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About the author<br />

Dr Mike Dillon has over 20 years experience within the food<br />

industry. He has written numerous publications and several books<br />

which have been delivered nationally and internationally. He has<br />

been involved in delivering consultancy to UK organisations and<br />

has provided support for several African and Pakistan fisheries<br />

departments through the United Nations Industrial Development<br />

Organisation and the European Union.<br />

He was the director <strong>of</strong> the Humber <strong>Institute</strong> <strong>of</strong> Food & Fisheries for<br />

two years where he was involved with the development <strong>of</strong> special<br />

projects including the successful Humber Food Centre <strong>of</strong><br />

Vocational Excellence (CoVE). Under his leadership the institute<br />

has developed foundation degrees which include Food<br />

Manufacturing Management, World Class Manufacturing and<br />

Logistics. The institute has successfully delivered training to SMEs<br />

through several special projects with the focus on providing<br />

support to the food industry.<br />

He is currently Vice Principal at The <strong>Grimsby</strong> <strong>Institute</strong>, where he is<br />

responsible for the Enterprise and International areas.<br />

Robin Keates, is the Programme Leader for: Foundation Degree in<br />

Manufacturing Management (World-Class Systems); Foundation<br />

Degree in World Class Manufacturing; and the B.Sc.(Hons.)<br />

Manufacturing Management (World-Class Systems). He is also a<br />

lecturer and writer not only for the above, but also for other<br />

Foundation Degrees, Honours Degrees and Postgraduate courses<br />

as well.<br />

He is currently undertaking a Ph.D. in ‘The impact <strong>of</strong> Human<br />

Resource Strategic decisions, with respect to how this directly<br />

impacts on the productivity <strong>of</strong> a manufacturing organisation can<br />

have either a positive or a negative effect’ with the Leeds<br />

Metropolitan University.<br />

Currently Robin has presented papers which have shown the<br />

positive contribution <strong>of</strong> the Foundation Degrees to organisations.<br />

In addition to this, Robin is a Chartered Engineer with a specialist<br />

field <strong>of</strong> Engineering, Manufacturing and Management.<br />

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