling, customer futures, customer relationship management (CRM), mergers and acquisitions (M&A), management buy-outs (MBOs) and risk management. Kamran currently runs his own management consulting practice, which is based in the UK, providing consulting advice to the boards of various enterprises. His consulting expertise has been applied to over 30 industry sectors and he has consulted for organisations globally. Kamran's academic qualifications include an MBA (with Distinction), which he achieved in 1995, from Manchester Business School (MBS), The University of Manchester, UK. MBS kindly granted Kamran a scholarship, which covered the duration of the MBA course. In 2001, Kamran was kindly nominated by WorldCom to undertake executive development at the Graduate School of Business Administration, Harvard University, USA, where he completed the Leading Change and Organizational Renewal Executive Programme, and the MIT Sloan School of Management (MIT Sloan), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA, where he completed the Corporate Strategy Executive Programme. In relation to board responsibilities, Kamran has previously held the position of Non-Executive Chairman at two companies and has also held the joint positions of Vice Chairman and President at two other companies.