Dr Philip Smith MBE
Profile
Dr Smith is retained as a mentor by LIFIC renewable technology incubator centre in Sheffield and was until recently the ‘’Business Champion’’ of the Milton Keynes Enterprise Hub for start up businesses - he is now a board member of the succeeding area Innovation and Growth Team.
He is Chairman of waste to energy company, Intercontinental Utilities Group Plc, Tidal Power Company, Pulse Group Holdings Ltd, and the Landfill Community Fund regulator (Entrust).
He is also a Director/Stakeholder of other renewable energy businesses in the UK and overseas.
A former Chairman of Leicester City Football Club, Dr Smith is the ex Pro Chancellor of De Montfort University in Leicester and a board member of the MK Higher Education Strategic Development Board. Dr Smith has been awarded a Honorary Doctorate in Business Administration for ‘’outstanding service to the university over nine years’’.
He is also a key business figure in the development of the city of Milton Keynes, where he is a non executive director of the NHS hospital Trust, Chairman of the MK Business Leaders Partnership and a member of the MK Economic and Learning Partnership Board. He has also recently been elected to the Bucks and MK Young Enterprise.
Dr Smith was until recently Chairman of the Milton Keynes branch of the Institute of Directors.
He received an MBE in the 2016 New Year Honours List for services to business and the community of Milton Keynes.
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